skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have kids too. We use "Computer" which is one of the wake words offered by Amazon because we don't want our kids to get used to the idea of bossing around a person.

Also, I've mapped all of the functions we use to "recipes" that include the word "please" so that they don't work unless you use the word "please." i.e. the upstairs lights are named as for example "the Chicago lights" and there is a recipe that says "turn on the Chicago lights" when someone utters "Computer, please turn on the upstairs lights." So if you say "Computer, turn on the upstairs lights" it says "I don't know what upstairs lights are."

The disadvantage of this approach is that you need to get the string exactly as stored.
What can you learn from an IP? (2019) [pdf]
and shutting down mixer was a mistake. also they should've just grown mixer slowly and made it more accessible, it could've been a good twitch alternative..
Yes, and the penalties they faced for their illegal behavior were terribly low. They were almost even lower, but the judge threw out the original settlement.

It's astounding to me that people would continue to want to work there, given that it is now public knowledge that Google will try to cheat you out of wages.
DeepMind's AI makes breakthrough in solving one of the biggest biology challenge
It allows Microsoft to up-sell. "Your users aren't using X, you should encourage them to do so," "Look, your users are using X, you should purchase Y!" "Your users aren't using Y..."
I'd say since smash.gg is already the established method of organizing esports events across a variety of game communities, despite being straight forward.
And of course, Jobs built the rest of Apple around this culture.

I read Ken Kocienda's book about working on the original iPhone keyboard [1]. He says development revolved around demos: first to each other, then to senior leadership, then to Jobs.

2000s Apple tried to hire people with good taste, then constantly tested against that taste. It was all internal, but it was testing.

[1]: http://creativeselection.io/
So much for that idea, thanks!
I wish I could still compile XMMS from ports on FreeBSD. It seems to have been removed because glib12 is obsolete.

Thanks for letting me know about QMMP. Looks like it can be built from ports: https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/qmmp-qt5
What are their prices?
Nice, although hardly revolutionary (as they say) - Pauling had claims along those lines 30 years ago.
What is the phi function that you use here? If that's Euler's totient, then that does not seem to be well-defined for rational numbers...
> I don't think it's worth arguing about when this threshold was exactly crossed.

But I think myself and others in this thread would argue "it was never crossed - it was always too complex to understand".

Not sure if that changes your fundemental point but it might warrant a reformulation of it.
Yes, beside paying $200 for a Windows license, you have to spend many hours removing all the annoyances you mentioned. I boot into Windows sometimes for certain apps and I'm still struggling with these annoyances after several years of using Windows. This effectively increases the cost of Windows far beyond the license cost.
yeah but what happens when they want to listen to surfin bird on repeat the next day and banana phone on repeat the day after that? awfully clunky workflow.
This was so much fun! It brings me back to my first class in digial logic.
That just seems phenomenally stupid. Even if you think you're in good graces with the party, you shouldn't leave that much gold in one place for easy seizure. Park it in an offshore bank account, west coast real estate, or bitcoin for goodness sakes!
Only the ones that get marooned have the really high costs.
Lots of great P2P projects thriving:
libp2p - https://libp2p.io/
IPFS - https://ipfs.io/https://ipfs.io/
Privacy at Snap
Don't forget people have been working on coronavirus vaccinations for nearly a decade.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586247/
> it strange to see such a normally open-minded community (hackers) shut it down with such vehemence whenever it comes up

It isn't really that strange, Urbit is the antithesis of the hacker mindset in multiple ways. Hackers value free exchange of information; Urbit is deliberately obscuratinist. Hackers tend to lean libertarian; Yarvin is an out-and-proud authoritarian and Urbit is explicitly designed around that ethos.
I just down the eggs; I've even come to like the taste.

It's for the mental acuity, but I'm happy for any benefits I can get, such as a higher white blood cell count and more brown adipose tissue, the loss of which is associated with aging.
No, a normal electricity marketplace would eat up the profits from getting more efficient renewables.

e.g. If fossil is $4/kW and wind is $2/kW then normal market buys all the wind at $2/kW. Here, government will pay $2/kW premium on the wind. That means every cost gain on wind goes to the provider.
Wow, thanks for the info. I didn't know it was arbitrary scheduling. Seems like given the circumstances you'd hope they would just setup a meeting tomorrow.
Considering that a new design would take like 10 years to get into production, how would that have been an immediate solution for Boeing? They need to be able to sell more 737 until a new design is ready, and no one wants that to be rushed. While I didn't hear anyting about a new design, I sincerely hope they are at it already though.
"A TLV variable name is a random pronounceable three-letter string, sometimes with some vague relationship to its meaning, but usually not. Usually CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) is a good choice.

You should use TLVs much the way math people use Greek letters. The same concept should in general get the same name across different contexts. When you're working in a given area, you'll tend to remember the binding from TLV to concept by sheer power of associative memory. When you come back to it, it's not that hard to relearn. And of course, when in doubt, comment it."

If only there were some way to put, like, a comment right inside the name itself somehow. Almost as if the name of the thing could be a meaningful description of what it represents. But I guess that's just a language design pipe dream.
I also played his chemistry/alchemy games SpaceChem and Codex of Alchemical Engineering. Highly recommended.
By ignoring most costs.

Saying renewables are cheap when it's sunny or windy is like saying coal is cheap at the mine.

For some reason people realize that distance in space is a problem. But distance in time is something that we can't wrap our heads around.

It would cost trillions to build up enough storage capacity in the grid to time shift the power needed, or to build a grid capable of moving power between regions on the scale of continents.
At least two syllables are easier than three. (And "OK Google" is particularly tongue-twisty due to the repeated "oh" sounds.)
Variable Fonts
Nice, thanks. Traefik have a working go interpreter https://github.com/traefik/yaegi. Been meaning to go through the source code to borrow a few pointers(pun intended) as well.
Except the idea is wrong. Software can be mathematically imperfect and succeed (hello, Microsoft Windows), and it almost certainly can be mathematically perfect and fail (by being mathematically perfect but not doing anything that anyone cares about).
What Google pioneered was the idea of defining how to build a bunch of containers, building them, deploying them together to a cloud, and then having them talk to each other according to preset rules.

Yes, we had chroot, jails, and VMs long before. I'd point to IBM's 360 model 67 which was released in 1967 as the earliest example that I'm aware of. A typical use before containerazation was shared hosting. But people thought of and managed those as servers. Maybe servers with some scripting, but still servers.

I'm not aware of anyone prior to Google treating them as disposable units that were built and deployed at scale according to automated rules. There is a significant mind shift from "let's give you a pretend server" to, "let's stand up a service in an automated way by deploying it with its dependency as a pretend server that you network together as needed". And another one still to, "And let's create a network operating system to manage all services across all of our data centers." And another one still to standardize on a practices that let any data center can go down at any time with no service disruption, and any 2 can go down with no bigger problems than increased latency.

Google standardized all of that years before I heard "containerization" whispered by anyone outside of Google.
I always enjoy the Xscreensaver visual that features a juggler with random siteswap patterns. Sometimes they're quite mesmerizing!
Yep, that's what I thought you/they meant. I'm glad you admitted it, because it is clearly a matter of opinion, and it seems the only people bothered by this have similar political affiliations (if their post history is any indicator).
Hey HN! I'm Anthony, one of the hiring managers for software at SpaceX. Feel free to drop me a message if you're interested in learning more about what we're doing (there are many more software roles than just the ones listed here).

I'd love to speak to full stack engineers in particular!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/4943043002?gh_jid=4...
Swoole (module) is extremely performant in anything networking, including as a websocket server. There are other php-only options (amphp/websocket-server, ratchetphp/Ratchet) but if performance is your need, stick with swoole.
I've had power outages for a week more than once, and can vouch for it staying warm enough for a comfortable shower for a couple days.

For HVAC, you can heat/cool it at a minimum to the edge of the comfort range, which will make a big difference. You can take it much further by heating/cooling some thermal mass, and drawing on that mass when the electricity is cheaper.

That mass can simply be a pile of stones in a box with some ductwork added. It's hard to find a cheaper "battery" technology than a box of rocks.

Frankly, I think people are way too focused on batteries and are overlooking the rather obvious.
Same, specifically the Patterson and Hennessy course. Good to see this material being accessible for younger minds though.
Sure, but will you?
1+1=2 is a dispassionate observation. Same as this feature being workplace surveillance.
Mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19 pandemic shown by leaked documents
I figure that people who are gullible enough to believe spam like "Triple your investment at our new exchange: cryptomatron.xyz" wouldn't be stopped by having to type the URL in manually.
Only if it is a state owned (diplomatic) device. Without diplomatic protection, you can be can be charged with, depending on jurisdiction and circumstance, anything from evidence tampering, obstruction of justice, to contempt of court. Technical hacks to human problems are only viable when you are shielded by sovereignty.
The 2019 one was complete garbage, most of my 'top songs' I'd never even played once. There was tons of complaints at the time[0]

[0]https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&q=spotify+2019+wrap...
>That said, it was at a time where Google was complaining bitterly about how hard it was to hire engineers, and their much vaunted hiring process would only offer 1 in 10,000 applicants.

my understanding that is just a propaganda. They would do very low offers much more frequently than that, and the people like me and some others i know of would just not take those offers.

>a candidate who had made it through the gauntlet

it seems like they actually have special low complexity interview track for low offers - so called "benchwarmers" - and i found nothing special about their interview for the resulting L5 offer.

So, it seems that Google really has an excess of people, and thus until a new hire is an unique star in his field it is just an easy replaceable cogs which is much simpler and cheaper to drop than to deal with its even slightly different shape.
>The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, but how many people feel comfortable to freely speak their mind at one of the corporate training courses on diversity and inclusion for example?

You clearly misunderstand what the First Amendment is about. It's a restraint on government, not a restraint on everyone else.
Thanks! Enjoying your list. Check out Mantovani and Percy Faith, too.
Yeah as long as ownership is retained by the public I don't mind so much, I'd just like it if they called a spade a spade.

But things are getting sold off, which is a worrying trend.
I don’t understand how it’s obscurantist. I’m a novice and am having fun learning the language. It’s open-source.
This changes nothing for 99.9% of Kubernetes users.
> If a corrupt government is given power to decide any punishment it pleases for not abiding by its laws, and given the power technical and legal to preclude non-local actors from interfering with its actions

Who is giving the corrupt local government that power? The answer, historically, has always been: a higher-level government. And that's also the answer with corrupt localities today. They only survive because they have political friends in higher places.

> my experience has been that such circumstances only yield busier gulags

Which places with gulags have you lived in? (That's a serious question, btw: we have had posters on here who are from the former Soviet Union or one of its satellites and who have had direct personal experience of such things.)

> So what if people in Mississipi decide they still want slavery

They can't just decide they want slavery: they would have to get people in the same community to become slaves. Historically, that's never happened. Slavery has never been a local process; it's never that some people in a particular community just decide to enslave the others. It always happens as a result of non-local invasions (usually wars of conquest). Maintaining slavery as an institution also has never, historically, been done locally; it has always needed higher level non-local enforcement. For example, slavery only survived in the antebellum US South because both State and Federal governments enforced it. And even then they couldn't really enforce it; purposeful non-compliance by many people in the North with things like fugitive slave laws was common and almost never punished.

> What I'm asking, is what happens when the inevitably corrupt government officials choose to infringe on the freedoms of the citizens?

I've already answered this: citizens start finding ways not to comply, because enforcement can never be perfect; and eventually, if things get bad enough, they revolt.

The worst case is something like the Soviet Union or China, where a high-level central government is willing to use enough force even to put down open revolt. However, first, this is obviously not a local government doing this--no local government in history has had that much force at its disposal--and second, even that won't last: the Soviet Union fell apart, and if history is any indication, China will eventually do the same if its government continues with the level of repression it has shown thus far.
Ah, personal stacks. What a wonderful topic to spend a late night writing session on.

I am not really into self-hosting and homelabs, in the sense that I never got too deep into the proper architecture of it all and the "right" way of doing things. I find that when I'm creating tooling (or setting up tooling, for that matter) for myself, the only thing that matters is speed of setup and ease of use. Hosted is fine for many things if it's decoupled in a sensible way from your public identity or does not actually reveal anything that interesting about you, IMHO, but I assume that would be an unpopular opinion.

A corollary from this "proposition" is that I leave the world of software often. For things that I have yet to find proper software for, but are indeed great needs that I have in my day to day life, I find my ways.

Going back to your question, I'll admit the other two tools are a bit underwhelming.

I'm a religious nail biter, and the only thing that ever made me stop was jotting in a pad every time I want to bite. I usually keep a small pad (as in a mini-notebook) in my backpack and draw hashtags and lines in it when I'm seeing the habit return. I'm now going through something a bit difficult personally, and while I'm constantly biting right now I know that when it will really bother me I can pull up the pad and stop biting again. It's stupid, I know, but again - it works for me. I got the idea from a book, btw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Habit).

The other one is the Hacker's Diet Online (https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html) - it's a weight watching tool by the guy who built AutoCad. I lost ±24 pounds after reading his book (https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/) and have been tracking my weight ever since (±2 years).

One recurring thing in my stack, as you noticed, is tracking. I am an AVID tracker of many things, and generally speaking advise anyone who is in a loop over something to do the same.

It simply... works.

If anyone wants to talk personal tracking, it's not hard to find me on the internets (TomGranot in most places except here). I have a plethora of ideas & opinions on the subject.
It isn't. Your base load stations close and you are left only with the intermittent reweables and natural gas. South Australia is the only energy market in that place right now and the prices paid there would destroy any industrial economy.
Isnt this job switching 101? you don't have a new job until you've signed. Your notice doesn't happen until you have signed.
This is really cool. You've done a tremendous job in making this very usable (I love your yellow sticky note instructions).
On a related note, I highly recommend Sean Carroll's series of videos: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe [0]. The fine structure constant comes up in the 10th video on Interactions [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3j...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRGj5Phpm0
Spaced Repetition in the Classroom
Then I have done my job as a member of Monica's community right. Happy to see you with us!

Re your question, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25283008.
Garmin watches allow downloading activities as .fit files via USB.

New routes can be uploaded as .gpx files the same way.

Not super convenient but it works.
I don't have much to add, although it's kind of funny that every Urbit-related discussion on Hacker News revolves entirely around some quirky social object from 5 years ago, a general statement of bewilderment, or some rehashed judgment on MM.

I don't see any comments related to any of the system theory in this rather long and well-thought-out post.
It's about legacy, legacy brings personal satisfaction too.

I would be very happy to be part of something that dates back hundreds of years.
Sounds like America to me.From BLM to massive espionage by the NSA with no repercussion, from the mortgage crisis to Abu Ghraib, from the "suicide" of Epstein to nationals being killing by drones, to Mexican kids being held in jails alone. The average American citizen has as much to fear from their government than the average Chinese, that's why the unwarranted feeling of superiority is so scaring.
Now that the lock expired on the account, the story that was causing the problem was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25181902. The tweet has been removed and the twitter bot is back up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience. First time in 5 years it's happened and hopefully the last time.
That strikes me as a bad-faith interpretation of the history of this issue.

The reason for belief in the protective effect of alcohol consumption comes from data, not corporate propaganda. Many observational studies, conducted by a wide variety of institutions and government agencies, and consistently arrived at the conclusion that alcohol's effects on all-cause mortality (ACM) are dose-dependent, but these effects do not necessarily converge on the origin. That is, as dosage is reduced, eventually ACM dips >1 for low levels of consumption, before returning to the abstinence baseline. I.e., mild drinking is protective. There is no plausible or coherent way to suggest that these observations were due to industry influence given the wide variety of data sources, investigators, and institutions involved.

The problem with this data is one that is common to wide variety of health issues; it's very hard to observe small effects. Most of our data and understanding actually comes from relatively extreme effects; the worst smokers and drinkers, large radiation exposure, major occupational health risks like asbestos, etc. That gives us great information about the what effects these onslaughts have, but only for these extreme populations.

The next logical step is to observe less dosage/exposure and try to establish the nature of dose-dependence e.g. linear vs. some power law. The problem, however, is that experimentation is unethical, so you have to continue to rely on observational studies. But observational studies necessarily have confounding factors that can be extremely tricky to address. Furthermore, there is no authoritative way to determine whether these factors have been addressed or not.

So, despite the best and most sincere efforts of investigators, the data 'near the origin', i.e. the effects of low dosage/exposure to a potentially harmful thing, is extrapolation, not interpolation as one might believe intuitively. Even small errors - the kind that are endemic to observational studies - are amplified when considering these ranges.

The result of this is persistent controversy about issues broadly related to hormesis. The true impact of radiation releases from events like Chernobyl and famously uncertain for this same reason.

Specifically regarding alcohol, the most recent attempts to control the confounds has lead some to declare that the protective observation has been eliminated. I certainly agree that, as a health recommendation, this is the conservative interpretation and should be taken used to make health decisions. But as far as the data itself is concerned, I'm not so convinced. I still think the "J" shaped dose-response has not been adequately explained, and there are valid mechanistic hypotheses that warrant continued consideration.

But if you would like to carry on a cynical world view that neatly blames all that ails on evil corporations, by all means.
-- is it because you don't speak with a 20-30 year old white male techbro bay area accented voice, so Google never even bothered testing whether it'd work for you?

(My brother in law is Australian living in the US, and has to use his "sarcastically fake American accent" to be understood on the phone. He, more politely than I, calls it his "phone voice". It's the same voice all my friends here use when parodying American stereotypes... I bet it works on Ok Google too.)
The original 737 wasn't broken-by-design in the way the Max is. The Max _requires_ software kludges to paper over its deliberate mistakes; that's very different from just having a few bugs to work out in a fundamentally sound design.
In my university's juggling club, two discrete camps of jugglers emerged: The "social" jugglers (partner juggling, much chatting, tricks more playful and less technical) and the "mathematical" jugglers (practicing on their own, hard technical tricks, don't talk to me). The two camps mapped quite nicely on the respective faculties as well (HUM/STEM). I always thought juggling is one of these activities that really amplifies the introvert/extrovert and people-oriented/thing-oriented personality traits. Anyway, one of the two camps was really into site swaps and the other not at all.