skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Objects don't have to appear utilitarian in order to have utility. It's worth accounting for the psychological impact of manufactured environments: a circle of custom fiberglass Star Trek chairs can sell a bold new initiative or encourage a room's occupants to embrace a forward-thinking mindset.

They can have negative effects too (the effects above can be negative depending on context), but I wouldn't discount the influence a decorated room can impose on sentient meat.
When the pay cut is to the point where it not only impacts your cost of living (maybe 2-3k/month going from SF -> Fayetteville, AR), but also digs in to your lifestyle, savings, and ability to afford "national" things, it feels more like a demotion than an adjustment.

According to one popular-remote-company, that is a 30% downward adjustment. If you were making 200k in SF (for many, that is low), that is a 60k pay cut. If we assume 30k was a "real" adjustment, that is a 30k difference in spendable income. That feels like a demotion.

We also know that many large-ticket items in life do not adjust for "cost of living" in the area that you live. College tuition, medical expenses, etc.

Over just a couple years that 30k/year difference is an entire college education for a child.
> I'm afraid I don't understand. In what way does contextualizing and centering human agency and humanity change how these questions are asked and considered in ways unavailable to us today?

Because today, Google’s search algorithm is assumed to have maximum value among the pieces, and Google gets to capture far more value than the people who generate the training data for search.

> Wouldn't we need to consider the humanity of the person making the query, who may not want what the human who controls a given website that was scraped by the humans at Google wants?

Oh, absolutely! The point is that would further lower the weight/importance/power we ought to allocate to Google’s algorithms. Again, prioritizing the human roles & needs, rather than fetishizing the “AI”.
Not every JVM includes a JIT; the statement you're replying to is fairly accurate.
No, that's how marketing works. There's no need to promise infinite anything.

And the comparisons to borrowing things or being given things for free are weird. Google isn't your friend or benefactor, Google is entering into a commercial relationship with you. I can't believe that this needs to be explained. If I say you can come and borrow my tools anytime, the first time you come over to borrow my tools I can tell you to leave my property or I'm going to call law enforcement. I'm not obligated to you in any way.
I've been very happy with Backblaze B2. If I were starting from scratch today, I would probably give Wasabi a try due to their pricing (no egress charges). Whatever way you decide to go, I highly recommend becoming familiar with rclone if you aren't already. It's awesome.
Maybe Samsungs are no better, but compared to a Fairphone it's quite obvious that Apple doesn't prioritize repairability in any meaningful way.
All you need to do is look at the name ("INFORMATION DOMINANCE CENTER!") to know that the design is more about playing star ship commander than it is about being functional.

The real operations centers I have been in are much more mundane.
Correct, but can I have Music open on a Mac with a shared library and then say to the HomePod "Play ZZY" will it be able to locate that on the share and play it? If I cannot talk to it and have it find the shared music then what is the point?
Because of aspect ratios and bezels, the 12 Mini is significantly smaller than the 3A. The 12 Mini is smack dab between the size of the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 6, whereas the 3A is roughly the size of a current iphone 11.

Diagonals only tell you so much, unfortunately.
I just looked at the map and that's quite depressing. I wish I could do the same for my city. I need to find source of data.
Apple historically has not shown much interest in integrating direct support for third-party services, even in spaces they aren't competing in. In the few instances it has, these integrations saw little maintenance and were eventually removed. This makes some amount of sense with how rocky third-party APIs can be[1][2]. Generally, it's easier for both ends when service providers write their own integration for a given platform.

As an aside, the timeline given by Spotify is somewhat disingenuous because it doesn't include any of the times that APIs were opened up and is missing significant details about why rejections happened — for instance, early watchOS rejections (as far as I recall) had to do with the lack of a power efficient streaming API in watchOS. Once Apple had a streaming solution that was fit for public consumption (internal/private APIs almost always aren't and cleaning them up takes time), they added it to watchOS.

Don't get me wrong, I think iOS would be better if it opened up a little, but Spotify is no saint and has a tendency to embellish the story.

1: https://jod.al/2016/02/18/guide-to-poor-api-management/

2: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/6/16979102/sp...
I remember Neal Stephenson asking for the same thing at Town Hall in Seattle a number of years ago. The lament was that cynicism drives cynicism and we need to give hope to people solving problems.

I could only get 50 pages into Handmaid's Tale for the same reason. My corpus-cynacismus is already too active.
I wouldn't blame all that on the term "AI". There was quite a bit of hype before that under the label of "big data". In Germany it's trendy to talk about Industry 4.0 and "digitalization". You can generate quite a lot of buzz even without talking about "AI".
The employees themselves are pretty divided though. Those staying in the high cost metros want to keep their higher salaries, those moving don't want the paycut. In discussions I've seen you can predict what people are doing pretty reliably.
Depending on skin type but people exposed to 30 minutes of sun at noon produces between 10,0000 and 20,000 IU of Vitamin D3. As the angle of the sun lowers the UV rays get filtered by the atmosphere, which is why in winter you can't make Vitamin D if you are too far away from the equator.

I'm willing to bet that if the body produces that much Vitamin D3 that it's probably safe to take that much as a supplement.
An Interview about Spinoza
With multitasking and sharing your time chopped up being online, you can't always respond to chats or attention grabbing notifications as they would expect in person (visual cues aside). We are more forgiven online and awkward silence here.
SAM templates are a subset of CloudFormation templates; that PDF could be three times as long and still not have the content I needed.

Yes there are examples, but there wasn’t one at the time that mapped to what I was trying to accomplish. Because, again, SAM templates are not one-for-one CloudFormation templates.

I found the community around SAM to be very limited. One of the many reasons I’ve moved to the Kubernetes ecosystem.
I would like to see unlimited storage where the media gradually get smaller until you only have a dot and a file name.
The systems are so weirdly gameable though - I know a number of couples living with their parents for free to save money in very expensive parts of the country - they'll be paid top rates with no expenses vs. someone living in a poorer part of the country to be with family taking a massive paycut.

Others are living in the hubs they always have while renting out flats in cheaper parts of the country as side income.

The endgame is living in the cheapest neighbourhoods in SF/NY/London while working "remote" - the commute being bad in that part of the city doesn't matter anymore.

Maybe we can just show our rent checks for food at the company store.
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure that when I hear "slab allocation", I imagine multiple sizes supported.

In the case of "fixed-size" allocations, you support all "smaller sizes" by returning a large size. Ex: malloc(4) returns a 64-byte block. malloc(20) returns a 64-byte block. malloc(64) returns a 64-byte block. malloc(65) causes assert( size < 64) fails, and your program exits.

malloc(65) would probably create a "new slab", supporting 128-byte blocks under a slab allocator. At least, based on how I normally hear the term used. malloc(34) may return a 64-byte block, but malloc(31) may return 32-byte block (supporting true sizes as power-of-2).

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The "slab allocator" discussed in the blogpost seems to be a fixed-size slab allocator though. So the blogpost's terminology doesn't match my own.
Spotify works great with Google Home, works great with Amazon Echo, works great with Sonos, and works great with countless other devices.

It seems like Apple is the problem here, not Spotify.
The total cost of living is 50% cheaper in Wyoming (source: https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare...)

For most tech company salaries, that can buy you all the meals and yoga you want.
Hamlet as Shakespeare’s greatest villain
In the mid 90s I had the dubious pleasure of being asked to repair a series of TEMPEST certified computers: standard Zenith 8086 clones (well, as standard as a Zenith got anyway) inside a massive steel chassis with all inputs/outputs wrapped around multiple ferrite cores before passing through some heavy-duty milspec connectors. Took a solid couple of minutes each machine pulling screws just to get the lid off so I could plug in a keyboard and monitor (Hercules Monochrome!) and assess the system. Took a dozen machines and made four or five working ones - lot of hard drive failures though Spinrite did manage to resurrect a couple. Still remember all those little jumper leads going from the peripheral cards through the ferrites and into the funky round connectors on the outside of the box.
This is what's simultaneously so fascinating and frustrating about macroeconomics!

At the local scale, one can take for granted that definitions are stable and many laws are immutable: if I go into debt, I must pay it back; I can't create money out of thin air; money is defined as dollars; I must pay my taxes, etc.

But the macroeconomy is the entire system, and in complex systems, everything affects everything. Causal feedback loops run in both directions (A causes B causes A again). Money, debt, taxation, etc. are all creations of human society, and can be modified.

But even though humans made these definitions, they're not quite fully in our control.

Like on the one hand, we just made it all up, just like how US dollars went from gold-backed to fiat overnight.

But then, if you really attempt too much magic, it doesn't work. If you print money and spend more than you have, then you can turn into Venezuela, where there is truly hyperinflation and the dollar again becomes de facto currency (despite the government's halting attempts to outlaw this).

So economic laws have this dual aspect where on the one hand, it's simply a human invention, but on the other hand it appears to reflect some deep laws of nature regarding how energy and information flows through our societies, and you can't push the definitions too far from reality on the ground.
Site claims about the same with small pro losing an estimated hour and mini having 5 hours or so less.
I remember reading those same types of stories a couple years ago, where winning the 5G marketing game was being discussed as if it was critical to the future of the country. Much like GP I didn't bother to bookmark the stories or go looking for them, but I am sure they are still out there if you care to look.
> Cryptocurrency is certainly not a good place to put savings

Found the short-sighted sheep.
I replied to a similar thread [1] about the details. I get labwork done as often as insurance covers it, but they don't actually test enough of the right things in my opinion. Eventually I will have my own lab equipment so I can do more extensive tests than what labs can do.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734774
I just configured this and it seems kind of clunky? The phone seems pretty inconsistent about registering the taps and even when it does it's slow to respond.
Armory (YC W17+YCGF19) $40M Series C to make Spinnaker accessible via SaaS
Maybe they aren't in quite as high demand as they were a year ago? I would be surprised if there wasn't some softening of the market in the pandemic.
Korean does not have vowel length change the meaning, however Japanese does.

Korean used to be tonal, and you are right it now longer is.

Korean is used in combination with other data points to determine pronunciations.

This works for old English plays, for example too. You can use poems that should rhyme, plus commentary from linguists at the time, to guess what certain words would sound like “back then”.

Just saying that Korean is another super rare but fun random fact that I have heard of being used at least once in combination with ancient Chinese poems, to guess at the old Chinese pronunciation.
nitpick: it's not a "cost of living" adjustment these companies make when you change locations; it's a market rate adjustment.

The distinction is important when you end up in markets with high COL but low software engineer market rates (e.g., London), or how dealing with the expensive Bay Area can still make sense compared to midwestern metros--depending on the type of lifestyle you can live with, that is.
Can you specify what you mean by "emulate my brain within an acceptable margin of error"? What would this mean as an actual experiment? Depending on your answer, I think we can actually test your implicit proposition that no such algorithm exists.
> Do you know if midterm election guides also include all of that?

Midterm (or even primary) elections have the same kind of material on ballot props; they differ only in which candidates are up for election and which stage of the election they are in, but that's not really germane to statewide ballot props.
Can tech companies make bike commutes safer?
Buy a computer screen + the $100 AppleTV module. At least Apple is privacy-serious, and you get Netflix-Hulu-Youtube. It doesn’t give you a classic tuner though.
The F-35 is a boondoggle. The budgetary impact of these chairs is a rounding error on a rounding error.
Well, I do hope the proposal to buy a Macbook so you can charge your phone was tongue-in-cheek. Because that's a pretty daft solution compared to buying https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHJA3AM/A/20w-usb-c-power... for $19 if one doesn't have an existing USB-C brick.
Accountable to Darwin vs. Accountable to Newton
The problem is on the recovery path.

Recovery path needs to identify if there was a chosen value only from F+1 nodes (out of 2*F+1 nodes total).

When two proposers with same proposal-number, but different values have partially executed the protocol before the crash, then you would end up with all F+1 nodes with same proposal number indicating successful consensus previously, but with divergent values.
Sure there’s some level of tracking, but that wasn’t my point. My point is that it’s mic free

Also, Sonos speakers from my research outperform HomePod in terms of sound - but if you have data to suggest otherwise feel free to share
I have at least three but if you don't why not just buy one and be set for the next eight or so years? It does seem like a huge waste that every device in the foreseeable future will ship with a new USB-C charger that is quite redundant.
I think anyone who has gotten a sunburn skiing or snowboarding would disagree.
Oh, I see what you mean now; I misunderstood your question!

Here's a screw cutting machine from Da Vinci's notebook:

https://www.ssplprints.com/image/100676/leonardo-da-vinci-sc...

But as you observe, it already has a screw in it. Two screws actually, one on either side, which advance a carriage that cuts a new screw in the center from a blank. It can either duplicate the pitch, or using a gear ratio, it can cut a different pitch than the two master screws.

The central screw averages the error of the two master screws, so with certain assumptions, the new can end up more accurate than either of the masters; the master screws can then be swapped out for new screws made this way, and so on. But there are limits to that approach, because common errors won't get averaged out. However you could, for example, assume that two screws made this way with the same masters are accurate duplicates of each other, then when you replace the masters with those two new screws, you can mount one of them flipped end-over-end, or with a rotational offset of eg. 90 or 180 degrees (offsetting the leadnut to compensate), and gradually average out more errors that way.

Another way as you noted in a different comment is to use a long, soft leather lead-nut to average multiple threads, and use that as a master to create a new thread (assuming a low cutting force -- for example with force amplification, or for checking a thread, and so on).

There are some first principles approaches you could use, like making a master cylinder and then wrapping a wire of constant-diameter around it to make a literal 'thread', and bonding it in place. It wouldn't be the most robust threadform but that's another way.
Was until 1971 in the UK 12 * 20 = 240 pence in pound.

12 pence in a shilling and funnily 20 shillings in a pound.
Can the world ever run out of data storage?
Yes - you should learned the language that has meaning to your life. If you don’t have a reason to use the language you will forget it all.

And agreed - once you get into more “college level or technical” Korean for lack of a better word, knowing the hanja/ Chinese characters makes vocab acquisition easier.
I kept thinking it was the SIM card slot earlier in the presentation, but from what I've read on Reddit it sounds like it's part of the 5G antennae array.
If you want a more theoretical review of byzantine consensus protocols, you need to read through the gossip-based protocol literature, in particular byzantine broadcast protocols[1], where consensus is just one powerful primitive among others.

[1]: https://dcl.epfl.ch/site/_media/education/sdc_byzconsensus.p...
Pun?
Eye Tracking Architecture to 'See' Ourselves
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16945915

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16920532 (1 comment)

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9559360

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656713
I find it funny that Dropbox is used as the example of HN nerds saying how they couldn't understand how something was a business because there are so many easy ways to implement it. If it never made money, it wasn't a business.
"It's not hard, it's just a lot of work."

The trick is that the people asking for it almost always assume it's not going to be that much work, and won't be as slow.

So politically it's gonna be hard for you if you don't properly set those expectations on day 1.
From wikipedia:

> The futuristic operations room was designed by a team led by the interface designer Gui Bonsiepe. It was furnished with seven swivel chairs (considered the best for creativity) with buttons, which were designed to control several large screens that could project the data, and other panels with status information, although these were of limited functionality as they could only show pre-prepared graphs. This consisted of slides.

I dunno, seems like instead of having an entire design team led by a famous designer, they could have just had a guy put some prefab chairs and slide projectors in a room, for a total cost of like $500. But then you're not living your power fantasy of controlling the entire economy from a war room. Of course, the power fantasy itself is why the project failed, not the room layout.
3-year Path to Japanese Mastery
It always reminds me of that line from Snow Crash, which is set in a future when "the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity".
by doing.

In other words, find some practical application of the knowledge that you want to develop and keep going until you've delivered the outcome you set out to.
I meant to write "safer" but the "r" fell through :)
I didn't use a case for my iPhone 5, but it was very easy to grip. The 6 and later models, including the 11s and the SE 2020, have rounded edges that to me are really slippery and easy to drop.

The 12 seems to be similar to the 5 (and the iPad Pro), so let's see if it's any better to use without a case.
Glass screens are reasonably resistant to scratching, but they're very prone to shattering. A tempered glass screen protector acts like a crumple zone, dissipating energy and spreading shock loads that would otherwise shatter the underlying screen.
PP-OCR: A Practical Ultra Lightweight OCR System
PP-OCR is an ultra-lightweight open-sourced optical character recognition (OCR) system.

- A 3.5M English and Chinese OCR model + a 2.8M English digital OCR model

- Supports multi-language recognition like Korean, Japanese, German, and French

- Released under Apache 2.0 license

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09941

GitHub: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
A Better Crystal Ball?
Of course I should have added you have to trust that they will indeed do that when pressured to do otherwise by whatever agency or internal system.
> The relationship is only antagonistic if the provider isn't willing to actually commit to the product they're selling.

I don’t think the capacity exists to continue serving “unlimited” storage long-term. Over time, the amount of free storage people use increases until you can’t sustain the practice. It’s just a matter of time.

The good bed is that paid storage is ridiculously cheap.
Exactly. "AI" used by the media, by marketing, and by science fiction has created its own concept, and that concept having consequences beyond the technologies associated with the label is what the article is about.
The MEGA65 might be up your alley. It's half resurrection of the c65 prototype, half it's own thing.

It's been in dev hell for YEARS but actually looks like it might be coming out next year so fingers crossed.
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Pete tong.

It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong.

Radio DJ in the 1990s.
Everything is a trade off. Do you thing living with your parents/relatives past a certain age is free? Maybe in the monetary sense.
> Why not flush surface contacts?

Cases then need to have an exposed area for charging, and the surface contacts lower the weather resistance.
Seems especially frustrating for folks who are upgrading from a non-iPhone with a non-USB-C wall wart. If you're unfortunate to end up in that situation and you don't have a laptop with USB-C... you literally won't be able to charge your new iPhone.

Especially worrying because I don't have a personal laptop with USB-C or any USB-C wall warts. I have a lot of friends who don't have any USB-C gadgets at all. Kids who finally get old enough for a phone will be in for a rude awakening.
Weird--This is a broken link now? Was the issue taken down?
Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs. Frankly at this point it’s irresponsible and borderline unethical to keep Myers Briggs alive as anything other than an embarrassing historical footnote.
Its a wash. Apple products also have issues, in the opinion of many. They're good at making flashy demos, I'll give them that.
Maybe he means LA greater-area. LA is huge, like really huge. Also LA is more like houses/villas vs. studios/dwellings.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1REAL
It works with the TV app too FYI