skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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A similar story is Oscar the Cat, from an advanced dementia ward named Steere House in Providence, RI. Amazingly, the cat was able to smell death, and would hop up onto the deathbed and wait as the person passed. I knew the cat personally, it was not friendly, and many family members attempted to bar it from entering a room, and Oscar would scratch insistently to get into said room.

While one physician was monitoring the cat's predictive capacity, he noted a streak of ~20 successful predictions of death by the cat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_(therapy_cat)
Removing PF
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British Microsoft, Nintendo hacker given 18 month sentence
The investors here didn't make "good" or "bad" decisions, though. They just diversified their investments such that they can have an EV of millions of dollars even if most of their investments fail. That's not a thing most of us can do — not because we make decisions that don't pay off, but because we don't have enough money to even get in the game.
This doesn't make much sense to me.

Apple is the tech marketing messiah, why would they announce AirPower at a major product demo and think that it somehow wouldn't be hyped? This is a really strange fumble for them.

It was also listed as a major feature for the new AirPods, that doesn't seem like something Apple would slap on a box knowing they probably weren't going to ship, especially if was a "silly accessory."

I can totally see an engineering team BSing leadership on the product readiness, but there had to be internal pressure on this. Apple knows this looks bad after investors weren't super impressed with the News+ demo.
People use their credit card dozens of times a day.

Even small innovations can end up being a big deal. And the ability to identity the source of transactions based on geolocation is pretty cool.
The problem is that violations of the Rules of Engagement in combat are treated more strictly than police killing innocent people. That's a pretty low bar in civilian life, and so shouldn't be the case.
The machines that made the Jet Age
The paradox of capitalism. Due to the positive feedback loop of capital it naturally gravitates towards a system where a single individual controls all of the capital, at which point the system has completely collapsed.

In practice it would have collapsed before that point, but for basically the same reason. None of the capital is where it needs to be to be useful. This is why you need stuff like progressive taxes, public works projects, and social programs on top of capitalism, to pull money out of the top and re-inject it at the bottom lest the system get too top heavy.
For people like myself who just bought AirPods for wireless charging, what wireless chargers are you using that you would highly recommend?
Yea turning everything into a subscription is the hot stuff now, even if it makes no sense to be a subscription.

My git client, password manager, have all become subscriptions! Why??
Not stupid or crazy, but definitely evil. Why are you defending their evil actions? There is no valid excuse for this kind of negligence. Are you so morally deficient that you would have done the same in their shoes? Stock price is never worth murdering hundreds of people.
Are there mechanical components on Voyager?
<10% users liked WP/Windows 8 design. There were some stats about it. Don't you remember how much people complained when Win8 was released? You could consider yourself "elite" or an "outlier" if you liked WP/W8.
How do they intend to fine non EU residents hosting a website outside of the EU? I could see if it was a company but if someone is running a server with a not for profit site on it with no way to identify the site owner and an EU resident visits it, good luck trying to fine anyone. The EU does not own or even control the internet outside of their borders.
Heh, that’s almost unheard of in the Middle East for example. You have to fight tooth and nail to even get basic warranty.

Not sure about the rest of the world, but I would say that the US is an outlier when it comes to return policies.
I agree with what you say. I meant my comment mainly about the North. There, like you said, the factories made slavery uneconomical. Because their livelihoods did not depend on slavery, people were able to take a more objective look at the morality of slavery and come to the conclusion that it was an evil.

In the South, people's livelihood depending on slavery. Because of that, their minds did all sorts of rationalizations as to why slavery was not that bad.

>The response to industrialization was what made 19th century slavery so much worse than traditional serfdom.

The other thing that made 19th century slavery so much worse than traditional serfdom was the racial aspect. If a serf had some skill and went to a town and somehow became a craftsman, people could not look at the him and know he had once been a serf. Because of the racial aspect, ex-slaves could not escape people immediately knowing that they had been slaves.
Just out of curiosity - we have people on this thread and on other parts of the internet, claiming they'll watch one "extremist", typically right wing video, and then have their recommendations blitzed with even more extreme/right wing content. This is the "rabbit hole" effect that's being referred to in the article.

Can anyone say that they have distinctly not encountered this effect? I can recall having watched maybe a couple of Joe Rogan clips, a Jordan Peterson interview, and even some stuff I would label alt-right content. I'm personally fairly left-ish/liberal, so I find these videos boring/offensive and eventually will go back to my normal youtube consumption - music, sports, some tech videos.

My recommendations are all of the latter categories, not of extreme/political right wing category. I guess due to selection bias, most people who don't have a problem with their recommendations won't report anything, while most people who do will leave comments that they too experienced the rabbit hole effect. I'm wondering if that leads to the problem described being overstated. Or am I really the only person who's managed to watch some fairly extreme right wing content, and had my recommended videos stay intact?
It’s almost like the YouTube guy is taking his talking points directly from Zuckerberg’s script.

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1. “of course we take this seriously”

- Mohan: "Having said that, we do take this notion of dissemination of harmful misinformation, hate-filled content, content that in some cases is inciting violence, extremely seriously."

- Zuckerberg 2016: "we take misinformation seriously. We’ve been working on this problem for a long time and we take this responsibility seriously."

2. “we’re simply trying to help people get accurate information”

- Mohan: "when users are looking for information, YouTube is putting its best foot forward in terms of serving that information to them."

- Zuckerberg 2016: “Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information.”

3. “fear not, it’s our users who are in power/in control”

- Mohan: "But YouTube is also still keeping users in power, in terms of their intent and the information that they’re looking for."

- Zuckerberg 2004: “People have very good control over who can see their information.”

- Zuckerberg 2017: “Our full mission statement is: give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. That reflects that we can’t do this ourselves, but only by empowering people to build communities and bring people together.”

And last but definitely not least,

4. “we’re proud of our progress, but there’s more work to do”

- Mohan: "It’s an ongoing effort. I think we’ve made great strides here. But clearly there’s more work to be done."

- Zuckerberg 2016: “We’ve made significant progress, but there is more work to be done.”

- Zuckerberg 2018: “I’ve learned a lot from focusing on these issues and we still have a lot of work ahead…I’m proud of the progress we’ve made in 2018… I’m committed to continuing to make progress on these important issues as we enter the new year.”

Why anyone would copy Zuckerberg’s script at this point is beyond me.

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Sources:

- Zuck 2004: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-registe...

- Zuck 2016: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103269806149061

- Zuck 2017: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/bringing-the-...

- Zuck 2018: https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10105865715850211/
While we're at this, I'd rather prefer that my virtual assistant would be based on Majel Barrett-Roddenberry voice she used in ST LCARS voice (?) interface. Pretty sure she did record enough lines to synthesize her voice.
I think I'm going against the flow here, but I have an IKEA Family backpack [1]. It is composed of two parts: a travel part with wheels, some large storage for clothes and other things you need on a trip and a retractable handle, and the backpack part uses for everyday commuting.

The backpack part consists of a part where you can store a 15½ inch laptop, and a part for small stuff like cell phones, head phones, cables, adapters, etc.

[1]: https://atrancetotravel.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/mochila-...
Keep in mind that the very first CELP speech codec (in 1984) used to take 90 seconds to encode just 1 second of speech... on a Cray supercomputer. Ten years later, people had that running in their cell phones. It's not just that hardware keeps getting faster, but algorithms are also getting more efficient. LPCNet is already 1/100 the complexity of the original WaveNet (which is just 2 years old) and I'm pretty sure it's still far from optimal.
Where can we get this RISC-V hardware?
Other way around. Anyone qualified to replace a battery should have no difficulty getting their hands on a pentalobe screwdriver.

In fact, it would not surprise me in the least if vendors selling third-party iPhone batteries included pentalobe screwdrivers with the battery (or offered it as an add-on).
When those "things" are increasingly lobbying power, "freedom" to destroy the environment more (travel by private jet, large homes (multiple?) with always-on climate-control, large cars, etc.), Carol does hurt Betty by having these things Betty doesn't.

Nobody is particularly upset by people owning lots of money in a bank account (few speak poorly of Bill Gates or Warren Buffet). It's when people put that capital to use that they get blowback. Koch brothers, Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, and our benevolent President and much of his cabinet are wonderful examples of the absurdities the wealthy do get away with.
The display looks quite nice, but according to the manual I found [1], it's only 800x600 in the "ST", or 1024x768 in the "XT" variant.

[1]: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1454949/Tadpole-Sparcbook-...
I have one of those for my S8+. It's nominally better in terms of positioning tolerance than the old Qi charger I had for my Droid, but not by much. I still have to have the phone within a couple of millimeters of the left-right sweet spot for it to work.
I'm glad I have the charger, but it's still pretty fiddly. Maybe it has a wider range if you don't use a case, so that the back of the phone is closer to the mat.
Aside to those considering: it charges noticeably slower than the straight plug fast charge, but still faster than the old, non fast charge systems.
I apologize for inferring more than you said, but I do think that the average case of Betty finding a gold nugget or more commonly winning a lottery ticket leads to wasteful consumption. And so it spurred me to give the answer I gave.
Or maybe it was working but then yesterday one burst into flames during testing which was the final straw. They don’t want to pull a Samsungs now do they?
That's awesome! My grandpa had an alpha desktop back in the '90s and I loved that thing. It was my first non-apple or ms-dos experience so I have a soft spot, and I haven't heard anyone mention those in years.
Node + Express is just fine for the same sorts of things that Sinatra is fine for. If you are more comfortable in JS than Ruby, please know that you have my full encouragement and support.

However, you are (perhaps unintentionally) twisting my words. I brought up bootcamps because I can demonstrate a strong causal association on a timeline.

The beef, such as it is, is with the 750k npm packages, the brutal moving target that is the packaging/transpiling/dependency hell/OCD bikeshedding that comes with a commitment to the JS ecosystem. And given that you used to be a Rails user, you know full well what giving up sane defaults in favour of the pursuit of pure compositional bliss looks like, but you're choosing to forget the trauma.

Meanwhile, there's an entire generation of new devs that have been told that Rails (or your favourite server side alternative) have been eclipsed by better thinking. I don't think I'm just an angry old man screaming at cars from my porch when I call bullshit.
I agree so much with this. I really find the focus on inequality weird and sort of childish. Complaining about inequality strikes me mostly as an attempt to sublimate envy into a politically palatable narrative. What we really ought to focus on is not reducing "inequality", by pulling the ceiling down...but raising the minimum standard of living by pulling the floor up. I think UBI is an excellent way of doing that, but there are many.
No, it wasn't. I have one with WP10. They at some point killed external storage as well and I couldn't fit 120GB of HERE maps data to my main storage, which killed the only reason I was still using it.
Hi, I'm one of the devs on the project.

Good question. As is, this does not keep anything in sync.

To keep the graph in sync with changes in the account, simply set up a cronjob to run `cartography` whenever you would need a refresh. Each sync run should guarantee that you have the most up-to-date data.

Here's how a sync works: when the sync starts, set a variable called `update_tag` to the current time. Then, pull all the data from your AWS account(s) and create Neo4j nodes and their relationships, making sure to set their `lastupdated` fields to `update_tag`.

Finally, delete the left over nodes and relationships (i.e. those that do not have up-to-date `lastupdated` fields). This way the data stays fresh, and you can see this in the [cleanup jobs](https://github.com/lyft/cartography/tree/master/cartography/...).
They overpromised and didn’t deliver, to avoid under delivering.
Dogfights don't happen anymore and never will again. Modern aircraft would shoot missiles at each other from many miles away, and even that is highly unlikely. The biggest threat to any aircraft is a surface-to-air missile. The Air Force still does dogfight training, and we all grew up on Top Gun so we love to fantasize about it, but it's simply not a concern in modern warfare.
What ? 3 brothers related to a person what incredible odds !
I wirelessly charge my iPhone through its case.
Would you get sufficient contact for a solid current? What happens when you spill your coffee on the pad?
The way MacOS handles Applications is indeed humanist, but there is nothing about that user interface that intrinsically relies on strict file hierarchies. Furthermore, the implementation of it isn't generalized. The substance of what I think you're getting at is record-oriented files systems, which I consider orthogonal to the matter of tagging vs strict hierarchies. With a record-oriented files system, files are no longer seen by the OS as mere byte streams, but actually have meaningful structure. It needn't be implemented carelessly like Windows with it's zip support in Explorer.

It's a very compelling idea, but as I said, orthogonal to the matter of hierarchies or tagging. Say for instance you want to edit the .plist file of Blender.app. Where is Blender.app? Probably at /Applications/Blender.app but maybe it's in /Users/zrm/Applications/Blender.app To dive into that file/directory, you must first find it. How the user is meant to find it is the question that needs to be addressed. That's a simple example of course because there are only two likely locations for it (and the later is unlikely), the file/directory you're looking for has a name you remember off the top of your head, and because either of those directories probably has no more than a few hundred entries (probably a fraction of that.) In this case the user of a hierarchical system doesn't run into much trouble because the situation is virtually ideal, but even so a tagging system would have simplified the query. The further you get from ideal circumstances, the larger the gap between tag systems and hierarchical systems grows.

Additional thoughts on record oriented file systems: one example is Files-11 from VMS. An interesting property of Files-11 is that it allows files and directories to have multiple parent directories, which is similar to Unix's hard links except that directories, not only files, are allowed to have multiple parents. This gives the system the same expressive power of tags (consider each full path a file can be found at to be a tag on that file.) This allows all of your books to simultaneously be in /Books/ while still allowing you to have them in other locations like /School/cs/cs101/textbook.pdf However a system capable of expressing these relationships is the easy part. The important part is giving the human users a clean user experience, allowing them to take full advantage of the power of such a system without requiring them to manually create and maintain a web of nested links.
I'm using Xiaomi charger with iPhone 8 and it's exactly this: I just put phone there without any kind of aligning and it just works. Wonderful product, something so much in Apple style. Single device only, of course, but it's cheap enough to buy as many of those circles as needed. And it's barely producing any heat. May be they compromised charging speed, I'm not sure, I just put it there for night.
That's not what I'm referring to at all. I mean if your friend has a company and wants to take his company public, he can only sell the stock before the IPO to 'accredited investors', thus concentrating the bulk of the profit potential to those who are already rich. It's not just pre-IPO sales but many other investments. For example, if you live in a poor neighborhood and your friend owns a successful restaurant in your neighborhood, he cannot seek investment from you. Instead, he has to seek investment from a rich person, because the government does not think you are smart enough to invest in your friend's business. this again literally takes money from the poor and hands it to the rich.

The restrictions are completely onerous. Someone I know was soliciting investments of $25k for a business he owned in the community. I had the money in cash, and I was perfectly happy to lose it all (but hopefully I'd make some money). I believed in the business and wanted in. However, since I did not make $200k / yr, and I didn't already have $1m in wealth, I was not allowed. Why? At the time I was taking monthly vacations to Hawaii, New Orleans, skiing, etc. I was eating out every day. I was basically living a life of luxury. But, because of the amount of money in my pocket book, I was barred from taking one potential leap from the working class to the wealthy class. On the other hand, an already wealthy man would be more than allowed to invest.

Of course, I could invest in the public stock market, but the fact is that the public stock market forces people to only invest in certain companies. Many people feel skeptical towards companies over which they cannot directly observe.

Obviously, I understand the stock market exists, but if you think stocks are the most lucrative investments, you have a lot to learn about the financial systems.
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For comparison, adaptive GSM encodings, which are in use for cellphones today, are also in the single-digit kbps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_code...
I mean, they clearly did try to fix it, as evidenced by the membrane they added to the newest revision. The fact that this didn’t actually resolve the issue is unrelated.
Instantiation takes under 50 microseconds (us) on the lab machine I tested on, and 65us on my colleague's laptop. Loading the code takes about that long as well (see thread: https://twitter.com/acfoltzer/status/1111387279434485760). Compilation is not counted towards any of those tallies.

In our use case, we do compilation on a control plane system and distribute the shared object file to the fleet, so we aren't too concerned by it. For applications where compilation time is a bigger concern, I'm super impressed by this (still early) work on a one-pass wasm compiler: https://github.com/CraneStation/lightbeam
Perhaps they had started a limited run, and QC found too many units out of spec.
Opus is awesome and covers a previously unmatched spectrum of use cases... but that isn't everything.

Opus isn't good enough to be a replacement for AMBE for use over radio. Opus doesn't make it easier to make very high quality speech synthesis, etc.

Opus loss robustness could be much better using tools from this toolbox-- and we're a long way from not wanting better performance in the face of packet loss.
Not to mention that some games are translated for the Chinese/asian market. Guess who will suggest a company for that?
Then one could slowly make it so that the translation team needs more and more access rights to the deployment platform (or just stealing credentials is an option too - especially from the inside). All you need is to be able to insert a little script and be able to press the "deploy now" button.
Hidden backdoors are so '90... Online games are perfect cybernukes.
> New Bluetooth standards, longer lasting charge, better audio drivers, health monitoring, embedded connection-free translation (babelfish-like), eSIM and calling/receiving directly from the AirPods (like you can do from the Apple Watch, but using Siri for the dialing).

Most of these hinge on the earbuds becoming more self-sufficient computing devices, rather than pure audio devices. I think we're a long way off from that becoming practical, because battery tech is improving at too slow a pace.
I had a similar kind of SPARC portable computer running Solaris at a job in 1999. I didn't actually use it for my job. At that point, I had it as a curiosity.
My 2018 MacBook Pro works great. No issues with the hardware at all and I love the TouchBar.

What exactly is wrong with them ?
I made ~300K selling my first home. And have already accrued ~500K in home equity for my current home. This is bad financial advice. I have seen people posting in this forum over many years how buying in SV is a bad financial move. When , I believe, it is actually a very prudent financial move.
It must be possible to do a/b tests on FB?

Maybe they don't show the variations but just a random one?
what? Why would they cancel the new AirPods?
This was my reaction too, but after I thought about it for a second it seems only half right.

For a device leaning into shelves to grab things, being dynamically balanced might be useful. Like a racing sailboat with a movable keel or ballast. But you could do that with a three wheeled design.

I bet there's also a static version of this bot with three wheels, slightly larger footprint, where the battery pack is situated over the third wheel for leverage.

But the swinging battery pack? In theory it reduces the footprint of the bot, but any time the bot is trying to grab a package, the battery is moving. Which means you can't let another robot or human enter that space. So either you have a very very complicated calculation of what areas of the warehouse are 'empty' at any moment, or your logistics program has to treat the robot like it's its worst-case footprint at all times. At which point you might as well make it static. Right?
You can get signatures and file suits for almost anything, that's pretty meaningless. If it wasn't an insignificant percentage, they would've done something about it.