skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm not impressed. - Edit: not a bad release

Live caption on device: Sounds great. Very useful if you are hearing impaired. If you just want captions for the words the are difficult to make out, some AI isn't going to help there. AI's are currently worse than I am at detecting words.

Smart reply: This looks useful. Not having to lose info as you create an appointment or less clicks copying and pasting directions. Yeah, great feature. Good job here.

Sound amplifier: Remember when everyone was up in arms because iPods could boost sound way too loud. (disregarding different source volumes and headphone sensitivity). So everyone limited the power output of their headphone jack. Well, now we've come full circle and we can blast our ear drums the way god intended, it just takes more button presses. This is like yeah, we took away a feature because of hysteria, now it's back.

Edit: Thanks for explaining this to me. This feature does indeed seem useful. Audio that is more clear, being able to hear what's around you, yeah this is great.

Gesture navigation: I hate this. Maybe some people like it. If you are one of those people, I'm happy for you.

Dark theme: I originally though this feature was dumb. Next we'll have gray theme, or blue theme. Battery savings just didn't seem that great. After using this for a while, I like dark theme, in an unexpected way. I find that the black colors are less stimulating and the phone is less of a distraction.

Digital wellbeing: I haven't found these features all that useful. Perhaps someone else makes use of them. I mostly see this as shaming for using the phone too much.

Focus mode: Remember that one android release that made it so you can easily block all notifications from an app. Well, later they made it so you can only easily block a category(can still block all just more presses). Then apps can create as many categories as they want(so you keep getting spammed). This time they didn't do the user friendly release, in order to focus you have to check each app you have installed. Completely backwards like they didn't really want to do this feature.

Family link: I'm not a parent, kids and phones sound like a nightmare to me. I hope this helps you parents. No opinion from me.
You wouldn't drive a Ferrari every day because they're not comfortable or practical, and because they have short service intervals and very expensive consumable parts. And a high performance car is almost necessarily not a reliable car since it's operating near the limit, especially once it has tens of thousands of miles on it.

OTOH a mechanical keyboard is much more comfortable than rubber domes for many people. And they can last almost indefinitely, even if a switch breaks, you can fix it in a couple minutes if you have a soldering iron. If you spill coffee on it, you can clean it with isopropyl alcohol and most of the time that will fix any issues.
Best keyboard I've ever used. And after all the horror stories about how long it takes to relearn I was back to normal speed after about a month.
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I liked the article, but I did wonder if the author understood what self-driving vehicles would allow for, providing that they had maybe 7-8 nines in reliability and safety (if that is even possible).

People have already mentioned the idea of "sending the car back home to park" and "being able to do something else in the car while commuting". But there are other things the cars could do:

1. Trains of cars - convoys - drafting each other, reducing energy use, while also increasing road density (bumper-to-bumper traffic - but at highway speeds).

2. No more "traffic waves" on the freeway, nor "rubber necking" at accidents, both of which likely contribute to the congestion issue.

3. No-stop intersections - again at high-speeds - because cars could coordinate/negotiate their speeds and lanes to allow for "collision-free" operation (unfortunately, there will still probably be collisions - and they wouldn't be pretty).

All of these options - and possibly others I haven't thought of - rely on things that self-driving vehicles don't yet have - mainly car-to-car communication - so all cars know where other cars are (even if they aren't within sight-lines of the sensors) and how fast they are moving. Basically a form of swarm robotics, with constraints on motion vectors.

Of course, #3 (and maybe the other two) might not come about unless the chance of an accident drops to infinitesimally small values - perhaps it may not even be possible. Better safety systems for the occupants would likely need to be developed as well (for that "impossible" chance it would be needed). Such cars might also need to be "trained" on "how to crash to protect occupants" and/or how to coordinate a collision with another vehicle(s) in real-time as the collision unfolds, to minimize occupant danger - this again, would require a standardized mesh network and coding to be able to take advantage of all the sensor data that would flood in (and out - as sensors and actuators become disabled by the accident unfolding - maybe the other cars involved - or not involved - could share their information "from the outside" to allow the disabled car to take better actions or whatnot). It's actually a fascinating problem when I think about it - extremely complex, lots of parameters and such; I wonder if anyone is working on it? If not - they should...
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USB4 Specification Merges Thunderbolt 3 and USB
I've had a few friends passive aggressively mention I am the reason our group chat is MMS vs iMessage.

Or even worse: I just simply got excluded from group chats. That was the saddest one because when hanging out in person, a friend will mention a conversation from the group chat and I wouldn't know what's going on and they would just awkwardly pretend it didn't happen. Or say they'd add me to the group and never actually do it.

iMessage FOMO is a real thing and the social pressure (in the US at least) is insane.
This is fascinating. I'm extremely curious about the technology. How big are the drones, and how can they carry enough insecticide to cover a large area? Drones make sense to replace laboour-intensive and potentially harmful traditional backpack sprayers. I am curious as to affordability of this type of technology, and use outside of Asia. Can anyone point me in the right direction to read up on North American use?
I did something similar as part of learning English. For me the best author for this purpose was Stephen King (not that I spent much time searching, just random trial and error; I don't even like horror stories). After mastering Stephen King I moved on to J. R. R. Tolkien. For the first fifty pages or so of The Lord of The Rings I had to look up words pretty much one for every other line of text.

It was amazing to see how different authors, although both very good and well-known, use language so very differently, and use quite different sets of words and of very different sizes. It's not like Stephen King writes children's books, or that his stories are any more simple than LOTR. It's just like with code: You have people using a small(er) subset of a language but express similarly complex ideas (algorithms), while others enjoy using less commonly used language features. Both methods can get the job done beautifully in the right hands. One has the advantage of being more (easily) accessible (and to a larger amount of readers) though.

By the way, my next level in "word acquisition" came through reading The Economist and a few other magazines of similarly exalted vocabulary. Again I had to look up at least ten words per article when I started.

Which reminds me: Is there a service that manages to categorize books by looking at the set of words they contain (and possibly sentence structure/grammar)? Might be quite useful as a niche service for foreigners learning a language. The obvious and simple answer is to sort by intended audience (e.g. books for children and young people vs. sciency books), but as my Stephen King vs Tolkien example shows, the overall level does not have to be different at all just because one uses a smaller set of words.
thats not a reliable assumption.

push notifications services can merely send instructions, and the visual notification can be an object formed completely client side.
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Anyone know how it compares to snips.ai[1]?

I'm planning to set up my own "smart speaker" using snips.ai, integrating it with my Home Assistant setup. Raspberry Pi Zero W satellites with ReSpeaker card, running the main snips.ai instance on the Home Assistant box.

[1]: https://snips.ai/
It's dry grass - you see hills like that in many parts of California. Some of my wife's relatives visiting from Poland had the same interpretation you did.
You've proven your point here. The restaurant was empty but the demand was created by the people ordering from the comfort of their home. That shows that delivery is a big part of the restaurant's demand and clientele.
Yeah I don't see any pocket crap on the new tab page as I had pocket set to disabled.
For commercial applications like this, I'd assume the eventual setup would be to have drones follow pre-programmed routes linked to specific day/time flight schedules, then have them automatically return to a re-charging/re-filling station as needed. The time & labor savings alone would be astronomical. Tie a system like this in with solar energy, could also dramatically reduce energy costs and carbon footprint.
Hence why I wrote Dell-EMC Isilon.

Isilon and their OneFS was a stand-alone company (like Panasas still is). EMC bought Isilon. Then Dell and EMC merged.
Like every kind of nutrition would have the same effect in everyone. Extrapolating data of some thousands of people to 5 continents of all ages…
Amazon would fight that tooth and nail, and very likely win.
I have pocket disabled and I don't see any pocket stuff in Firefox.
I really wanted to love the Sculpt Ergonomic, but even after weeks of using it I found it hard to distinguish all the keys in the "right pinky" area without looking (Return and neighbors). The uniform spacing between keys looks fantastic, but my right hand could never figure out where it was. The F keys suffer from the same problem (no grouping), and are extremely mushy. I'd love to see a redesigned version.

The included mouse feels great, though - at least on Linux, where I could remap the Start button to something useful.
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Also as a recent iOS user, I don't understand why. Other than live captions, sound amp and family link, most new features have been on iOS for a while, and will actually improve on iOS 13 (e.g. apps have to ask for location access each time, besides the current 3 options). Seems like they're trying to catch up to iOS.
For me, it’s a 45 minute drive to Wally World. There’s a Safeway 25 minutes away but it’s a tourist town so everything is double priced. Many of my neighbors and I have started using HelloFresh and Amazon delivery for most things. In casual conversation we talk about how our miles driven has decreased drastically. For our community, delivery seems to be “greener” than each of us driving 90 minutes for groceries 1-2x/week.
The o-rings also don’t dampen the upward click of the key in release, whereas the dampened switch models do.
Actually title of referenced study: "Tissue-specific geometry and chemistry of modern and fossilized melanosomes reveal internal anatomy of extinct vertebrates"
I got a Nexus 4 and it only updated from Android 4 to Android 5. Has the "three years guarantee" been extended?
Ask HN: What do you use to manage large number of images for your ML projects?
We have millions of photos organized by folder on Ubuntu/Mac, and we have a hard time organizing, tagging etc. How do you manage your imagery assets?
The only "easily defeatable" method that I'm aware of is to make your call from somewhere you don't mind being bombed, make it from a place with multiple egress points, and to stay on the call for at most 90 seconds.

Or put an optical repeater at your target (bombable) site and install a long run of fiber to your safe location, which you then have to abandon. Doesn't seem very practical to me.
I sincerely hope that nushell becomes popular enough for O'Reilly to publish a book with that title. :-)
Forth in general is mainly used in situations where one is in close contact with the hardware (Assembly and C are the usual competitors).

It basically lets you string together a bunch of primitives and user defined functions using a stack. It is probably the only system that is useful where a single person can understand the entire language and implementation. You have to build everything yourself though.
Don't get too excited. We don't know the full story on the 2% that lived. For all we know, they could become tomorrow's 20% that developed pesticide resistance and rampaged through China's countryside.
This isn't that new, Yamaha has been selling a remotely controlled helicopter specifically made for applying insectcide on crops since 1991[0]. They were even used in aerial robotics research for a bit[1]. Helicopters are particularly nice for spraying crops because you have a nice turbulent downwash that pushes the pesticide onto the crops.

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[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_R-MAX#Research
I wonder how many non-keto people would be making this claim...

> "a perfect mix of macro-nutrients"

What is this "perfect mix"? who is determining this? Macronutrients say very little about how good a food it for you.

> "Great protein, good source of fat, and tons of nutrients. Hard to beat honestly."

Hamburgers contain trans fat[1], cholesterol[2], Neu5Gc[3], heme iron[4] and other cancer causing compounds from cooking/charring[5]. But yea, it's the bun you need to worry about...

1. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/plant-based-fats...

2. https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/heart-disease-lowe...

3. https://www.sciencealert.com/evolutionary-story-of-red-meat-...

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261306/

5. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...
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Try Matrix[1]. It's a protocol specification with multiple open-source implementations. It has federation so that you can choose which server to use (or run your own) and still communicate with everyone else. It has end-to-end encryption (although at the moment it only works in one client, but it's coming along).

[1] https://matrix.org/
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Companies that do not give back non-secret sauce patches will find they will contribute to their own pain (unless they're big enough to fork and not care about going back).

Isilon did not contribute back for a while, and then the FreeBSD project kept moving forward, and so the patches they kept in-house kept getting bigger and bigger, which was overhead in their development.

They've basically caught up now:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system#...
> to be honest the budget thinkpads have always been crap (as have most of lenovos non thinkpad laptops)

Depends how far back your memory goes. I don’t recall such issues when IBM owned the brand.
They claim 98% but that's only the ones they know about
Isn't there a way for the FBI to document TTPs in cases and not have it go to public record?

Why the smoke screen?
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It's the example nuclear proponents always cite, but it's a terrible example. Banqiao Dam was a dual-purpose dam, for downstream flood control as well as power, and the immediate cause of its failure was that they didn't allow enough water out for fear of downstream flooding. Its flood control role was apparently so important that the government had to rebuild it despite the previous failure and its death toll. Also, I don't think it'd even be possible to build a nuclear power plant with the level of technology at which Banqaio Dam was constructed; it was an early-50s dam made of clay, back when the two nuclear powers were just starting their first experiments with nuclear generation. That's probably a good thing too, given the quality of engineering involved.

The idea we have some kind of choice between disasters like the Banqaio Dam one and nuclear power seems like a false one on every level.
I like the Pocket recommendations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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GPS jammers?
I own this keyboard as well and it is very well designed and very convenient to use, when I'm working outside of home office I'm taking it with me even if there are other keyboards available at the office.

It hits sweet spot - it is slightly curved but not to the extreme where one would have to re-learn how to type, battery also lasts extremely long.
Only issue I have with it is that additional functional keys switch is literally a switch, one needs to change its position to be able to use alternate keys function - for me it would be more convenient to have "Fn" key just like in notebooks keyboards.

Edit: oh and maybe another one - missing physical switch on the back to disable keyboard, now one needs to remove battery or put some scrap of paper/plastic between contacts to completely "power off" device.
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Any timeline of logic that fails to include Charles Sanders Peirce[1] is woefully incomplete. He discovered the existential and universal quantifiers and did seminal work on the relational calculus, to name just a few items. If you haven't heard of him I strongly recommend at least reading the article I linked. He's a great American genius who is virtually forgotten.

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"2 Key Rollover"

Dropped.
I vaguely recall using one once, ages ago, but don't the keys take quite a bit of force to press? Maybe it was just a cheap one I was on ...
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much easier does this make Deepfakery?
It's an image compressed with the same compression scheme that h.265 video uses.

It also supports animated gif style short video loops.
Really? That looks like fine art to me, I don't think I would have an issue with this at work.
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What is the benefit of this cohesion that you're missing? Why should different Android devices be any more cohesive in terms of features than Android devices vs. iOS devices? If you want the latest features, you buy an Android One, Pixel, or Nokia phone. If you don't, you buy an iOS phone or some other Android phone.
the theory and original paper was developed at google (according to Wikipedia). my guess is that if they had the original tech, then they can patent it. but by publishing the paper in 2015 they created prior art that stops others from claiming it. anyone please correct me if this isn't right.

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/ioffe15.pdf
The source code contains the latitude and longitude of the device location for Sun cycle, with an interesting comment

https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/joey/house.git/tree/src/Sun...
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X number of packages would lock in inefficiencies. X number of deliveries would promote efficient delivery (at the expense of timeliness).