skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i remember when this was new, it took about 2 seconds to become a sausage fest, but it could be used for decent things with a moderated reflector.
Re to cornell U and thw whitepine team!
Reminds me of this: https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
“Ladies in cans” have a power source that allows them to continuously listen and send back audio.
I'm surprised at the number of people saying there's a noticeable difference. I've been using Dots for a few months, now, and it pretty much understands me every time, even with the vent hood of the range on, etc.

I did have one odd error, where when I named one of my lamps 'halogen', Alexa would always ask back "did you mean halogen?" with the exact same pronunciation I had used. Then proceed to turn it off or on like I'd asked in the first place. This struck me as more of a bug than anything else, and I worked around it by just using a different name. But still, if that's the only listening error I've dealt with after several months' use, I'm impressed.
Who Wants a Market Downturn? These Investors Actually Do.
A couple bought a house near us in SF for $900k back in 2011. It’s now worth close to $2M.

They’ll be paying taxes on half of that appreciation.
Yes. Each client runs a Tor .onion service, and there's end-to-end encryption. So arguably, users are mutually anonymous (except for their .onion addresses).

But it's only available for Windows, macOS and Linux. On Android, there's Briar, which is similar.[0] But Briar can also connect via Bluetooth and WiFi. That's useful when the Internet is unavailable. But it's bad because user anonymity could be blown.

0) https://briarproject.org/
I'll adopt your nits, though the second one seems at least loosely capped by wages in the long-run.

The first one is also a valid (actually quite good) house-hacking strategy. My brother and my brother-in-law both afforded their first houses in large part by renting rooms in it to friends.
FiveThirtyEight's Data
Could this be part of the motivation for Google to develop Fuchsia?
It is relatively clear why it works beyond the training and validation set: What is being approximated is a smooth function, which in the case of a classification task is a function from the space of things to be classified (images of a certain size) to the n-simplex, where n is the number of classes. Then the preimage theorem tells you that over a regular point of this smooth map lies a codimension n submanifold in the space of things to be classified. That in turn can be interpreted as the submanifold of all things that look like the class you are assigning, especially close to the corners of the n-simplex (being a regular point is an open condition). In short: Because the map is constructed to be smooth it will make sense beyond whatever the training / validation data was. Note that this does not guarantee that it has learned something reasonable about the dataset, just that it will have found some way to smoothly separate it into different components.
Thanks but this list doesn't seem relevant to me as it doesn't even contain any of the most interesting notetaking apps I've seen so far like TreeSheets, Bear (I wish it wasn't Apple-only), The Brain, Notable or Frame. Evernote-like stuff is not what I'm looking for.
- https://github.com/NaomiProject/Naomi

- http://mycroft.ai

- http://snips.ai
4chan is known to the State of California to cause certain types of cancer.
If Bloomberg is this ignorant about intergalactic distances, just imagine how accurate their financial advice is.
Oil Fall: How Wind and Solar Will Power Transit
Oh wow I've always wanted Mark Karpeles' library in my stack of dependencies.
I absolutely agree with you. Imho there is no reason to live in a non-large city.
Investment is a terrible way of thinking about homeownership.

In the markets that are most affected by this phenomenon like London, SF, and so on, for the vast majority of individuals, it's the only thing that costs money anyway.

Anything else can either be binned as 'trivially cheap' (e.g. groceries+bills+transport combined) or 'luxury fun' (e.g. nice clothes, expensive holidays, etc).

To the point that money in the abstract is basically irrelevant (vanishingly small numbers of people have liquid wealth, but tons of families with modest jobs own 500K, 1M, 2M homes in London).

If you don't want a house or apartment to call your own, a place to make good and have suit your needs (with nice fittings, a layout that suits you, neighbours you know well and so on) then you don't want it.

Young people barely ever want this stuff (I sure didn't) and the Internet has only exacerbated that. Money has less to do with it than people think, I reckon.
"Alexa understand my broken English way better than my wife(native)."

This is perhaps thanks to the partnership with ICE/DHS. That would also explain why all your audio is being uploaded to so many different remote servers at all times.
Amazon must have a very decentralized recruiting methodology because I've been contacted by recruiters for Alexa at least 4 times.

It seems like Alexa, Go, and AWS have massive staffing targets based on my interactions w/ recruiters.
Great question, because generally, you need a centralized ICE/STUN/Turn Nat punch through server to connect peers
I wonder if the vibration of the screen destroys the practical viewing angle of the OLED.
Must watch.
Games are often a good way to motivate kids. You might want to take a look at something like Screeps (https://screeps.com/), which involves programming virtual robots in JavaScript to to play in an online MMO.
Apple likely has fewer people in their entire software engineering organization; they generally hire fewer people than you’d expect for most projects.
I've seen a few Nokia and Xiaomi devices in the local stores lately with very slick and small bezel designs. And they still manage to have everything needed (sadly no dual front-facing speakers).

I also looked at an XS Max yesterday for the first time. The notch is reduced compared to an X; not by much but it's definitely less.

I realize many people buy X / XS / XS Max for the bezel-less form factor but I wish us the others (who like rectangular screens and don't mind some bezels) actually had a choice of a high-end iPhone.
If it's anything like most of Google's code, it's also going to be features features features, with weird corner cases and interactions.
Note that Guttman was also one of the people who gave formal, methods people a reality check:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170214231046/http://www.cypher...

His work taught me to watch out for such problems. Plus, keep a mix of formal and empirical methods on any given project so they cross-check each other.
That reminds me that Google has DIY kits at Target, but they are designed as Google service extensions.

https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com
That's right. But using a house, like driving a car, pushes its value down. Wear and tear.

I own my home because I like owning it and being able to use it the way I want to rather than asking permission from the owner. But I don't think I have illusions about it being an investment. It kinda sucks as an investment.
And so does you phone.. how often do you have your phone on you and it's NOT on?
Well, could you write another one feature request to Olive issues tracker?

UPD: I just add such feature request[0], think it would be solved very soon, as such pop-up should be very similar to current "Keyboard" tab of "Preferences" dialog ;)

[0] https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/issues/265
Absolutely. I think there are a number of factors here, but the most trivial is population growth - we're +90m people in the US since 1985 and we've seen a percentage shift of the total population to the major urban centers - and the simple fact that competition for prime locations increases as a result.

Everyone wants to live in a prime central location with plenty of space and good schools. Who wouldn't? It's a naive reading, but that phenomenon feels very much like a simple econ 101 supply constraint.

I'd be very interested in some further reading on it if you're aware of any though.
Caltrain and BART don't compete except for the Milbrae->SF segment. I don't think that the Caltrain ridership would be supportive of what would essentially be a BART takeover of the system, because Caltrain is so much more pleasant to ride. There are a lot of reasons for this -- different demographics of the areas served, commuter oriented schedule, and the different configuration of the trains themselves. One of the biggest though is the positioning and attitude of the employees towards troublemaking riders. If you're making a nuisance of yourself on Caltrain, the conductor will come through and throw you off the train. There is no conductor on BART, and the station attendants generally don't leave their booths. It's to the point where you can literally shoot heroin on a BART train and nothing will happen to you. Try that on Caltrain, and you will be thrown off and the police will be called. The net result is that on roughly the same segment, Milbrae->SF, if I can get a seat, I have no concerns pulling out my laptop on Caltrain. I wouldn't even consider this on BART, and I am even cautious pulling out my phone.
ZKSNARKs Plasma ETH Scaling Solution of 500 Tx/s Launched on Testnet
The power of suggestion is amazing. I didn’t notice my tinnitus until reading this comment..
Yes, every group in Amazon has its own recruiters who largely find candidates independently.
However, Amazon does have a good central database of everybody who is contacted, who last talked with them, what happened with the contact, etc. And they're usually pretty good about having only one group active with a candidate at a time.
One of my coworkers used to go by Alexa, and has since just switched to Alex. She is not happy about it, but none of the available wake words are ideal. I say computer and amazon too often to use those, and it baffles me that we can't just choose our own, which is something that the very first Droid phone supported.
> That's because the minus world was never intended for players — it was an area where code could be tested before being implemented into the playable game.

I don't see any evidence of the above quoted claim either.

TechCrunch has a more detailed article which suggests your interpretation: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/03/zelda-has-a-minus-world/

> obviously was not crafted but is simply created on the fly by the game’s engine attempting to make sense of the data it’s reading.
neonicotinoids, go figure
This makes a lot of sense. I have a TV with a built-in Chromecast and it is far more useful than the terrible software on most 'Smart TVs'
One of the nice things about writing your own note-taking application is that it doesn't have to either good or fully-featured. It just has to do the job better than any existing solution.
Isn't that simply a consequence of having less money in your pocket in the end?
No, it really doesn’t. Phones run on batteries and continuously listening to and streaming audio would cause them to quickly die.
On machines in our household I have mix of SpiderOak (very useful if you want to back up a dual boot system and don't boot into it every 30 or 90 days like some backup systems require) and Backblaze.
The first clue that it's dangerous up ahead is the rest of the cars braking and driving slower. That should have been his hint to slow down.

Also, even if it's a current generation fully automated self driving car, don't leave it on auto pilot under such conditions.
Yeah I've also had good experiences with Linux reliability.

But that's because I intentionally stay on the "happy path" that's been tested by millions of others. I avoid changing any kernel settings and purposely choose bog-standard hardware (Dell).

When you're on the other side, you're not just maintaining the happy path. You're maintaining every path! And I'm sure it is unbelievably complex and frustrating to work with.

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Personally I would like software to move beyond "the happy path works" but that seems beyond the state of the art.

I also think there is a big component of this:

Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/861

Over time you get trained not to do anything "weird" on your computer, because you know that say opening too many programs at once can cause a lockup. Or you don't want to aggressively move your mouse too much when doing other expensive operations. (This may be in user space or the kernel, but either way you're trained not to do it.)

There is another post that I can't find that is about "changing defaults". I used to be one of those people who tried to configure my system, but I've given up on that. The minute you have a custom configuration, you run into bugs, with both open source and commercial software.

The kernel has thousands of runtime and compile-time options, so I have no doubt that there are thousands upon thousands of bugs available for you to experience if you change them in a way that nobody else does. :)
As a Lisp dialect it isn't that innovative besides a few syntactic improvements [0]. I'd gladly use Common Lisp instead if it could do something like ClojureScript. But by design it'd be hard to pull off.

Like a good politician Clojure is pretty unimpressive in of itself, for any given characteristic, someone has a better take. But as a whole it's one of the few sensible choices out there.

[0] I feel like they're generally underrated. Adding [] {} and #{} might not seem like much, but when writing DSLs they really do make all the difference.
MPoA (you can guess what the A stands for) has replaced the older PPPoA for VDSL deployments.
I agree with your analysis that it's increased competition for prime locations, but that seems to me purely descriptive. It's not a surprise, but it's still a problem :) And it's a problem that is masked by aggregate measures showing stable cost per square foot because those numbers are not "prime-locale" adjusted.

To be somewhat more precise, what we commonly describe as "buy a house" is actually much more than that. I can buy an amazing house-shaped structure in rural Wyoming for $200k. What I can't buy for that price is a stake in an environment where I want to base my career and family life for decades. The latter is what is crushing millennials.
Yeah but they're not. It would be obvious from the packet traffic if your phone was constantly streaming everything you said to Google or Apple's servers. It would also be a violation of privacy policy and potentially state law. I think there would be huge backlash if either Google or Apple did this.
When only poor people live in SF, the property prices will decline from the stratosphere.
The Hand Licking Incident
I suspect we see things fairly similarly. I bought our house because it was a great location, (potentially) lovely old house, with a yard and parking, and sized/designed that we might be able to live there 30+ years.

I bought it considering the ownership to be primarily an act of consumption; it's just happened to turn out to be a greater windfall than my actual/intentional investments. I accounted for it like consumption, but had pretty strong suspicions that it would have a strongly positive financial return. (Nice large, already old, single-family with a yard in Cambridge, MA.)
It’s to keep out the kids whose parents can’t afford the tuition. $20k/year/student is on the cheap end in the richer areas too.
But afaik most immutable, persistent data structure libraries in other lisps either (1) had poor performance or (2) were developed after clojure and borrowed from clojure.
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

-- Winston Churchill
Alexa seems to not understand simple questions like "current temperature in Celsius" which is really a deal breaker for me.

(I don't own any Alexa device but when I visit Seattle they have one in the room).
You should look at https://katex.org/
The Piaggio museum in Pontedera (Tuscany) is impressive and I'd recommend a visit. https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/museo/

There you can see first hand a lot of this history. And unlike all the museums of car manufacturers in Italy, this one is free.
But the paper that introduced the term 'persistent data structure' said they already existed in Lisp and gave the example of a persistent queue built by sharing the tail of an existing one with a new head?
I'd be interested in the shortest word that can't be encoded in the "one-sided" mode when playing against a strong AI. I played Stockfish as white while having black try to encode "hello" but Stockfish was able to checkmate black before it had finished.

https://lichess.org/yeg4eqyG
> Whether its American Conservatives or UK Remainers

American liberals do exactly the same thing.
Some companies, notably Google and Amazon, have maintenance of customer trust as a core principle. This seems to be working. Generally, people trust a lot of their private data to these companies and the companies do not abuse it.

Microsoft believes in this too, but had to learn the hard way back around 2000 that customer trust matters a lot.

Facebook seems to have had a harder time learning this lesson. Perhaps they've learned it now, but it'll take a while before consumers really believe it.
Of course! I will tweet few "executive summary" during this week via @app4soft and will ask @OliveTeam pin some of them ;)
Traffic signals need to get a whole lot smarter. If our cars can figure out how to drive, traffic lights should be able to see people and cars and make things much safer and more efficient.

Plus a traffic light's sensors wouldn't even moving around in the environment, so it's got to be that much easier. And they can be positioned all over an area, on both sides of obstacles. And they can be higher up for a better view.

The downside is that every intersection is different and drawing conclusions from all that information will be harder. And the stakes are higher with a system that directs everybody else.
Isn't changing the head of a Lisp lisp by referring to the same tail from a new head an example of a persistent data structure?
Parenscript is pretty close, as is js-cl. The issue is mostly that no one has written something like figwheel or shadow-cljs yet.
When these were announced for delivery early last year they were somewhat innovative and people were speculating ~$2,500-$3,000. Now it comes a year later at $5,000.

The upsides:

- 144 Hz
- Low latency

The downsides:
- Can't do 4:4:4 at 144 Hz due to input bandwidth limitations
- Limited to Nvidias proprietary G-Sync (while superior to VRR there is nothing stopping them from enabling VRR as well in the software)
- Competitors have already come out with 4k 120 Hz VRR displays at half the price

The monitors with this tech came out (somewhat) on time but are still roughly twice as expensive. I don't think Nvidia's lead is significant enough to try to build a walled garden out of their products.
We're aiming to do this at Dataquest (where I work). Essentially create a complete learning path from 0 to job ready.

Data Scientist path - https://www.dataquest.io/path/data-scientist

Some of the projects peppered throughout the track: https://www.dataquest.io/projects

EDIT: Forgot to mention, almost every lesson uses a real dataset!
http://www.americancriminallawreview.com/files/5114/9515/418...

The third party doctrine may be extended to guests visiting a home, but existing law should adapt to require the visitor’s consent. One party consent laws will no longer be feasible in this context without an exception, as they would completely eradicate any expectation of privacy when visiting another’s home.

A more pragmatic approach would be to extend the two party consent laws to owners of recording devices, whereby the duty to disclose that conversations are being recorded would most efficiently be placed on the owner of the recording device.

Consent laws must be modified in order to match the reasonable expectation of privacy of guests visiting another’s home. Owners of an Echo device, similar to banking institutions, should have a duty to disclose to their home guests that conversations may be recorded. The duty of disclosure would best be reflected by a uniform application of the two party consent laws.
Both comments are untrue. The author uses his pessimistic outlook on technology in predicting the stagnation of technology companies. That’s why my comments center around showing how such an opinion is foolish. Because besides it, the author provides no other evidence, factual or otherwise.
But few people care about overhead or executable size much anymore, outside of embedded systems.

What most people care about is computational performance, and clojure performs OK by this metric (certainly SBCL can still beat it in many use cases on this metric as well, but often only by a modest margin)
sbcl also has the ability to statically link all your C dependencies using CFFI’s STATIC-IMAGE-OP
I always went after the hardest unsolved problem I could find. This has often ended in pain and heartache but that taught me about some things to look for in a problem. Some key bits of advice:

1) Prepare like your life depends on it. It does. Your time may not come for 40 years, but if you're not prepared, you'll never know. So study hard. This is where Paul Graham's "swim upstream as long as possible" comes in.

2) Knowing how to code makes you a code monkey, human materiál, an interchangeble part. Same with doctors, lawyers, etc. They're essentially interchangable. If you know something else, (medicine, geology, rockets, whatever) then knowing how to code makes you a magician. In both realms.

3) Develop a 5,000 year old mind. Understand where you are in the world, and where the world is, so when your critical opportunities arrive, you will recognize them and know what to do.

4) Most successes come around age 50. If you're 20, 25, 30, 40, and think you've seen what there is to see, you probably have.
A metaphysical explanation would be lost here. Username at gmail
Also weirdness with funds being stolen and team splits:

https://chefkochblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/r-i-p-tox-mess...
What's the difference between what you are suggesting and just buying CDs?
I don't care how many people they have working on Alexa or Echo - those things will never be allowed inside my house. Massive security risk.
Actually I think Apple's decision to have a rectangular watch face was a major unforced error.

Here are two smart watches from almost 4 years ago: https://m.imgur.com/V9YZ5Kz

The Moto 360 looks beautiful and classy while the Apple watch looks like a cheap casio from the 80s
Jack Barker approves.
> The most common features and configurations will get tested over and over and over well beyond the point of usefulness. Less common features might not get tested at all.

Not that I wouldn't want a featured Unix-like kernel with a comprehensive[1] test suite (and I don't know any major OS that have this, not Windows, macOS or Linux), however I think this is fine.

Common setups works fine, uncommon configurations may have some problems, with possible workarounds. Most people will not run mainline kernels anyway, so a workaround is acceptable.

[1]: What I mean by comprehensive is basically having tests for every possible configuration, that is basically impossible anyway. Probably the closest thing we can get is formally proven OS, however I don't think we will even have a general purpose OS formally proven.
Virtue signaling is by no means a specifically left-wing phenomenon. Consider, for example, copious displays of Christian faith, piety, and family values from divorced cheaters living according to the gospel of fuck-you-I-got-mine. It refers to any instance where the social status game around commitment to a belief / purging of unbelievers dwarfs actual commitment to it.