skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The default responses for assistants are getting much worse, to the point where a misheard phrase can do a lot of things you don’t want instead of just stopping immediately.

My favorite misfeature is babbling. Used to be you could just say “off” to stop a misinterpreted command, which worked fine because the assistant didn’t used to babble. Now though, its own rambling follow-ups interfere with its ability to even hear you desperately saying “no! off! stop! shut up! cancel!”. And my new favorite, every command response ending with an unsolicited “BY THE WAY: $thing_i_did_not_ask_for”.
>Will we periodically vaccinate 25-60% of the population, indefinitely?

Considering the common side effects from this vaccine (most people get severe flu-like symptoms for about a day after each shot), it's pretty unlikely people would be willing to be re-vaccinated every few months.
Saying people have a right to organize is not political speech if you aren't a reactionary.
> The easiest way to escape the rat race is to keep racing

I don't think that is how it works.
Well, in all the threads, they’re describing situations with lag. That is, they’re equating eventual consistently with the lag, and implying it’s therefore bad, when eventual consistency can include unnoticeably small lag.

And thus it’s the lag that they’re actually bothered by, not the EC per se. Hence my clawed out hair.
Yeah, this is exactly the opposite of reality. It is not "company's access to their phone", it is "company's control of their phone". I think you misunderstand what's being required of many people in exchange for access corporate information from their phone.
The local processing is more accurate than their algos run amuck, I'd reckon.
FareUpThere is trending #2 on Product Hunt
FareUpThere is bridging the communication gap with airlines and passengers. Our mobile app rewards travelers with flight miles and gift cards for their feedback on flights.
China built 16,000 miles of High Speed Rail in 10 years. California in the same period of time completed about 35 miles of high speed rail. I want to know how they could do this.
> China is very well managed.

LOL. China is able to move very fast, but the idea that it's a well-oiled machine functioning in perfect harmony is a ridiculous fiction.

Construction projects in China cut every corner possible. When something fails catastrophically, they'll throw a low-level official under the bus. At every level, there is total abdication of responsibility. The whole system incentivizes this.

See: "The Chabuduo Mindset"
https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-minds...

> The west is slow and we are in decline. China is growing fast.

Yes, and this should terrify everyone.
I don't see a vouch button and I'm at 2450 ish
I'm not an expert but the extinct ancestor of the modern cow, the Auroch was quite a large mammal and at least according to wikipedia [citing van Vuure, T. (Cis) (2005). Retracing the Aurochs – History, Morphology and Ecology of an extinct wild Ox. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 954-642-235-5] claims that the main predators were big cats (lions and tigers) and hyenas). Across much of the cows modern range those predators don't exist.

Possibly a wolf, Siberian tiger or large brown bear would predate a cow, similiar to the predators of a moose but it doesn't seem like they are under constant fear of predators any more. Cows are often left to pasture across vast unfenced area of basically wilderness and don't seem particularly afraid nor at risk of predation (otherwise they'd need to be guarded).
Monica is a nice tool, but I wanted an iOS app with great UX and privacy.

Amicu is basically SwiftUI on top of a local SQLite db. It supports tracking the last contact date, catchup reminders, birthday reminders, Siri, Shortcuts (for semi automatic workflows), and widgets. Save the main comm app per contact (WhatsApp, Telegram, FB, etc.) for batch messages like a birthday event invite.

Feedback is welcome.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1481868897
That's a great description! Does materialize describe how they implement timely dataflow?

At my current company, we have built some systems like this. Where a downstream table is essentially a function of a dozen upstream tables.

Whenever one of the upstream tables changes, it's primary key is published to a queue, some worker translates this upstream primary key into a set of downstream primary keys,
and publishes these downstream primary keys to a compacted queue.

The compacted queue is read by another worker, that "recomputes" each dirty key, one-at-a-time, which involves fetching the latest-and-greatest version of each upstream table.

This last worker is the bottleneck, but it's optimized by per-key caching, so we only fetch the latest-and-greatest version once per update. It can also be safely and arbitrarily parallelized, since the stream they read from is partitioned on key.
Australia is in Five Eyes, so it's reasonable to assume that Canada, US, UK, and NZ are also all involved.
> I would argue the opposite is usually true. Setting aside China, authoritarian regimes are usually NOT known for being efficient or well-run.

well run != efficient

Authoritarian regimes are highly efficient at accomplishing what the people in charge want to do, long term consequences be damned. Frequently, the people in charge are primarily focused on retaining or even acquiring more power and wealth, which is generally not well aligned with what most people would consider a well run nation.

> I am not American, but I came back from my visits to China with a similar feeling to the grandparent comment. The West tends to stick their fingers in their ears and yell "Authoritarian regime, I can't hear you!" at the mere suggestion that China does certain things better and there may be something to learn there.

The issue here is that there isn't an agreement on what "better" means. Social harmony at the expense of individual freedoms isn't better. Technological advancement that is based on IP theft isn't better. Infrastructure improvement that causes long term harm to the global environment isn't better.
Very likely you are being heavily influenced by the media when you consider the average American, for example, consumes eight hours of it a day:

https://www.eaj.io/eight-hours-a-day/

Sleep, Work, Consume Media...
So I should only get the vaccine if I fear for being sick, similarly to the flu, right? I do not want the vaccine. I have been exposed to many COVID-19 positive people and I am fine, thus, I do not want a rushed vaccine.
I came here to say exactly this. The way it is phrased, to me in means that the vaccines are not effective on whites.
how did early employees do on their stock? did they fare well, or wiped out by preferred VC positions? I hope the former.
How are microchips made? [video]
This is understatedly one of the best tech pranks ever, especially recently. (The Max Headroom TV hacking incident comes to mind not-so-recently)

Minutes into the episode Twitter was full of people posting about how it was messing with everyone's smart speakers. Tech comedy gold.
No joke, this is the one thing I use my Echo for: as stuff is cooking I set timers for each of them and it works perfectly. It does virtually nothing else well but it's a fantastic keeper of timers.
Cool, thank you for sharing it! It was a nice surprise seeing it pop up on the front page three years later.
Years later I'm still bitter about them buying and killing Songza, it was one of my favorite recommendation algorithms to date, probably second only to "The Upload" auto playlist on SoundCloud.
> using your position as a developer to put up "Vote X" signs on your company's website.

To state the law* for internal users who visit one specific website
kinda interesting see people use "authoritarian" as if it's all the reasons China succeed (in term of infra, econ, and general well-being), and therefore nothing to see and learn.

If authoritarian government is by default this effective and easy to success, why most of them failed?
Running OWASP Juice Shop with Root-the-Box on Google Cloud Platform
In the OpenShift world we use CRI-O and it has been awesome for us. I've never actually had it be a problem. Occasionally have to SSH into a node and inspect with crictl to see what's going on but it's almost always PEBKAC that points at CRI-O when it's not CRI-O's fault. I'd definitely recommend looking at it.
The logic in the article is a little strained.

The 'contract officials' are 'doomed' because they have to chose between competing senior officials, many of which will be upset?

Then why would anyone take the job?

He literally says they are 'coveted' while at the same time '99% chance of failure'?

And he indicated that some don't accept bribes. But then, randomly, they might accept one for which they could get caught?

How about just don't take bribes? Seriously.

I really enjoyed reading this however, I wish there was more real data to analyze as often, it's hard to really ascertain how much of these things are really true or just things that even people with experience and insight happen to believe.
nice work. anyone aware of an analogous script for Slack?
macOS MDM on it's own is fairly okay. There is an AccessRights bit that can be loaded with the enrollment profile to allow or disallow certain actions. Certainly the protocol can be ab/used to silently install other software: endpoint detection tooling, scripts, etc. and to suppress protections normally built-in to the OS that would normally gate background usage of apps that crawl certain file paths, etc. So on it's own, no issues. Combined with 3rd party tooling, poorly written scripts, etc. dangerous.
If you can buy it cash , go for it.

I'm talking about the folks who finance cars they have no real capacity to afford. They aren't taking these cars to the track.
Maybe you could look at other countries with high per-capita rail building projects. Japan has an okay system. The UK is better in that way than the US. Europe is filled with rail. The US is really the only rich country I can think of that doesn't have a workable passenger rail system.
> There are obviously many other factors to consider [from the article]

If "effectiveness" is currently being measured as reducing symptoms, could Vitamin D levels be a likely additional factor, known to correlate with ethnicity? Could "low Vit D" plus "no vaccine" be additive toward increased symptoms?

Based on a quick scan of the preprint I see no reference to Vit D.
The US meeting date is based on an arbitrary scheduling rule saying meetings like this must take place 15 days after request, or something to that effect.

The FDA itself closely inspects data throughout the phase 3 trials so this review should just consist of looking at the details to see if something was missed, (ideally) not some brand new information come to light.
I wouldn't trust Trump or his lackeys to accurately and honestly distinguish personal from official.
Yes but AFAIK he is no longer with them.

In any case look at it for its technical merit not the politics of its founder. If you're going to eschew any tech founded by someone with... shall we say "interesting" views... then your tech stack will get pretty small.

I think Urbit is interesting, but I find it too weird and rigid and idealistic and far from the metal to see wide adoption.
I would imagine it's some combination of network effect for the readers (it's where the content is), and ease-of-use for creators. I've never published on Medium, so I can't actually speak to ease, but that seems the most reasonable explanation to me.

I also do not care for Medium, but for a lot of things it's where I can find information, so I put up with it as much as I have to.
(op here) Thanks. The idea of not being number one is a difficult notion for people to reconcile.
It's still unknown whether vaccines convey sterilizing immunity. Even if they don't, there will be no political will to institute lockdowns if the people who are getting sick could have been vaccinated. If unvaccinated people getting Covid-19 creates undue strain on the healthcare system, the calls will be for mandatory vaccination, not for lockdowns.

Restricting social interaction and business is a crushing approach to solving the problem, with severe consequences to health and economics. It's brute force, like securing a computer using an air gap. The only reason lockdowns have been used in 2020 is because we have no other options available, but a free and readily-available vaccine changes the calculus.
> I don't understand why this is so complicated.

There are people who are competent enough to do so. Those people carry the actual responsibility.

Your thoughts have answers readily available.
Drug reverses age-related cognitive decline within days
No need to be authoritarian.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/High_Spe...
The swine flu that vaccine protected against also causes narcolepsy, in exactly the same genetically susceptible population, except more frequently and severely.

In other words those who got narcolepsy were nonetheless better off with the vaccine than if they had caught the flu.
You can also experience the air quality from the decades-long boom in coal plants, which shows no signs of abating: https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insan...

China executes at scale, but does not necessarily execute good things at scale.
> iOS doesn't allow that however - there the Apple will give everything over to employer if they so ask.

Regular MDM used to do that (just as Android used to do that), but Apple has been working on the same "wall" to separate work and personal info.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/resources/Managing_Devic...

https://simplemdm.com/apple-user-enrollment/
comtainerd is hosted by the Linux Foundation (more specifically CNCF). It is maintained by people from all over, including but not limited to the major US tech companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon).

containerd was also created by Docker Inc and donated to the LF.
> broadcast a non-security related message.

I don't think it was broadcast, it was displayed if one particular website was visited. That seems very analogous to permitted organizing activities such as using your employers email system to organize or posting on a cork board.

> they baked an unnecessary ignored message into the encoded stream (about whatever) there should be repercussions for lack of good judgement.

Would you be fired? I'm not so sure. It is pretty obvious that this firing was not unrelated to the messaging.

I'm glad that the very conservative interpretation of labor law that most on HN seem to believe is not the reality of labor law in the US, although more should still be done.
The purpose of every piece of software is to be usable without knowing how it works.
Points off for not including a release group (e.g. RARBG, KOGi, STRONTRIUM, etc.)
Well, there is a McDonalds at Guantanamo , so everything is possible
That’s an awful trade off.
About time.

Coincidentally, today I watched three presentations about burning Kubernetes clusters and all of them had Docker daemon issues in the mix. I’ve been using Docker for over five years myself and I’ve been using Kubernetes for almost two years now. The most pain I encountered was with Docker or its own ecosystem.

In the last two years it always had some weird racy situations where it damaged its IPAM or simply couldn’t start containers after a restart anymore. Also its IPv6 support is just a joke.

Sorry, I had to rant and I hope that this announcement will fuel the development of Docker alternatives even more.
My dad and I hacked ours apart and now have some interesting chess games going.
Whether or not it would have been a good idea to loosen the approval process aside, accelerating it would likely not have had much of any effect on saving those lives. The bottleneck is production capacity. As I understand it Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech have both been building production capacity and creating vaccines as fast as possible, but have only now created enough to vaccinate a few tens of millions of people combined. If they had been approved in the summer, when they went to Phase III trials, they might have, perhaps, been able to turn out a few thousands vials a day which is not really enough to meaningfully impact the spread or death rates even if you were able to highly target high-risk groups.
“My team and I have therefore voluntarily surrendered to the Peacekeeping Force at The Hague, Netherlands, and we welcome the investigation and verdict of the UN Committee on Human Rights”.

What a joke
Apple has deep enough pockets. They could stomach it.
Yes, but another reason is that in flash only tiny amount of cells are active at time. So even with much bigger cells that are required for reliable 3D stacking and more heat production per cell it is still very ok.
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If I made presentations, you would discover that my content was all created on a linux desktop.

What a totally random data point of no relevance or significance eh?

Such things do in fact reflect the character and nature of the people involved. It doesn't necessarilly define them entirely, but yes it does reflect them.

It's not that you're not a "true Scotsman" necessarily if you say, care about linux primarily in other roles than desktops. You can be perfectly sincere in that, and it's valuable even if it only goes that far. But it does mean you are in a different class from people who actually do abjure the convenience of proprietary software wherever possible, and today "possible" absolutely includes ordinary office work and even presentation media creation.

It's perfectly ok to be so compromised. Everyone doesn't have to be Stallman.

It's equally perfectly fair to observe that these people are not in that class, when such class does exist and other people do actually live the life.

You can't have it both ways that's all. If you want to preach a certain gospel to capitalise on the virtue signal, without actually living that gospel and not actually posessing that virtue, it's completely fair to be called out for it.
Great read and bang-on (I'm running product on the fourth software business I've started - the first three were sold). But there's a missing piece to the puzzle though. The author talks about using data so that you don't fall victim to bias, but he doesn't talk about how to do that.

In my experience to ensure data-driven product decisions you need both a system and process to:

1. Collect feedback

2. Organize it to be useful

3. Analyze and prioritize customer problems

4. Use your feedback to validate problems and solutions directly with customers

5. Communicate status to your team

6. Close the loop with customers when you build their requests

At the early stages you can do this with a spreadsheet or Trello board. Eventually you'll graduate to a tool or in-house solution.

Here's a piece that dives into the details about how to build your own system to collect and organize feedback so you can eliminate bias and drive product decisions based on data:

https://www.savio.io/blog/product-leaders-guide-customer-fee...
I beg to differ, on a technical level electromagnetic radiation can be perceived as a physical force, similar to the sensations felt by an MRI machine. Your counter point appears to be around the emotions blue, or other colours, convey which is actually easier to explain than what a colour actually physically is. We use words to convey emotions all the time and to describe blue, adjectives like calm, cool, cold, sad, open, broad, easy, etc. etc. can be attributed to the colour blue.
This can backfire for you later. Read about what older people think about life choices... rarely who say they are glad they don't have children...
I'm trying T-Mobile internet now. (super sick of calling Comcast every year when they double my rate so they can lock me into another contract)

They sent a 4G LTE modem. I'm getting 5-24 Mbps down, 10-40Mbps up, and 40-60ms ping. It varies quite a bit and, surprisingly, upload is consistently much faster than download. You need to experiment where to put the modem -- 8 feet can make a 10Mpbs difference.

The bandwidth seems acceptable for my in-the-sticks area but the latency is noticeable on conference calls. Not sure I'll keep it.
Show HN: Mytreevel – iOS app for travel carbon footprint with one click options
Hi everyone,

First a bit of background, during the covid crisis, I have started reading about carbon footprint and climate change (I definitely recommend "the burning question" by Berners Lee if anyone is interested). I decided to leave my job to learn coding in order to build an app.

It led to Mytreevel, an app (only iOS so far) that calculates carbon footprint for different travel means and provides low carbon options. From what I have seen, it is the only comparator that not only include fuel but also vehicle construction, road infrastructure and the energy mix to produce the energy used !

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> Is it "workplace surveillance" when you can view the calendar appointments of your coworkers?

I feel like this is fine as long as it's opt-in. I cannot imagine having to go back and fourth about calendar slots every time I have to schedule a meeting, and this feature saves so much time.

> Or see stats about the changelists submitted, bugs resolved, etc. of each person?

I'm a bit ambivalent about these metrics. At least they are somewhat related to work results, rather than "how busy are you" metrics like those rolled back by MS. It's also just a visualization of data which is already publicly available in the git history.

> Or see their dot when they are viewing a document?

This one I think is a bit different. In a world with remote collaborative editing, I think this gives you more visibility about who might be looking over your shoulder while you are working rather than being a form of surveillance.
“Deep just means number of layers in a neural network, not deep understanding.”
Oh boy, these people completely have missed the approved, and then later withdrawn medications. There have been quite a fuckton of them, or late black box warnings.
If you've been to Wegmans multiple times, why do you need to keep asking Google how to get there?
Meh.

The whole idea of containerization came from Google anyways, who uses it internally. Docker came out with their container system without understanding what made it work so well for Google. They then discovered the hard way that the whole point of containers is to not matter, which makes it hard to build a business on them.

Docker responded by building up a whole ecosystem and doing everything that they could to make Docker matter. Which makes them a PITA to use. (One which you might not notice if you internalize their way of doing things and memorize their commands.)

One of my favorite quotes about Docker was from a Linux kernel developer. It went, "On the rare occasions when they manage to ask the right question, they don't understand the answer."

I've seen Docker be a disaster over and over again. The fact that they have a good sales pitch only makes it worse because more people get stuck with a bad technology.

Eliminating Docker from the equation seems to me to be an unmitigated Good Thing.
I think the author should read The Egyptian by Mika Waltari