skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. I think I’m going to add this kind of “using begs-the-question correctly but in a way that looks incorrect” to my other annoying linguistic hobbies, like “using apposite where people might confuse it with opposite” and “using vicarious in a sentence without “through <entity>”. ;)
Do you use any GUI editors for Vega-lite (say Polestar or Voyager2)? or do you just write the specs from scratch?
> What's the response time for the National Guard if terrorists start attacking people in the street?

'Hours' would probably be quick, since you'd probably need to get the governor's approval first.
For what it's worth, I use a T480. It has a nice quad core i7 processor and it draws 5 watts at idle. That's hardly more than your Pi4 or your Pinebook Pro. The fan never spins up unless I'm burning 100% CPU. I run Plasma 5 and it's always perfectly snappy.

I don't think you're gaining a lot, using such low end hardware.
Some of the posts were actual binary data converted to text, so there is more than people discussing things. (if those were included)
Completely automatically and with nearly 99.9% accuracy.

"As needed" I would say around the 2 year mark, but with a bit of a blip to think about it.

But I could do this at the 6 month mark, just not accurately.. I would still be messing up letters at a ~1% rate, let's say.
Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote
One of them is collected with user consent on both iOS and Android. The other is a problem only with iOS, and you cannot opt out.
Book out entire AMC auditoriums for $99
The Nexus player was a bit of a debacle.

But I agree with you.. they're generally better about hardware support than software.

The "Nest" rebrand of the Google Home devices to me signifies that they're really investing in this consumer IoT product line. That and they're (arguably) the dominant player in the space.
At some point I think we managed to either save the word "ironic" or at least intimidate uneducated people into not using it anymore.
Motha fcking horseshit outta kkk loving google
The internet never forgets
The U1 ultra-wideband chip means the HomePod can be used a fixed reference point for general purpose indoor location finding! Would be great for AirTags, if those ever become a reality.

At the moment, the U1 is only be used for the nifty hold-your-iphone-close move, but I have no doubt Apple has other applications in mind. Ultra-wideband is amazing for its indoor high-resolution position finding. Down to the inch is possible. But the more reference points you have, the faster/more accurate it will be.

When used with the U1 chip also in your iPhone, having a HomePod mini around could enable Apple's forthcoming AirTags to be located more quickly/precisely. Or enable a better AR experience. They're basically GPS satellites for in-home position finding. (Ultra-wideband uses time-of-flight, just like GPS)
Agreed. Split-Tunneling is also a simple solution where you end up using home internet bandwidth for things like MS Teams/Zoom/etc. and the rest goes over the VPN. For generic large corporations or governments, this is a good enough solution. Email and documents are not bandwidth hogs.

That should be the first step, and after that, you start getting into detailed analysis as each business has its specific needs.
I'm not actually claiming no such algorithm exists, as I have already stated, but simply that such a thing is not known to exist.

I'm not an expert in neurosciences so I can only give an informal description. Let's also remove "me" from the equation, let's talk about a randomly chosen human H. We know for a fact that there is nothing physically special about human brains, they are just ordinary organic matter. This matter forms a system subject to the laws of physics. With enough computational power and scientific knowledge (we have neither as of now, AFAIK), we could write a program for a quantum Turing machine that runs a 1:1 simulation of H's brain in software. Any quantum program can be emulated by a Turing machine equipped with sufficient random numbers with at most an exponential slowdown, making this program computable in exactly the classical sense.

My questions are (1) is it possible, even in principle, to make a program of this kind? (2) Would such a program be sufficiently predictive (with any statistical notion of that concept you prefer) of H's behavior?

If there exists a program that satisfies both (1) and (2), then I'm content with the notion that I am, myself, not significantly different from such a program.
According to the comments above, it seems like the operations room was intended to be used more like a boardroom than a control center - if the complaint is no longer that it's not functional, but rather not frugal, it's a much less interesting critique of the room or program.

Again, seems like the commentary would be generated from those who would spend their limited discussion time budget on the color of paint on a bikeshed.
It was the world's biggest distributed BBS system.

Originally, Usenet used UUCP for transport; later on NNTP was defined so Usenet could be shared via TCP/IP. In the early days, only DARPA contractors (which included many university computer science departments) could be on the Internet; second-class citizens could use UUCP and modems.
It is kind of funny that "beg the question" is a turn of phrase prescriptivists and descriptivists are fighting over. The phrase originally comes from a mistranslation of the Latin petitio principii which itself was a mistranslation of the original Greek which approximately meant "assuming the conclusion." The original mistranslation is unfortunate because, at least to me, the more recent meaning of basically another way of saying "raises the question" actually makes a lot more sense.
There are countries that have military and didn’t have to use it for offensive purposes against another country. Not having it would be foolish because of rogue actors (case in point, Russia).

Similarly, there may well be countries that have intelligence agencies and did not have to use them for offensive purposes. Those agents may be twiddling thumbs, or more likely they may be working to detect and counteract offensive actions of other countries’ intelligence agencies.
Scummy is a polite word for the advertisements. It's been fascinating to watch them evolve in waves.

First wave: POV of a predator in a parking garage approaching a woman. Grave female voiceover: "Sexual predators could track your automobile, and remotely control the vehicle - including unlocking the doors." The female victim turns as the camera descends on her - she screams - "Vote No on Question 1. Don't let sexual predators control YOUR vehicle."

Second wave: Russian hackers with pimples nodding with pleasure as they take control of your vehicle, in a "Kremlin-sponsored hacking room" that looks like NCIS by way of Dr. Strangelove. Vote no - don't let Russian hackers control your vehicle.

Third wave - Muddy the waters by changing tone entirely to mimic the "Yes on 1" ads which have local, named individuals urging "it's your data, keep control of it." Muddied version - "It's your data, keep it safe. Vote no on 1."

Fourth wave - white unnamed men in auto shops with forced-sounding boston accents explaining that if you vote yes on 1, it'll hurt the little guy.

The insane $$ being thrown at trying to kill this bill [] tells a story in itself.

[] https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...
It's not present on the renders on the Apple AU site so that would confirm it's related to mmWave which is not available outside US.

AU: https://www.apple.com/au/iphone-12/images/overview/design_mi...
US: https://www.apple.com/v/iphone-12/a/images/overview/design/d...
The car makers’ ads are probably getting more votes for yes because they are so bad.
Pysch evals are not mutually exclusive with repainting the vehicles. The aesthetic intent of the vehicle designers is irrelevant.
> And yet the skyscrapers and office buildings are still going up. The construction boom hasn't mitigated. Seattle isn't doing a good job at chasing money away.

I don't have skin in the game here, but I noticed this statement, which I think isn't right. You need to consider that commercial construction, skyscrapers no less, take years. From conception to funding to planning to approvals to building, the lag is long.

So long, in fact that some have come up with the (controversial, not saying it's correct) "Skyscraper Index" which argues that historically, peak skyscraper height correlated with the worst economic dips in the economic cycles.

Latency is huge. No one thought up COVID, WFH or even CHAZ when they were standing around plastic models of plastic buildings.
Disabling Apple Maps from getting your location does not stop Apple from getting your location. When any app gets your location on iOS, Apple also gets your location. Apple even gets your location if no app requests your location. This is explained clearly in the link contained in comment you replied to. Both Amazon and Google allow you to get your location without telling anybody.
> The features that these new ones supplant on not "behind the curve" just because their replacements take a lot of effort to make!

Read again. They're not behind the curve because there's new replacements. They were already behind many years ago, and that's why Unity decided to rewrite them instead of upgrading. Non-preview replacements still haven't arrived for a lot of those features. Maybe that's ok for you, but it's not for me. The end.

The rest of your post seems to be making the point that Unity is great for people who want to give input on how to create an engine. Sure, but I'd personally rather have software where the major advertised features are ready for use without having to "deal with the fact... they're unfinished".
It’s easy to say no one has balls for it, especially when it might mean that German people freeze during winter because they lose access to Russian gas.

Attempts to circumvent Russia and get access to other pipelines usually escalate things Georgia was at least partially due to the Caspian pipelines and Ukraine was also due to Russia not being particularly fuzzy about the possibility of the Ukraine getting closer to the west.

The EU and NATO have been expanding eastward and like it or not it does makes Russia nervous.

Moscow used to be 1000’s of miles from the border now the distance can be covered by mechanized infantry in a day.

Russia is essentially a landlocked country they don’t have access to the open seas, their airspace is also heavily restricted by less than friendly nations.

It’s behavior is very much dictated by geography.
100% this. That omission took the 12 from an insta-buy to an "I'm probably going to skip this gen."
I've had that problem, but I've also had the cable clips in the sides of the socket lose some of their grip over time. They're spring steel, but even spring steel is still somewhat subject to plastic deformation with enough cycles.

It's never gotten bad enough to be a problem with mine, but I'm still happier to be using magnetic charging cables most of the time. That's primarily for the convenience of it, which is significant, but I don't mind that they also preserve the connector.

(They're especially convenient in the car. I have an SE, but even with a phone that supported inductive charging, I suspect I'd stick with the magnetic-mount-and-cable arrangement - it's exactly as convenient as inductive charging, with no risk of compromise on the strength of the mount in order to get one with half a transformer in it.)
Then people will but the USB-C adapter but in 2-3 years Apple will be removing the charging port altogether and introduce wireless charging only!

I actually don't like that they removed the accessories from the box, unless they can prove that they reduced the cost of the phone's overall price.

I sell my accessories to other people which reduces the phones overall cost by a non-insignificant amount. People will happily pay $5 less for a 2nd hand (but brand new and unused) Apple accessory like earpods/adapter if it's genuine since there are so many fakes out there.
>> no amount of evidence would be enough or credible enough or good enough or acceptable enough etc
>Where did you get that?

Well, from the fact that there usually is evidence provided, and such evidence usually gets denied by either the high-ranking state officials, and/or state-controlled media and/or state-controlled social media accounts and/or similar channels. In any case the real evidence is seldom presented at all, let alone neutrally, on the state-controlled channels.

Just look at the cases I listed. There is no doubt of deep involvement. Yet in all cases the provided evidence is "fantasy" or "fabrications" or ultimately a "NATO plot" or even waved off as some form of totally illogical hatred of the Russian people (!).

Then there's also the counter-evidences, which are often clumsy attempts to add confusion to the real evidences and to delegitimize the original claims of guilt. For example, in the MH17 case, there was satellite imagery of a fighter jet firing missiles and so on. In the Navalny nerve agent poisoning case there was a "phone call between Warsaw and Berlin".

Sadly, and predictably, denial of presented evidence is the usual reaction and a deliberate part of the communication strategy employed.

On one hand, it is completely logical, because accepting the evidence would be an admission of guilt and such a thing never seems to be done. On the other hand, given their ongoing track record of aggressive and rather expansionist rhetoric, bullying their neighbouring countries and the tendency of always denying evidence, even for things which are clearly their doings, why should any nation think Russia is innocent if something points to Russia?

> the most striking part is always the total absence of any evidence at all

No, there is no "total absence of evidence". There is usually plenty of evidence. And from this we go back to the deliberate strategy of rejecting evidence; the evidence is always somehow lacking, incomplete, inaccurate, etc. or that there is no evidence at all.

The bottom line is that unfortunately Russia is perceived to be like a bully against its neighbouring countries in its West and North-West because of its words and actions. If it stopped doing the needless bullying, maybe those neighbouring countries wouldn't be so fast to point the finger at Russia.
When you factor in that ZIP compresses by about half, that averages to around 2K per post -- one screenful of text on an 80x25 PC display -- which is unsurprising. It's probably distributed in terms of a few long, informative posts and a long tail of "AOL!" type posts, but still.
> but fewer than you might think.

I run into them all the time. Only really boring photography with no stressors looks OK on a cell phone camera.

> The new iPhone 12 will capture RAW photos even when applying Deep Fusion and other advanced techniques

Then it's not a raw image; it's just called that for marketing.

Unless you mean "MILCs won't give you RAWs when using HDRs", which is wrong.

> I'm fairly sure no common mirrorless camera is going to be able to do HDR video at the level that the iPhone 12 will do it

I'm quite confident log-format video e.g. from an X-T3 will be much better (modulo the fact that you have to postprocess it manually).
> if it interacted with a force and no observation was made

Consider the classic two-slit interference experiment. Whether the electron goes through the left or right slit can be treated a single qubit. Use a controlled-NOT gate to copy that qubit onto a second storage location, without observing either. Optionally drop the second qubit into a black hole to head off any claims about supposed future observations. Allow the electron to continue. Do you still observe interference pattens as in the non-copying version of the experiment? Why or why not?
For a large company, there are all kinds of data security and compliance rules requiring that sensitive data can only be accessed from a secure network. Your lawyers are unlikely to sign off on PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc. with only application level security.
They built it, it's really not that difficult. The sky, view through window and trees around it look like they were added after. The top floor may have been a seperate piece perhaps.
> it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted to the point that we must constantly distinguish between the traditional usage and the erroneous "modern" usage.

It can definitely be denied. Words and phrases can mean different things depending on the context. For example, calling copyright infringement piracy doesn't deny anything to those who practice naval law.
Hmm, a few more allocators to mention.

0. Garbage Collection: Reference Counting -- C++, Python, Rust. Reference counting augments any of the allocators discussed in the blogpost with a simple garbage-collection scheme.

1. Garbage Collection: Stop and Copy -- This is the easiest garbage collection to implement. This is closely related to the Linear-Allocator, except "free" compiles into a nop. Only "new" matters. When "new" runs out of space (which it will inevitably do), you scan the entire memory space, and copy all "current live objects" to the 2nd heap. (An identically sized heap).

Stop and copy uses up 50% of the space (If you have 32GB available, you can only have 2x16GB heaps, and can only use up to 16GBs total). Still, the gross simplicity of stop-and-copy is cool.

2. Garbage Collection -- Mark and Sweep: is a bit complicated in my experience. It works well in practice, but its harder to program (especially if you want to do it efficiently, with tri-color invariants and all that).

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Because of the gross simplicity of alloc() in stop-and-copy, it can be very fast in some use cases! If you can't figure out how to make free() work with linear allocators, just stop-and-copy the darn thing.

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Garbage collection is reserved for when your links start to point to each other in ways far more complicated thank linked lists.

If you have cycles in your linked lists ... or your linked lists act like cons pairs (aka: car / cdr) from Lisp, garbage collection is basically almost inevitable. There's no real way to know when to delete a pointer safely if you're using Lisp-style car/cdr pairs. Even reference counting is bad, because cycles are pretty common in that style of programming.
That’s not useful. A swapped out hashing algorithm would have been proving the same thing and would have allowed you to test important things like 3+ collisions and two sets of collisions.

Anyone who demanded the real hashing algorithm in this case doesn’t understand how hash collisions work and what problems you need to solve when using hashing. Your “100% accurate test case” serves very little value.

It’s the same as requiring a real person perform the checkout workflow in your shopping cart integration tests. It’s “100% accurate” but it’s a massive waste of resources and provides terrible coverage of the many other edge cases.
This gets to a different philosophy of voice assistant computing between the companies.

Google (and Amazon) have significant cloud infrastructures. The sequence of wake -> audio clip -> cloud -> process -> command -> device --- that's how they do it.

Apple has taken a different route with a limited set of "domains" which have voice processing associated with them. These can be seen in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit which has different apps register that they can handle different domains.

This means that Google (and Amazon) will have a stronger parsing of those sentences and commands for arbitrary queries. Siri, however, has a stronger integration with arbitrary commands that are part of an existing 'domain' being handled by an existing app.

The multiple device wake is an interesting problem (I've seen Alexa, when two devices both wake, verify that the correct one had the response). With Siri, I've seen multiple devices wake, but I haven't had multiple ones respond - I suspect there's some network traffic to decide which one has the best audio signal and ability to process the information... but that's my experience, I could very well be wrong there.

The thing is that this really goes to a difference in philosophy about how voice assistants work and integrate with different 3rd party applications.
I don't know if you've seen this, but working with Eastern Europeans for a year, this really hit home: https://blog.ipspace.net/2019/11/s1600-Its-All-Garbage-Short...
I installed and deinstalled. I have a 4k monitor, somehow everything looks like 1984. fonts not sharp, I can count the pixels on the screen. It s enough. I quit.
If you're the creator, can't you simply dual licence?

You certainly don't need to licence it to yourself.
Hope it will materialize over time in Dex idea

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/

Till then, attached to laptop.
>>> Shouldn't we accept that words change in meaning over time?

> True, words like "cool" and "gay" gained new meaning via a process of modern association with their understood meanings, but BTQ abuse rises from a misunderstanding of its original use. It would be as though people started using "the die is cast" to mean dying, simply because the word "die" is in there, without any knowledge of Caesar. Is there any idiom -- not a single word, but a full phrase -- whose meaning has changed over the years, simply by virtue of its being misunderstood by the linguistically inept or the historically ignorant?

Sure. But if we told them, they could care less about it. Or, um, couldn't care less about it.
> [Allende] noted that the declaration had not obtained the two-thirds Senate majority "constitutionally required" to convict the president of abuse of power: essentially, the Congress was "invoking the intervention of the armed forces and of Order against a democratically elected government" and "subordinat[ing] political representation of national sovereignty to the armed institutions, which neither can nor ought to assume either political functions or the representation of the popular will". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Pray tell! Assumest not thou?
>> I know custom allocators are important for tiny platforms and so on...

For tiny platforms like micro controllers used all over your car, standard practice is to never use dynamic memory allocation. When you have 1K or even 64K of RAM and need to run for a while the only way to be sure you never run out of memory is not to use malloc at all. Fragmentation is a thing. This may mean managing fixed collections of objects much like the allocators in the article, but the linker figures out where to put them at compile time.
There's nothing forcing them to release new phones now instead of delaying and releasing a better product.
I am keen to get a iPhone 12 mini once the iPhone X breaks (it had a touch screen replacement already within warranty, touch issues, problem still exists).

Size is pefect (iPhone range), love the iPhone 4 like frame and overall look. I don't use a phone too much at home (only on the go) so don't need the iPhone 12 Pro premium features. For taking photos and videos, I'll use the Sony A7 iii.

NOTE: in Australia the price is A$1199 for 12 mini 64GB, and A$1449 256GB (more expensive than my iPhone X 256GB).
"Time to paint another grammarian silhouette on the side of the desktop." - https://xkcd.com/326/
Begging the question is about assuming the truth of one or more premises where you may feel like that assumption shouldn't go unquestioned.

Assuming the conclusion sounds equivalent to "non-sequitur" or just not making any argument at all.
What's the fascination with deprecation on a car that you own? You don't get anything back at all when you return your rental car, or take transit. When you sell your car you at least get something back, even if it's a fraction of what you paid...
Because I've taken tens of thousands of pictures on FF DSLRs, APS-C MILCs, and iphones.