skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really nice explanation, I kind of knew the idea in practice, but can't remember having seen it so well explained before!

Here's a thing I still wonder about:

I used to practice forcing, so I get the general idea. What I used to do was mind-reading etc, but there's one particular event that stands out for me, here is what I think I saw:

A pro magician shows up in a birthday party showing a deck of cards, asks the host to think of a card, shuffles the deck and shows the card, confirming with the host that it is correct, then goes on to do all kinds of amazing tricks where this card shows up again and again.

In my mind, there are only a few options here:

- they agreed on it (too risky. This bloke does big jobs, won't do that in an ordinary birthday.)

- somehow influenced the host ahead of the selection process (how? when? Is this actually possible with NLP or something? Something about the setup of the deck?)

- maybe he tricked us into thinking he had a full deck and all there ever was was 4 of clubs? (Sounds crazy, bit not impossible for a guy who'll pickpocket the craziest things, walk around with a flying piece of furniture while exposed to 180 degrees of audience, non staff on the stage and a TV crew filming.)

- somehow guessed it based on eye movements (what I used to tell when I did stupid "mind reading" tricks that was only stupid forces)

- somehow tricked the host into thinking this was the chosen card even if it was another (again how?)

Anyone wants to share pointers? A few words, links to books, web sites, anything?
I have no doubt that organic motion was deliberately designed that way to impress their intended audience.

Yes, it makes sense to mimic nature sometimes. But when it comes to robotic manipulators, loaders, etc - there's absolutely no reason to copy biological systems limited by strength, speed, or joint mobility. They seem to be deliberately going for that uncanny valley effect.

Eventually, someone is going to admit it. Until then, this is hugely entertaining.
>These things seem very obvious to me. What is difficult about this?

Clearly it's not that obvious, because all of your examples are wrong in some sense. Weather can be changed, medically dead people are brought back to life and people can most certainly be manipulated.

On the other hand, some people can't control their own thoughts and actions.
“Money amplifies your character.” I really like that. Thanks.
No it's not. This is imperialist thinking. There is no universal language.

If you want to understand what they're saying hire a translator or use an online service. They're not using some obscure language only a few people understand.

Get out with your western centric thinking.
> No one

I did. I don't want to add another cable to my nightstand, I wanted to replace my Apple Watch puck with Airpower and gain the ability to charge my headphones there too, and then if I ever get a wireless charging iPhone be able to get rid of the lightning cable as well. I don't mind trading the lightning cable between my phone and Airpods, but I imagined I wouldn't have to for long with the AirPower releasing seeming so imminent.

I feel like a sucker today.
I loved the Sparcbook I used, it was great!
This reminds me that I should probably fire up my Sparc LX with its whopping 64MB of ram...
This is a very alarming move.

Google's external storage ContentProvider is terrible: slow, buggy and lacks a number of basic features. It does not work as replacement of existing file managers, since it does not properly support searching and it's performance is abysmal, compared to using filesystem directly.

AFAIK, there is still no proper support for selecting a file by extension: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45573171 — if your file extension isn't in Android MIME database, this is it for you. The mime-filters for file extensions are completely broken: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31028507/1643723. It is possible to work around that in file manager application (by using queryIntentActivities with different, modified Uri), but built-in Storage Access Framework file browser does no such thing.

MediaStorage used to have tons of crippling bugs. Wrongly reported file sizes, delayed file addition, files, filled with zeroes... Some were fixed in preparation for Android Q release, but I doubt, that all of them did. MediaScanner is abhorrent by design.

The options for flexible content generation are still bad. Prior to Android P you had to use pipes, which resulted in non-seekable files. ProxyFileDescriptorCallback remedied some issues of that approach, but it does not support FUSE interruption events — https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/38444582: if you open a buggy FUSE descriptor, your app gets STUCK (and closing the opened descriptor from another thread won't not unblock you!) In effect, using files from other applications can now hang your app (it could before too, but only during ContentProvider#open() stage, now read() is broken too). The bug is trivial to fix, but there is still no fix 3 Android versions later.

Google Drive is a great example, how NOT to mesh OS development and app developer interests. Google Drive does not properly implement Google's own DocumentProvider API — in effect, forcing third-party app developers to use it's proprietary web API. That's great for Google (vendor lock-in and all), but not exactly great for third-party apps, because the DocumentProvider API is effectively not cared about (see ProxyFileDescriptorCallback fiasco above). If one extrapolates this behavior to future Android development... imagine, that INTERNET permission is abolished, and you have to use Google's proprietary API for every single thing. Want to download a file? Use Google Downloads (tm) API in Google Services (the system DownloadsProvider will of course be broken as usual). Want to send analytics? Google Services! Crash reporting? Firebase. Communications? Cloud messaging. p2p file exchange? Too bad for you, — that kind of advanced functionality will likely require Chrome OS!

The extrapolation above may sound overly pessimistic until you realize, that Android developers already made great many steps in that direction. Half of OS functionality is locked behind "system"-level APIs, that aren't accessible to ordinary apps, ever. But Google Services can of course continue to use them! As Mark said in his article, “the writing was on the wall”, although a lot of people (himself included) don't want to fully accept it.
>Muh white supremacy!!!

God you people are as predictable as you are pathetic.
I appreciate your response, though my point wasn't to "prove [the above poster] wrong", but that the ability to slide notes in chords is not exclusively dependent on a specific FL Studio plugin and has always traditionally been the domain of synthesizer builders rather than the MIDI standard. Perhaps the effect is more uncommon in music through the past few decades as a result of this, but it's not absent and dedicated musicians with enough resources were still able to make it work.

I do agree that it is a potentially limiting influence on the music most readily produced, but for that matter (IMO) so is the traditional adherence to 12-tone equal temperament that is often implicit in how the standard is implemented. It would be nice to have finer control here without having to resort to various hacks, but finer resolution means more bits required to represent a given frequency. Finding a different better way to encode MIDI data that could be used as a standard going into the future is something that I believe requires great consideration and might do well with a significantly different approach (but I don't presume to have given it enough thought to say one way or the other).
You might already know this, but the current release of ripgrep has support for PCRE2 (as opposed to PCRE1 in ag). All you need to do is pass the -P flag. If you want it enabled by default, then:

echo -P > $HOME/.ripgreprc

and add this to your .bashrc or equivalent:

export RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/.ripgreprc"
All of what you said is only beneficial to the employer if the employer believes that the competitor's secrets are as valuable as the employer's own secrets. Which is almost never the case. Especially not for the largest employers. The likelihood of some startup's secrets being as valuable as Google's secrets is remote in the extreme.
Is it really an "archive" if you can't download the contents at a reasonable rate? (Eg: I wouldn't expect gigabit speeds, but if you're willing to go slow and steady a 500k/1meg a second that should be doable)
Not to mention that flicking the signal switch on a car takes a small fraction of a second, while removing your hands from the handlebar of a bike to signal is usually done for several seconds, not to mention at a particularly dangerous juncture: when entering an intersection and about to make a turn.
> The SWAT-ing should be considered attempted murder in 2019

If there is no specific intent to kill, that's as wrong in 2019 as any other year. OTOH, it does seem to be the kind of act with extreme disregard to the risk to human life that, where death does result, the “depraved indifference” subtype of murder exists to address.

Even if not that, filing a false police report is a crime (depending on jurisdiction and circumstances it may either be a felony or misdemeanor) and the death is a reasonably foreseeable consequence of that, so either the felony murder or misdemeanor manslaughter rule should apply.
Caching out: exploring a correspondence between functions and key-value stores
Technical administrator is a strange title, but also seems kind of accurate. I know folks who are in IT at Intel and a majority of those who were let go seem to be 'systems analysts' and management of systems analysts. Where the systems in this case are internal enterprise tools.
They're way better now, but I specifically only buy the Samsungs with fast charging that have a fan built in. I have to really mangle how it's put on the charger (like half of the phone hanging off the edge) to have any issues.

I've got a few of these for my old s8 and s10 and they work great. Only downside I can think of is when my battery is low and I need to keep taking the phone off the charger to respond to something, at that point I just cable it in so I can use it and charge at the same time. It's also of course not as fast as cabled fast charging so if I'm very low I'll cable it.

That's not incredibly frequent but does come up every few weeks.

I love them at my desks but I use cables everywhere else as I'm usually grabbing my phone to use it (like in bed).
Sikhs are some of my favorite fellow Canadians. The Sikh community puts a lot of effort into really integrating into the Canadian culture and it shows.
I'm guessing the unexpected hype was what caused the
"cancellation", and AirPower isn't really any more cancelled than it was yesterday.

I'm imagining some engineering teem at Apple telling their bosses "yeah, it's almost ready" and the bosses believing them without really caring, because it's just a silly accessory and no big deal, right? And then since the AirPods 2 announcemen, the internet has been rabid with anticipation for AirPower. announcing it is cancelled is a better PR move than letting that internet fanboy frenzy turn into frustration with delays.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see AirPower turn up again in a years time.
So... eggs and honey are slippery slopes. Really. And vegans wonder why the public at large won’t engage with them?
Look at those High-Tech Hexagons[1]! The F-35 designers knew their tropes.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighTechHexagons
The problem with this mentality is feedback loops. If money flows to those who own things more easily/readily than those who do things, society will be heavily stratified despite any individual efforts to improve one’s lot.
I'm using the `time` built-in from zsh, with this config in my ~/.zshrc:

TIMEFMT=$'\nreal\t%*E\nuser\t%*U\nsys\t%*S\nmaxmem\t%M MB\nfaults\t%F'
Keep in mind the "BSD grep" in OS X is some ancient version. Some work was done in the last few years to improve it somewhat. Today, I'd skip over both tools in favor of smarter searchers like Ripgrep or Ag (the_silver_searcher).
HL2: Episode 3... coming soon. That was the last we heard, IIRC.
It’s an incredibly useful feature for UI elements.
Fun. I was one of the software developers on the SPARCbook series (prior to the acquisition), as well as the Alpha machine for Digital, the P1000/P1300 (Pentium), and IBM (PowerPC).

Great memories of a small team taking on huge challenges.
It also reduces the incentive to innovate in the first place.
Great, can they cancel the horrible keyboard on the MacBook line next?
>that no one wants or understands.

This comment always comes up in one form or another on tech forums and then Apple proceeds to make more money than it ever has.
It looks like the original headline was “Texas Rangers Search Here for Human Trafficking Suspect” which would have at least suggested that it was taking place somewhere in Texas. The radio news reporter that reposted it just changed it to “Suspected Human Trafficker, Child Predator May Be in Our Area."
I would love to have something that competes with YouTube TV but respects privacy and doesn't funnel even more data to Google. The other live TV services all have absurdly arbitrary DVR limits.

Not that Apple's streaming service will compete with YouTube TV, but I wish it would. Also, YouTube TV doesn't work all that great on Apple TV and I'd hope Apple could get that right too.
Wells Fargo will do this for publicly-traded stocks.
I've become a huge fan lately of using "--info=progress --no-inc-recursive" for rsync. It can result in more memory usage, since it builds the file list ahead of time rather than dynamically, but it provides you with an overall progress report of the entire transfer, rather than per-file progress reports which may be much less useful.
As a new freelancer, this is so good!

> "If a client gives you a design to implement, make your implementation pixel-perfect. It’s crazy how sloppy some developers are; the client put together that PSD for a reason."

Shamefully have to admit this was me when I started -- my mind says "the tool does the thing!" and the client says "it looks nothing like my design". Can't be afraid to charge for CSS.
At one point, if you watched an Asmongold video, you'd be bombarded with suggestions for more of them.

Never seen it happen as strong with any other topic.

I don't know about increasing levels of extreme, but I can definitely see it possible that suggestions could get people to a place where they are feeling like an idea or a thing is more popular than it really is.

He talks about it briefly here (nsfw)

https://youtu.be/Rstb4IRXZLQ?t=625
An advertising platform that makes their money selling and targeting ads owns a video platform funded by advertising, but the purpose of the service is speech and not ads?

Hm. I see some obvious holes in that line of thought.

I feel that the answer to “why is this advertising company so much more interested in selling ads than promoting free speech?” is more obvious than some give credit for, as is the answer to “why isn’t this massive for profit advertiser not on board with my narrow absolutist view on speech?!”
I have found that book to be an impressive example of poor scientific writing – one long, convoluted, intentionally obtuse sentence after another, as if the author was constantly trying to make the reader feel like an idiot.

I have found some more technical articles (e.g. [0]) very useful, but if anyone knows of a comprehensive introduction that takes more of an experimental psychology angle, similar to Surfing Uncertainty but less frustrating, I definitely want to know about it.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002224961...
I haven't seen that one, and agree that chart is strange. But across the videos I've seen, I did not see something so egregious, so I have to think this is an outlier that is cherry-picked to paint a narrative about PragerU.
Just something that can fly up to some open windows and see if it looks like a murder scene with people huddling around terrified/blood everywhere/guns out or if the house is full of people just chilling doing normal stuff.

It would have to be a very quiet drone. I think we could build such devices. (Not necessarily flying.)

SWAT tactics were seemingly designed around the assumption that the residence is a fortified gang base with lookouts and the like. This means the SWAT teams are going in blind because they don't want to alert the armed guards...It's exactly the opposite of what you would thing responsible policing should be.

I think we as a society need to revisit this assumption. We really want to avoid teams of armed, tense men running into a building with guns. Given a large enough number of iterations of such events, an accidental shooting is just a matter of when, not if.

I think those running fortified gang bases also want to avoid public hostage scenarios. The fortified gang base assault mode should be reserved for situations where there is solid intelligence, not on the call of some rando.
3 GFLOP/sec sounds like a lot but it's considerably less math than the radio DSPs inside any modern phone's baseband is doing during a phone call.
I grew up with little, and it was always more than I needed. So does that count?
Study Report of an Anti-Spam System with a 99% Block Rate (2009)
Yea I think I have it backwards. Carriers are primarily there to support the fighter jets and serve as a "mobile airport".
Great write-up and a lot of practical advice.

I am freelancing for some time now and the hardest part is to score and retain clients.
Apple's priority is money (which they used to get from iPhones, now services since people don't upgrade their phone anymore).

Since most power users/HN users still see Apple as a company that makes good laptops, we don't get what's going on.

The truth is that Apple is not nor want to be a computer company anymore, and even if it does sell computers it doesn't make good ones anymore.

I bought a Surface Book, and it's about 100 times better than the last laptop I bought from Apple (Late-2016 MacBook Pro): it has an AWESOME keyboard (no repeating characters or keys getting stuck unless my old MBP), touchscreen, you can detach the screen to change its form factor, or have a huge tablet to draw on with the pen. As a plus, the resolution is 3:2--which is awesome for programmers as you get 25% more vertical space.

What can I say? Apple will not get another dime for me, and it's only a matter of time until most power users/developers will do the same.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying another fuckup from Apple which people will brush off.
> Tech companies don't know how to fire people, and the market seems to know this.

citation on that?
flawed hardware anyway...
If the engineers have a track record/pedigree of previous employment (eg kernel maintainer, ex googler, etc), it can be used as a proxy. Same for open source contributions.

Good scores on the Joel test normally correlate with a mature engineering team IMHO (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...). The reverse may not be true. Just asked the team how they score on the Joel test.

Also, if the churn is high something is probably bad. Ask around why the last developers quit.

Bear in mind it's very hard to gauge from the outside, even for an engineer.
The problem is:

1. MCAS failure produces an intermittent stab trim movement.

2. Boeing claimed that the stab trim runaway checklist should have been run and would have let the crew recover.

3. Boeing's checklist only calls for action on "continuous" uncommanded stab trim movement https://www.satcom.guru/2019/03/taking-next-steps-while-awai... (second image)

4. Intermittent uncommanded stab trim movement is normal. The Speed Trim System and Elevator Feel Shift system regularly adjust trim, so merely seeing the wheels move by themselves is not cause for alarm.

5. MCAS is not documented at all in the flight manual, and the stab trim runaway checklist was not updated to address how MCAS might cause a failure necessitating its use, presumably to avoid the need for additional transition training.

6. MCAS is unreliable due to its reliance on a single AoA sensor.
Or pass it on to their estate and never pay taxes on it.
>> In some cases, all I have to do is not be a huge asshole

Man, you can get sooooo far in life with this low bar, yet lots of people fail to clear it....
From context, I think that's shorthand for the Federal Reserve who's currently chaired by Jerome Powell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Powell
For the less altruistic angle:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
They do.

The Apple Watch is the only thing that doesn’t use Qi.
Well if you think the market has mispriced this move then the smart trade would be to go short on Intel and long on their competitors.
Actually did. I’ll try to use of the alternative then. What Qi charger you recommend?
I'd love to use it, but there seems to be no multicore support.
I find Anker 24w fast charging bricks and 10’ lightening cables are a pretty reasonable way to quickly charge Apple devices while still using them. I bought a cheap 5w wireless charging pad to throw my phone on while I sleep.
I wonder how you could do it without seeing some pretty big losses. Wireless charging is already pretty lossy, Dynamic coils though? I mean, I guess you could do it mechanically, but that would still result in less than ideal coils and a noisy device.

If you did it through transistors, somehow, then you'd end up with a lot of loss at each transistor. Too few and you don't make a good field. Too many and the losses would be really high. The cost would be crazy as well. For the transistor approach, I don't know, maybe a big silicon wafer? Maybe just a load of transistors and wires. Who knows.
A robot cassowary sounds more scary than a live cassowary
Cannot wait to try this out!
If you want to watch live TV without tracking for a one-time cost (but with no DVR), you could just get an OTA tv receiver and antenna.
What you're saying is true, people often seek extremes in all things without any extra nudging, but the problem is that YouTuve deliberately creates several other positive feedback loops. It doesn't just show related videos, it shows popular related videos and additionally selects them based on what you watched before.

It makes sense to show more Lego content on the sidebar of a Lego set review. It's less clear that I should be chased by Lego videos across the site after I clicked on a single one of them.

Also, considering that various extremes tend to attract attention, it would make sense to use an "anti-viral" algorithm that de-preoritizes videos that get too many views at the moment. This would have an additional effect of giving better exposure to less popular channels, promoting different content creators.

Realistically, I don't think they will do either, even if they know for sure that it will help, because it will reduce addict... I mean, engagement of their user-base.

Jaron Lanier talked about these issues a lot recently. He makes some interesting points regarding incentives and feedback loops.
But not on purpose. In this case, after a sustained engineering effort, Apple finally and reluctantly concluded that they could not build this particular product up to their standard, so they decided to just not build it at all, instead.

We should applaud that. That's how things should work.
My guess is that an AirPower-like mat will come back in late 2019 or 2020, after Apple updates the Apple Watch to use the same wireless charging technology as iPhones.
Easy fix.

Earn money by doing things(wages), then buy things that make you money (retirement account, etc).
A hack around this would be to remove things by specifically unsetting them in the user.js file, much as one would do to remove a previously installed package using configuration management software.