skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the main use of Siri for me is lighting---it isn't so bad at setting HomeKit lights scenes---and, with recent shortcuts capability increases, hitting external APIs.

The latter point is a bit broader: now that Siri can hit an arbitrary URL via shortcuts, you can really just set your own trigger phrase to do anything that can be automated. You better believe I have a raspberry pi on order which will be running a local webserver...
According to the article (assuming you're looking at this particular sequence):

> The chances of winning South Africa's PowerBall lottery are one in 42,375,200
Dear authors, if you are reading this message please consider not using the word race.

> Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28human_categorization%2...
Rss2email – Forward RSS feeds to your email address
PTM – Page Table Manipulation from Usermode
I have endless frustrations with Google Assistant / Google Now / Whatever they call it now. A few examples:

1. I have my phone set up to trust bluetooth in my car and unlock my phone. I get in the car and say "okay google, open spotify" -- this is so that it will continue playing what I was listening to before I left work.

"Okay", she says, and then tells me that she can't do that because my screen is locked. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it does not.

2. When I had Google Play Music it reliably would play random sub-par covers of songs rather than the original, even when I specified the artist.

3. Sometimes it decides to rely on screen input instead of audio controls. I can't do that while I'm driving.

4. It sometimes ends voice input too early or does voice input inconsistently. I've sent messages to my wife saying "I'm on my way home exclamation point" instead of "I'm on my way home!"

5. Commands which have worked for months suddenly stop working.

6. Sometimes my screen stays on, forever, after asking to play music. (OnePlus 7T, Android 10). This does not always happen.

7. Google: "Here's your message, send it?"
Me: Yes
Google: Sits there for a moment and pops up the results for "Yes" in the assistant.

My biggest gripe isn't what it can and can not do. It is the inconsistency that drives me up the wall. I am not a heavy user and most of my requests are because I wish for it to be hands-free in a car with bluetooth audio. I'm sure that this is a harder problem to solve than just me interacting with the phone, but it is a common use case.
Well when it becomes production-ready, feel free to open a PR or issue to https://github.com/ofek/csi-gcs

I'd prefer to use a memory-safe version :)
ARM isn't yet US owned - at the moment it's still a UK company with a Japansese parent.
It's no more/ less probable than any other combination, right?
The us population in 1918 was about 100 million. It's now about 330m. We have 3 times plus the population since world war 1.

116k americans died in ww1 with a 100m population.

271k died of covid with a 330m population.

One death is one too many, but we recovered from the civil war which was 600k+ deaths with a 31m population at the time.

Covid isn't the end of the world. We can recover. The world has been through far, far worse. Stop being a fucking doomsday prophet.
you're only allowed to be mad about this if you are mad about "Her Emails (TM)"

/s obviously
I think the difference here is that Microsoft used essentially an off the shelf phone cpu with some minor mods where as Apple built their cpu from the ground up. It's got a lot of stuff shared with the Axx processors, but seems to be more targeted at laptops with 10+W tdp not phones. Just now have to see if Qualcomm or someone else can pull the finger out and build a laptop/desktop processor on Arm.
> Nation states don't have access to Google Project Zero's institutional knowledge and experience, except maybe the US

I think you might be underestimating the technical sophistication of the intelligence agencies of many foreign powers (including the UK, China, Russia, Israel to name a few).
The bubonic plague also heavily impacted Asia.
The highest good or the only good? Do you actually try an quantify the suffering of an animal on a farm and make an honest comparison to the pleasure a human gets from eating them? Do you also support torturing animals and bestiality with the same justification?
> they will sell more Apple Music subscriptions if macs keep running macOS.

The type of person who buys an Apple Silicon Mac to run Linux is not going to buy an Apple Silicon Mac to run macOS. However...

> They won't sell more macs if macs can run Linux better.

They would sell some more Macs. Possibly hundreds of thousands more. A drop in the bucket for Apple, but still money—and all they have to do to get it is answer some questions.
Similar to Reddit or HackerNews, it depends on what communities you're in. You have to go to Twitter if you want to follow journalists, comic artists, or TV writers. I'm sure there's a lot more communities I'm not interested in where Twitter is the primary source of information, like celebrities or K-Pop.
Dilbert comic strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

"Over here we have our random number generator."
"Nine nine nine nine nine nine"
"Are you sure that's random?"
"Thats the problem with randomness: you can never be sure."
OP was directly responding to:

> They've mostly given up on the idea of a clever person finding a new money-hose. They just focus on the one they have now.

The financial numbers suggest they have not given up and have succeeded incrementally towards other sources since. How else do you correct the above statement?
This is not whataboutism because the guilty parties are the same. I'm not saying don't worry about draconian drug laws in the US because China and North Korea are running concentration camps. I am asking why should we focus on Chinese and North Korean drug laws when they are already running concentration camps. The most severe problems deserve the most attention.
My guess it’s the different idea of what an interface is and how errors are signaled.

An interface in Go can be defined by the client code and types just need to implement the functions. In Java Interfaces need to be defined before any code can use it. And exception handling makes code hard to reason about because it introduces hidden control flow.

I think Generics don’t give you that much leverage. Without them you need to duplicate the code for each type or class, but duplicated code is much easier to work with. Yes, it’s not really dry, but copy paste and search/replace is something which increases developer productivity, fixing bugs in code with too many generics decreases it.

And one thing to keep in mind: historically a lot of interfaces in Java were necessary because Java had no lambdas. In Go functions are first class citizens and you don’t need an Interface just to dynamically call different functions.
If it's done properly, it's the same as any other sequence, right?

I don't know how many balls they have and whether there is replacement to tell you the actual number, but there shouldn't be anything special about this one among all the other possible sequences, except that it's more likely to be guessed.
> 2.1.2 Regarding the App: certain data is transmitted by your mobile device: namely your IP address, the periods of time in which you use the App and the type of device you use (e.g. IPhone, IPad), as well as events within the application recorded with Amplitude analytics in order to give us the possibility to continuously improve the App.

From their privacy policy. Oddly enough, no, they don't need to broadcast my ip and when I use the app. Not required at all for me to read PDFs. They may want that data - and if so they should ask me instead of just taking it.
That's exactly where most veal comes from - the male offspring of dairy cows.
> YouTube music recommends Britney Spears. It's so awfully wrong about my tastes.

Just dislike these songs/videos. At first all I did was play playlists I already had in YT since the 'my mix' (now "my supermix") playlist had random songs I listened to 5 years ago, but after about a week of using the 'my mix' and disliking songs, I started getting a bunch of great songs from artists that I otherwise had no idea about.
My assumption has always been that Alexa, Assistant etc. just have really naive sorting of results - if I search on Spotify, the song results for 'War Pigs' are returned with the album version second, but I know that's what I meant.
Economics as a concept is a bad example for a black box because what would you say the input and output would be?

Isn't economics the study of all the different black boxes and how they interact in general? Like if you took the honey market, someone out there understands the honey market, who is buying, who is selling, and why the prices are where they are. You repeat this for all markets (or parts of markets) and someone understands either the black box, or the way black boxes usually work together. When you have a large number of black boxes, the system can behave in weird ways because the behavior of the system is defined by each of the sub-systems behaving in a certain range. When that range changes wildly, the system can behave in unpredictable ways.

Economics simply defines general rules for these complicated systems and so are heavily dependent on all the sub systems to function in a prescribed range. I don't feel like you can call economics a black box, but you could say that no one understands those particular problems you put forth because we don't have enough data (and enough correlation) to really determine what that change to a bunch of subsystems has on the system, especially when other factors (bull/bear market, global uncertainty, etc) will probably have a biasing effect.
Ask HN: Why apps get million funding and libraries or languages don’t?
I have a 21yo software eng at my desk asking why apps always seem to get a lot of funding from venture capital and libraries or languages do not. He is a fan of arcane (but very useful!) Python packages and of the Julia language. Anybody here on HN daring to explain him the rationale? Thanks.
Because your parent got it mixed up.

170 Mtr/mm2 refers to 5nm. TSMC's 7nm is roughly 100 Mtr/mm2 depending which 7nm you are referring to as TSMC has quite a few variants.

So yes, Intel's 10nm is roughly speaking the same as TSMC's 7nm.

Just to give another perspective, by the end of 2020, TSMC would have shipped more 5nm wafers then Intel's 10nm has ever shipped.
it does if that's the context in which bias is introduced to the medical studies designing these vaccines
Exactly, as explained here:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941030?src=soc_tw_20111...

The results announced up to now just showed that the vaccines reduce chance of a vaccinated person becoming sick.
This was hilarious. I got to the beginning of the second column and thought it was satire.
It's a fuzzy line, though, because abstractions and pedagogy get better over time too, especially for long-standing systems which become increasingly well-understood over time.

Basically, I'm saying that the world of 50 years ago is probably much more comprehensible to a highly skilled 2020 human than it was to someone actually living in it. It wouldn't be totally comprehensible to either, of course, but certainly the added context brings a lot of advantages.
The same as any other combination, as quoted in the article, 1 in 42 million.
If there is an effective vaccine which is readily available to anyone, there is no need for lockdowns.
> 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 next step for it to go really viral would be to make the album consist only of various generic voices saying "ok google play ok google play music".
I took that to be the point; that in addition to all the title permutations, the user may have to prepend the command of whatever service they're using.

This creates even more combinations and even more shenanigans.
any virus is gonna have a small subset of people who have weird long term reactions to it
That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Little Bobby Tables is growing up. (https://xkcd.com/327/)
Haha, "Ikigai is not a Venn Diagram" and ironically, neither is any diagram depicted in the article (though it is worth pointing out that, as per the article, they were not created by the author).
Instead of "C:\ del .mp3", it should be "del C:\ .mp3".

Edit: lol, I didn't know that we could format text with asterisks on HN. There should be an asterisk before each ".mp3", but as you can see, if I put them in it just italicizes the text in between them.
Depends on what you value.

You can buy a house in Pittsburgh for around $100k, and there's some semblance of a tech space there (CMU, duolingo, self driving)

If language barrier is something you're willing to overcome, there are a wide array of areas to explore: Argentina comes up often (though I don't have any personal experience with it). Brazil is another option near it with municipalities that often resemble the US suburb feel (in Goias, Minas Gerais, etc for example) and has much warmer weather.
The question most people are probably thinking of is "What are the chances of any sequence of numbers being drawn?", not just this specific one in the article.
https://youtu.be/1_M-Wccn2w8?t=287 Exhibit A
That's a good point. Maybe that's the product of improved transistor density and power efficiency?

I remember seeing someone saying that some of the improvements AMD had with Zen 3 were due to optimization of their layout, so this could be similar.
The State of the Octoverse 2020
I chew a 2mg stick of nicotine gum occasionally which gets me a small but noticeable boost in alertness for an hour or so. Studies indicate it temporarily increases working memory as well. I don't consume any nicotine otherwise.
This is, ultimately, the only way forward: Pick a legal jurisdiction, keep your employees within it, and let the internet bring worldwide customers to you. If other countries try block your packets, that's between them and their citizens.

The more jurisdictions you straddle (with servers, employees), the lower the lowest common denominator of "legal" behavior. At some point the lowest common denominator may be a nonintersecting set - "government must have access to the data" and "data may not leave the country" are incongruent. This will make life increasingly difficult for giant multinationals like FB and Google.

As long as your content is legal in the US, the US will not extradite you for violating Pakistan's (or Europe's) particular flavors of internet censorship. You may want to be careful about international travel, however.
Lazy rivers and amenities are not what ails college. How to save higher ed
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Show HN: Search speed metrics for any site on the web
Not gonna lie. I'm very disappointed I can't sync my Stadia controller to my PC via bluetooth. Google gave out Stadia pros, but it's such a horrible idea ( instead of Xbox Game pass stadia forces you to buy additional games).

Google provides a gateway to the internet for most of us. They control what we find in most cases , but it's almost as if they have tons of money to spend elsewhere but lack any direction on how to do so.
That sounds more like a limit in humanity's ability to understand than a constraint on the complexity of the world.
Hardly progressive - Everything progressive is simply deemed to be vulgar hate speech and then blocked. Don't forget that it's a very conservative country that, in my opinion, would be a Republican utopia if the official religion was christianity instead of Islam.
Challenge acccepted:

Blue light is defined as roughly 380nm-460nm range of wavelengths in electromagnetic radiation, however the human eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450nm-495nm. Objects coloured blue typically reflect or diffuse this range of wavelengths more efficiently than others wavelengths, rendering these objects the appearance of the color blue.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum
If this is an issue, you wait X amount of seconds after the file has been created and then start processing it. This would allow the file to be consistent before processing it.

A better idea would be triggering Lambda jobs which either directly processes the files as they are added to S3 or trigger Lambda jobs which add the files to SQS and each job in the SQS is processed by another Lambda job.
Show HN: An interactive simulation to explore the effect of luck in success
Setting timers is apparently surprisingly hard! Google Assistant frequently just tells me to set the timer in the app.
Seems too good to be true for the price but these guys have shipped...
[replying to pjc50]

> Any whiff of ineligibility by payment is completely unacceptable, and rightly so, or we'd end up with the US disaster

Lots of European systems require e.g. payment for GP appointments and aren't anything like the US system. Likewise, the UK makes people pay for dentistry, spectacles.

> From a political point of view, we have to defend the existing system because otherwise the US one will be forced on us

This sounds like unsourced propaganda...

> Private health insurance is quite cheap in the UK compared to America because anything complicated or expensive can and will be dumped back on the public sector.

Most private healthcare in the UK covers complicated and expensive cancer treatments, including ones not covered by the NHS, so this doesn't hold water. (There are a few cheaper, less common insurance plans that don't cover cancer and are designed to complement the NHS coverage, AFAIK)
Docker got over $300M in funding. But since other cloud providers host their own variants of Docker registry, it's hard to build a moat around it.

Things get funded with the express purpose of creating a return on the investment. It can be difficult to do that with libraries and languages.
> hopefully something generally useful to society at large

If it is useful then it won't be secure because it would be free to "hash". The mechanism has to be costly. Proof-of-work is in many ways proof-of-waste. If tomorrow we find out that hashing is profitable then everyone can start hashing and be able to attack the chain for free (subsidized by the usefulness). Only the hash power above the useful level can add security.
Which is 1 : 42,375,200.

However, the probability of ending up with a sequence like this is still quite low - probability of coming up with six consecutive numbers is 40 : 42,375,200 i.e. less than one in a million.
That's his point. A decade ago, the comments on this site were 99% relevent, solid technical feedback and analysis. The top post being layperson speculation with a joke response topping it bears a much stronger resemblance to reddit than to hn's origin.
My town has a Guernsey farm [1] just outside it, so that milk is available at our local food markets. It's wild how expensive it is. Like, the regular cheapo milk at the grocery store is $4-5 for 4L, and the Eby Manor milk is $5 for 1L, basically four times the cost.

Now, they're a small time operation doing a specialty product, so I'm sure that contributes a lot to this cost bump— they justify this mostly by touting health benefits rather than talking about the sustainability of their operation, but I suspect that getting many animal-based food products to a more sustainable place would require a similarly eye-watering bump up in price. Which is, of course, part of the argument for going part-time vegetarian/vegan— get used to the idea of meat and animal products being something we enjoy once or twice a week or a few times a month, rather than multiple times per day.

[1]: https://ebymanor.ca/our-family-farm/
> “No one in the organisation will be able to use productivity score to access data about how an individual user is using apps and services in Microsoft 365.”

Seems like the number of jobs where your effectiveness can be measured by how much time you spend in Microsoft 365 is fairly small. The number where there isn't a better metric available is likely even smaller. If you are a transcriptionist, output is nicely metered—many get paid by the word. Even most admin assistants have so much phone work and other jobs where time in O365 is only a fraction of their job.

I think this is mostly a big todo about nothing. Any manager who uses something as basic as this as a metric is almost certainly worthless regardless.
His customers, maybe. And he is sick of losing customers to Azure, I guess.
Try Just Egg who knows you may even like it.
That video was great, thanks.
It's an easy-to-state largely foolproof test to see if data really is anonymized.

The thing that you're worried about with poorly-anonymized datasets is that if you have another non-anonymized dataset you can combine them to deduce the original information. "Your data set must not be able to be combined with any others that would allow them to infer the original data" is hard. How could you possibly test them all?

Well it turns out that there is one such non-anonymized dataset with the property that if you can't connect your anonymized data with it at all then you can be pretty sure that you couldn't connect them with any others -- the original data!
I've got to say that you yourself seem to fall victim to the very thing that you're criticizing (namely, polarizing over a national pride thing) as the vaccine is neither developed nor produced in UK. In fact, given the demand, it's not clear supply of the vaccine will allow for NHS' projections.
Just last year a distant-friend family, elderly husband and wife, died after eating what they had picked, after a lifetime of picking mushrooms; their son got away with weeks in the hospital and some organ damage. The danger is real. (Southeast Europe; they say the poisonous species are fewer and less poisonous the further north you go.)
Python Type Checking
A CLI / Library version of this would be great. I've been needing to write something in Rust to do the same.
That's over 10 years, or just over $10B in CAPEX and R&D per year. That sounds a lot, but the company routinely spends $20B-$30B in CAPEX every year. In comparison, Samsung's annual marketing budget (advertising, sales promotion and incentive) easily exceeds that amount.

That being said, Samsung really wants to go beyond memory chips and is serious about the foundry business.
I just can't be 100%-compatible.
The artist is 'drumkoon' and has a bunch of similar album titles and songs...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6X9HMvCAb5RiZhcwekJLNY

"Hey Alexa Play Music" and "Hey Siri Play Music" with tracks like "OK Alexa Play Lofi".
Yes, as others pointed out, this particular sequence is the same as every other sequence. Or, the one person who said 100% is referring to the probability of something that already happened.

To give you a more charitable interpretation, the South African lottery Powerball can be 1-20 so there are 20 straights possible so 20 in 42,375,200. Or roughly 1 in 2,000,000 or roughly 40,000 years of weekly draws to see a straight.