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I have never had a smart phone. The flip phone is mostly for emergency or purely tactical communications.

It means I have two modes. When I am out and about I can fully experience my immediate surroundings. When I am at home I interact with the online world using full sized monitors and keyboards.

Smartphones strike me as technologically primitive. I carry a light laptop with me at all times so I always have access to comfortable and capable computing. I carry it in a narrow knapsack that stays out of my way.

This works quite well for me. Out is where there are new things to experience. In is where everything is the same so it is more worth the bother to get out in a virtual way.
I can confirm that this is one of the best uses of one's hour to acquire a valuable new skillset. I was part of the first batch of test subjects back when BJ was just starting the tiny habit experiment on Twitter. I used it to help me make running outdoors a viable exercise, despite not even being able to run a mile. A long series of small victories later, I ran a marathon. Then, I ran another. Etc. Now, I just maintain 3-4 miles five days a week.

I highly recommend everyone buys his new Tiny Habits book and gives the program a try.
Exactly, there's a reason why no one is competing with youtube.
I don’t really understand the strength of your response, it’s a 6-7 hour trip, wouldn’t you want to stop anyway? Stop off at a restaurant near a 50kW charger, the fuel savings will pay for a good meal, and then you’ll only need another 20 minute top up to stretch your legs at some other point of the trip. And even if you never wanted to stop, this is, what, five hours over the course of a year, it just doesn’t seem that important, for instance what about the time you save from never having to visit a petrol station in daily use of the car?
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I really don't know how you could come to this opinion. Instagram/Snapchat are literally entire social networks built around photos.

You don't need to be enthused about photography to care about preserving memories either.

From personal experience camera quality is far more important than any other spec (except maybe the display) for the vast majority of people.
I did haskell for a while and mathematical poetry is actually a very fitting term.
Trade deficits were started by former presidents, what the current administration is doing will hopefully reverse a lot of that. China needs the us more than the other way around. What is dumb is letting the chinese criminal regime continue to cheat and lie their way to more power. Forced technology transfer, no ip enforcement, currency manipulation, unfair advantages as a developing nation status. That none if the previous presidents dealt with that is astounding.
They're not all that easy to read on desktop either.

The real issue is that code isn't intended to wrap naturally, while prose is. Prose doesn't belong in code blocks.
> There are actually 52 (or 53) other days which are all on the same day of the week as "the" Doomsday at the end of February

That seems incorrect, there should always be 51 other days
Which is sort of my point.
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You're forgetting the dozens and dozens of other social networks: Snapchat, Instagram, even email and SMS get heavy usage in the US.
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From an advertisement/brand point of view, “kill-free meat” is like calling your mineral water “non-sewage water” people will avoid it because even though there is a negation, you don’t even want to have the association on your mind when picking a product.
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This is irrelevant. It is at best a legalistic wrangling of irreality.

Come on, be honest.
I already knew some basics of vim, as I've been semi-regularly using it for a long time to edit files on the command line. Everytime I ssh into a server I use vim to edit text files. I can get everything done that I need to do.

My struggle with vim is that it just slows me down. I'm used to the way that text editors work on the Mac, and I'm really fast with them. Working in Textmate or Sublime or Xcode or even BBedit feels natural to me. But as soon as I switch to Vim, everything feels difficult.

I think a big problem with Vim is that it's really hard to learn when it's not your primary editor.
Its about learning-fatigue due to needing to function in real life, especially since the learning curve is steep.

A family man might read a book about FP patterns to solve common issues, agile, QS+testing, concurrency, etc (actually seen tgese read by 50yo collegues) - but not a single one has a category theory book on their table.

Its a question of time invested vs benefits to current occupation.

FP terminology is the domain of the young and the driven, who also are of academic age. (Probably winy find any junior-high kids dabbling with semigroups anytime soon)
Author also wrote "Learn Rust the dangerous way".

> In this series, I'm trying something different. Let's take a grungy, optimized, pointer-type-punning, SSE-using, heap-eschewing, warning-disabling C program and look at how we could create the same program in Rust.

http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/0/
I agree that we should be able to tell the processor which branch is more likely. Even something as simple as a flag to select between "I prefer you take any jump you encounter" and "I prefer you skip all jumps in this macroblock for speculation purposes" (and also "try to predict smartly" to stick to how it's working now, aka what this article is about). This would give a determined programmer everything he needs to make sure his program is executed optimally.
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At least on Chrome on Android it is now broken for me (previously working fine), as dragging to steer scrolls the page.
> Also, since programmers in general think less about errors

That's one reason I like Go's approach, even if the boilerplate is ugly. When writing Go code, I'm pushed to think about the `err` returned value. When reading Go code, I know directly how `err` is handled, without any surprise, and if it isn't then that should be for a reason, so something to dig out. While it's quite annoying at first, after some time it becomes quite easy to either mentally filter out the error handling boilerplate (thus focus on the actual logic), or focus on it.

Of course, YMMV.
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> Deploy to Heroku

They have a soft limit of 2TB traffic/month, so you're probably not gonna get very far on that platform.

I run a very high traffic site on a hobby budget and my experience is that you're probably not gonna get around shopping for dedicated servers. That is if you want 500TB - 1PB of traffic per month to be in any way affordable. Forget AWS, Heroku and all that stuff. They're roughly twenty times (literally) more expensive.
I dont think this answer should be downvoted.

The linguistics issue here is real and should be addressed or we will end up into two camps, and one will eventually give way to the other.

And math-hardcorers be warned, Life prefers the simple.
This is such a weird take on Canada. Feel free to comment on the situation in BC but in Ontario and Quebec the population density is such that there are no "Vast stretches of wilderness" for the greater proportion of inhabitants and you can absolutely go from Toronto to Quebec City and find more than enough chargers if you battery is running low.

The cold argument is true though. We have two EVs at home and both see their autonomy drop significantly during winter.
Why do you need to power your house on DC when your house runs on AC?
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Can we all stop using imgur now? It's been like an hour, one of those images has been flagged as adult content and the other is 404ing. postimages.org is good
Are there a significant number of physical labor jobs (in high-income countries at least) that do not require 1) intelligent human interaction or 2) detailed visual inspection and fine motor control?

There appears to be a huge hump in difficulty of robotic “automatability” caused by the fact that humans are just so much better at these two tasks than machines are.

“Thinking” jobs that essentially entail transformation of one type of data into another seem no more difficult to automate (if not perhaps even easier) than most manual labor that has not already been automated.

My uninformed guess is that we will automate low- and mid-level “thinking” jobs and the remainder of physical jobs at around the same time, because both require near-human perceiving, communicating, and manipulating capabilities.
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But that goes both ways. If we accept that "urspung" does not translate directly to "origin", then obviously "origin" does not translate directly to "ursprung" either. So I don't see how this proves one language is more expressive than another?

Unless you can somehow prove that any English word or phrase have a direct German translation but not vice-versa.
There's nothing wrong with haskell itself. Some really cool stuff has been written in it (Pandoc comes to mind).

I am objecting to obscurantist presentation. It doesn't have to be THAT opaque for such a simple modulo arithmetic problem.

I object to the implementation given in the article. It's ugly and brittle because of how specific it is.
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If not for religious groups, we could have had World Calendar and all this would be unnecessary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar.
I can't find any tiles with railway tracks though :(
Yes, Why should a person the choose not to have children be punished by the state with higher taxes for their choice?
What does that actually mean in practice? From a technical perspective, thanks to GDPR, Facebook and other sites now let you download your data (even outside EU), but it hasn't led to a resurgence of competition in social networks. From a legal perspective, you do own the content you provide to Facebook, you only provide them a non-exclusive license to use it.
Hetzner have true unlimited bandwidth on their dedicated servers :)
I'm not an expert, so I may be mistaken. However, my understanding is that, as it applies to motor skills, Moravec's Paradox applies to skills that require either fine sensing (e.g. manipulating something delicate) or adapting to a complex environment (e.g. navigating a room or painting).

It seems to me, that the success of robots in manufacturing demonstrates that this does not apply to many (but not all) unskilled labor jobs.

It also seems to me that in many cases it may be possible to modify the job to fit the capabilities of a robot rather than the other way around. For example, rather than build a robot that can clean an arbitrary toilet I could either standardize the internal dimensions of the toilet bowl or give the robot a pipe-style brush that it big enough to clean any bowl.
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Both standard library and other libs make use of them, so you often can't just ignore exceptions.

Also agree on your point - I'm not saying I like exceptions, I like explicitly passing type-encapsulated results/errors more for clarity. Exceptions happen in a "second invisible lane" right next to the code you are writing, and for example aren't immediately visible when reviewing code.
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Some very naive questions here from a layperson not skilled in macroeconomics: what's going on here? What's driving this and why is this a problem? What do you view as likely to happen?
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It's much better now; thanks. Most of my remaining complaints are now obsolete or easily avoidable. I think the only remaining issue is the contrast on the Projects, Shop, About, FAQ, Support text, but your existing design might be pretty enough to justify that.

… Wait, those changes applied to all of the pages‽ I'm starting to finally see the appeal of those web frameworks.
Not sure why you'd need a great camera in a phone. Normal sensor will be just fine for most use cases. I have a phone without a camera, and I don't miss it either.

It's much easier and better to use a camcoder to capture video. Easier to hold in your hand, easier to handle, less shaking, physical buttons, wrist strap, more control, larger sensor, faster to turn on and start recording, etc. I'd never exchange it for a phone for this purpose.
Author here, happy new year HN! Glad to answer any questions (also see https://community.rhasspy.org)

Bit of background: Rhasspy was originally designed for Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io), but now works with lots of home automation projects (Hass.io, Node-RED, OpenHAB, Jeedom). Its sister project, voicej2son (http://voice2json.org), is for command-line use and has fewer options.

With Snips.ai being bought by Sonos, we're now focusing on compatibility with its MQTT protocol (https://docs.snips.ai/reference/hermes) so existing plugins/skills will just work. Supporting Snips-like number/duration/dateTime slots across over a dozen languages is going to be a major challenge, so please reach out if you speak a language besides English* :)

* Also consider donating to the Common Voice project: https://voice.mozilla.org
The truth is that nobody can predict with certainty what UBI would do. It’s all speculation.
Great work @pkstn! Works surprisingly well on a touchscreen. Really enjoyed deck of cards as well :)
A democracy doesn't stop being democratic because you don't like the outcome. If a democratic government performs social engineering, the people socially engineers itself.
I agree with you, i love haskell’s syntax and function first m style, guards, do’s, types first ..

Id call a maybe monad a “safe container type” rather than a monad, where applicatives id call “mappables” ... maybe should write a book about it someday. I understand how criticism is tiring as-well, math people mean well and i honestly don't mean ti take away their toy.
But those dollars need to be spent and the easiest place to either spend or stash them is back in the US.

Also, the trade deficit doesn’t measure services, of which the US has a surplus last I checked.
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+1 on this. DOS are usually not considered security vulnerabilities. There is really no need to go to extreme length to keep one confidential. Just fill a github issue in the project.
It's not irrelevant as it separates them from day to day individual influence. The trust doesn't even pay dividends, so it's not beholden to investors. Its aim, I assume, is to keep the papers going indefinitely, representing a similar worldview as they always did.

That's not the same as not having a position -- everyone has a position. It's just made rather more overt than the hidden whims of an owner. I would love for a UK paper of the right, or The Times, once a great independent and mostly apolitical source, to be funded on a similar basis. Our media would be much the better for it.

"legalistic wrangling of irreality"

I can decode no meaning from this.
Its to late anyway. The data gathered by now is enough, to build a searchable knowledgebase on all of humanitys quirks and psychological flaws.

From this data the big 3 can deduce so much, they barely need to collect data on people anymore. Once you reverse engineered a system, you own it.
How does Capitalism force capitalism to grow? There's nothing wrong with a stable company that distributes it's profits via dividends.
You can do offline voice processing if the grammar is small enough. Recognizing commands is a lot easier than open domain dictation.
Thank you, glad you like it. You're right about the theme not applying to the plots, I did try applying similar colours/transparency to my interactive plots (Plotly) but it was not worth the trouble in the end! Instead, I have a "preamble" cell that I always include in every notebook that sets these colours for me.
This. German auto makers are now just huge armies of managers and consultants since they outsourced most tech/software R&D to suppliers (Bosch, Continental, etc.) to reduce costs by having the suppliers take the financial risks associated with R&D.

Outsourcing R&D was a typical MBA move since it meant they could keep a lot more money in their pockets and have the suppliers bid each other to the ground on price, however, this now means the suppliers have most of the cutting edge tech now and are free to sell it to other lower tier manufacturers which in the past had no resources for advanced tech.

So now you can have a Hyundai with the same tech as a Merc since they all have the same Bosch/Continental ECUs with some minor tweaks meaning the main selling point of the luxury brands is now the design, badge and perceived brand value rather than any proprietary tech.

This is what drove the major suppliers to halt R&D investments in Germany and expand massively in Eastern Europe in a quest to bring costs down and increase their success in the bids for future contracts.
Correct link: https://github.com/synesthesiam/voice2json

For those wondering, Rhasspy and voice2json are from the same author (me). If you want a command-line tool for voice assistant tasks (wake word detection, speech to text, intent recognition, etc.), check out voice2json.

See the recipes for some interesting things you can do with voice2json: http://voice2json.org/recipes.html
For sake of argument, could this inadvertently make it more difficult for middle class people to pursue goals outside of basic survival?

It seems to me that many otherwise "normal" middle class people have one area, their hobby, where they own luxury products. That might be a sports car, a horse, a sailboat, ski trips, etc. Might a VAT tax on luxury goods make those products out of reach for the middle class?

While I can understand taxing a billionaire who buys luxury products in every area of their life, it doesn't strike me as unreasonable for someone to have one area that they choose to focus their resources.
This is "US holding foreign assets" - "foreigners holding US assets". It's the other side of the trade deficit (because if you're consuming more than you're producing then inevitably there must be some imbalance created somewhere).

Also being in the red here is often referred to as being a "debtor country". US by far the greatest debtor country in the world at -$10T, next in line is Spain with -$1T, so an order of magnitude less. Main creditor countries are Japan, China, Germany.

As to what it means you can read Warren Buffet's article from 2003, it's still relevant today (and the situation is far more advanced):
https://fortune.com/2016/04/29/warren-buffett-foreign-trade/

Or Bob Prince from Bridgewater:
https://youtu.be/DuTm1WA09uk?t=52
I remember Ramon Reiser defending his child, Hans Reiser. Children and parents are far from unbiased in this sense, and one source is no source.
That book does cover many implemention details of a database. However, sometimes at a high level, and as you mention, specifically in the context of distributed systems.
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It is hard to take someone seriously when they write "C/C++" in their articles like C and C++ are the same thing.
Yes, McDonald's automates tasks across a massive labor force, they aren't trying to automate everything that a given employee might do.
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That depends on the material and the type of printing. The lowest cost would probably be FDM PLA. MFJ nylon or SLA resin will result in a more usable surface. A resin cast version seems to be the best quality at the DIY level.
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My town went from, I believe, 3 trucks with 3 people each to 2 trucks with 1 person each for garbage collection. The last step will take a long time, but the amount of labor has already been dramatically shrunk.
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So...Their freedom from "Commericial and political bias" is conditional on conforming to their own commercial and political bias.

How about that for circular?

P.s This article is promoting products from "external actors" that they polictically agree with. You are being disingenous.
So... Did he win? I’m especially curious about part 3 :)
The Kaldi models come from Zamia (https://github.com/gooofy/zamia-speech) and their accuracy is quite high. They're a bit slow on a Pi, though there are some performance improvements coming soon.

Rhasspy is designed to recognize user-specified voice commands, so the accuracy will highly depend on the complexity of your commands. If needed, you can also try doing open transcription: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/speech-to-text/#ope...
I haven't joined any social networks so I don't know how quitting those will work out for you. However, at some point I found that I was reflexively using my smartphone to read irrelevant stuff, watching dumb videos, checking whatsapp for new messages etc. just to kill boredom. I did not like how addicted I had become to that habit, so a couple of years ago I bought a simple Nokia phone without an internet and ditched the smartphone. There is a certain spartan feel to it, and to be honest at first it was kind of rough, but now I have adjusted. When boredom strikes, I just don't do anything. It doesn't bother me as much nowadays. By ditching the smartphone I also lost the ability to listen to music or podcasts when outside home, but surprisingly I haven't really missed those. Same thing for email, gps, google maps, looking up random facts etc. Somehow I have just managed without them? I'll call or text someone if I have something urgent to say, which is surprisingly seldom.

For me it has worked out well, but YMMV.
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Also, a yielded thread has absolutely no reason to be woken up with low latency, and this has nothing to do with the supposed scheduler quality. I'm not sure a kernel blindly prioritizing otherwise cpu-bound thread just because they yielded would give good results in the general case, esp out of microbenchmarks. If you want low wake up latency, you need a proper design, not mere reliance on magic that does not exist.

Plus highly contended critical sections should really really be avoided. So I'm not sure the author's benchmark even make any sense: if all of your workload is serialized, use a single thread.
Thanks to Germany, eastern Europe is a dumping ground for low quality, highly polluting German cars. A sad state of affairs and it shows just how the EU is biased towards a handful of countries.
I dont think he won the first bet did he? Airbnb, Palantir, Dropbox, Uber, Spacex, and Pinterest together are less than 200 bn and falling. All still pretty good companies (not you Uber), doing interesting things though.

bet 2 - I have not done the calculation, but just stripe puts it way beyond the 27 bn figgure.

bet 3 - plenty of good companies in that batch. Razorpay was valued at half a billion dollars in last round. Overall seems like he was right. https://www.ycdb.co/batch/w15
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