skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scots is usually fairly intelligible, at least to the Scottish.

Essentially, Scots branches off from middle english in a slightly different direction. But vernacular Scottish - the language you'd expect to hear day to day on the streets - is modern English with borrowings (both in content and grammar) from Scots. And the scale of these borrowings goes a long way to define how "thick" we perceive the various accents as.

So this leaves Scots with a few interesting traits. It can be easily mistaken for "just slang", because huge amounts of Scottish slang are near-direct borrowings. And this goes both ways, where the more slang you've been exposed to, the more you can pick out in Scots without actually knowing it. This leaves it being nowhere near as "foreign" as Gaelic, for example.

(It also helps that Robert Burns was dragged out annually at school, leaving Scots as least as recognisable as Shakespearean English.)

I'm not arguing that the Scottish "just know" Scots by default, or even that half of those who claim to know it, actually do. But there is a lot more exposure to it, or at least parts of it, than many people realise. It does turn out to be surprisingly recognisable (although I will admit, very jarring to see it written).
> The whole "universal approximation" perspective is pretty vague to begin with

Multiple times this. This claim gets trotted around frequently to showcase superiority of NNs.

At best this is a red herring at worst it is dishonest. The problem is they aren't the only universal approximators. There is a whole slew of them, nearest neighbor approximators, polynomials, rational splines, kernel methods … Furthermore the universal approximation property holds under conditions.

Finally, the ability to represent a function arbitrarily well (approximation property) does not mean that one will be able to find the representation from data easily (learning property). Empirical evidence suggests that among the class of universal approximators we know, NNs seems easy to train effectively. Why this is so s not quite well understood.
General purpose OS to me means a platform whose primary use involves that I bring my own software.

This is vague; I'm no really inclined to work from a strict definition in this case. It seems Platonic and unproductive.

As evidence for the vague distinction, see early quote (in TFA) from Jobs:

>“We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers”…

“These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.”

Of course many say consumers are entitled to redefine the product and hold their new definition over the manufacturer's head, with courts/other politics as a backup cudgel should consumers' market power not suffice. That's what I argue is distasteful on part of consumers.
>How does the dev know that they've not undone anything else?

No one says that rest of the test suite is not run.
That'd be great. Sorry! Some of the podcast clients do correctly render the show notes.
Statamic 3 Is Official
Yes. Much better that younger generations are involuntarily paying for you not to work than people are voluntarily paying for your SaaS/book/property/etc. /s
This!
I came here to post something about Slack and their forced update. Click on a notification by accident and BOOM you have a new version with a new layout, even without shutting the software down.
With every update they shuffle stuff around without adding much functionality. I guess the designers need to keep themselves busy or something. I hate forced updates like this
He has shared part of his toolkit, namely the exporting and syncing of the Bear notes, and “link-janitor” for the backlinks [1]. Although I wouldn’t recommend it in general - it’s a brittle prototype. And right now there are better tools out there (linked above) many of which appeared in the last few months.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/enbk65/sharing_a_s...
Actually, from documentation it seems the project has a focus only in java and Go
I can only imagine a guy like larry ellison reacting to this article.
I do the same thing and I get an unbelievable amount of salt about it from my colleagues (most of them programmers), even though they have the same issues I do and complain about the same things. It's just not understandable at all.
It depends what is limiting the speed... The limits might be due to regulations like "The user terminals may not transmit with more than X watts". If that's the case, more users might lead to a (nearly) linear increase in performance.
Didn't you see the paragraph on the bottom about email?
> it sure does enable new things when there is true 100% coverage everywhere on earth

But there won't be. Not with Starlink at least. Even at their envisioned full constellation size of 40000 satellites, coverage won't be 100%. The Arctic and Antarctic regions won't have any coverage at all, for example.
I’m wondering how the stone is presented to the viewing public. Did you happen to see the sides where the British desecrated this ancient relic by carving an account of their “confiscation” of the Stone from the French?

What may be more impressive than the stone itself is how modern politics gets reflected in the stone like it’s a mirror. As one might expect Egypt has been entrenched in a Decades long battle to have the stone returned as a object of their national identity. And yet to your point that no reproduction/photo can do it justice, at one point the British actually produced a replica and gifted in to Egypt in lieu of the real thing.
Nope, it was indeed NUC.

I already have a DIY NAS at home, I'm now looking for an extra small machine to run more experimental stuff, playing with k8s, etc.

I don't want to do that on my NAS.
What do you pay for licensing the services?
Oh how I wish I sometimes had the choice to be on the bottom of things. :-)

Though I sometimes do get pretty close to disconnecting myself if I have some difficult or urgent task, and on vacation of course. If the world around us cannot survive with us leaving for a week or two, there's a problem on both sides!
Do you think robots can take these jobs?
Cheesing
A man who used music to try to lure aliens to earth (2020)
The new browser currently only offers 9 add-ons.

Response from Mozilla - " we have noticed that the number of add-ons available for Firefox today can be overwhelming for some users."

Gee, thanks for saving me from the confusion of choice /s
Europeans Discover the Myth About 'Safety Nets' the Hard Way
> much

Citation badly needed, especially considering microtargeting.
" No, I must not attend the meeting because it has absolutely no reason to exist at all."

wish I could be this blunt...
The author of the article can afford all this stuff because he keeps a 'little woman' locked in his basement ironing his shorts.

Sure, the article if full of techporn but I haven't read anything so unabashedly sexist in nature since the late 1970s. It was truly cringeworthy. Reminded me of reading Popular Mechanics from the 1950s or a pulp SciFi novel by Murray Leinster or something.
There are only 2 major mobile platforms so we don't have any choice if both decides to make money off our data.

You can nitpick on "need". Such typical HN response to focus on 1 word just to pick on something rather than the understand the whole message.
The title is misleading, the switch doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the misfire.
I often see ads for something I just bought, but I can remember many experiences where targeted ads hit My eyeballs for something I was still contemplating. Whether I bought anything in particular primarily because of such an ad I can’t say, but it seems likely.
There are suggestions that traffic from user A might go up to a satelite, then down to user B, up to another satellite, and then down to the ground station.

If that's the case, more users leads to more efficient paths and potentially a higher peak throughput for each user (assuming most links are idle most of the time, which they are).
As someone that loves still having C++ on the toolbox, that is unfortunately only true if you have 100% control over the source code and have all team on modern C++ mindset.
Maybe "justice" will be served: the will of the people goes far sometimes. I'd point out that the public can get away with things that don't match my personal sense of ethics, but your sense of ethics is clearly different and probably incompatible with mine.

Incidentally I'm not so confident in this case; I'd take even odds on Apple winning this one.
Let’s ban wrapping paper
There are structural parasitic aspects to modern society. The distortions that result -- 0.1% owns nearly everything -- are the issue.

No one is saying every person has to labor everyday of their life. Get rid of the distortions of the current set up and you will very likely have meaningful savings when you reach a reasonable retirement age.

I am not in favor of UBI. In my experience, you are never given anything for free in this universe. An entire society dependent on the "welfare state" for life support? What if you say the "wrong thing" or think the wrong thing according to the "welfare state" that is putting food on your table and paying the rent?
> This is a much bigger issue than just TVs.

You start somewhere

> And you seem to have ignored my entire final paragraph

which culminated in

>> sadly, it seems a lot of people either don't care enough to do that instead of moaning on Twitter of Facebook and then accepting their fate.

which is you accepting your fate, it seems. You suggested nothing useful, only moaned that others couldn't be bothered.

In summary you built up a case of hopelessness and accused others of it.

How come I often get results when I bug manufacturers? Your apathy superpower is painful to see. Thank you but that's quite enough, I prefer to get results instead.
Reducing aging wouldn’t have any effect on that, though?
Yeah, but how many lay people care about causation in an RCA? ;)
Very nice! I configured my NAS a few weeks ago, went for a fractal design core 500.

Now I'm looking for a smaller, more beefy machine with less storage capacity, for some @home experiments.
Not GP, but: Micro-targeted ad placement affects me today. Selling my underlying data affects me tomorrow and forevermore.
Yep, I still remember reading the book when my dad it got for me (I was 8!). I don't recall everything, but few things stuck with me from the book. Exponential growths, for example. I sort of recall that she took the example of either how does a rumor spreads, or about MLM selling cookers. Or it was the two together! (I need to check the Archive link after demonstrating that some nuggets stuck with me, and have helped made sense of stuff somehow :)

I was never good with numbers so didn't actually tried those calculations, but just reading the book was like enlightenment. (We got pleased too quickly as kids...).

Thanks for this!

Edit. My memory is very hazy! I read most of her books, these examples were in her "Puzzles to Puzzle you" and other books. Or maybe not, but here are some more: (found on a pdf... http://sriramanavidyalaya.school/assets/files/More%20Puzzles...)

Edit. Check out 66th puzzle. Not related to examples, but hey -- this is something I still use to get paid! Highly recommend this book for your young ones. :)
I love the Weekly Robotics newsletter! I'm not in the robotics field myself, but it's a great window into it for the curious and I benefit from it very much. I can recommend people check it out!
Free Book on How to Lose Weight in 8 Weeks
Just buy a Roku TV. Those things are the cheapest in the market but their Easy to use UI beats everyone else.
So, as outcomes for kids are hugely affected by the school they go to, you'd like to take kids OUT of schools where they're expected to do really well and put them into schools where they probably are not going to, in the hope they slightly improve grades for other students. I'm sorry, but I really don't think you've thought this through.
Only for 1 Specific Xe GPU SKUs. It is too late to change and port the design to TSMC and risk even further delay. ( Not to mention TSMC doesn't have spare capacity siting around )
> personal assistants will all be provided "free" by giant companies and hosted in the cloud so I won't want to use them.

The more worrying fact to me, is not MegaCorp will be providing it, but that it's possible that self-hosting would be technologically infeasible. That is, even if MegaCorp gives you a free and open copy of personal assistant, it's still not practical run it on your own hardware - massive computing power and storage is required to operate it, and massive data is needed to train (and continue to train) the machine learning model. Only MegaCorp can afford to run it, and provide it as a service.

This has already happened in web search, content recommendation, speech recognition, machine translation, and many more applications. It's simply impossible to run your own speech recognition or machine translation package that has a comparable quality to Google's.

And these technologies will eventually become an integral part of life in a future society - e.g. When you must use machine translation or personal assistant in your daily life, and when only MegaCorp can provide a high-quality solution, it's a recipe of disaster. It's Ghost in the Shell.

Unfortunately, I'm definitely seeing it as a very likely outcome.

The only possible way to stop it, is to continue advancing computing power according to Moore's Law - which is, fortunately, not entirely impossible if alternative computing technologies are developed in the future. But still, there's still the ML training problem.
> The computational cost of "training" a polynomial would be the same as just one iteration of the training algorithm used by typical NNs.

That statement depends heavily on the dimensionality of the problem.
Polynomials also have huge problems with discontinuities (even in some higher order derivative) sometimes would require an infinite number of polynomials to smooth out the errors around the discontinuities. (try to fit the Integral of |x| with polynomials)

Fear of NN in control is justified if the networks are poorly understood.
I mean, advanced tools will just create people with even less understanding of what's going on. And thus have even less of an idea how to fix something when "Torch is being dumb" (no it's not Tom! You just suck, stop ripping templates off stackoverflow and actually read some documentation and understand what functions you're using do!)

99pi has a great episode on this phenomenon related to autopilot in planes https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen... where over automation makes edge case situations much harder to handle (in the case of planes this is deadly)
People would be upset about Facebook because of their pictures.

But if Twitter were off the air for a week, IMO the world would be measurably better and people would fight to keep it down.
But it's a false choice.
How come? I have done that eons ago with Java.
From $100 per Month to Seven Figures Through Launches with Tom Gaddis
It can be parasitic or not, depending on what you do.

If you inherit an expensive property in your twenties, and you stop studying and live off rent, then yes, you have become an unproductive "parasite".

If, otherwise, you rent the property for a couple of years while you finish your studies and save some money for reforming it before going to live there (or sell it)... then of course you are not a parasite.
Thank you. And you're surely right about the way I say it - I just don't know how to put it more politely. Tips welcome on how I might not be a git! (seriously).

It is learned helplessness, or "I can't be bothered so it must be not worth trying because I'll fail anyway". I can get stuff done but I fear the worst for humanity if it just does what's easiest. And I don't mean about TVs, I mean about the future of our species and the planet.
Ferrying is not a paying passenger flight, correct?

How would single-engine craft comply with ETOPS - the relevant standard for passenger flights, or equivalent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

https://aerosavvy.com/etops/
Weather could be an issue. Would be interesting to see how Starlink internet fares when there's thunderstorms or heavy rain.
The Single Responsibility Principle Revisited
Not quite. If you offer 3rd party logins you must also offer SIWA, but if you only have email/password you don’t have to.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sig...
Take many short expo images, and integrate them. This way you will have smaller streaks.

Yes, the sats will occlude things anyway, and their brightness is a big problem, but they are fast moving, they can be mitigated by moving to may short expo images combined. Yes, it's an undue burden, SpaceX should do more, but they can't solve it completely.
Filecoin tests pave way for Ethereum fee restructure
I think that Zig's simplicity hides how revolutionary it is, both in design and in potential. It reminded me of my impression of Scheme when I first learned it over twenty years ago. You can learn the language in a day, but it takes a while to realize how exceptionally powerful it is. But it's not just its radical design that's interesting from an academic perspective; I also think that its practical goals align with mine. My primary programming language these days is C++, and Zig is the first low-level language that attempts to address all of the three main problems I see with it: language complexity, compilation speed, and safety.

In particular, it has two truly remarkable features that no other well-known low-level language -- C, C++, Ada, and Rust -- have or can ever have: lack of macros and lack of generics (and the associated concepts/typeclasses) [1]. These are very important features because they have a big impact on language complexity. Despite these features, Zig can do virtually everything those languages do with macros [2] and/or generics (including concepts/typeclasses), and with the same level of compile-time type safety and performance: their uses become natural applications of Zig's "superfeature" -- comptime.

Other languages -- like Nim, D, C++ and Rust also have a feature similar to Zig's comptime or are gradually getting there -- but what Zig noticed was that this simple feature makes several other complex and/or potentially harmful features redundant. Antoine de Saint-Exupery said that "perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." I think that Zig, like Scheme -- and yes, there are others -- is close to that minimalist vision of perfection.

What a truly inspiring language. Rather than asking how we could make C++'s general philosophy work better as another increasingly famous language does, IMO, it asks how we could reshape low-level programming in a way that's a more radical break with the past. I think it's a better question to ask. Now all there's left to hope for is that Zig gets to 1.0 and gains some traction. I, for one, would love to find a suitable alternative to C++, and I believe Zig is the first language that could achieve that in a way that suits my particular taste.

[1]: I guess C has the second feature, but it loses both expressivity and performance because of it.

[2]: Without the less desirable things people can do with macros.
A man orders porn and pays using his credit card.

His wife looks at the statements and asks him what he’s up to.

He denies having made the payment so the wife initiates a chargeback.
You just keep on telling yourself that.
> The setting is off by default in iOS 14 and toggling it will from the default will turn it on.

Limiting tracking will be off by default? Are you sure you're not the one inverting things?
In my opinion most companies see their job adverts as a filters rather than nets. They're written as if the goal is to make sure "the wrong people" don't apply. That's why you see lots of criteria that a candidate has to match before they should apply - 'you must know X, Y, and Z' and 'you must live in location N' and 'you need to have done exactly what we're hiring for before for M time/projects/etc'. Everything is designed to reduce the number of people who'll apply, as if the company is the best place to work in the universe and everyone will be queuing up if the acceptance criteria aren't cleared defined. "Nice to have" skills shouldn't be featured. Confident candidates ignore them, while underconfident candidates read them as essentials.

I prefer adverts that increase the number of people who will apply. I want to see more candidates to select themselves in to the hiring pool rather than selecting themselves out. Job adverts should be pretty vague about tech and experience - so long as you're in the right area then everything else can be learned. Whether or not you get hired should be about whether or not you're going to be a valuable asset to the company in the long term. The ideal job advert should be 1/2 about why the company is a good place to work, 1/3 about what the job will entail once you've got up to speed, and 1/6 about the absolutely essential skills you'll need on day one.
I wonder if this is a good way to support projects like Microsoft's Git VFS without requiring specific kernel drivers. Mounting a special Git NFS drive + having all the magic hidden behind NFS seems like it could be interesting.
> In my opinion this doesn't make sense.
> Part of writing SQL is also understanding the underling data. This won't address this issue.

I guess the endgoal for this is to make non-technical people also be able to efficiently work with databases. From a purely business/financial context this would save companies hours (i.e. money) onboarding/teaching employees to use their database, and even possibly remove the need to hire expensive data analysts because their lower-tier employers suddenly can interact with their databases as efficiently as they can.

edit: I also believe you're putting the cart before the horse with your reasoning. SQL and Legal English NEED to be exact, which makes them very 'complex' because you need to disallow any edge cases. This doesn't mean we WANT them to be complex. It is way more useful if it is easy and intuitive (like natural language). Matter of fact, this would save in both Legal and SQL cases a lot of time, because in both you'd often start with natural english, like 'I want to write a rent contract that protects me and my renter from legal trouble', or 'I want to know from this database which company had the highest net profit in the last quarter'. It's only then that you put money, effort and time into translating this into Legal English or SQL.
I think they throttled all users to get them to pay for their "double speed" plan upgrade.
Same. EE 4G in CENTRAL LONDON with a SIM-card Home Router and the speeds are horrific — mostly 5Mb, and maybe 15Mb for an hour or two each day.

Used to be consistently 50Mb+ back in the days.
I needed an all-in-one solution for streaming (Netflix, Prime, Spotify, Jellyfin, ...) so I went with an Nvidia Shield Pro on the HDMI port. Any smart TV is a dumb TV for me. I'll make it "smart" myself, the old fashioned way, as you described. One downside of HDMI is max 60 FPS, so its limited for gaming and OKish for interactive (such as navigation through menu or simple browsing) yet should be adequate for any viewing.
Also you don't need to be on Steam to be able to install the game. You also don't need to be only on Steam to be on Steam.
What would the proper way be?
Kinda hard to have real democracy when you have dictators that just kill people they don't like.

Want to stay as far away from that dynamic as possible. It's garbage and always will be.