skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't really. If I were to tell you to position your arm -5cm, 0cm, 0cm relative to your nose, I'd be impressed if you got the three numbers to match while passing through them. Holding a plate at that position for a minute while I put 1kg worth of objects on it is out of your capabilities. You use an object to move precisely around it. Not just visual feedback but (when I repair electronics I) use the electronics to keep most of my muscles in place, while only moving one or two, and not very precisely at that, I always need to correct things afterwards. Stopping is done using force feedback (hitting something), in case of soldering even smell comes into the picture.

I can hit a 2mm square target reliably with my an instrument held by my fingers (and my hand resting or held in place) and, say, a 2cm target with my hand. I get that I'm probably not surgeon material, but let's say they can double or triple that accuracy. 10x is out of range of any human without robotic help.

Robots are expected to do that with three numbers behind the decimal point and to keep that position, while carrying their load (varies from 200gr to 20ton). There is no way a human can do that, not even with 200gr, to an accuracy of a centimeter. And even trying will be so stressful you wouldn't be able to hold it for even a minute. A robot can hold it for 10 years.
Unfortunately, it was neither. However, I'm being told that Firefox Nightly allows you to install any add-ons, so maybe running it would be an option.

I actually used the debugging functionality to install a temporary add-on. This is a supported scenario, but it isn't exactly easy to set up.
Sure. But there's no good solution here. As I said, the decision to support only one browser on Android is what lead to this. That browser isn't fully ready so all the team can do is go for the least worst option (which is admittedly a judgement call).

Besides, it would not be a good look to be blaming extension authors for Mozilla's problems. So I don't think that's a viable "out".
I'm a male and occasional user of Pinterest. I used it with my wife to collect and exchange images and ideas about interior design. I have a couple of male friends who have used it in a similar way. It's very good in suggesting visually related images. It is not an image search engine like Google, but rather a tool to organise and share collections of visual references. It seems to work great in areas where Google or DDG image search fail, because it relies on users organizing images, and seems to have a similarity graph for images. There are kinds of images you can easier find on Pinterest than on Google: haircut and fashion ideas, interior and architecture design, gardening and landscaping, some diy items, etc. When you have an idea how something looks, but don't know google keywords to find it.

I understand frustration of Google image search users. But pins in google search results are Google's problem. I switched to DDG myself, and find it more straightforward for keyword based image search.
Some sort of slavery tech is in many 4x games, I believe.
SQL was not one of OP's requirements.
Agreed! I tried shrib lately and it has so much noise! What’s the tech stack here?
As long as you live in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, or Shanghai and Beijing.
They have components that run in the cloud, and unfortunately, when I wrote "cloud services" I probably should have written "services that leverage the cloud."
Finland's new Covid app downloaded almost 1M times in one day, population 5M
Yah, bcs all new structures built post WW2 were built for cars and not for people people move at 3mph, not 60mph.

Rome could have invested in public transport instead of building highways. No one would be stuck in traffic. Instead, they used public space for cars. The old parts of the city though which are walkable work perfectly fine.

Venice does have great ferry service and traffic in the city is almost non-existent due to lack of cars.
This kind of change would be welcome to Google Play as well. I would submit immediately.
I live in a bilingual country, GMaps decides location and street names at random, there is no way to pick which language to use.

I speak one of the languages, not the other. Guess which language Google decides is the correct one?
This is a brilliant idea! It would be great if they start with something everyone uses such as editors - example: Vi, Emacs, Code, browsers such as Mozilla etc.
There are endless "what if" type scenarios where the answer boils down to simply detecting that this is one of those "what if" scenarios and then initiating the appropriate emergency procedure so it can be figured out properly. E.g. an emergency landing is always an option.

That's basically what pilots do as well. They spent most of their time assessing whether everything is OK via checklists and when it is somehow not OK there's not enough time to think and they reach for some emergency procedure instead. Mostly this never happens and there are whole sets of procedures that most pilots never even handle outside a simulator. E.g. landing a 737 with all engines out is a thing but obviously not something most 737 pilots would ever have to do in a real plane.

ATC obviously needs to be automated too. Automating routine interactions like exchanging altimeter settings, agreeing on what the current weather report is, what the active runway is, etc, would eliminate a lot of need for humans to talk to each other and pass the information on to dedicated computer systems on both ends (which is largely what pilots and controllers do). These systems could, and should, communicate directly. Any autonomous plane would have to be integrated this way. Situational awareness is currently bottle necked on the ability to pass information around, which happens to be something computers are good at.

A stop gap solution is putting a remote human pilot in between to enter information relayed by human atc. The main challenge is not just replacing the pilots but also ATC and standardizing the interactions between them.
I doesn't say “grim” because you personally cannot circumvent the restrictions, it says so because of the impact this is going to have on the add-on ecosystem. Your trick isn't going to do you any good if nobody is developing/maintaining add-ons any more.
>Nursing homes should be isolated together with some of the staff until other staff who have acquired immunity can take over

Just this one sentence has a lot to unpack. How do we know that a staff member immune to COVID? My understanding is that an antibody test is correlated but not necessarily indicative of immunity. What does this mean for staff members that aren't immune? Will they be furloughed indefinitely or fired? Should there be financial incentives to deliberately infect yourself?
Fair point. What I was mostly trying to get across is that native mobile apps can leverage UX/UI features not available to mobile web apps (hence the comparison to the Reddit mobile web client).

Being/having a good designer definitely helps, but it seems to me that there are serious benefits to not being constrained by whatever web browser the platform you’re working on provides.
Articles about downloads amount (en/fi):
https://newsnowfinland.fi/domestic/morning-headlines-tuesday...
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11520762
I had one of those many years ago, but they're not very good. The sound is muffled a lot by the water and it's just not accurate all together. The Android app 'Egg Timer' gives much better results.

I do still see the appeal of the singing egg, though.
Isn't that exactly what this patch addresses? Updating the framebuffer console so it's not horrible on modern framebuffers.
Android free bank card recognition SDK, Huawei HMS MLKit vs. Card.IO?
> You'll need to seriously find some source for that extraordinary claim. What does "major" even mean? Who cares about "major ones" if 50% of my add-ons are missing, crippling the functionality of my browser on mobile? This claims makes no sense at all.

Presumably, "major" means "used by most people", and even without checking I'm quite sure that if you looks at the install numbers of old Firefox for Android Add-ons, you'll find that a very large part of those installs were of extensions that are still available.

Sure, I'd like my small Hacker News extension to be available as well, but I do care far more about uBlock and Privacy Badger being available - and judging by installs, so do loads of other people.

(Again, which is not to say that I'd like the smaller extensions to be available as well. But "the major addons that people use are available" looks like a mostly accurate claim.)
First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
> or they're sufficiently general and easiest to maintain by releasing back upstream

Exactly; maintaining a fork is a big pain. The ongoing cost of keeping it up-to-date is a pretty big incentive to merge it, even if there's not a legal requirement.
> If it were so cut

Are you straight up denying the government link that I posted to you?.

> Maybe HN posters aren’t lawyers?

I have posted direct links to government information here.

If you are going to claim that the FTC website is lying to everyone, then I am not sure what to tell you. You are too far lost to ever be convinced of anything.

This is the FTC website. They are the government. They are the experts. They decide what is right or wrong. They are the primary source here!

The only opinion that matters here is the government's, as they are the ones who enforce the law!

I think that I am going to listen to the opinion of the government lawyers, over the opinion of someone who is straight up denying the government approved information that I posted.
That depends on the programming language, for example C# with LINQ and functional programming languages are pretty good at expressing queries. SQL has no capability for abstraction and so only the simplest queries will be succint, if you want to e.g. union two similar queries then you'll have to copy and paste.
You might disagree with it as a tactic, but I'm not sure how you got to the idea that it's designed for animosity and not influence. Can you read the minds and intentions of the protestors? How would you know?
>but that's more likely because Apple is keeping Google Maps from getting as good than because it's a better solution,

I would say Waze is a solid counter-argument.
Is Siri in female voice because it’s “preferred” or because it’s better?

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty#Voice_gender
I actually updated the article today to address this very line of thought. You can see the added text here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgzgXUAXgAEkp-y?format=png&name=...

It's not that I question the intentions. It's rather that, especially given the execution so far, I have my doubts about what these intentions will lead to in practice.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs
Sony's Technology 2020 [pdf]
I think SQL is massive because of two major reasons:

1. It has a highly inconsistent, non-generalized syntax

2. It tries to reuse the language for everything -- from schema specification, to querying, to administration, to query engine hints, to procedural language definitions

The RDBMS in total is a highly complex system, but SQL adds a lot of accidental complexity on top of it.

Also for a new DB, you hardly need to support the whole suite of features to produce a useful system -- you just need to constrain the recommended usecases. See SQLite for the quintessential example -- they dropped MVCC and a lot of management/multi-tenancy features as they targetted a surprisingly large niche.

As it turns out, there's a wide variety of data management needs -- SQL is often a beast because most RDBMS's have a goal of targetting all of them.
You can genocide whole cultures in games but you can't enslave them because that would be insensitive :)
If you have an Apple Developer subscription, you should be able to use Apple Maps using Mapkit on any website - https://developer.apple.com/maps/web/
Thanks for posting this -- I didn't know this was the system we bought (am Danish).

The back story (for Denmark) is that we have been building our very own system since the 1990's at massive cost without getting very far, so by now the biggest commercial offering probably looks like a safe heaven.

Reasons the "in-house" systems never got far are a good story.
First, there is the normal insanity of hiring consultancies on cost-plus contracts to design and build a system that is "spec'd" by collecting wish lists from everywhere.
Despite this, things might have worked: A lot of my friends from uni started work at these consultancies and the story is that there was not much naked greed and cynicism, and that people really tried to come up with good systems.
The real killer was that Denmark, despite being a completely homogeneous country of 5m people with state-funded healthcare, did not opt to build a single system!? Healthcare is provided by the "regions", and the regions could not agree on buying a single system. Since Danes expect their medical records available across regions, the ministry of health then had to step in and provide a data interchange standard. Picture an insane XML-schema for every conceivable piece of medical information, coupled with granular access controls and origin metadata. And then mapping this schema faithfully to 5 different alternative representations...
Converting C to Rust is not that hard. Converting C to safe Rust is the difficult part.
Hey JM, I made the site lighter.

Would you mind refreshing it and telling me if it is still loading horrendously slow?

Thanks in advance! :)
It will take long for this to change the industry and there are a lot of planes that will be flown manually for decades to come. But obviously it doesn't hurt to have a plan B.

I actually expect that short term there will be an increased demand for pilots as smaller electrical airplanes start becoming more popular. Most of these will be single pilot operations doing short hops. If there are going to be lots of them, there will be a need for lots of pilots too. This too will ramp up over a few decades and eventually that whole business will be autonomous. But not short term.
Developing a GCC frontend is a massive PITA, and the worst of all it was made purposefully so complicated because of RMS' concerns about closed compilers. He actually brought LLVM's existence onto himself, because it was somewhat clear no one would have bothered writing a new compiler if it had been possible to use it's frontend for other things (even from free software it's hard) and they kept the license as "GPLv2 or later" instead of pushing for v3 that arguably makes 0 sense with GCC (it's not like it's going to be put in a closed box any time soon).

Sometimes in life it's better to be a bit heterodox, but have influence and leverage, than being alone on your high castle. GCC can be as open as it gets, but pushing people away in the name of freedom has actually only given reasons to the industry to move away from it, which is sad and could be avoided.
No and apple needs to be broken up to permit innovation 3.0
Hong Kong's vast $3.8B rain-tunnel network
Can someone explain why this is beneficial to Murdoch or other organisations? Right now if I perform a search for say ‘coronavirus vaccine Australia’ two government sites come up and 10 news sites. If I then click on a news site they can advertise to me and in the case of the guardian ask for donations in the case of Murdoch ask for subscriptions. If they are removed then how my only choice is to go direct to the site of choice. Especially for Murdoch sites that are hard paywalled I don’t get the benefit?
I don't find them interesting just because they're large. I've worked on some large projects and sometimes, it was just a lot of code because there were loads of business exceptions to this and that.
> Immutable Infrastructure as Code. Docker containers are the modern gold standard.

Your comment makes no sense once you account for the fact that, as part of containerization security best practices, containers are continuously rebuilt to use the latest version of their base images and dependencies, and those images are then pushed to overwrite the latest release.
https://www.freecivweb.org/
You have a vote. Use it.

You also have a voice. Use it.

You have no right to undemocratically wield power over others by physical force. You have no right to force others to suffer to compel them to your will which they did not choose.
With Common Table Expressions you can process the shared data in one set ("temporary table" is a good mental model for it), compute the unique parts in subsequent sets and use the results for the UNION in a single query.
Also there's substantial proof COVID19 antibodies don't last forever, in some cases only a few months.

This article is riddled with questions.
The Feed (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feed_(British_TV_series)) is based on this premise.
I played the original colonization, a few years after it came out (I used to play a lot of strategy videogames). It was a really nice game to play.

I tried FreeCol a few years ago, when I had a free afternoon. It was kind of ok, but not particularly attractive. Most likely, I got older :)

I still praise the efforts of developers that, mostly for free, try to replicate great games from the past.

I even gave a look at FreeOrion, because Master of Orion 2 was my favorite game ever. Not as great. I think there's an easy option to play MoO2 if you buy if for a few bucks online, e.g. on Steam [0]

There's also the great Master of Magic. A developer from Japan created a complete overhaul of the game, and published it for free as a patch. I remember reading that someone bought the rights of the game from... Atari? ... And they're now developing a new version of it, and the Japanese guy is involved. Nice way to end the story :)

Strategy games are a ton of fun. A pity that I mostly played them alone, when I was a kid. Today I guess it's all about social, like Fortnite?

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/410980/Master_of_Orion_2/
In the USA, it is estimated that herd immunity would lead to 2.1 million deaths:

330,000,000 ÷ 100 x 65 = 214,500,000 ÷ 100 = 2,145,000

That's 330 million people, 65% exposed, and 1% death rate.

Keep in mind that 9% of people have suffered a crippling illness that lasts several months. That's 19,305,000 people with a crippling multi-month illness.

Aiming for herd immunity is pure madness.
Years ago it took me a few times encountering these keys to realize how they were working (like for Google, etc). Now, on being presented any shared secret to initialize my Authenticator app, I screen capture / print out the secret and store it in my files at home. Just like those recovery codes. Too much of my life is with Google not to have this stored somewhere safe.
Blocking traffic is not speech, it's physical harassment whose only outcome and whose intended mechanism of effect is to inject suffering into random innocent peoples' lives.

You have no right to do that any more than you have a right to randomly slap people on the street to make them listen to you.

Use your vote and your voice.
The problem with a wealth tax is that it's essentially retroactive. Instead of taxing income and capital gains at the time they're accrued, you tax them later - long after the individuals who accrued them have had the chance to make rational decisions based on that tax rate. This seems inherently unfair to me, a form of bait and switch, especially combined with the intention to hunt down former California residents up to a decade after they've left the state (thereby further denying them any opportunity to make rational decisions).
Considering error rates due to sleep deprivation must rise at some point and the hand off error rate is probably quite constant there may be an optimal hand off.

However that doesn't mean this is the global optimum. There are probably ways to reduce hand off errors, e.g. by introducing hand off check lists. Sleep deprivation errors on the other hand can only be reduced by reducing sleep deprivation, giving crystal meth to the doctor (probably unethical and unsustainable) and by general poka yoke style changes that will have benefits even when not sleep deprived.

So the global optimum can probably be shifted to somewhere where the doctor is not sleep deprived and the hand off is organized. Which is also more humane towards the doctor.
To be fair, Python's minor versions have been handled as semver's major versions since ever.
I'm not suggesting allied nations cannot have disagreements & voice them with each other, I'm saying it's unlikely for the US to "retaliate" against Australia like this, when something like this can be better resolved with peaceful cooperative diplomacy.

Again, in this case we're talking hypotheticals with Facebook pulling out of Australia, as they've only said they would stop showing news. It's not like Facebook would suddenly be unable to sustain operations in Australia because users cannot share news articles. If anything they're just playing politics to get a better deal for themselves.

If Facebook left Australia, I would because they choose to, not because they were forced to, just like no one is forcing Google to either.
That's not data to an airplane?
> The average age of doctors in the US is 51.

So windows 95 came out the year they left medical school, and had just finished residency when the internet became particular popular and broadband started being normal.
I recommend having a look at pipenv for doing this for python tools, I think for this kind of thing it is pretty ideal.
Autoland systems and humans have different limitations. Humans are limited by visibility, because we look out the window and control the final parts of the landing by what we see. The autopilot is limited by wind restrictions, because the control input rates of an airport are limited.

That limitation is there because the sensor inputs aren't as good as you think. Looking out the window reacts much faster to wind gusts than receiving a radio signal to determine runway line-up.

If you want to have a computer execute a full autoland in varying and gusting crosswind you'll probably need it to use cameras and computer vision, but then it becomes limited by the same visibility issues humans have.
It's a moral imperative. :-)
Currently working part-time as a PC technician. Recently had a 10 year old PC here that had to be upgraded to W10. Did Microsoft complain? Nope. I replaced the HDD with an SSD and it ran fine. I've done this with 10 year old laptops too. I simply prefer a platform that doesn't decide for me whether I'm allowed to install it or not. And any device that runs fine on W10 now will most likely run it fine in the future too. Microsoft isn't going to "drop support" for old devices just because they're tired of supporting it. It's like you Apple guys literally have Stockholm syndrome, rationalizing this crap to yourselves.

And you'd be surprised what kind of old hardware still works on W10.
A local government migrated to open source
No. All recent data points to long-lasting immunity. A normal, gradual decline in antibody response is coupled with longer-lasting B- and T-cell response.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285618977654407169.html

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.14.20151126v...
The model gives you approximate code based on a set of inputs and outputs you feed to it; each input and output helps the model shed light on a different execution path and improves the approximate code.

Still, not bad.
I can recommend https://www.widelands.org/
Don't ask me how many hours I wasted with that, just to experience the wuselfactor. The mission is also quite fun.

Another good timewaster is https://7kfans.com/
But you'll probably only enjoy it if you played the original in your youth.