jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
does ios remember the volume for every bluetooth device though or is it just headphones? i have tasker set a different volume for my car's bluetooth than my bluetooth headphones.

another thing i have tasker do is write down the hours i work every week by detecting the bluetooth tv in work and then the times my car stops in the morning and starts when i head home. then on friday if there are any hours that haven't been sent, tasker puts them into an email and i review it before sending.

i often think about switching to an iphone for the camera or some other reasons, but then i think about all the stuff ive made in tasker and how i probably won't be able to replicate it all on ios
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/dont-bl...

> Delaware doesn’t tax “intangible assets,” and this encourages companies to move parts of their business to Delaware to avoid taxes in other states. This has led to Delaware being labeled a “tax haven.”

See also: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09251...
OK, don't do that? Or do it carefully.

We do it to answer very correctness-sensitive questions around security, but it doesn't matter because stale answers are still valid if you know how those answers could have possibly been updated - and that's just an application invariant.
i kindof believe all languages should have some ability to run with a browser-based GUI... why bother with all the hair-brained implementations (Swing, Qt, etc.) when we could just have a "desktop mode" (altered security) version of Chrome pop up to provide GUI. it wouldnt even have to follow same rules as browser really (navigation could be via buttons only, no back/refresh), just be based on html & perhaps js to allow a bit of advanced nav logic (though hopefully not enough to start polluting app logic)

i believe chrome apps may have some steps toward this, though not sure... at 1 point i considered trying to make a browser-based GUI that does all local RPC communication to a c++ app, but i feel like you know.... there should be a nice standard way of doing this out there
I was reading up on this earlier today and it looks like an absolutely fascinating project.

Rather labor intensive to rebuild the document though, and not something that seems easily automated. So many of the scrolls appear to have kinks or major warpage in them, and I can only imagine many of the layers have fused together. I guess if you could find a common thread that goes across the entire length of a layer (be that an actual physical papyrus "thread" or some marker like an inked line) you could use that as a calibration point. From there it would be easier to map out and extract the letters on each layer (though still not easy). Does anyone who's read the main article in Nature (1) have any more details?

1: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/full/nco...
I've never tried mailing a cheque but do they not have hold times on not certified cheques for most accounts?
Acting and improv classes can help—you have to talk to people to do it—but it can also be a bit different. In both of those you're in a pretty specific role (even improv has a lot of training wheels at the start) and there are common forms; getting comfortable making crazy stuff up on stage in front of a bunch of strangers is still a bit different than selling to strangers in a professional or social capacity. The big thing you need to do—not care if you end up making yourself look stupid—is the same, but the contexts are different enough that to me they're pretty separate.

So for me it is just forcing myself to be social. Repeatedly. Still! It won't happen overnight, but after a while you hopefully will notice changes.
What do you mean by "generate" here? The exponential map is not necessarily surjective.
I might just not have played with it enough at the beginning of 2014, but kivy had some serious weirdness when it came to the way in which it approached its layouts, which I feel was down to the way in which it tried to approach being multi platform. This was mostly looking at developing a basic desktop app which I could then shift over to mobile as well.
> Yes: testable predictions followed by experimental evidence.

But there are an infinite number of theories matching the current evidence. Some predictions of the theories might not be testable, what do you do then?
Please don't spread the lies about "sensitive issues".
> They don't need to. You identify yourself within the app with your login.

By that logic even whatsapp/facebook don't need anything apart from login. So why do they collect all the other stuff? Signal is making an effort to make do with the minimum amount of data.

> While iMessage is vulnerable to (certain) MiTM attacks

Apple doesn't need to MITM Imessage. They own the app, service, and devices on both sides. That's why it's silly to compare it with whatsapp/facebook.
It's funny because most (if not all?) of their datasheets are freely available for download right from their website.

Why would they bother doing this?
Bitcoin is an improvement to the monetary system in efficiency and by not being limited by borders. The main issue of the previous fiat currencies is more abundant in Bitcoin, which is the concentration of the elites wealth and a flawed distribution model.
Bitcoin Black aims to be the cryptocurrency of the people, by the people for the people.
"Invasion" is better than the erroneous "riot." The invasion of Portland, Seattle, and Kenosha were discussed for weeks in plain sight, too. I wish Propublica would cover those "invasions" too
+1 for mentioning Cambridge. It's the sweet spot for density. Lots of folks have back yards, but it's still possible to walk/bike where you want to go. I think a lot of folks conflate "urban area" with "financial district"
What I found most fascinating is identifying neuron firing patterns corresponding to linguistic properties: e.g. groups of neurons that fire in response to verbs, or pronounds.

Scroll down to "Factorizing Activations of a Single Layer" in https://jalammar.github.io/explaining-transformers/ to see those.

The figure above it, titled 'Explorable: Ten Activation Factors of XML' shows how neuron firing patterns in response to XML -- opening tags, closing tags, and even indentation.

It's still fresh, but I'm keen to see what other people uncover in their examinations (or what shortfalls/areas of improvement there are for such a method).
The point is that you can tell everybody why you don't like WA, and even come up with a really good way of explaining the problems to non-technical people. This might even work in some cases. The problem is that WA has an enormous head-start in Europe. So maybe you talk around your gym, but your kids' school can't justify switching. Guess what, you're still stuck picking between using WA and missing out on big chunks of your real life.
All the reasons people give for preferring paper books seem to amount to habit and nostalgia

I disagree. Here are some reasons for prefering paper books that are not habit or nostalgia:

Longevity.

Reliability.

Isolation and permanence of content - nobody is going to come into my house and edit my physical books. Some eReader eco-systems are robust in this regard; others remain under the control of a thrid party.

Ease of mark-up, and the range of mark-up available is an order of magnitude superior to those of eBooks.

Phenomenally intuitive bookmarking interface. So easy to bookmark different places and so fast and easy to use those bookmarks.

High-quality images and colours.

Screen size; I have many books that present a large, very high resolution view. For books that benefit from it - art books in particular - this is a real advantage. The best eBook reader can't compare, and small kindles and the like are just terrible in comparison for this. Large eBook reader systems such as a desktop PC with a huge, high resolution monitor is better, but this is something of a high-cost option.

Multi-screen - I can open a lot of physical books at once, and they simply expand into available space (really fast, too - the loading time is so short that I barely notice). Having five or six ebooks open at once and flitting between them quickly is either impossible or much less satisfactory than the physical book version. I habitually have three or more physical books open at once, and five or six is not uncommon. I suppose you could call this one "habit", in that I am in the habit of being able to look at five or six books at once, easily flitting between them at speed.

Realtive self-contained operation; they rely only on a light-source being available to operate for decades or even longer. eBooks require much more support in terms of software, power and hardware.

Random-access interface; the speed with which I can change pages (not just consecutive pages, but large numbers of pages at once) using a physical book is an order of magnitude better than an eBook, and I will often find part of a book I seek using this random access method. Even when I am familiar with an eBook's layout, quickly finding a particular section is just much more clumsy. The reading experience is damaged by this inferior aspect of the interface.
Special relativity is the set of equations that arises when you take a hypothesis: "you always perceive light as traveling at a speed `c`, no matter how fast you're going" and work out what would have to change in order to allow this statement to hold true.
In the US you can ask to see a restaurant’s oyster tags. All restaurants are required to keep these tags and to show them on request. If they don’t have them or won’t produce them, don’t eat the oysters. The tags identify when they were harvested, when they expire and where they were harvested down to a specific zone of a designated harvesting region. If there is a harmful bacterial outbreak and a recall is issued then they can only comply if they have their tags and can identify affected product. Every type of mollusk comes with such a tag. If the restaurant is buying them cooked (i.e. canned) then they will have to tell you as much.

EDIT: I now recall one place I’ve worked that carried canned oysters and each can came with a tag attached as well.

There is no such thing as a guarantee of safety of any kind. With no reliable way of detecting this bacteria until people start getting sick, the smart thing to do is to take advantage of regulation. Also oysters are too amazing to only eat for a third of the year. They taste best chilled on a hot summer day.
maybe there are startups doing just that? but don't get much attention or exposure or even funding.

it's perhaps a reflection of our priorities as a society...
Strange. Since any new account I add to the site gets locked after about ten minutes and demands a phone number to verify.

I get the account unlocked after a few days if I pester support about it. (which is not easy either)
I’m rather young (on the border of Gen Y and Gen Z) so I guess I’m not old enough to have used either old Unix email or Usenet, so thank you for that tidbit.
I'm surprised since that's it's a very shallow transliteration of Jesus .. Dji-sus- is a simpler and easy to translate pronounciation.
I can imagine a dock that has the ability to load extra temporary mass on and off a cargo submersible, all loading done completely underwater, to offset material being taken off the submersible. If the efficiency increases were significant, this could become worthwhile. However it's likely hard to beat the efficiency of how many cargo containers you can stack on a normal cargo ship, particularly while fuel is cheap.
It would be better to also have that, but not better by itself.
I think curve fitting is an important component of future AGI. But it definitely needs causal reasoning baked in, which leads to better models with less data [1,2].

My intuition is that there's a lot of important work to be done using logical representations of models and transforming them back and forth using well understood semantics operators. Deep functions will be part of said models, but the whole model does not necessarily need to be deep. We can already see hints of the field going in this direction in deep generative models [3].

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/psych209/Readings/LakeEtAlBBS....

[2] https://probmods.org/

[3] http://pyro.ai/examples/
Not just on the physical side. I suspect there are still some architectural improvements that we'll see with the M2. They've had more time to characterize various types of workloads and that should feed back into architectural improvements.
> Our levels of trust are approaching the level that actually matches the dishonesty of the political and managerial class.

Ouch. That may be the most depressing thing I've read in a while. (Not saying you're wrong, though...)
That's kind of a mean thing to say. Maybe that's what your shrug meant?
They were "experiments" in the sense that the actual outcomes were predicted (or not) but in normal times would be difficult to achieve at scale.

I'm not suggesting that they were unrelated to the issue at hand - and I'm not implying they were unethical.

I believe most govts acted in good faith, with limited information, and (quite literally) no experience to draw on. Even today we don't really know what the "best approach" was, what we can say though is that a future pandemic will have better data to work with.

Had all countries had the exact same response we would not really know if what we did was best or not. Lockdown, travel restrictions, alcohol bans, closure of businesses, closure of sport, limited social mobility, police enforcement, no enforcement - all these and more were tried in one place or another.

They were experiments with forseen, and unforseen consequences.

Sure there was over-reach here and there, but for the most part it was a best effort response from no known experience.

I don't believe it could be called tyrannical.
For anyone who is confused by the title: this is a variation of the book name "Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved", published by a scientist couple in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL
Generally agree with the article, though the reverse is obviously, "Heuristic which almost never works", and all the stories are about the 1 out 100000 times the weirdo was right and everyone lauded them as a genius but really they just got lucky the once.
Curiously if we stopped trying to teach infants for 12 years, there would be enough teachers to tutor 18-year-olds with proper attention.

Daycare exists already. If that's what we want, that's what we should pay for and get. Seem like theatre to combine the two.
In my view, the linked article, and the series it is a part of, utterly demolishes the argument that the Dothraki are based on real cultures with a dash of fantasy. If it doesn't convince you, I suspect nothing will.
I know I "shouldn't" but I use Google Keyboard. It is really compelling and has legitimate use cases for a network connection with the built in GIF search.
It's also misleading to have an empty box: with Signal your phone number (even if it's a Google Voice or Twilio VoIP number) must be known or the system cannot work. I hear that Signal is apparently working on a feature to allow you to set up an account without a phone number but until that time I think it's in second place behind Wire (which only requires an email address to start an account).
My point is that cookies have additional regulations beyond just being personal data covered by GDPR. You are correct that cookie-equivalents are similarly regulated (including most fingerprinting techniques!). But they're not just a special case of GDPR.

Most importantly, the ePD applies to cookies even when they are not personal data. Your post made it sound like the only concern is identifying users via cookies. That is not the case. Non-identifying cookies would not incur obligations under GDPR, but they do incur obligations under the ePD.
Solar also doesn't have to be centralized like a Coal plant. Not only can solar start delivering power on day 1, it can be incrementally added closer to the point of use, also saving on distribution costs.

If someone said a coal plant is being built in Nigeria, my first thought that this is being forced on them by creditors that probably already own a bunch of coal.
The biggest issue is actually recording the time, to be honest. An ex-coworker used to set aside 2-4 hours every Friday to just do timesheets. Some set aside a half hour every day to get them accurate.

It strikes me as cruel. But in any case, just not my cup of tea.
Discords around financial or economic topics (e.g. cryptocurrencies, Steam trading) are heavily abused by scammers that use large numbers of bots to attack or phish users.
I could see an argument where Discord wants to keep control over how they are fighting such abuse, and banning all non-granted API access could be one part of that.
Coinbase offers DAI, plus you can exchange DAI for any ERC20 token on a dex.
There's nothing fancy about where the money goes - it was paid to the police/jailers involved along with any contractors or other people on the receiving end of the "jail" budgets.

The point is that running a jail should be easy on $250/day/person-in-jail (or more!). The cost of bulk toothbrushs or ramen is basically in the noise. It says a lot about the character and values of a person that would choose to pocket this kind of spare change just to make their income very slightly bigger.
The same issue occurs on 4.4.4 (and other versions), so it's not specific to 5.0.1.
I'm glad to see official Google support confirmed, but I wasn't too worried about that. It's an open source project, always available on github at any version, and if Windows XP can survive this long without those provisions, then I'm sure Angular 1.x will be last a long time.

I think the one thing that I would change for Angular 2.0 is the project name. With so many of the framework elements being killed, and the whole thing rewritten from scratch on a different language (AtScript, compiled to JS), with a different API, with different paradigms, the name "Angular" and the expected meaning it's built up to all developers involved doesn't apply anymore.

I will soon need to update my resume to say that I'm experienced in Angular 1.x. I'll need to ask people developing projects built on Angular, "But which version do you use?" I'd say the same gripes apply to Python 2 vs Python 3.

I don't want to go all Romeo and Juliet on the name here, but maybe there's room for a semver 2.1 that specifies the hitherto-unspecified contracts you can expect to be upheld if a project keeps the same name.
The ink capsules are common globally (they're called "security ink tags"), but they don't explode. Think about how technologically difficult that would be to implement. The plastic tags are just made to be difficult to remove unless you have the in-store equipment, such that attempted removal would most likely break the ink capsule inside which stains (and thereby ruins) the piece of clothing.
> The map is what is generic, not a specific map. List<Int> is not "compatible" with a List<Char> in any implementation of generics; how could it be? What would that even mean?

Well, arguably there are languages where that's possible. PHP does some odd things with maps and arrays, and Perl hashes don't have any distinctions between strings, integers nor floats (or at least none that I've run into - please correct me if I'm wrong). Though I will grant you that I'm now comparing strongly typed languages to weakly typed ones.

I think my problem here is although I cut my teeth on statically typed languages, my exposure to generics in those languages was rather limited (in fact does Pascal even support generics?). So I'm possibly misunderstanding the usage of generics in modern strongly typed languages.
Yup. And the trade off between reproduction and aging is extremely well documented in biology. In short, reproduction prioritizes the set over the element. Kinda Borg-ish but that's what we have so far.
There is still plenty of room for the unusual, it just isn't as easy as it was back in the day when most important discoveries were made by people working by themselves at home with little organizational funding.

It's a nice narrative that overgrown institutions are ruthlessly repressing all creativity. And I do believe there is some truth to that. We should work hard to understand why and then improve the situation. However, unfortunately, reality is usually more complex and also more mundane (in some ways) than any nice narratives we can come up with.
I like the one Bill Burr made a point of highlighting: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Body building champion, movie star, and governor of California.
I had no idea this was a thing, but I’m glad that it is actually a thing.
They're the latest man pages from Ubuntu. I'm planning to add the FreeBSD and OS X man pages soon.
It's enormously popular in web development, especially front-end development. It's probably the most popular with modern web developers who don't use Vim/Emacs. It certainly appears to have long overtaken Textmate, which I only rarely see referenced.

Of course, this is all anecdotal. It's likely that the vast majority of working developers never post screencasts or really discuss their editor of choice, and just get on with their work. So in terms of code actually created, it's a very poor assessment.
This would show that with proper language support FP could be much more pleasant. Who would want to try and apply ideas from this worderful article to, say, her everyday C++ coding? After seeing something like squares=[x*x for x in range(10)] she would write exactly WHAT in C++?
The source for each sample is all in index.html: https://github.com/mrdoob/texgen.js/blob/master/index.html
My first thought was related to the name too - it's an unfortunate collision with Brad Fitzpatricks' shipit:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/ShipIt/
The NYC Chapter meets monthly - http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/

Our next meetup is Feb 5th w/ Sam Tobin-Hochstadt discussing Composable and Compilable Macros.

If you're in the metro area please stop by!
To say nothing of the fact that billions of years of evolution imparts a large set of choices made for us. It didn't take 16 years to get a teenage virtuoso violinist, it took 3 billion years of evolution.
> And yet, Germany also has three times the cases of Switzerland, with the same number of deaths

Switzerland is a much smaller country than Germany or France. Proportionally to their inhabitants they are highly infected.

But Switzerland is special, both largest cities in Switzerland are highly multicultural and with many people who were traveling in infected area every week, including in Italy.

What happened currently in Switzerland was easy to anticipate.
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/10/15/am...
Wow, it's really great that there is demand from both sides.
>You can also read a few studies

The first study only advocated wearing a mask when sick,or within three feet of someone who was sick, and concluded

>there was no detectable additional benefit of hand sanitizer or face masks over targeted education on overall rates of URIs, but mask wearing was associated with reduced secondary transmission

And from the second

>facemasks seemed to prevent household transmission of influenza virus when implemented within 36 hours of index patient symptom onset.

So both say "wear a facemask when sick or interacting with the sick."

>You don't know for sure a person is healthy right now, and asymptomatic cases are the main drivers of the contagion.

Asymptomatic doesn't mean healthy though. If you feel unwell in anyway a mask is a good idea. Erring on the side of caution is different than everyone always wearing one.

>How dangerous is this? Look at the spread rate and the number of cases in US vs Japan.

Aren't masks common in both South Korea and China?
I'll ping my friend who's been at Boeing for 25 years about it in the morning. Anyone know an MD who could review the idea?