skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can just as easily press 1 as I can say a word, and when I press 1, there is a near 100% chance that the computer on the other end will understand my command.

So, I would rarely say something when I could push a button, but when using a smartphone on a call, it's not always easy or obvious how to push a button. Some people may have mobility issues making it hard to push a button, or be on speaker phone far away from the buttons. Or, maybe they haven't updated their telephone equipment in 50 years, and only have a rotary dial. Or, maybe on a terrible VoIP system that can't manage to get the tones through.

There's probably some way to clean up the script.

"(Please listen carefully, as our options have changed.) Please choose from the following options: Say prescription refills or press 1; say insurance denied or press 2; say referral to veterinary care or press 3"

I could get behind voice interfaces for more things if the commands words were documented, clear, and consistent, and the damn things worked. Until then, buttons seem good to me.
>I do think that common infrastructure companies (analog to the utilities companies, just essential digital services) such as cloudflare, dns registrars, hosting and cloud providers shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against people with the "wrong" opinions.

I don't think that's a good analog. In your area there's only one electric/water/gas company, and 2-3 wired telecoms (eg. phone, cable, maybe fiber). You don't really have much of a choice there. However, there are dozens of CDNs, domain name registrars/dns providers, and hosting providers.
Instead of opening multiple browsers, open new windows in private (incognito) mode and connect to the same game.
We need Errol Morris's "Interrotron" but for Zoom - https://www.errolmorris.com/content/eyecontact/interrotron.h...
Makes sense. I use plex, but I've only got ~100GB at put.io and it fills up fast (especially with those DS9 AI-upscaled seasons...)
Minor rant: The trouble with all these lovely Apache projects is their dependency on Java.

If these things were written in C, Go or Rust then I'd leap at the opportunity to explore them and maybe use them in production.

But Java dependency just brings so much baggage with it. Its all well and good if you've got a Java pro or two on your team. But if you don't, you usually end up spending hours and days troubleshooting obscure JVM problems or somesuch.
This review is seriously tempting me into buying one. I thought I was happy with my XS!
NY Post aka Rupert Murdoch.
Indie music album about being an expat
I'm surprised they don't seem to do frequent and regular COVID testing of participants to catch asymptomatic infections. Naively, it would seem worthwhile in order to predict how well the vaccine would slow down the spread.

I guess the reason is that the study is narrowly tailored to vaccine approval requirements?
"centre leaning"

Could you draw a diagram of this?
I don't think anyone is sure what it is yet. A common tactic in misinformation campaigns is to mix authentic (possibly hacked) photos with forged material. The authentic material is added to make the leak seem more believable.
I've been using ZT for years. It's been absolutely amazing. It had some growing pains and often the network interface would hang, sometimes so badly that a full node restart would have been required, but these days it is super stable even under high load (talking about 1x-1xx TB per month)
Yes you can switch back to 16bit, and in early x64 Linux there was even support for the vm86plus() API, which allowed stuff such as dosemu to run natively (and even let DOS programs bitbang your IO ports). Eventually this was removed from upstream but there was a patch floating around which I used for some time.

Whatever one _wants_ to do it or not is another story. Even on 32-bit kernels I don't think vm86plus is enabled by default (nor is LDT changing from user-space) because of the crazy ways you can use it to break things.
I don't see how the provided counterexample is a counterexample. It appears to indicate unconscious bias favoring women in STEM faculty positions for hiring.
This, lunar elevators are well within existing technological capabilities. There have been calls to build a lunar elevator simply to get some practical experiencing in building an elevator.
Google is the most trusted brand for Gen Z in 2020 in this Morning Consult survey[1], followed by Netflix, Amazon, and then YouTube. Apple comes in at 14th place.

[1] https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/
This, again, varies by country and is complicated. As one example, according to https://www.germancivilprocedure.com/disinheritance-lawsuits... (search for "Even lifetime gifts are relevant for the calculation of the Pflichtteil"):

> German succession law orders that all lifetime gifts made by the testator within a period of ten years prior to their death is added to the value of the estate. Such gifts are thus also basis for calculation of the forced share.

and a provision like that seems like a clear necessity to prevent people from working around the compulsory-share legislation by just giving their money away before dying. And yes, my understanding (which could be totally wrong!) is that this means that there's effectively a clawback provision on gifts in Germany.

So it's neither "fraction of the estate" nor "fraction of total wealth generated" but a compromise "fraction of what the estate would have been if not for certain actions on the part of the parents".

According to https://works.bepress.com/aaron_schwabach/3/download/ there are in fact such clawback provisions in various European countries (as of 2011, but I don't think that much has changed since then) with different details: time periods, whether you can claw back non-fungible goods from someone who purchased them in good faith from the gift recipient, whether children can officially sign away their rights to gifts at the time of the gift so they later cannot invoke the clawback provisions, etc, etc.

Yes, from a US-or-UK common-law point of view this all seems fairly counter-intuitive. ;)
> In the US, it seems these 13% receive outsize political attention as well. I recall at the run up to the 2016 election, one of the main issues was gender and public bathroom usage. I couldn't help wondering at the time why that issue received so much attention vs. the 42,000 opioid overdose fatalities that year alone, which got virtually zero attention.

One factor in that is America is a pretty unequal society, and problems the relatively wealthy [1] face receive disproportionate attention than those primarily confined to the less wealthy. Not saying that's the only factor, but it's definitely a major one.

Ditto with de-industrialization, which a sibling comment mentioned. The relatively wealthy gain disproportionately from it in the short term, and those who are disproportionately hurt by it are less wealthy and typically live in unfashionable areas. Predictably, their problems get relatively less attention than they probably should (esp. since the relatively wealthy have the option of hand-waving those problems away with stuff like "Pareto efficiency," etc.).

[1] I'd count software engineers and similar professionals as "relatively wealthy."
In diversity trainings I've received over the past few years, it's been emphasized that the racism of society necessarily causes me to personally be racist. No amount of awareness, care, or action on my part will erase the racial bias which (the trainings say) is embedded deep within me; the only course of action is to continually struggle against it.
> the consumer is happy to pay

Happy to pay? Or ignorant of the cost? Or ... not offered any discount for cash? I'm not particularly "happy" to pay these fees, but there's not much way around them. They get baked in to prices, and I'm not offered a way to opt out.
Data Agnostic RoBERTa based Natural Language to SQL Query Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05243v1

more

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2020&q=text-to-sql...
It's been a while, but I was able to get Google to recognize a different phrase by repeating it several times during the initial training.
I got something similar, but without a remote box (or a remote box that I control, rather).

I made a docker container that has the torrent client and openvpn installed in it. All torrent traffic bounces off the VPN, and uses the VPN IP but I am still able to access the torrent client interface via the direct IP
Yes, removed for test

$ sudo pacman -Rs xorg-server-xwayland

Otherwise X11 applications work fine. GTK+ supports Wayland since 2015

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/GTK%2B
Sketch – Part of your world: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app
If you get around to setting up a blog or a github repo with these examples, I’m sure a lot of us would find it interesting :-)
I usually see it, but inverted: "we offer a 4% discount for cash payments" signs

But usually only in small individual shops
I wonder how near-realtime this is. It seems that will dictate the types of applications this will be applicable for.

I currently use Gluster which has its downsides, but is what I consider near-realtime, but with full filesystem features in a nice fuse wrapper. I'd love it if someone would contrast the performance and more of the features.
> but serious tools run miles away in datacenters

I work on a serious tool, specifically it’s CAM/CAE stuff. Despite Google, Amazon and MS sales people apply pressure to upper management (they want us to move to their clouds and offering gazillions of free compute credits), our software works on desktops and workstations, and I have reasons to believe it gonna stay this way. With recent progress of HPC-targeted CPUs, and steady downward trend of RAM prices, I believe our customers are happier running our software on their own computers, as opposed to someone else’s computers.

> We wouldn’t be rewriting everything in javascript if only we hadn’t forgotten how cool remote X was.

It was cool in the epoch of OpenGL 2. By the time Metal, Direct3D 12, and finally Vulkan arrived, it stopped being cool. Essentially, these APIs were designed to allow apps to saturate PCIe. You can’t transfer that bandwidth over any reasonable network.
Another frustrating experience with a voice assistant was with Google Assistant. I was on a train, and I didn't want to miss my stop if I got distracted (as had happened before). Since I had my headphones on, I tried getting Google assistant to notify me when I arrived at my destination. It could not do it, the devs hadn't made a template for this scenario at the time.

Nowadays it might work via a location-based reminder, but I can't trust that to work within the 15 second window I have to get off the train.
Wouldn't you need the topology as well?
Just found out about Akira the other day for us Linux users who liked Sketch.
courts also have a say if the right case gets presented, and it's doubtful any meaningful legislation can be done in this political environment
How does the "Book Club" thing work? By briefly observing it at my pre-Covid work-place, it seemed that (somehow) a book was chosen, people would buy and read it within about 30 days, and then sit around the lunch table and discuss their impressions or feelings or something.

I read about 5 fiction and 2 non-fiction books per week, so the reading is not the challenge for me. The challenge for me is that I feel that I will be judged if I have a non-consensus opinion about (for example) what everyone else thinks. On tech-stuff, I hold my own (Because I'm always right! Ha!), but with some of these more touchy-feely books, I'm not sure I won't be excoriated (and I don't enjoy that, and don't feel like fighting battles I don't care much about), I just don't share. And I'm not the only one in the group that does exactly what I just said. We want to have a convivial group and grow, but, isn't a Happy Hour slightly more inclusive (esp. with Hors d'oeuvres and Ginger-ale or whatever?)
> That said, maybe it's best if NYPost stays off Twitter.

You believe it would be best if public discourse became even more of a one-sided echo chamber?

Why is that?
You can blame the media for this.

Stories about problems in California get a lot of clicks, so people see a couple week’s worth of bad news and think the state is on fire is ways that aren’t due to actual flames.
What’s the point of winning the camera game just for one generation? 808 PureView did absolutely nothing in saving Nokia.
Don't go giving them any ideas.
So I am not the only one keeping my D70 around! Sensor size is still truly impressive if you're coming from the phone world. My photo hardware currently is just the iPhone XS, a Fuji X100S, and an old Nikon D70 with some telelenses.
Live migration of a Kubernetes cluster from a cloud provider to another
You might want to check out Dynalist. I've used it for project planning and idea dumps for a couple years and it's served perfectly for me. Saved my bacon with school notes as well. As for lock-in, their paid plan includes daily experts so even if the service vanished, all my notes are safe as markdown files.
I've seen a lot of interesting UEFI articles recently, but even before they made it on to HN it was always something you could only play with in QEMU. Is there any open hardware yet?
How to train yourself to stay focused on a task
Yep, that's a pretty silly option. It's not the cosmetics of the situation that concern me, it's the physical discomfort.
I would be also interested in a more detailed comparison. Specially with foam and obsidian
I'm going to retort, specifically in the context of a very important issue in the US currently: the BLM movement.

Contrary to popular thought, the "liberal" media utterly failed minorities. The abuse of minorities in the US spans generations and has consistently been relegated to the margins of mainstream news. It has been typical in the US -- for decades -- for the NY Times to grant a single death in Israel front page coverage while a death of an African American at the hands of police in NYC would barely get coverage. My point is not that either is acceptable -- but rather that both are bad. Perhaps non-coverage of an incident in NY is worse because a NY paper might want to consider the atrocities happening right down the street.

The BLM movement finally came to the forefront not because of the "liberal" media but in spite of it. The BLM movement was enabled by Social Media. If Twitter did not exist, there is no reason to assume we would have made any progress.

The media overall and the liberal media have lost part of their control over the narrative (and the power that selective coverage conveys) and trying to blame things on social media. But believe this -- what we have seen in 2020 is progress. As messy and as ugly as it is, we've actually moved forward with minority rights.

Consider also how hypocritical the coverage has been. Liberal media tells us that "Silicon Valley lacks diversity". TBH it does, but you know the real problem is not SV, it is a national media controlled by four families with zero minorities on their boards and executive staff -- telling an industry with huge numbers of minorities (including many brown people in senior/CxO ranks) they lack diversity.

SV does need to get better, but saying SV is the start and end of all problems is absolutely false.
Yep, visually ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶t̶y undistracting, lightning fast, available everywhere and dead simple. Want hierarchy? Make folders. Want to cut across the hierarchy? Make links. Want to search? Use a search tool. (You can even use grep now in a WSL session.)
I mean, isn't it good when they uniformly apply policies against sharing illicitly obtained private content?
Hi all, I did a fun experiment migrating a Rancher/RKE K8s cluster from a provider to another. It was fun and I thought I'd share about it :)
The challenge is that we don't really know where the number of immune or semi-immune individuals comes in order to achieve "herd immunity" from Covid.

Nature has a good article that goes into depth a bit here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4

Basically, there are reasonable estimates that the range could be anywhere from 20% - 70%.

The effect also greatly depends on which portion of the population gets vaccinated. If (in an imaginary world) the most at-risk 50% of the population got vaccinated, we could reasonably expect Covid to actually become something like the flu.

Finally, I expect this is something that'll gain acceptance over time. There are some not unreasonable factors that could cause people to be nervous about a Covid vaccine initially, that will be softened over time. Things like it being developed under the supervision of politicians who could be motivated to rush it out, or just being developed faster than any vaccine ever.

Or, on the flipside, continued travel restrictions for individuals who haven't been vaccinated. Americans traveling to certain tropical countries have been required to get specific vaccines for years, I wouldn't be surprised if over the next few, travel to Europe or even Canada requires a Covid vaccine.
Thank you so much for volunteering.
Yeah, it's weird to have a conversation with someone else listening. But I will bring it in if I'm discussing something with another person, and want to look something up. It feels more normal to have a voice interface involved when I'm already talking.
Seems like slice operator is more like Syntactic sugar for substring?
This also makes me think of that XKCD whatif article:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/
Um, they don't? I mean as long as I can see people's faces.
Buses also suffer from the problem that when road traffic is high and public transportation might be a great alternative to gridlock and sitting in traffic, the buses themselves suffer from the same traffic issues. Most people seem to prefer to sit in traffic in a car they control than public buses.

Buses are an incredibly bad public transportation option because they sit so well in a local maxima trap because they look like a viable public transportation and "share" the road infrastructure costs of cars leaving them "cheap investments", so much that cities don't think they need to invest in anything more expensive. But they also share all the detriments of investment in car infrastructure, and thus through self-fulfilling-prophecy expectedly never grow the ridership to encourage cities to push for more investment in public transportation over car transportation.

From that perspective bus services aren't even a band aid on the systemic problem, but a symptom/perpetuator of the systemic problem.
that's not true, the night mode on 12 pro is way better than other phones like 11 pro that they showed in comparison
The GPU stats at https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi... disagree with your first point. A few years ago I did all of my gaming direct on Linux with an nVidia GPU, and did so for over a decade, on various laptops with and without mixed Intel/nVidia GPU setups.
> suddenly twitter is a leftist corporation.

I mean, if you can't see that the social policy of the most leftmost activists and the social policy of the FAANG HR departments have a near-perfect alignment, I don't know what to tell you.

There's a big difference between this and their views on financial policies, but they've learned they can assuage the angry crowd by kowtowing to social issues while continuing to play the job of the robber baron. To successfully ride on top of this unstable equilibrium, it is necessary to (1) establish false dichotomies, a la the Arthur Finklestein school of electoral politics, and (2) to crush dissent that tries to pick apart the false dichotomy by controlling speech and silencing anything that is actually dissident against any concrete part of the narrative that is really open to attack.

Not that I think this Hunter Biden stuff is particularly noteworthy; if anything it's just more fuel for the false dichotomy, and a banning like this one for the NYP is perfect in terms of making it into a lightning-rod issue. Focus on this, people, and not any of the actual things happening in the world right now (like, say, the Middle East, or the flyover-state opioid crisis, or climate change, or inner city crime, or anything else that seemingly stops existing and has no interesting events when we don't pay attention to it, right?)
There is more.
You can also add zoom=<value> to show the PDF with a zoom level of <value> percent, search="<search term>", ...

See https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdf... and try the different parameters to see which work with your browser.

Here is another link to the SpaceX PDF, showing a few more options in action (in Firefox at least):

https://www.spacex.com/media/making_life_multiplanetary_2016...
I'm not sure that "everyone except the NYPost" constitutes a single side. That said, it's Twitter's ball. They can play with it however they please.
DDT saved 10s if millions of lives. Makes sense that people liked it
This is just normal software development.

If you avoid overloading yourself with unnecessary complexity, and you as an engineer spend time understanding the problem/business domain, there's no reason why this speed of turnaround should be unattainable.

I have frequently had the experience of sitting in a meeting with (internal) customers and/or a product manager, and shipping discussed changes during that meeting.

If you can't do this, it's because you've put barriers in your own way. Ask yourself if they're really worth it. (They might be!)
You really, really do not. It's plenty easy to follow DJT, Cernovich, PJW, baseballcrank, Andy Ngo, etc.
Twitter's lack of transparency is depressing. If they're going to lock the NY Post account, they should put a notification on the page (and perhaps a reason why).

Right now if you go to the NY Post Twitter it just looks like they voluntarily decided to stop tweeting, which is misinformation.
Here's the NY Post on Twitter's update to their own hacked materials rule, which suggests that NY Post is not in violation of Twitter's updated policies: https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/twitter-changes-hacked-materia...

As a reminder, there are numerous past instances where Twitter did not apply the same policies that were used to shut down NY Post: https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/11-hacks-leaks-and-hoax...

This selective application of policy is evidence of Twitter's bias, which I assume results from the bias of their leadership team and employee base. A company this big, which this much influence, cannot be trusted to operate the digital public square for an entire nation, let alone the world. It is a threat to speech, since the reach of these platforms is such that speech effectively doesn't exist if it isn't on these platforms. We need competing platforms badly, but it is hard to challenge the first-mover advantage of network effects of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. Perhaps we simply need to instead regulate them so that they do not deplatform/censor content that does not break the law.
Is exposing one's residential IP address such a bad thing? Is the threat model just that someone might wish to target you individually, and that they'll have better luck finding a vuln into your LAN if your services are listening directly on public ports?