skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were somehow calling a global hotline that could answer arbitrary questions for free, then yes, I suspect someone in Ontario would still clarify. If it was a local hotline, maybe not.

Which is Siri?
A couple of nitpicks about the process:

> NSMakeRect/NSMakePoint

Generally I prefer the actual constructors.

> NSWindow.BackingStoreType.buffered/NSApplication.ActivationPolicy.regular

You can just use .buffered/.regular.

> let _ = NSApplication.shared

Just _ = NSApplication.shared works: https://github.com/saagarjha/DarkNight/blob/0e3aef8559b634ce...

> Rizwan Sattar wrote a neat workaround that monkey-patches NSBundle, which I’ve translated to Swift 4 below

Don't do this, it will stop working (crash!) once you update your Swift version and the compiler is smart enough to start making direct calls. As far as I am aware, this is the correct way to do it: https://github.com/saagarjha/DetailsViewer/blob/master/Detai...
It's a standard character, it needs a name, the standard name for "\" is backslash. I'm okay with that. The normal and widespread name for "/" is "slash", and I'm fine with that too.

Yes, there are people who get things wrong on the internet. Just gently correct them and move on. I don't think trying to change to other terms like solidus and reverse solidis are going to make it any better.

And I like :// being in URLs. It makes them incredibly easy to disambiguate them from anything else.
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> Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns pain off, not on. It's located in an area where few people would have thought to look for an anti-pain center, the amygdala, which is often considered the home of negative emotions and responses, like the fight or flight response and general anxiety.

I dunno, seems quite a sane thing to have, and seems like a quite reasonable place to have it. For example, I imagine not getting overwhelmed by pain is a good thing when you're trying to get away from the lions nibbling at your hind leg.

So what makes it unexpected, and why is it unexpected that the fight or flight response center is control of such a powerful survival tool?
Yet another (non-political, this time) reason why the law needs to be changed. I’ve sent a note asking my district representative to support reform, and would encourage everyone to do the same:

> In Green v. AOL (2003), the court established:

> There is no real dispute that Green's fundamental tort claim is that AOL was negligent in promulgating harmful content and in failing to address certain harmful content on its network. Green thus attempts to hold AOL liable for decisions relating to the monitoring, screening, and deletion of content from its network — actions quintessentially related to a publisher's role. Section 230 "specifically proscribes liability" in such circumstances. Zeran, 129 F.3d at 332-33.

> There is immediately a question why this "quintessential relation" only works in one direction, i.e. why even when "monitoring, screening, and [deleting content]", a provider should not be considered a publisher, and thus ineligible for immunity under Section 230. The courts may not agree with that argument, but I would say that it highlights a serious deficiency, and the law needs to be changed in a similar manner as Josh Hawley's bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/191...

> In fact I would argue that his bill does not go far enough. Getting an FTC rubber-stamp certifying "no political bias" seems like a vague and squishy system that will be easy to game. Perhaps the law should state that any provider above a certain size which takes action to "monitor, screen, or delete content" that is not illegal, and does not respond to an appropriate claim by reversing this decision, should forfeit immunity under Section 230. This would be very controversial, because it effectively bans e.g. YouTube from having their own "code of conduct" independent of US law. But I think that is exactly what needs to happen - YouTube is far too big for a "community standard" to make sense, and any attempt to do this will be abused for censorship. These companies should be forced to engage with all of us in the making of laws about free speech, they should not effectively be able to declare what free speech is by fiat.
> When Trump suggested that ingesting bleach could cure COVID-19, 30 people in NY state were hospitalized the next day for drinking bleach.

You have a point in general, but that specific example sounds like natural selection doing a good job.
Ah, that makes sense. It sounds like he balances being academic with trying to work through things in a real-world way.
Contextual Symbols in Math
Alternatively, “The government ought debase the currency right up until people start to notice.”
So they need a set bushiness and tech teams to build an internal ad stack, and try to get advertisers... many who wont buy in without 3rd party tracking to mitigate fraud.
Totally fair point, but just because I work for a big company doesn't mean I'm not worried about smaller companies. I care about the health of the internet and have spent a lot of time thinking about advertising, micropayments, free speech etc.. this is an important topic for me.
I've been overbreathing (essentially, chronic hyperventilation that you don't notice) ever since I had a bit of a health scare.

It's horrible.

Your CO2 levels drop, which inhibits your body's blood pH regulation. An increased blood pH leads to fuzzy thoughts, pinpricks all over your body, headaches, etc. Longer term, all kinds of aches start popping up. (Bloating, acid reflux, etc.)

It's difficult to fix something that you did unconsciously before. If anything, paying too much attention to your breathing works against you.

I have no real point here, except: breathing is important. And, if someone happens to read this and has some advice: let me know. :-)
I used to listen to Stern every once and a while when he was on the radio. I haven't listened to Stern since his move to Sirius radio. I'm not saying it was a bad move for Stern, but he certainly lost some amount of relevance, just didn't become irrelevant.
It’s about time. The open office sucks.
read "My Kingdom for a Door" in a Hacknot. It's a classic: https://beinghappyprogramming.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/ha...

Peopleware also covers the subject of the working space quite well.

People in charge just don't want to listen. You spend millions of dollars paying the people and after that you cheap out on office space. But hey, the people responsible for the office can point at how they saved money and it's also really hard to measure the productivity loss so it must not mater.

Enter Rona: Hold my beer!
An interview with the leader of this group is available here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nI2_AFzE_ek
Very true. In the setup listed above we use Gitlab for hosting and it's 100% free with a fairly non-technical interface. If you're going for static hosting of raw pages Netlify has a folder drag&drop hosting option that's great as well.
Option 2 specifically public domain isn’t an option for people form some countries like Australia or Germany. They cannot put anything public domain. So please license things and go with MIT or Unlicence if you want it as free as possible.
Yeah, it seems like the 'hosted blog' has reached commodity status, going as low as $0/year if you make yours static.

Doesn't seem to be much point in competing against $0, though the technical side is interesting.
Video annotations are also interesting to me. In my case for tourism/walking videos there are requests for additional infos ontop of the video. On YouTube it's Subtitles yet WebVMT [0] seems an interesting format for non-destructive info-layers. It would be great to have exports to subtitle format as a fallback and possible integration to WebVMT (image / map thumbnail).

Another use case could be cartoons with (localized) speech bubbles.

[0] https://webvmt.org/
This sounds best if you read it in The Borg voice.
Underrated comment. If you’re not getting paid what you’re worth, find an org that values you more. Always Be Interviewing.
Why All the Shouting About Google?
It's gotta be pretty cheap right now...
I wrote a guide on connecting Hasura + Forest admin for no-code SaaS apps + admin backends:

"14. Connect Forest Admin to Hasura & Postgres"

http://hasura-forest-admin.surge.sh/#/?id=_14-connect-forest...

For Heroku specifically you need to make sure that the client attempting to connect does it over SSL, so set SSL mode if possible (many clients will do this by-default).

To get the connection string for pasting into Forest Admin config, run this:

heroku config | grep HEROKU_POSTGRESQL

That should give you a connection string you can copy + paste to access externally from Heroku:

HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_YELLOW_URL: postgres://user3123:passkja83kd8@ec2-117-21-174-214.compute-1.amazonaws.com:6212/db982398

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql#exte...
It's not a personal file if you share it publicly.

No private business should be forced to use their resources to promote dangerous bullshit.
No they didn't, there's no link. They said it's "FB7674490" but Googling that reveals nothing, so I can't read it.

I don't know what the bug report said, or what specifically was by design. Surely "the entire machine freeze for 1-2 seconds every 10th minute, not to mention everything just being sluggish" is not by design.

And I was unable to replicate it (I was one of the comments that got downvoted), although I don't have the luxury of trying a fresh OS. I haven't disabled any security settings, and I don't know what would have been grandfathered -- that's not mentioned anywhere in the article as a factor.

So that's what's bothering me -- the assumption that contradictory evidence isn't valid while the original post somehow is, and no discussion around that, or what tradeoffs there might be.

Now, finally, there are actually some substantive comments from people testing it. There wasn't before though, and it's still unclear as to whether this really is bad design, a wise tradeoff, or if the author's machine has something else going on. Because their experience of a frustratingly slow Mac is just not the norm at all.
Ding dong... "IT, clean up on rack five!"
I love this GitLab's transparency.

Most companies simply ignore questions like these because letting users know the roadmap is somehow scary.
Perhaps you find the reversed gif helpful: https://imgur.com/a/hwzePnS
Sending Activity Notifications with Aspects and Event Listeners in Spring
I usually keep at least one prior release of Xcode on my machine, up to the latest patch for its series. So right now I have 11.5 and 11.4.1. I've hit so many problems with new versions in the past. I wish I could just let MAS handle it for me, but it's just never been an option, aside from the issues it has actually working.
> you can't have a conversation about your conversation with them and improve their comprehension of anything. It's like talking to a command line, or those old Palm Pilots you had to learn a special alphabet to scribble on.

Which is why I have no confidence calling it AI if its not even intelligent. Its just voice recognition on preprogrammed operations.
One wireless solution is an AP with ethernet bridge, no?
I have never been in an accident where I was helped by wearing a seatbelt, and preparations for Y2K cost many times more than any of the harm that was caused by Y2K bugs. Considering that I've never experienced malnutrition, I seem to waste a lot of time money and effort on nutrition, too.

Ignoring mental health consequences of difficult times is foolish, but this sounds much more like it was a "well, actually" sort of conversation meant to stroke people's egos.
This works for me.

blow out all the air from your lungs.

hold your breath and pinch your nose.

exhale more air (and more and more)

attempt to breath in through your nose (against the pinch)

hold your breath even longer.

(optional aerobic activity to use up the last oxygen (pushups, running))

when you can't hold any more (hold a little longer)

Physiologically internal parts will constrict to open up the airways.

Finally release the pinch and inhale only through the nose.

(airways open; ears pop, mucus loosens)
I wonder if adiabatic compression in front of a reentering spacecraft could even occur if not for friction.
Really? I've never noticed any issues with uBlock Origin and Twitter.com.
> Actually I think it often feels awkward to work with RxJS in Angular, especially when you use observables that are not used via the Async-Pipe, unsubscribing for instance is annoying at best.

I agree with this sentiment, we've been waiting patiently for observable inputs for a ridiculously long time: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/5689, but I do have a pretty solid pattern for dealing with subscriptions these days:

1. Create one subscription as a private member of your class: https://github.com/spaceribs/plopdown/blob/4823f5017733ee785...

2. In your OnInit, subscribe and add that to your main component subscription: https://github.com/spaceribs/plopdown/blob/4823f5017733ee785...

3. Unsubscribe from everything in your destroy method: https://github.com/spaceribs/plopdown/blob/4823f5017733ee785...
They likely don't need the manual feedback as they would be able to tell that someone asked the same question twice in a row, and then look at the data to see what the issue was.
Box goes remote: “The future of a digital workplace”
If it's hard to find out who is funding a campaign, it's a pretty good bet it's malicious disinfo.
I mentioned in another comment that with Siri, this exchange does work:

“What time is it in London?”

... gives answer for London Ontario

“No, London England”

... gives answer for England

However there’s no memory to this; the same thing happens next time you ask.
> Self hosting

It isn't just "hosting" that's the issue, it's "publishing".

You can buy "hosting" for a few dollars a month from lots of companies. But that just gives you a place to park files. There's still a lot of other things you need to get to the point of "create some content, publish it and be done", which you correctly say is what people want, and "hosting" does not include all those things.

Various hosting providers will also sell you "publishing" or "content management" services of various types, but none of them are as easy to use as "edit my document on Google Drive" (or even, for that matter, "edit my markdown file and git push to my public repo on github", which is the techie version of "edit my document on Google Drive"), which is why virtually nobody uses them.

However, that doesn't necessarily mean we're doomed to a few oligopolies controlling everything that gets published. First, even if less than 1% of the population is able and willing to do the extra work to publish on their own site independently of the oligopolies (as you do, and as I do too), that's still not nothing. And we can still send links to our own sites via email, facebook, twitter, etc.

Second, while the oligopolies currently provide self-publishing capabilities that are easier to use than anything else, that's still not their primary business model; the only reason they provide them is to corral more users into their walled gardens so they can sell more ads. Since it's not their primary business model, they are vulnerable to disruption from someone for whom providing self-publishing capabilities is their primary business model. (Of course, to say this could happen is not to say it will happen, or that it's easy.)
It depends. If I'm trying to refill my prescription on my pharmacy's web-site, or complete the paying of road tolls through my state government site, I turn it off... Temporarily... for that site.

If it's to read an article, see a video, or find information: never.

Also: Firefox with Multi-Account Containers is great.
I wish I could upvote this ten times over.

I worked at Google X from 2013-2015. During this time, we transitioned into a shiny tremendously expensively updated building at "The Rails" (a converted shopping mall off San Antonio Rd). You have described it perfectly. All signaling, no substance, tons of useless recreational space, engineers packed in cheek-by-jowl. I used to hide in the EE lab with my laptop so I could think. Couldn't stand sitting at my 5-foot-wide desk where my nice desktop CAD workstation was parked.

Other people would just camp out in (and fight over) one of the hundreds of conference rooms, because there were zero private offices in the entire building. A building that used to contain AN ENTIRE SHOPPING MALL.
Wow, this is incredible and clearly a huge step in the wrong direction.

I clearly won't switch to their system anytime soon...
Thanks. I just read the article and it's interesting but I think it's old. I do believe that you can match the frame rate with the original source in AppleTV now, and it also supports Dolby Atmos. Unfortunately my Sonos doesn't which is a real bummer.

The biggest issue for me is that I can upload a 4K video at 60 fps on Photos but it comes out terribly, with stuttering and looks terrible. It defeats the purpose of using 4K60 on the iPhone is you can't actually view it on a TV.
Exactly, just removes so much of the bureaucracy and overheads.

Though if Americans had a choice of UBI or a National health service - free for all, what would they pick if they could only pick one of those? I reckon they would go for national health service over UBI if it was a binary choice.
White noise is annoying, but ocean sounds might be nice.
Weird. I just noticed that the difference was only the very first time I ran that test. After that the second one was only 100% faster than the first one. That could easily be explained by filesystem / caching things.
Is the Windows 10 one truly offline or does it eventually phone home in some way? Genuinely asking out of curiosity.
Or someone deems it "misinformation", whatever that means.
Ask an allergist. It's a common problem.
But if you are Apple and building the Siri product, you think this would be one of the first use cases you would develop and/or test. I remember asking Siri to convert a currency for me and it just showed me search results for 'currency conversion'. Again... wouldn't this be a query you would test for?
I second this!
I visited the Tyrrel museum in Drumheller and the Dinosaur provincial park that's near Patricia as a young adult about 20 years ago and it is still imprinted in my memory.

I had seen dinosaur skeletons in museums before but it didn't compare. Also guided tours through the limited access of the park were amazing, almost surreal, with fossils of dinosaur bones just popping out of the ground now and then plus the chance of seeing active digs.
This is a really well put-together site with very reasonable arguments describing the problem with web ads. I'm glad they put this together. It's refreshing to see something in this space that just has the facts without being preachy or screechy.
Did you understand, or even finish reading, the article?

You utterly and completely missed the point. There is no actual human getting fired, or even the threat of someone getting fired. There isn't even a "someone"!

The point is to highlight the incompetence of Siri the virtual assistant, not to imply that someone needs to be fired. It's an analogy[0].

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy
I completely agree and I'm sick of the number of apologists on HN
It is. Outside the anglofony.
That's a slightly different case. It's not the stealing of the method that Teller objects to - it's the stealing of the act. The aesthetic, the script of the performance. Which I think is fair - it's an exceptionally artistic act, and performing it as one's own is rather like performing a song written by someone else without crediting them.

I don't think magical methods can be copyright. At best, they can be patented. It's not even clear that the copycat act uses the same method! But that's besides the point completely.
Ok, thanks for this! I have the resources for assets, and my game is a Mars Colony Sandbox game like space engineers and empyron galactic, solo dev, still learning tho - but seems like i am making progress. I struggle a lot with memory issues tho i spend loads of time in the profiler, and there are many issues with unity itself. Will read more on the ones you sent.
The quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous
I 100% agree.

Which is a shame, because this conversation does need to happen—we need a figure to argue against tech giants being unilaterally influential in how we use our phones and the internet from a place of good faith.
Windows 10 is a free subscription, and users don't necessarily own a license of their operating system. Under this precedent, what is to stop Microsoft from deleting problematic files off of users' computers? After all, it's a privately owned platform.
I cannot believe the bizarro world we've entered.

"the problems that social media companies face: the weaponization of their services to amplify dangerous content"

Wut?
That is an endless rabbit hole. In that case, no one owns land or any other kind of property either. Obviously a government entity could take any or all of it away from you if you are in their jurisdiction. And if you do not pay land taxes, you don't get to keep the land either.

I mean ownership in the usual sense. There are laws and people who are supposed to enforce those laws so that once you purchase something and obey certain rules, you get to keep it. Perhaps more importantly, if a typical energy says they just want to take it from you, there are courts you can appeal to.

If you post on Facebook, and Facebook takes it down, you have absolutely no right of appeal. If I post material on my personal site on a domain I own, it is harder to take down, and much easier to bring it back. I'm assuming here that the content is not illegal, that's a different issue.
You said: "I'm not aware of any social problem that has been adequately resolved by any organization, government or private. There's always someone who thinks it's not good enough."

If you think that 500 people out of 5.5 million -- who aren't sleeping on the street, but have access to shelter and only lack their own permanent housing, with a plan to house them in the next two years -- is "inadequate," that's a you problem, not a "no social problem has adequately been resolved by any organization" problem.

Try surfing, man. It might relax you.
Predictive models to calculate more accurate Covid-19 case fatality ratios
yeah the old argument: this is the current pricing model how will we survive without it. see Netflix and Spotify for examples of how that works out i.e. there will be a new model once the old fat cats roll over and are replaced with new ones. The internet existed before it had ads, it will survive again without them. note that all this malicious activity is _because_ money has been introduced to the ecosystem.
Why are you apologizing for Apple? I too have always had my own path in / (/u for my NFS mounted homes). I guess I just learned of yet another reason I will never go to Catalina (or buy any more macOS hardware).
Aren't we at the point where displaying rich media ads, especially ones with video, costs more energy than they actually earn?
Humans are so many orders of magnitude better at comprehension that your comment feels a bit disingenuous.
Swift has a markdown comments (starting with ///), which actually render formatting inside editor, and it's pretty great.
This doesn't fit with what would be expected.

So we need numbers.

The suicides are not expected during lockdown/isolation. It should reduce suicides.

They are expected to be economic when people start realising they have lost their jobs and their business have failed and their lives ruined with no way out.

This would be more expected at reopen and everyone else is rebuilding, life is very comparative.

And why the hell are they asking doctors and not coroners?