skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems Siri is much better than Alexa as well - I often hear my roommate struggling with getting Alexa to do what she wants, and various other friends struggling with Alexa as well, usually because of accents.

Smart assistants in general have a ways to go still, but perhaps in the next 5-10 years they will be very good.
It doesn’t change anything.

I’m simply saying that year over year, Apple has typically had significant features to drive adoption, and that has slowed. But it doesn’t need to have, since there is much more to be done.

I don’t know why you’re talking about infinite timelines, but you are saying the market is matured and the job of the smartphone is done.

We just disagree about how much innovation is still possible in the space.
I agree. I've had quite a bit of exposure to linear algebra through other textbooks and online courses, and the 3Blue1Brown series explains the intuition better than just about anyone. In particular, the video on determinants really crystallized the concept for me.
Also medical devices
https://ricochet.im/ is a great protocol, but the UI could use work.
You'd be amazed at just how often I've seen people question where stuff gets downloaded to - or even if it had downloaded - with the current defaults. It's not actually that clear to most "general users" what's happening nor where the files go (though Chrome UI is a little better than Firefox in that regard).

I'm not saying there shouldn't be a Downloads folder nor that it shouldn't be the default location. I'm just saying having download there without a prompt is a step backwards in my personal opinion.
Is there a way to do diffs between versions of notes?
There is not a single point you make that is based in numbers. Instead, everything is about the feelings you get from the shift in the habits of some tech-savvy friends, and your own personal perception of Apple’s products. This is the opposite of a good objective analysis.
I suppose it depends where you live. But in general, in growing cities it's a matter of supply and demand. More and more people move to growing cities, and there is a fixed supply of zoned land to build on.

A few other reasons to add to your list:

- Preferential tax treatment. In the US and Canada, capital gains/appreciation on your home is completely TAX FREE. For comparison, any gains you make on the stock market 15-40% will go to taxes.

- Leverage. Try going to a bank and ask for a $500K loan to invest in stocks. Not going to happen. You can do this with a mortgage at incredibly low interest rate.
Not that I know enough about crypro to make an authoritative statement but generally speaking, more often than not, if something's successful it primarily means it's accessible and easy to use, rather than being robust and secure. (That is not to say that that's mutually exclusive.)
To be fair, Google has been working on speech recognition for longer and likely possess more data than Amazon.
Could be 30 years from now..
Really liking how lightweight, extensible, and flexible this is. It feels like a mature product already!
and take over their account?
Matrix is also experimental. About a year ago it kept losing my key meaning I couldn't decrypt old messages. I still use matrix, but I don't have any illusions that it's more secure than tox.
The first home I bought was very much not a place I wanted to live until retirement age in. For one, it was on the 4th floor without elevators.

A couple of homes later, I'm now in a place where I can see myself living until retirement.

When I bought the first few homes I definitely had investment very much in mind, though not the overriding factor. Otherwise I might not have been able to upgrade.
Yes, they are transferring the economic activity that comes with Cowboys and Rangers games (which are going to be played, new stadium or no) to Arlington... Directly from Irving in the Cowboys case and indirectly from wherever the Rangers might move. Also they have a bunch of other events in Cowboys stadium... not sure about the Ballpark.
The Chromium in Fedora's standard repo is built with it, and when I run it chrome://gpu does say video hardware acceleration is enabled. But at least with a handful of youtube videos, it doesn't matter, still uses 200%+ CPU, same as Chrome (no acceleration), laptop still gets hot and fans still run.
I see your point, but perhaps on occasion the labels of corrupt and criminal are accurate.

The corrupt and criminal should be called out. (never mind that those calling them out are often the same thing).
Even if it's not, we know the output of internal combustion engines is bad for us and can kill us in confined spaces. Our atmosphere is a confined space.
Well it's a pretty common sense investment idea. If something's gone up a lot, there's less upside in it.

If you look at how many years' income it costs to buy a home, it's gone up by a lot in many places. Back when it used to cost 2-3 annual salaries it might have made a lot of sense to buy a place. Now there's parts of the world where it's 10x.
There's some evidence that kids who share bedrooms have better social skills.

Historically, the concept of separate bedrooms is very, very recent.

The expected size of bedrooms has also risen dramatically in the last few years. Some are even bigger than the living rooms of houses built in the 1970s.
I really don't know what you mean by saying art today is nihilistic and destructive. Especially in the realm of pop culture it seems art is obsessed with finding meaning and purpose. The most obvious example that comes to mind is the incredible rise of popularity in super hero movies over the last decade and more. The overarching narrative is literally one where people (the heroes) are finding meaning by fighting to save the world. Then there's music: just looking at the top 3 entries on Billboard, they're all about trying to find love.

Maybe there's nihilism & destruction etc. in some art, but by far it does not appear to be a dominant theme.
if you loose your simcard, or it expires for some orhe reason, it will eventually be reassiged. then someone else has your old number and may recover your old account if you weren't able to change the number on it.
I invite everyone to try all of these techniques and math tools in ShaderGif [42]. Hopefully you'll learn and make nice gifs in the process. Learning new math concepts is even better when you create art and share it after!

[42] https://shadergif.com/
I will highly recommend ray tracing in weekend http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracing/Ray%20Tracing%20...
My 6yo son thinks Alexa is an actual person... he might be on to something.
I wanted to support what you're saying. I've worked in visual effects for over a decade now. While I've dabbled with OpenGL, I think the only practical application I've had was taking a stab at writing a PyOpenGL widget for viewing Alembic models in a custom PySide asset browser for a studio. This was when Alembic was much less mature and it never ended up getting used. However, I have done a lot of dealing with color spaces, debugging/optimizing scanline and ray casting renderers, computing/storing surface normals, projection and other space transforms, and simulations. I've written toy versions of a lot of those things, but mostly was debugging back box systems written by others or troubleshooting assets generated or consumed by one of these tools.

Even if you're talking about game engines, there's still a whole lot more to learn. This game engine book [1] has one chapter about the rendering engine and 16 more about other topics. Each chapter in there is at least one hefty book to get a good working knowledge of the topic.

It's great you have a resource where people can learn and experiment with these other things without having to learn to write all the code around it.

[1] https://www.gameenginebook.com/toc.html
Does anyone know what kernel developers do if someone sends them a patch adding support for hardware they don't have - a new wireless dongle, say?

Does the maintainer merge the code after just reading over the code and checking it compiles, never having executed it?

My assumption has always been there's little testing in such a situation - but I can't square that with the fact the kernel seems to work so well :)
It, obviously, would not be Cubans. It would be someone wanting US Cuban tensions to increase. Tons of actors want that.
The MCI hub in Colorado Springs in the 90s was like something out of a movie. And everyone that worked there seemed to think they were actors in a big movie. And the Northwestern Bell / US West / Qwest people were funny, too. Both sides really did talk and act like they were the rulers of the world, and actually hated each other with a passion, but I wonder how often they go to visit the graves of uu.net or others like it. Oh, that's right, most of them were laid off or quit decades ago.

As an old voice guy, it's still hilarious to me that AT&T and Verizon are the two biggest players in cell phones, which probably carry most of the data to end users. The IP guys didn't really figure that one out until it was too late. So they won the protocol fight, but didn't get paid.
It really does not look like a good investment at this time, though individual houses and local markets could vary. Record low numbers of millennials also believe the earth is not flat, and they're right.
Also: this was recommended on HN recently and it’s the best intro to matrix algebra / basic math of ML that I’ve seen. Lots of very practical and relevant exercises that relate to real data science tasks like text and image analysis. Code examples are in Julia.

http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/

And one more gold standard for more practical data science (with R) stuff. It introduces a more modern take on R (chaining functions together with the %>% pipe operator, which makes everything clean and terse).

https://r4ds.had.co.nz/
Since you outed yourself: does your company have an official stance on 3rd party clients?
I'm not sure if you mean on a user level or possibly on a sync level?

Trilium Notes automatically versions notes by kind of taking a snapshot every few minutes. It allows you to browse those "revisions", but there isn't a diff built in yet. It is one of those features which I thought I might implement some day but there's always something more important.

For the edit conflict resolution - no diff is being used. Newer change just overwrite the old one. But since you have historical revisions from both sides of edit conflicts, there's a good chance you didn't lose the data completely. And in practical terms this happens quite rarely if you sync often (i.e. - are online) since the sync is granular enough.
This is very much related to Netflix pulling out of the iTunes store pay option. Looks like there is a war brewing between Netflix, Apple, YouTube, Amazon to become King of media. I predict when Netflix announces syndication of their content, they are admitting to have lost to the giants.
I disagree. Consumers of the combinator library see no changes, which means they use the same declarative interface and yet can enjoy dramatically faster runtimes. See the link I provided in my last post.
Did you end up using recaptcha?
Well, you have to live somewhere. The true cost is the difference between your mortgage and the equivalent rent.
> You will first need to sign up for Plaid and apply for the development plan.

I guess I'm not the target audience. The only reason I would even consider building something like this is so that I'm in full control. I have no idea what Plaid is. All I know for sure is that I don't want to sign up for it and also introduce a major dependency. I don't understand what the advantage is over Mint. I get to do more work and not be in control. Usually you can only get one of those.
This looks pretty impressively thorough. I noticed you support Evernote -> ENEX -> Trilium; what about exports, ie going in the other direction?
I wonder if any of the 10,000 people are actually named Alexa, and if so do they get any preferential treatment?
Rent seeking is just so against my ethics that I see 2 only an an option for sociopathic individuals .
With Gliph for iOS, we tried binary transparency by trying to track a hash of the app binary after building. The idea is we'd publish the hash with each version increment or include the hash in the description of the updates.

However, I believe we found that Apple would alter the binary prior to release so we couldn't even guarantee the binary Apple was producing was ours. So it was not possible to allow users a way to validate even from the time of our closed-source build.
It may be indicative at the page level at least. Cool idea.
My observation:

Have you ever been convinced to re-read a horrible book you were forced to read in school, and discover that it's /brilliant/?

Have you ever been forced to re-read one of your favorite books on a strict deadline, and discover that it's a slog?

I've been paid for doing my hobby a couple times, and it quickly becomes work; I don't even enjoy those hobbies anymore.

My 2 cents:

Anything, when forced, is less enjoyable than when you're doing it just for enjoyment.

Don't kill a hobby by turning it into work.

Find tasks, types of work, etc. that you enjoy, and find a job that lets you do those things. It's still work, but most of the time you don't really notice it, and you don't kill a fun hobby.
OK. IMHO the best thing that can be done is to write a guide for single Saudi women who're looking to renounce Islam and leave the country and establish citizenship elsewhere. The guide won't be perfect at first, and it may even get some killed, but it should evolve into something useful. There is no reason for the women to put up with Saudi brutality.

Obviously, Thailand was a wrong choice for this woman; other countries would have to be identified that could be better choices. The circumstances under which she was identified and detained in Thailand by the Saudis also need addressing.
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Now do it on Mac, and windows, and dynamic and static, and install the libraries in the right place. It gets maddening.
Why kill it, Apple TV is one of their best products, amazing video and sound quality and the best remote, if you have a home cinema like theatre and spend a few hours a day watching TV, the additional cost of $125 is irrelevant. Apple should use their chip making expertise to develop a native 4k Laser Projector at affordable prices, Sony at $5000 still too expensive, Texas Instruments have been slow to innovate and get to 4k. A true native 4k apple tv with laser projector at say $2000 is quite doable and would be a very attractive product, to get 150 inch viewing screen plus options to link to several smart speakers for surround sound.
Perhaps it was aliens or magic?

Its never the probably, most mundane, natural, with conclusive evidence answer. Is it?
That's a good question, I don't know. But they are not setting off my anti-canvas measures either (I use jsblocker) so I'm guessing you are right.
I wonder how good clojure is with soft real-time like graphics rendering/games, or as an embedded script engine.
Even 1/20 of dangerous is quite a lot of energy and vastly more than you would need to surveil. And unless the beams are exceptionally narrow and all aimed at the exact same spot, you're going to be filling the room with smaller peaks and it will be very noticeable as heat and touch and more.
There would be a certain poetic justice in that.
It's debatable how innovative that was because ABCL was running on the JVM before Clojure. Clojure was definitely marketed better, though.
My workflow could probably be described as the exact opposite of that. Nearly everything that gets downloaded needs to be archived off somewhere and might be called upon again months later.

Being a Linux user, the closest thing I have to downloading installers is either user repositories (which are handled by the package manager) or version controlled (typically git). So browser downloads is only generally stuff that matters.
I buy CDs, since I want to own a copy of high-quality audio. I then copy them to my computer, and they sit in a box.

I no more want to flip through LP-style artwork than I do photographs of friends and family, which are also only digital. What I'd like is high resolution (at least 4K for my monitor/TV) artwork that could be shown while an album is playing.
I think Clojure is certainly innovative in that it includes software transactional memory in its core language. Scheme doesn't, Common Lisp doesn't, and perhaps most other lisps do not. It's not very often used, but it's a welcome addition to the core language.
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The best investments are those that are used to produce income. Passively investing in real estate means buying an asset that produces no income, costs taxes/maintenance/insurance, and the structure declines in value due to people wanting new things, not old things.

The net result is you're relying on increasing demand to make money, which only works for location, location, location.
https://open.gl is the best OpenGL tutorial IMO.
I think it’s easy to conflate empathy with forgiveness. Empathy is about understanding someone’s viewpoint to the degree that you feel a reflection of their emotions. This requires a mixture of reason and emotionality: reason to bridge the gap in world views. It does not preclude truth or judgement. One can empathize with a murderer by understanding their background and motivations, but still want them to be locked up. I think it is important to empathize with criminals for the express reason that you want to find out how to prevent further criminal acts.

I quite agree with the article. I am quite unabashedly liberal, but I understand why conservatives exist (here I’m using the United States polarity) and even why they need to. The idea that one side or the other is an inherently destructive force is repellent.

I’m using your comment as a springboard for these thoughts btw, I’m not disagreeing with you.
...but only in Guangzhou, which is in subtropical southern China and also has very noisy crickets.
Right, downclocking is a different matter and I'm aware of the pitfalls there. As you point out, the extent of the downclocking varies based on the model - and also the exact "license" chosen depends not only on the instructions used, but their relative intensity (e.g., you can do a lot of 512-bit FMA instruction without suffering the slowest speeds, but once FMAs are dense enough you'll get the downclocking).

FWIW, I recently tested a consumer Cannonlake chip and there is no downclocking even with heavy AVX-512: all types of tested code ran at the full turbo frequency. So it seems that not all chips will have these varying frequencies based on ISA extensions used.
Focusing on local residents tends to be a sum optimal. Focus on what’s best for all city residents and you avoid a lot of local maxima in favor of a global one.

Remember, people often have limited understanding of impacts focusing on a small percentage of what’s going on. Aka sound byte politics, a stadium is only half the story rarely used, low density parking can be a larger issue.
For the export there's a TAR archive which contains a directory structure of HTML/Markdown files (you can choose the format) representing the notes in the tree structure. Extra metadata are stored in a single JSON file (in the same tar). Same tar archive can also be imported without losing anything in the process.

Besides that there's an OPML file export which contains a tree structure with plain text. Its import seems to be supported widely among outliners.
'nestorD was discussing the effects and overheads of "dropping the fixed length constraint" in the comment you replied to.
Well that tends to be the case that generic interfaces to multiple APIs only provide the features that everyone provides.
I don't think it is surprise that Linux is about adding more features in an organic way, instead of being well thought like *BSDs.

However saying that no testing happens in Linux kernel is dishonest, to say at least: there is automated tests maintained by big corporations like LTP [1] or autotest [2], thousands of people run different versions of unstable/mainline kernels with different configurations, security researches does multiple tests like running fuzzers and reporting issues, multiple opensource projects run tests in current versions of Linux kernel (that in the end also serves as a test of kernel itself), etc etc.

Linux is basically the kind of project that is big enough and impactful enough that naturally gets testing for free from the community.

[1]: https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp

[2]: https://github.com/autotest/autotest
There's a lot of high-school math there, but the trouble is that the real workings of neural networks (the speed of convergence, and why/if it works on samples outside the training/validation set) are left a mystery, if you ask me.
Nitpick.
The value of the house is the hedge (you would expect that to rise with inflation)
The mortgage is fixed (or at least decoupled from inflation). I wouldn't describe something fixed as a hedge?
Six years ago was a buyers market and everyone knew it. That's not hindsight. I bought mine 5 years ago and it was still a buyers market and everyone knew it. Me included. Not sure who your people are.

Today is a sellers market and everyone knows it.
Not as an online course or document, but I can highly recommend the following book:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/audio-programming-book

It's fairly heavy going, but very comprehensive.
On webpages I often highlight text as I read it. It helps to keep track in case I get distracted for a second.

But I almost never do for PDFs as selection is frequently quite wonky or impossible, so it has never become a habit.

Also, I'm curious why one would want to know the attention heatmap of a PDF? Like what's the use-cases? I looked at the webpage but I still don't get it. Then again I'm not in sales so...
An elderly lady comes into the police station crying hysterically. "I've just been mugged!" she cries.

The desk sergeant asks, "Can you describe the mugger?"

"Not really, he grabbed me from behind. I know he's a man, bigger than me, and he's vegan."

"How on earth do you know he's vegan?"

"He bloody told me!"
I have been using Alexa for years. I've been controlling my TV and I have WiFi smart plugs. It is super useful and it has never had issues understanding what I was saying.

I have noticed people who have issues they place the device next to a sound source such as a TV or fan or something and obviously this will mess it up.

I also don't understand why so much hate for Alexa. Everyone in this thread just seems like a Debbie downer, shi*ing on everything all the time.
Usually I dislike engaging with trolls but this topic is important.

sudden, are you familiar aware that we have more co2 today than before? Would you agree that burning of organic matter produces co2? That burning fossil fuels produce co2?

Next part: are you familiar with the fact some some gasses exhibit “greenhouse effect”? (like opening the door of your car on a hot day, the inside is much hotter than outside). Do you know that co2 is one such gas?

Combining those two things, can you imagine how co2 increase can trap more heat in the earth?

Given this mental model and hypothesis, first make sure that it is consistent. If the above is true then we should be able to measure various aspects to test this theory.

Run an experiment to see if co2 is indeed green house gas.

Run an experiment to measure co2 output from various things like fuel burning, cattle, etc.

Measure historical co2 levels.

Measure historical sea levels.

All of these things are measurable / empirical. So at least we can understand the past very well.

The question about the future is hard but we can definitely prove or disprove weather human made climate change is reall. Just need to answer those questions. Either it is or it isn’t.

I can assure you that it is real but I will let you investigate those questions yourself.