skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt the same way, outside of one particular situation.

I tried running with a smartphone for a while. I was constantly afraid I would drop it. I tried armbands, pockets, sometimes I just carried a stopwatch and logged all my data in a spreadsheet like some kind of neanderthal.

Eventually though I bought a watch. It can tell me how I'm doing on my split times and play music into a cheap bluetooth headband. It's super lightweight. It can even detect different types of weightlifting, and tell me I just did a set of five deadlifts, or squats. It somehow knows the difference. It doesn't seem to understand sprinting at all though and has all sorts of weird bugs because I assume it has a small userbase.

I'm not sure any of my apps aside from activity tracking and music make any sense on a smaller device, so that is kind of weird. It's like I strap a tiny phone to my wrist in the mornings, then I swap it out for a larger copy an hour later.

Maybe one day phones will be like other accessories and we'll have eight of them and complain both about having too many and how we want more of them. And each night we'll debate internally about which one to wear to a certain function, and judge each other mercilessly for being over- or under-phoned.
What behavior are you talking about that would cost him that position today? Jobs wasn't physically assaulting employees. It isn't illegal to be mean or rude to people. At worst it might cost Apple a few workplace lawsuits/settlements.
Yes Siri can after 5 tries and figure out the wording.

Go try the Google assistant and get back to us that Siri is equal.
This is blockchain/crypto delusion.

Blockchain does not exceed existing systems in any dimension:

* In the long run, any valuable blockchain will tend towards centralization so long as there is such a thing as "economic returns to scale". The largest miners will make more profits that they can re-invest in becoming big enough. This has already happened with bitcoin. Eventually, if they become big enough, they (individually or as a cartel) can just take all property rights recorded on the blockchain.

* Blockchain is not cheaper than other ways to commit globally distributed transactions. The per-transaction cost of Bitcoin is way higher than something like DynamoDB, Spanner, AWS Aurora et al.

* Blockchain is not more efficient than existing database technologies, and will never be. Why do we need to use the electricity consumption of a small-medium country to move bits around?

I could go on.

I think it's notable that the serious cloud providers like Amazon and Google have not even pretended to care about bitcoin or blockchain. If they really thought it was the currency of the future, they would just kick all the customers of their public clouds and use their resources to takeover any blockchains of value.
Old stuff here. As time went on, it became more and more clear that @snowden was actively working against American interests via military document leaks that were completely unrelated to domestic surveillance. He betrayed an oath which is critical to maintaining national security, and it's trivially simple to ascertain that, at the least, at the time that he fled, he clearly caused damage.

Thought experiment: You're the NSA, and @snowden is in HK mid-2013 going public, and you realize he took some unknown set of highly sensitive military documents. You have to assume the worst. Just from this alone, significant damage is an obvious conclusion, just from the uncertainty of what was or was not taken. That he later said something about leaving "breadcrumbs" was either insulting or ignorant of the reality of the impact of his actions.
pedaHNtic²?
Are you being serious? Can your flip phone from 20 years ago fit on your wrist? Can it track your heart rate?
Sodium ion batteries are on the cusp of commercialization. But lithium ion is getting cheaper faster, so there isn't a lot of investment.
Yes. "Hey Siri, remind me to bring a change of clothes when I leave home." just now created an appropriate item in Reminders.
Siri is very dumb. I use for for reminders and alarms.

I speak fr-ca as opposed to fr-fr, and some conversations go like this:

Siri, call X on cell
Sorry, can’t call X
Siri, call X on mobile
Calling X on cell

In fr-ca, we talk about cell phones. In the contact app, the mobile phone is registered as cell phone, but in fr-fr, they use mobile.

I also sometimes have this conversation:

Siri, rappelle-moi de mettre des mouchoirs sur la liste de matériel du camp
(Siri, remind-me to put tissues on the unit’s list of material)
Do you want me to create a list?

I only have one list, on purpose. I have no way to tell Siri that I never want to create new lists.

It appears to me as if some words have more importance than others, such as the word « list ».

Those are my biggest annoyances with Siri. I will continue to speak and use my iPhone in fr-ca, to promote my language and improve the software by providing data points about which languages are used.
I ask Siri for the closing time of different stores all the time. "Hey Siri, when does X close?" works for me. On Siri most things don't work for me but that does.
How to use blockchain for supply chain management
What are your credentials, if you don't mind my asking?
Most accounts claim that thanks to dark matter, stars orbit at the same speed regardless of distance from the galactic center. They don't say whether this is linear or angular velocity, but even if we assume it's linear velocity, how can it be that the sun (which is half way out) orbits every 0.25 Gyr and stars at the rim orbit every 1 Gyr?
The main thing you're missing is accruals based accounting. How do you analyse your monthly accounts when you have expenses that are billed yearly?
Why do investors engage in psychological power games (like this)?

That piece of writing left me feeling icky. I hope the people he has advised have found more positive and less demeaning investors.
Siri can't do two countdown timers at once, such as what I need when cooking.

It's bonkers to me that this is still a limitation on a phone that lets me track a dozen-plus world clocks, as though it's a more common use case.
“extra hard” compared to whom?
That was hard to read, your love for the man is so clear.

Good luck in your goal to accomplish what you can.
Would say your friend is unusual. People that have GA I know use it all the time including myself. I also carry an iPhone and never use Siri like never.
In other words, brute-force attacks depend on the ability to keep trying essentially indefinitely; it's a similar situation with payment card CVVs --- although they're only 3-4 digits, which makes for a tiny keyspace, any attempts to bruteforce one will be quickly detected and blocked.
The civil forfeiture epidemic is more localized.
Quickbooks is marketed as being easy to use! And it is, have you ever used some old crappy accounting software?

When software like Quickbooks first came out, your other options for a small business were complicated programs like ACCPAC or stuff that only ran on larger systems like IBM’s.

A nice GUI lets you use the mouse and the other parts of Windows/PC that you already know instead of a cryptic keyboard driven character-based interface.
If you say it’s automated, and it’s not, that’s fraud.
I used an Amiga as a kid, and loved it. I am sure it had a profound impact on me. I never identified with a broader Amiga using community, until now. This is so cool, I'm excited to realize that the spirit lives on.
The audio quality is subpar on amazon music. I could hear it lightly distorting which is weird. Hopefully just a player bug and not an audio file issue.
Not being able to flag requests that Siri failed to parse tells me that the Siri team isn't serious about making Siri better.

Just adding a small "That isn't what I asked" button or letting me say something like "Hey Siri, you got my last request wrong" would give Apple a mountain of usable data.
I'd recommend looking at the source of this information more closely: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20Killer%20Information... on page 12 it breaks down the statistics relating IQ and serial killers. While you might find reason to disagree with 2 murders as sufficient to warrant the serial killer title (for the record, the reason they include 2 is because that is the official FBI definition), that breakdown shows what the average IQ is for those who committed three murders, 4 murders, and 5 or more. It also breaks things down by organized vs. disorganized killers, whether or not they raped victims, and the method of killing, and the N value for each subset. The only breakdown with an average greater than a standard deviation from average is for the serial killers that killed using bombs. And that it because it's only N=3 and includes Ted Kaczynski. Also keep in mind the median IQ is 86, and removing a couple of data points like Simon Pirela will have little effect on that value.

I can also give a personal citation of my own if that might help convince you. My Dad is a clinical psychologist who gives lectures on Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder, and does work for the courts evaluating the mental competency of defendants. He's the one who first told me there is no correlation between serial killers and intelligence.
This is my same experience. The only things I can get Siri to do reliably is to route me home, or to do simple math problems. Also very simple short term reminders.
Wouldn't you want to see a map with place names and streets when walking in an unfamiliar area? I would never wear earbuds while walking around a new place, listening for instructions where to walk. That seems like a step backwards in navigation common sense.

Much better to get a visual idea of the area, so you know where you are, distances to expect, and layout of the land... kind of like a normal map!

I get that looking at a map is not practical when cycling, but I think most cyclists know exactly where they and following familiar routes.
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Sun at 26 Kly and the outer edge stars at 80 Kly have the same 200km/s orbital speed, and as result have 3 times difference in the orbital period.
In 2013 literally the system could not find consensus until the central party told people what to do. If you're still calling that "decentralized" then I'm afraid the word has lost any useful meaning...

But I'm with you man, if we as a decentralized group come up with a reasonable hierarchy of trust supported by free speech and democracy, then we can create a systemically-reasonable Money that we can all agree is good.
>Because no one has needed it enough to add it.

Or because those that did need it whipped up a quick and dirty alias to cover that use case.
In our house they are used a lot for music, TV, answer all kinds of questions to look at photos.
Sounds complicated. Most gym rats I know just use pen and paper clipboards. Then again, I guess most gym rats are not really tech savvy/apple fashion type.
Being good at making connections and being seen as capable and trustworthy enough by your existing connections is absolutely a form of merit, an important one if you want to marshal enough people and resources and investors to build a successful company. My point was that the seemingly common mentality of "you have to be born into it, the rich only help the rich, etc" is not true, it's not a useful belief, and the counterexamples are not rare. It can help, certainly, but it's not a requirement by any stretch.
In my opinion, the problem with these assistants is that interacting with them using voice give you the impression that they're intelligent, but it's just a trick.

When it works, it can be useful for certain tasks, but when it doesn't work, you lose trust in the system pretty quickly, especially if you're in a situation where you expect and need the assistant to work, like when driving.
Yes and it can also remind you to do something when you "get in the car" or "get out of the car", if you have it paired to your Bluetooth in your car.
" Costco reserves the right to inspect any container, backpack, briefcase, etc., upon entering or leaving the warehouse.
"

Errr, that doesn't give them the right to detain you, so no, that's not it. This is the more general stealing provision, and

1. Not even close to the same as receipt checking.

2. Probably void in a number of states (where receipt checking would not be)
Do not think anyone can really explain why Siri is so bad. Just that it is really bad compared to the Google assistant.
I don't see why. The Power Mac G5 still came with ADC for a year after they switched all their displays to DVI. (And the ADC-DVI adapter was $149.) Admittedly they weren't released simultaneously.
What was the good idea exactly? As far as I'm aware the details of their (non-existent) tech have never been shared, not even with investors. Anyone can think up some pie in the sky idea.
never used digg reader, switched from google reader to feedly and now i've switched from feedly to my own news aggregator / rss reader: aktu (http://aktu.io).

It's currently a beta version, and i'd love to have some feedback :-)

thanks !
Negotiations with North Korea May Have Cyber Consequences
I thought it was a fad that had already passed. I'm sort of surprised to see this level of discussion about cryptocurrency.
Black Hole Information Paradox Still Unanswered
> Of course that's not what anyone actually means by a "memory safe" language, but as soon as you go plop malloc/free on top of a single webasm allocation you're back to all the same memory-unsafeness of C despite the "memory safe" claims of webasm anyway.

That's not true. Web Assembly semantics don't allow interpreting data as code or explicitly messing with the machine stack. This guarantees control flow integrity, preventing problems like ROP or traditional buffer overflows.
When it comes to GPL, there has also been quite a bit discussion on the subject when a user combine the kernel with non-free modules. Is it the user that do it, is it the company that released the module, or is it the distribution that make the two easily combine-able? This became a rather heated discussion when Ubunutu made the module available and Debian had to decide on what the best approach was.

Essentially since the user-side is basically unenforceable. AFAIK GPL only applies to distribution, and even if it didn't, who's to know if someone privately combines all sorts of incompatibly-licensed software?

We can do all sorts of technically illegal things, if we don't disseminate anything. Or as the old saying goes, "it's only illegal if you get caught." ;-)
> The kicker for me was to realize that in git (mostly) everything is a reference to a commit id.

sigh~

I think this is the actual problem with git.

The idea that there is a fundamental abstraction that no one ever told you about git that will let you derive and understand its behavior from first principles is just wrong.

What you need to understand (and all you really need to understand) about git is how to make it behave in a predictable manner, for your particular use case.

Everything else is to support that, not vice versa.
Density wave theory [1] posits that the "arms" of a spiral galaxy are more like stellar gravitational traffic jams than persistent objects-- stars pass through and clump up in arms, but the stars in each arm change through the eons.

If you plot mass extinction events against when the solar system transits through the arms, eleven extinction events in the last 500 million years occurred while going passing through one of these high density regions. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4838
It's not strong-worded enough imo.
My wife clicks the shutter on her iPhone and without touching an additional button walks later into our family room and ask for fine detail in photos and they appear in 4k.

We also have a 4k Chromecast and a Google home.

Just buy, plug in and log in. She already used Google photos.
I've run a few miles with a phone and a shuffle before.

I don't think it's the same experience as running with just a smartwatch.

There's less dread that you're going to drop and destroy an expensive heavy device if you focus on your run.

I also didn't and don't pay anything near your prices, and don't find Apple's aesthetics that great, or Android's offerings that horrible.
> At least in the case of Perforce, the fact people didn't use branches forced them to put all of a feature into a changeset (Perforce's closest equivalent to a commit), which was usually way too much; this results in multiple, distinct changes being squashed together.

First add a feature flag for your feature, then you can have as many small changelists as you like.
Finally! Someone else made the same observation I did. All that "expected" rotation curve stuff is bullshit since it's based on Keplers laws, which don't apply to a flat disk.

They do that based on a misapplication of the divergence theorem. They assume that all the mass inside an orbital radius can be treated as a point-mass which is true for uniform spherical distributions. They also assume the mass outside the radius has no net infuence - which is true for uniform spherical shells. Neither of these is valid for non-uniform distributions - a flat disk in not symmetric in 3-space. If they'd just do some electrostatics problems they'd know the different formulas for disks and rings. I was going to google a sample page but there's too many to sift through and I gotta run an errand.

Welcome to the club - it's incredibly small...
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He can do the math himself.
One thing my wife and I use the Google home for constantly is grocery shopping. We had previously used an app called our groceries that synchronizes a grocery list between multiple people. That's a map where to plug in for Google home where you can just say things to it and it adds it to your synchronized grocery list. We use it all the time when we notice we run out of something.
This seems to me like it would be an extremely short-term play, wouldn't it be? Company X gets an early source on self-driving cars and begins taking over Ubers market. Then consumers start getting self-driving cars. And someone else develops an app to let those people rent their cars when not being used and destroys Company Xs market. In the extreme, a company pops up and offers people free or drastically reduced cost self-driving cars so long as they dedicate a certain number of hours a week to the self-driving rental network. At the end of the day, the whole rideshare thing is an information service. A few servers running an API that client apps can communicate with. And the servers are optional. Building a purely p2p version of it would be slightly more challenging, but one would think market forces might pressure towards that. And at that point, only the people actually offering value, the ones providing vehicles, will be the ones making money from ridesharing.
This is really great. What would make it better is if there wasn't a huge watermark, and there were subtitles. In education especially I think it'd help a lot to put text to Steven's voice.

I think immersion is very effective, and so far the modern effects are delivering well.
That rail system still exists. Asking for a national high-speed rail system is like giving everyone a Rolls Royce.
And if he had said

>The FBI should recommend charges for this Holmes guy.

No one would think twice. Stop looking for reasons to be outraged, you'll be better off for it.
The article talks about being able to integrate into the JavaScript "ecosystem," but for me the excitement of WebAssembly is that I can avoid JavaScript and an object system that is fundamentally unsuitable for anything other than static word-processor-like documents. (Which, to be fair, is what HTML was designed to be.)

We know how to write a UI library, I think the basic components are pretty well-defined. Qt and NextStep (surviving to some extent in Cocoa) are well-regarded. Java Swing is okay. So if we could get a real UI library for use in the browser, instead a JavaScript framework poorly re-inventing it, that would be wonderful. And, best of all, it doesn't have to be in JavaScript!
Do you think the subject is worthwhile? How would you talk about this? Do you feel there is any advantage to talking about the way entrepreneurs sometimes undermine themselves? How should mistakes be discussed?
The problem is even deeper than that, with a lot of IDE developers and particularly Visual Studio ones there entire world is in the IDE, anything outside of it may as well not exist, anything the IDE can't do is impossible. Many wouldn't even be able to compile there own projects if you took the IDE away.

An email I got the other day was "we can't debug problem with x because it's built on the CI server" and the problem was in the first few milliseconds of startup so "attach to process" was no good, even if they knew that was possible. The idea of using a debugger outside of the IDE (mdbg in this case) never crossed their mind.

IDE's a great for coding, but too many devs are way to reliant on them.
Happy to answer questions or take any feedback.
People stop owning cars once SDC is dominant is the theory
beer kegs, properly sterilized, are excellent stores of water, and remain relatively sanitized while pumping the water out. Not perfect, but good.
How was NeXT a failure when it was acquired by Apple and is the basis of macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS? It's currently running on over one billion devices.
If Linus, at the time, felt otherwise, git probably wouldn't have been created.
We've made the assumption that users will enter malicious code and designed the security boundaries around that.

A malicious user that manages to break out of the container environment will only have access to other instances of their own applications. Stronger security policies exist between users.