skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I suppose that could let one draw an otherwise dominated game where an opponent is up by more than a queen. Under such circumstances, it seems like it would be quite unlikely to come up in practice. The promoting to an opponents color is interesting, though I don't know that I'd be inherently opposed to it.

Who gets to move that piece? It would be your opponent wouldn't it?
So I do understand your viewpoint because I absolutely shared it in the past and at no point do I want you to think that I'm about to speak down at you. A lot of people have never been in a real life scenario to experience the actual decision process of doing "bad deeds". Which is actually good. The world is technically a better place because more and more people never have to experience the thought process first hand. However, they sometimes pretend they have, but they really haven't. I was in that field for quite a while.

First time parents find an issue with this too. People who figure they themselves are perfect angels incapable of harm, now have to care for their new little angel. An angel doesn't protect a weak little angel from the horrors of the world. What happens when someone abuses or abducts their child? Remember that Olympic physician who was touching all those underage girls? One of the fathers begged the judge for 5 min in a locked room with the guy. When denied, he still charged at the bastard in the courtroom. I bet you 100% that father would have always said he would never do such a thing prior to this event happening. We all lie that we are incapable or evil deeds. No, we need the right circumstances to ignore the consequences. We are afraid of retaliation until we no longer fear it for "good reasons". If you live a life where you never test those waters, hey that's a pretty good easy life. But theres something else to be said about understanding and accepting ones shadow prior hand so you dont go ballistic accidentally. I think the thought that you are incapable of evil is more dangerous than knowing you are capable of it. Because you never question if what you are doing is right or wrong if you are already biased that you can only do good.
Additionally frustrating is that the article takes unquestioningly Microsoft's premise that these metrics have value:

> But that information could also be seen on a user-by-user basis, potentially allowing managers to identify individual employees who weren’t contributing enough

A good manager should identify employees who aren't contributing enough and work with them to understand how to empower them to contribute more. But the way to gauge this is by actually looking at the work they produce; snooping on their computer usage is a poor substitute used by poor managers.
Thought the same thing, there's a modern equivalent/updated version found someplace written from the perspective of an iPad or an iPhone I think.
> Do you just mean built from glass and aluminium? (hardly obvious choices for a laptop).

Aluminium bodies are way less prone to "oilification" (aka visibly shiny areas where one's palm rests), and I have yet to see any Windows laptop where the touchpad is comparable with MBPs in both size and quality (palm tracking, gestures).

> what with glued-in batteries, un-repairable designs and keyboard reliability issues that have been ongoing for years.

Battery replacements are possible even for someone with only moderate experience in hardware work, but I agree with you that the process is more complex than it used to be. Regarding the keyboard: get a 2019 16-inch MBP, it has a keyboard with real keys and a physical esc key.
That's the worst thing. It used to work well for me.
Which is why Steve showed the iphone and how to use it, also for more dramatic effect.
nah this is not reddit the quality here is lower
That’s overblown, jQuery for example hasn’t changed much in the last 5 years.

The bleeding edge changes rapidly, but that’s what it’s there for.
I've been wondering whether I should re-enable siri and give it an other shot. I use the todos app for that and from time to time it would be convenient to do it handsfree.

I see that I still have no reason to bother, it's going to frustrate me more than anything else (especially with how downhill voiceover has gone in 12).
Some people’s insecurities make them allergic to (admittedly tenuous) attempts at humor in face of absurdities and so they downvote as if they’re on Reddit.
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I wouldn't mind throwing HTML, CSS, and JS away and replacing it with a single language, perhaps something more functional. I'm imagining writing all my websites and web apps in something like Clojure:

(html
(head
(title "My Website")
(style
(heading {:weight bold :size 24}))
(body
(heading {:level 1 :title "Welcome To My Website!"})
(nav
(item {:title "Home" :link "/home"})
(item {:title "About" :link "/about"})))
(script
(doseq [item nav]
(if (= current-page (:link item)) (highlight item)))))

Note: Untested code and there's probably better ways of doing it in actual Clojure.
Apples pricing can be pretty funny from the outside. They certainly charge a ridiculous amount of money for memory and storage upgrades, on the other side some things are surprisingly cheap. Think of the entry level iPad for example. And now the Mini with the M1 getting cheaper than its predecessor.
Short term, Apple could ask any price for the new M1 Macs. However, they have a longer term view with their pricing structure. For sure, they are having way less costs per device, as they don't have to pay the huge sums, Intel asks for their processors. The costs for Apple should be considerably down and they do relay that to the customer.
Microsoft Acquires Smash.gg
That may be, but my impression is not that the comments are downvoted because they're not funny, but rather because they attempt to be funny. In other words, the content of the comment could be really insightful, but if it's phrased as a(n attempted) joke, it gets downvoted.
Ask HN: Where are some good cities to live with housing priced under $100k?
I'm single, 30, based in the US, and am willing to relocate internationally. I'm ok with living in a very small apartment. Walkability is a huge plus.
Validate Your Startup Idea
Wow, 116 billion $ investment. Where this goes? High salaries? Expensive minerals? What makes it as expensive as small country's GDP?
Fascinating, that’s arguably worse than the lag and the browser chrome turning white while the tab is open for me on Palemoon 28.16 — an independent hard fork of ancient Firefox with the old extension APIs and incompatible with all sorts of modern bloat websites. Eg. the Spotify link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278187 leads to a blank black page for me, and Imgur recently was showing me blank grey unless I opted out of its beta (https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=25025#p19722...) — on GNU/Linux.
There's a lot of articles on HN I disagree with, I'm not flagging them. I flagged this one because it's especially trash, and cannot lead to useful discussion. The comments were immediately heated, too.
Allo, Duo, Music, Hangouts were all products people in my circles used regularly, even if I didn't.
Good luck my beta-tester friends across the pond.
There has to be a term for this kind of thing. Keyword hijacking? Assistant crashing?
Outside of setting a timer, I've kinda given up on voice commands.

My tolerance for mistakes for simple commands that work sometimes / are the right command ... but don't work is ultra low.

Like how is it my Android phone will default to just googling "exact valid voice command letter for letter" (it's used in a commercial for cripes sake!) ... and not somehow notice that?
> That circle has maybe 3 million bases, or 3 megabits.

Nitpick, but isn't 3 million bases equivalent to 6 megabits, since each base has four possibilities, thus representing 2 bits of data.
Great with comments like this the site is now basically worthless reddit
Internet is dirt cheap in my city in India now.

But if you wanted to go up to the mountains or the beach or any part of the country that wasn't an overcrowded city, you'd get spotty internet, certainly nothing to run a business on.
But how do you mess that up? Let an intern code that shit up?

Assuming the voice recognition part worked perfectly:

1) query song database for input
2) play result that is most popular (most plays by manual selection in eg desktop client etc)

The only tricky part is to determine whether the query is an artist or a title but again in most cases this will be solved by checking popularity.

What's a plausible explanation that they mess this up so badly?
Yes there are, but its nice and siloed and normal applied to minimum wage blue collar workers, not salaried professionals.

And given the nearly 100% penetration of office its much more serious.
I use Google Keep for that :). Share it with my wife, we both have the widget in our phone desktops (or whatever the home screen is called). Works very nice.
Spotify's mobile app is honestly one of the worst f'in apps I have ever used. I have a family plan and both my wife and I have the same issues.

First, Spotify has no idea how to pipe its playlists to Alexa and Google ... so you can't ever seem to get either to play playlists.

Second, Spotify randomly decides sometimes that it won't connect to the Internet, even when your phone has a 4G connection and everything else works fine. To compound the issue, Spotify doesn't know how to show you your offline downloads when you are in Android Auto mode ... so you basically can't even play your songs when on a drive.

I need to figure out how to export my playlists and then I'm off Spotify forever. Worse customer experience ever.
Worth noting that COVID-19 probably triggers GBS in some people (like many infections). So maybe the vaccine triggers GBS in rare cases, but the disease appears to also sometimes cause long term problems (neurological and otherwise).

1976 was potentially problematic because there was a massive immunization program because of fears of a pandemic, but H1N1 was not actually spreading.

2020 is obviously a different story. The pandemic is here.
$60 may not be much for you; it may be worth it for you. For others it may not be.
Nation states don't have access to Google Project Zero's institutional knowledge and experience, except maybe the US. I think that knowledge and experience is a higher barrier than people give credit.

Really the best way to prevent state level actors from developing exploits is to hire and repatriate or assassinate their talent. Seems to work for nuclear secrets.
There clearly isn't much ground for a constructive discussion here with that kind of dogmatic market fundamentalism. Pretty much all of what you wrote is trivially refutable by just comparing the US to other western-European nations.
I am hoping for high bandwidth on airplanes to enable a VR appliance.
Its basically a specialized case of google bombing.
My experience with every personal assistant is the same.

I start using it. I have two or three commands I do regularly.

One of the commands stops working. I stop using it forever.
Where I live all the hospitals are shut down with the lights off and all my neighbors that were nurses got laid off moved away who's going to administer these if there's no one in the hospital
I would argue that @OisinMoran followed this exact structure, the first section (above the fold) has this:

> Fundamentally the challenge is just correctly guessing what ID a given tweet is going to get, then appending that onto the URL for our profile and tweeting it.

And of course, the strong conclusion at the bottom is the Tweet itself.
When you use Monica, do you add and change data directly in Monica (manually)? Or in some scripted/automated fashion?

I looked through the docs and didn't find anything about integrating/importing/exporting. I found lots of open feature requests for integrations.

I've carefully curated contacts and meetings in my Nextcloud instance, so of course I'd like to leverage all that work. I added my thumbs-up to https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/1444
ripgrep in emacs for me.
We have seen this vulnerability for years and nothing has been done to change it. Is it safe to say that is intentional? Obviously a valuable too if you want to spy on your citizens.
The ux of a magnetic Whiteboard and markers on the fridge can't be beat
Humor has its place in the world, but its value is fleeting. Ever heard the same joke repeated? It’s almost never funny the second time. Whereas serious information can be just as valuable or even more valuable on a second readthrough. This is what keeps HN posts relatively evergreen.
Siri is hit and miss, but setting timers (for cooking) always works.

> Hey Siri, set a timer for 8 minutes.

> Ok. 8 minutes and counting.
Regardless of whether or not it accurately explains the term’s origin or true meaning, the Venn diagram seems to present the more compelling idea.
If I understand what You are asking, I would say the built in heat management design of modern phones would make this ineffective as they intentionally sink heat away from the battery. This is why the phone feels warm under high use.

A more simple solution would be to keep a portable power bank (less than 30 dollars on Amzn)in your pocket and power your phone from it with a long usb cord.

If you dont mind the bulk and have a big enough pocket you can get one with a hand crank, flash light, bluetooth speaker and tuner. If space is an issue there are small ones available that can attach directly to the phone.

A power bank might be a good way to keep your phone warm too, you can pick up a peltier thermal module and usb adapter (less than 10 dollars on Amzn) and tape it to the back of your phone.

Just make sure you dont heat your phone up too much (+30C) as charging lithium cells above that temp will damage them.
That’s what happens when poorer people who tend to work for employers that don’t offer benefits such as health insurance start getting healthcare.

Someone has to pay for it, and it shows up as increased premiums/deductibles/employer share of premium, but in exchange, we get rid of pre existing condition exclusions, we get in network out of pocket maximums, and older people don’t get hit so hard because younger people have to subsidize their healthcare.

Growth in healthcare costs also slowed in the years after ACA was passed as the various provisions were phased in:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/720767/medical-cost-tren...
The population has only increased by 15% since September 11, 2001, and yet in the last 9 months we've had 91 times more American deaths from COVID than we did on 9/11. Every 2 to 3 days, we have another 9/11's worth of COVID deaths.
> we use unskilled labor

A machine that transforms grass to milk sounds extremely skilled to me.
I dislike it too, but I can't put a finger on why YTMusic sucks compared to Google Play music. Mind sharing your reasons?
The funny thing is that this bit doesn't even work because you would have to say "Ok Google play Ok Google Play Music". The bit would be much more effective if the album was just named "Music" and the tracks various genres. However then the fact that the name is a bit isn't even noticeable. There is a weird balancing act between the effectiveness of art and making it clear that what you are doing is art at all. This artist choice the latter.
Now I'm imagining the US and China running competing genetic modification programs to develop their own unicorns.
The process of converting all pages to raster images and then OCR-ing each one takes hours for PDFs hundreds of pages long. This workflow is not suitable for instant search. For non OCR-ed PDFs it's worth to pregenerate the text.
To traverse my files I use the combo ranger + autojump. It is not GUI and you need to traverse a directory at least once before accessing it automatically, but I just wanted to mention this. Another (CLI) software that seem to do what you want is fzf.
The Rust code would be, roughly (I tried to keep names similar even though Rust would use a slightly different naming scheme)

let someoneElsesObject = mu.lock();
println!("{}", someoneElsesObject);
return;

when someoneElsesObject goes out of scope, the mutex is unlocked. This happens no matter how it goes out of scope. You cannot forget to do it, because the only way to get access to someoneElsesObject in the first place is locking the mutex, because mutexes wrap the data that they are protecting.

https://crates.io/crates/defer exists, but it would be weird to try and use it here, because it can't really be combined directly with this. I guess in theory you could put drop(someoneElsesObject) in the defer block, but like... that already happens for free.
Not in control, we just aren't fully at their whim like we used to. We have advanced warning systems for storms. Systems that weren't even a fantasy prior to 1920. Now we have evacuation infrastructure, shelters, preparedness plans on huge scales. Perfect? By our standards, no. But perfect compared to folks who lived in the 1800s.

I get you think the world is fading away and there are problems left to solve. You are doing a great disservice to the giant's shoulders you stand on that have put in the effort and sacrifice that allow you to worry about this set of problems. They had far harsher problems with less tools than we have today.
You could. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had already reposted everything on Sketchfab.
Reminds me of "A a a a a Very Good Song" , a silent track designed to keep some random song starting with "a" from auto-playing when iTunes/Music/CarPlay opens: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-si...
One could argue that the whole point of traditions like Christmas is to have comforting, repeated experiences like listening to the same music each year, something to ground your mortality in timeless rituals that started before you were born and (you hope) will continue after you die.

That said, there is lots of Christmas pop that doesn't make it into the canon. I have no recollection at all of the first song on the Christmas tape, and i was around then (and going to K-Mart with my mom).
> the UK government initially decided

So, not an NHS decision but a political decision by the relevant cabinet minister? That changes the answer. It's important to distinguish between decisions made by "the NHS" (to the extent that this isn't just individual trusts, or NICE, or whatever) and political decisions made by the government which are ideological.
Microsoft: overseeing, planing, developing, reviewing, refining, deploying, celebrating invasive employee surveillance

Also Microsoft: Oopsie! Our bad.
Non-ad revenues are a $36B business (annualized based on Q3 revenue).

What's the threshold for something being a "hose"? A $36B business is a pretty big business!
From my understanding, speaking with the author the GFW is more adept at content screening. This means that it was the content on Mysterium Network's website that led to the domain mysterium.network becoming something that was flagged.

This is something that the Mysterium core team is able to (and are going to) change, so access to Mysterium dVPN in China will be coming soon!
I am surprised they can do all of that without proprietary software. Truly amazing team.
> Nearly every animal that is farmed has a much better life as livestock than as a wild animal.

If you were a non-human animal, which life would you prefer?

https://vimeo.com/130694373

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wkPMUZ9vX4
If I'm reading this correctly this is not based on actual experimental evidence. There's some reason to think that Caucasians have more active innate immune system during to selective pressure from plague, but not much.
The lockdown is justified by certain measurable factors, such as hospitalization rates, the risk of death, and the risk of major complications, and as we vaccinate the population, these factors will decrease. They will decrease quickly at first and then very slowly taper off to zero. (Remember there will be idiots who avoid the vaccine altogether.) It makes sense to ask when Covid crosses the line from a risk that justifies lockdown to a risk that does not.
There really are not that many people out there of this mans caliber. The obsession, the passion, the intelligence, the skill, the knowledge, the patience, the time are stars that rarely align. Beer is not just “some guy” sitting in his house for 6 months. He is one of the leading hackers in the world. If someone like him decides they are going to steal your nudies, you might as well just pose for the camera
Most "Ok Google" assistance feels like a gimmick to me, but here's something very simple I'd love to have working:

I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone when cooking, I even built a cardboard stand for my phone for this reason. What I want is for YT to respond to these voice commands:

- Pause video.

- Play video.

- Rewind 10 seconds.

- Skip the (expletive) ad <-- ok, I can understand why this one might not work.

Sadly, this doesn't work. And it's the only voice assistance I really need :(
The more I learn, the more I cringe at those who make high conviction statements on 'what causes / leads to what'.

More often than not, there's much complexity / intersecting forces to discern causality.
I've found Dihydrogen Monoxide quite effective. It generally works best after a good night's sleep though.
thanks but it's way faster to have my stuff in G drive

that way I can open a browser tab, wait 5 seconds for it to load, locate the new screen location of the search bar, click it, wait for javascript to finish loading so I can click the search bar, click it for real this time, mistype because there's some kind of contenteditable event jank, wait 5 seconds for my results to come up, fix the typo, and just have my results waiting for me

I'm not going to learn a new tool when web is fine
[..]When asked for advice on locations, the etiquette for a polite Ukrainian mushroom hunter is to describe some phony spots, so as not to appear rude, while in fact never revealing where the mushrooms really are. Ukrainians who have taken to tagging spots on Google maps are seen as spoilers of this tradition.[..]

this is so true! and true everywhere!

The Mushroom Hunters by Langdon is a fascinating account of how mushroom buyers operate in the pacific northwest, but they go all the way to montana and to the mid west for morels. there are many buyers who set up buy stations and the harvesters are seasonal..often south east asians..vietnamese and cambodian. they are highly perishable.

pacific north west restaurants insist on the bounty of wild edibles and one of the reasons dining there is exceptional and sublime experiences. not just fish and seafood..but also seaweeds, fiddleheads, mushrooms, berries, wild greens. absolutely gorgeous. by comparison, california is sterile and cultivated ag.
CNCF’s Special Interest Group for Security and Security Assessmen
HN has institutional memory against the dangers of Eternal September.

Humor is easy because it barely needs to engage with the post or comment it's under to be considered a valid "joke comment".

An insightful or deeply curious comment is harder, because it more strongly needs to engage with the content in order to be a valid "insightful comment" or "insightful question".

Sometimes HN upvotes humor, when the humor offers insight or a clever summation of something.

Refugees from Reddit learn quickly that going for the funny quip or the easy jab is just as likely to get downvoted as upvoted.
Uniswap is doing a second airdrop
Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
That is classic whataboutism, just like Pointing out the China or North Korea have worse human rights abuse in no way justifies some other nation for abusing peoples rights

Simply because companies have other tools for which to spy on their employees does not justify Microsoft adding one more