skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where’s the reference that Siri’s abysmal performance is from a lack of data? Apple might not have Google scale data but it should have enough to make it work through some sort of self-supervised/semi-supervised learning.
Cash bonuses based on ‘performance’ are tax deductable, so just another way of corporations to reduce tax liability.
There's a big difference. The bank is able to create money from thin air when you deposit funds, thanks to fractional reserve banking. Banks typically only need to hold 10% (or less) of total funds deposited. The rest they loan out, which always finds its way back into the banking system, so that effectively, banks are able to loan out about 10x what their depositors have in their accounts.

Holding Bitcoin, on the other hand, is more like gold in that there is only so much of it.
> Here in Scotland I've met more Klingon speakers than Esperantists!

I wonder how many of those "Klingon speakers" can actually have a ten-minute dialog on a random topic.

The remainder of the article can be summarized as "Esperanto is not perfect" which I fully agree with. And it has a lot of irregularities, too! But still, ten or hundred times less than an average natural language. Which makes it so easy to learn.
Sweden you say? https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-shifts-away-no-lockdo...
Comma Queen: To Whom It May Concern
This write up covers a lot of ground from specific issues around language and protocol transport layer choice to general advice that organisational change without a strong senior sponsor is hard. If you feel that quality needs to be increased the first question you need to ask is whether that is a widely held view. People have different expectations of trade-offs and may even benefit from noisy failures - which can grant headcount and greater focus. It might really not make sense to improve something that will be retired soon.

In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpO1Tfa4IZ4 keynote, Amin Vahdat explains how he led a transnational approach to reliability in a huge complex system. In response to a question about whether hiring should be changed to increase reliability he says no - just that it needs to be measured and emphasised as a priority.
Asking what a force is is a very good question with no good answer. One eighteenth century philosopher (if only I could remember who) said that we do not know what forces are but “time has domesticated them”.

At around the time of Newton, what we now call physics changed from being something based in an ontology—a theory of what the world was made of to explain why it worked a certain way—into something mathematised where the equations accurately predict the behaviour of the world but there is no ontology other than that the universe is a universe where those equations hold. Modern physics still fundamentally works this way (see Maxwell’s equations, quantum physics, etc). Compare to, for example, Descartes with his theory of corpuscles and (totally wrong) billiard ball mechanics, or just about any other ontology from before him.
On the other hand, most guillotines must be fairly rusty by now.
If we can somehow control mass then yes. But it's not artificial, it's just gravity.
For US users, chances are your local public library has a free day-pass for NY Times through their website.

LA Public Library as an example: https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/e-media
If you're interested in sleep, we're building a headband that monitors sleep and alters sleep state using sound.

Here's a chart showing the effect over 8 consecutive nights (4 without, 4 with). https://imgur.com/z4vqS3w We're preparing for a larger study.

If you're keen to find our more, or get on the waitlist at https://soundmind.co
Thoughts on This “Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act”?
Bad (internal) auditors too. You don’t tell them which branch you’re gonna check in advance. Of course they’ll shift stuff around if you do
Right, and also provides a mechanism to directly punish political opponents.
The HOA better show up with some siege equipment to serve papers, though.
Elixir is pretty good at this. I've found it really easy to do a (useful) drive-by pr on someone's open source code, for example, so that's with almost no context whatsoever.

Nobody writes code like the op though (I'm pretty sure it's satire)
fwiw I am desperate to asynchronize our stand-ups (which have become far too long brain dumps & q&a sessions, to very few party's benefit). good luck with your app.
Though as Dumas shows through countless examples in his works the retinue of defenders need not be large if they are very doughty. [1] The works of Goscinny and Underzo also explored the proposition that the defenders might further increase their advantage through judicious use of technology. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers#Plot_summ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
You have to be an accredited investor, most even non-faang-but-sv-sfbay senior swes can demonstrate this after 3 years.
It's probably this bit:

old-style low-def

"Old style low-def" sounded more like the common super low-end 1280x768 panels. "Full HD" is at least reasonable, though people used to retina screens might not agree. ;)
Not sure if this way is better. After some in-depth searching, I find the key piece in this solution is a "wick", a capillary rising water tube that takes water (of any quality) and feeds it into the ground.
Would you have a recommendation for such a mask? I have been looking for such a mask and haven't found a good option so far.
It's not really middle of nowhere if you've got neighbours. This castle seem to be in a middle of the town which kinda defeats purpose of owning one. Buying a large home in vineyard/farm would be nicer.
Your position in spacetime is changing. You're going straight in spacetime, but spacetime is curved by the mass of the Earth so you're following that curve into the center.

The surface of the Earth keeps you from actually falling in, and is therefore pushing you away or upwards from the center. This is the acceleration acting on your straight line path through curved spacetime. This is the deviation from your geodesic.
Win+E, then Alt+D could be an alternative, that will take you to the Windows Explorer address bar.

In my app, Alt+Ins pops up a text editor (a-la Notepad) with the clipboard content already pasted.
I think it's fascinating because it exposes some deeper facts about how the language works under the hood
My phone is set to ring only if the caller is already in my phone book. Everyone else will automatically go to voicemail. This is an easy setting to change, if I’m expecting an incoming call from a number I don’t already know.

I also use Truecaller and RoboKiller.
One thing about US houses is that the property taxes are really a huge burden. Around here its 2-3% of the property value every year. Most Europeans think Americans pay low taxes, but if you live around NY its normal to pay 40%-50% by the time you include all the extra taxes, and that doesn't include paying your own healthcare. (OK sales taxes are lower)
We have completely replaced a set of jira tools with gitlab. Its great.
Doesn't directly answer what is a force, but perhaps you'll find this perspective interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_forces_and_virtual-part...
Gravity creates the stage (spacetime) upon which other forces (electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear forces) can play out?
Everyone's.
It's finished for mastodon 3.0 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
I was speaking with a land manager who was using these to dramatic results (80% vs 20% survival) in a very arid environment.
For sure. The government could easily freeze the funds or spending of any individual at any time. The hooks are already there. It tends to be used sparingly today, but for sure, that slippery slope will likely devolve into something Orwellian. Big brother is watching your spending.
I was under the impression that CMOS consumes energy on gate transition and not constantly, so the speed translates to more current consumption.
In serious C programs, you rig malloc to abort rather than return NULL. With jemalloc, for instance, you'd do it with opt.xmalloc.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

The current answer is not as flexible, but requires no technical ability.
I honestly don’t know if there is any unbiased news in the US, if there ever was. There may not be anywhere in the world. I try to look at sources in the US and, for stories that are big enough, outside the US as well. BBC, etc.
I am not an expert in this area, I’ll trust your word. I edited the comment. My guess was that Google has a knowledge graph thing and it’s been collecting people’s behavior for more than a decade. It's also their core business, for Apple, Siri is not.
There was a case of a mint worker stealing around 0.5 tons of coins out progressively over time.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/mint-worker-filled-his-bo...

A man smuggled half a tonne of $2 coins out of the Royal Australian Mint in his boots and lunch box and kept notes of when he exchanged the money, a court has been told.
Apple is still providing security updates for the iPhone 5S, that’s an over 7 year old device.
What fantasy world does that organization exist in? For example, working at Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon is not in any way similar to that (and those are employers with some of the highest respect for technical quality).
Ok, so I don't think airpod waste is a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

But I also don't think I'm a luddite re: disposable electronics. I think I'm the opposite. I agree that as integration and product complexity increase, it makes more sense to make a new thing from feedstock than repair an old thing.

But what we can do is recover the resources used in manufacture. Critically, the product needs to be made in a way that supports this.

I want manufacturing to be so advanced that "full circle" resource recovery is incorporated into the design. The glues have corresponding (low toxicity) solvents for disassembly, the plastic can be cheaply digested back to clean monomers, the metals easily separable. No "retrofit" processes with show pony robots, but full "reverse manufacturing" facilities built with the same care and attention as the ones that make the product.

The thing I want is more automation, and more advanced design.
Could you summarize what his thoughts are?
The people commenting probably varies a lot depending on the topic, too. There are certain topics where you know what the comments are going to be like.
Part one, battery; part two, Bluetooth radio; part three, speakers; part four, chassis; part five, etc.

This is not arcana.
This post caused me to log in to Mastodon for the first time in quite a while, I joined it from curiosity -- when? I have no idea and that is not shown in my Profile. Let's say, 2018?

Well, what server am I on? At the time I picked it because a well-known blogger I follow was on it. The timeline today is not offensive, but not interesting either. Which server is it? I have no idea, it is not shown in my profile.

What other servers are available? There is no way to answer that question from the home page (https://mastodon.social/web/timelines/home). Several links in posts here go to joinMastodon.org, a site that I'd never have known about except for this HN post.

While the list at joinmastodon.org/communities is interesting, it is also very shallow (where are "writing", "philosophy", "atheism", "photography" -- to name only a few of my reddit subs?) and, crucially, there is no search box!!
Emotet botnet uses malicious attachment acting as a message from Windows Update
I think both parties did that. The difference is mostly in the scale of their powers. The administration controlled the federal government and thus had both greater powers and a bigger microphone.

Governors controlled each state. You had Democratic governors and representatives acting just as badly. It is just that they had less scope to do damage. A governor can usually directly harm only their own state and not other states.

Some Republican governors opened lockdowns probably too quickly. Cuomo basically spread covid-19 into nursing homes by sending patients back into nursing homes. de Blasio resisted a NYC lockdown probably increasing its spread.

I would fault the administration on a lack of a coordinated response between the federal and state levels. I wonder if this was from a fear on being blamed for deaths and that they wanted to shift responsibility and blame onto states.
> it's not that I don't care. It that I am realistic about the situation. I

imo you are perhaps realistic about the present situation, in a closed way where experimenting is not worth your time. I don't think you've made much affordance for the progress & success & accomplishment, and I don't think you've recognized any of the good points of diversity, of value at stake here. this isn't at all an unreasonable contemporary stance towards the situation, but it's also considering only the real & not the possible, not the fruits that open source & cross-platform has been working towards.

> In any event it is important for people to be informed by the pitfalls.

agreed that this is a value. but I don't think people should have to take such thesis (Linux gaming good getting better) and antithesis (Linux gaming bad will not do waste of time) & smash together their own synthesis. I'd like to see some recognition that you do think there are worthy & compelling reasons for Linux gaming and/or tech like proton. I have tried, amid my "platitudes" to accept some dings, but I have not seen any places where you acknowledge or realize that there maybe something good for humanity at stake here. is there anything you could offer that shows that your realism also has a sense of the possible & virtuous here?
You're saying what we've been saying about the environment for generations. Plastic replacing elephant tusk for billiard balls and cars replacing horses filling streets with dung made such small impacts and provided such benefit. Who would have imagined we'd fill the oceans with plastic and the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, among other waste problems?

Maybe these unintended side effect are worth considering more than we think.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

>but trying not to write a book here.

Might be worth an article...
Here is a nice French Style Farmhouse for $2.5mm in NJ, about an hour away from Manhattan. Only 5 Beds but still 36 secluded acres in a nice town. https://www.trulia.com/p/nj/mendham/375-cherry-ln-mendham-nj...
Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets
Great idea, it's so annoying that even science sites don't use metric, for example a recent article about room temperature superconductors:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-roo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777268
What about adding more scanning lasers to get a better measurement of the location? That could also be your power increase by firing multiple lasers at the same spot. Might be safer too since each individual laser would be lower power and the dangerous spot would be localized to where the beams cross.
Check out the safety architecture section.
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/how-to-write-a-car-port-for-ope...

The driving model runs on the modified android OS (NEOS), but the safety critical code runs separately real-time on a SIL2 STM32 microcontroler. Comma strives for ISO26262 compliance.

The next comma hardware will ditch android and phones though.
> Society is misdiagnosing the issue here.

I think you are being a bit generous here. It isn't society doing the diagnosing. It's just a group of highly privileged individuals. It's one disinformation entity demanding privileged position in the disinformation space.

All state propagandists complain about disinformation. Whether it is the bbc or chinese propaganda organizations or russian or whatever. They all claim to be worried about and fight against disinformation just like the nytimes. After all, if you are fighting disinformation, then you must not be party to disinformation. But we all know that's a lie.

> That is, the advertising system.

Nope. Disinformation/propaganda/yellow journalism/etc predates the modern age of advertisement. In the past, newspapers were funded by wealthy business people, politicians or government. And they were all created to further the aims of their creator via propaganda. Ask yourself who created the nytimes and why?

> This business model should be illegal.

Nope. You are being misled by disinformation. It's not the business model or the profit generating mechanism. It's the nature of the business itself. News/media/etc exist to manipulate people. It was created to tell people how they should think or feel about events. To guide the herd.

Also, engagement was important long before social media.
My guess is that the historical society won't let you buy it without the furniture, and the furniture is multiples the cost of the building.
Google could have designed Android with a hardware abstraction layer to separate drivers from the OS. The fact that they are attempting to retrofit one now, just proves the point.

The problem does indeed come down to Google and their choice to prioritize rapid market share growth and what the device makers and carriers wanted over what would provide a good end user experience.

The original $399 iPhone SE just started its sixth year of OS and security updates. Android devices get half that support period if you are lucky.
Chaos Engineering on Kubernetes: Chaos Mesh Generally Available with v1.0
Why would FAANG write the APIs when they can be good old RFCs?
The name is “ηMatrix”, not “ΗMatrix”, yes?
French property taxes, and cost of maintenance, is the issue.

The sticker price is a side-show.
Which is to imply they're not still providing security updates for the iPhone 4, which is 7 years newer than the first generation AMD64 machines you can still install the latest version of Windows or Linux on.
This is mostly a myth. Modern archeologists generally don't use writing as a criterion for 'advancement' anymore specifically because certain areas like the Andes never really used it. It also raises difficulties with other groups like the Aztecs that didn't have 'full' writing, but were nonetheless quite sophisticated.
Lovely read. Thank you.
How? do vests count as income here?
An engagement ring.
I believe that was a typo and it's actually around $1k/patient month or closer to $10k/patient year.
> Calling them a hit piece reveals you too have some sort of bias or axe to grind.

No, because it is, in fact, a hit piece. Were it, instead, an attempt to provide a useful picture on which people could form an informed understanding, here are things it would provide information on that it does not:

* What proportion of the surveyed workforce does this over-$100k population represent,

* How does the pay of the highlighted population compare to that of private sector and/or other-state employees doing similar work with similar qualifications.

This doesn't even rise to the level of cherry picking facts to paint a biased narrative, since there isn't even a narrative here. It's cherry-picking decontextualized factoids to provoke a emotional reaction.

> Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous.

$100k salary plus public sector benefits wouldn't make the best workers in the private sector jealous.

A lot for this is public agency CEOs and other executives making quite a lot for generic “workers” but much less than private sector executives,and public sector workforces being management heavy because a lot of the operations are contracted out.

And the isolated unique individuals which are pointed to, there's consistently no analysis or explanation of the specific circumstances producing the unusually high compensation. And that's because if they did that, it would undercut the emotional response the entire piece is careful geared to provoke by avoiding context.
I'm old. I'm 59. so for me, "current times" (ignoring infancy) spans from 1970 to the present. Remember, the generation standing for president are in their 70s, and so hold to values espoused in their childhoods, and early adult years.

in immediate-prior times maybe? I don't think any Historian seriously believes them, but the appeals to moral rectitude, and "just say no" were predicated in a belief "our grandparents did this better" And was coming from a generation (Nancy Reagan) whose grandparents did hold to those times, because they were contemporary to them. Facile views of past times tend to promote the idea morals were more rigid then. Clasically, because of the lack of contraception, and a belief in "actions have consequences" a relatively un-nuanced view of the history said better for girls to cross their knees, and look how good things were!

Certainly, nobody in the current social climate is remotely interested except, now you mention it, Servants are back in fashion: everybody and their dog wants a housekeeper, cook or cleaner, preferably cheap, and that under-employed foreigner begging outside looks convienently available, not to mention a large number of Mexicans running the entire US Food industry..

Whats the first thing a social media superstar gets after botox? A "personal assistant"
> Thanks for such a great advice.

Yup, that's what he's talking about. The market I assume you're going for is native English speaking so you should really get native English speakers to look over your website.
Enclothed Cognition (2012) [pdf]
Methods of communication should (imho) never be copyrightable. That would include APIs, filesystems, codecs, programming languages, and possibly fonts.
The technical term for what you're referring to is demurrage, i.e. when money that is sitting unused automatically, in any account, has fees applied to it. It's similar to "inflation", but instead of making new money, you take people's existing money. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/demurrage.asp
Decontextualized factoids aren't honest journalism. It's emotionally geared cherry-picking (and, as you point out, lazy mass-produced emotionally-geared cherry-picking.)
I was definitely shocked at the amount of taxes you pay - especially considering you get very little (no, I don't consider the US army a good way to spend your money).
On the plus side, you have lots of space, beautiful nature, cheap real estate and lots of money (which translates to higher salaries and better opportunities).
Not the person you asked but you'd probably be better served by looking at ways to stick with directed energy but find ways to converge it at that point so that the energy density +/- a few feet from the target is safe. Like a lower power version of this https://youtu.be/WAI7Lu4UFi4?t=825 basically long distance frying of ants with a magnifying glass.

Sand grains suffer from a large surface area relative to their mass, so their speed would drop off very quickly. I have one of those bug-a-salt guns and they kinda suck at anything more than 10 feet (also bugs seem to be pretty resilient to that kind of damage). Obviously you could make one that is more precise but I feel like there would be a lot of new variables to deal with.

Some kind of beam steering ultrasonic setup might work as well (although probably expensive) If you can get 10-15 transducers to pop off a precisely timed 5W burst of say 60kHz sound such that they constructively interfere at the critter, you might be able to get them to disassemble in air without any moving parts on your rig.
My question is, has the spike in cases corresponded with a spike in hospitalizations? My understanding has been that this second wave has been far less deadly throughout the world, and likely because it's hitting younger people, who fend it off relatively easily on average, whereas the first wave tended to hit the most vulnerable (nursing home and assisted living populations).
It’s unfortunate that the formula for transparent aluminum was so quickly discovered, and then lost, in the late 80’s.