skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, that's safer way how to do it.

However I use that 30% system volume for my day to day usage. When needed, I can always bring volume up.
Surviving the Show: The Case for an Askesis of Perception
Facebook is going after misinformation superspreaders
Have been discussing with a visually impaired friend how to rethink Accessibility. Over the last 20 years, I've seen him use Accessibility on Windows and then moving over to the Mac and finally the iPhone. The main problem is that VoiceOver is a speech+touch interface slapped onto a visual+touch interface. So, roughly 1/3rd speed. Moreover, 3rd party developers need to label elements, which they rarely do.

I remember walking out of an Accessibility meetup at SalesForce waiting for a ride and seeing an attendee struggling with hailing an Uber. She was an experienced user but still struggling with her new iPhone. It had a larger screen, so all her muscle memory was foiled; the buttons had shifted.

So, my friend and I are looking into rethinking the interface starting with 1st principles, like Fitt's Law. My guess is maybe a 9X improvement for visually impaired and 3X for folks with regular vision. Reserved the name touch.ai for that purpose.
No, Andy Jassy is pretty vocal, well-spoke and popular. Did a really good job with AWS too. Even Google and Microsoft aren't faceless, and Andy is just as memorable as Sundar and Satya.
I hate text editor assumptions

Well only the ones that don’t work for me

But i hate how hard it is to find an assumptionless and offline text editor these days
If one is not really up to par as a wikipedia editor, the more informative link could be dropped on the talk page for the main article. Then maybe an editor will incorporate it.
or use !greddit, which searches on google with site:reddit.com added at the end.
Nintendo's rumored OLED Switch may arrive in September
The incongruence of NFTs is they basically require the state to strongly enforce copyright claim to actually have any value outside of bragging rights. A state with rigid, strong copyright enforcement is not something I personally value, and doesn’t seem to be the sentiment of people buying and selling these NFTs, so bragging rights it is?
I am currently as we speak in Nebraska because my mother-in-law who is in her early sixties, suffered cardiac arrest hours after getting her second shot of Pfizer.

She is now in a coma and it doesn't look like she's going to wake up.

To your point the doctors immediately refuse to say a word about the vaccine or even considerate as a potential causal factor. Only after several days of tests where they determine that there was absolutely nothing wrong with her heart, have they now considered that the vaccine may have been a cause.

And additionally no they have not reported this to VAERS. And with the covid protocols in hospitals not allowing most of us in, my wife and her sister aren't very assertive, and therefore haven't pushed.
The best spots could be rented under the “Prime Space” banner ;)
Understanding TypeScript's Popularity
Next-gen Bird Three scooter comes with bigger battery and better software
I’ve had the app for a year or so and the few times I’ve gotten a call have been really interesting. I honestly look forward to them popping up
I think that depends a lot on whether the failed startup produced any code, papers, conference talks, even podcast episodes, etc. If not, and everything was just buried in the person's head, then no, the world is not richer for it.

This kind of thing is why I'm so grateful to the founders of startups like Starsky, who are obviously still immensely passionate about the domain they were in. That even in the wake of the company failing, they've continued to advance the state of the art by sharing what they learned, especially where it's wisdom that goes against the current dogma (eg, that teleop is a hugely important part of a self-driving vehicle strategy, but that investors of the late 2010s were turned off by that focus because they wanted to see companies trying to shoot the moon on L4/L5 autonomy): https://medium.com/starsky-robotics-blog/the-end-of-starsky-...
Great story and it made me realize that usage of "holiday" is more general than how I thought of it (missing a spot when painting). Which led me to http://www.word-detective.com/2010/12/holiday/
New podcast API for ratings, credits, playlists, and listen tracking
It could also be that new logins overwrite the cache/global
> They search through many permutation of board states and in a very dumb way merely select the decision path that leads to a winning one.

> That was never the challenge. The challenge was having them play chess; ie., no tricks, no shortcuts. Really evaluate the present board state, and actually choose a move.

Uh-huh. And how exactly do you play chess? Do you not, perhaps, think about future states resultant from your next move?

Also, Alpha Zero, with its ability to do a tree search entirely removed, achieves an ELO score of greater than 3,000 in chess, which isn't even the intended design of the algorithm.

A rock will frequently fail to get the to bottom of a hill due to local minimums vs. global minimums. A child will too sometimes.
Eventually all video gets transferred over one cable, HDMI.
I don't get how the company had the head-count it did for so long and didn't even manage to tread water in relation to other browsers, for about a decade, let alone do anything new or interesting. Which parts were valuable and interesting? Rust/Servo, and MDN. Which parts get cut? Those.

I'd love to see them make a come-back, but it's been so damn long and they're showing so many strongly negative signs that I think they're long since rotted beyond hope, organizationally. Better they're replaced. I don't think they're an organization capable of replacing themselves with a better upstart of their own making, as Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox did to the Mozilla browser, nor of innovating—Pocket and a VPN service are their innovative monetization and self-sufficiency efforts. Not leaping into any number of promising avenues for web services that would benefit from having an open-source-friendly but well-capitalized backer offering a paid version with a built-in audience to push the Web and potentially the Internet forward, but... Pocket and a VPN. How do you miss the boat that badly? How many teams building the sorts of things Firefox should have been (Signal, Matrix, Gemini, IPFS, various open-source social network efforts like Mastodon, et c.) are small enough to comfortably fit within the Firefox org? Several, I imagine.

What a waste of potential.
300 to 1000 years for CO2, according to NASA [1].

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-...
They do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDN_Web_Docs https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs
Where's Michael Jackson and Jimmy Kimmel?
Proposed 8.3 km tunnel beneath St. Lawrence River would take 10 years to build
This looks nice, but I don't want another Docker service!
My dream would be for Observable[1] to create a private space to create my documentation.

[1]https://observablehq.com
Joel Spolsky opened my eyes to this issue: Code is read more than it is written. In theory, code is written once (then touched-up for bugs). For 99.9% its life, it is read-only. That is a strong case for writing readable code. I try to write my code so that a junior hire can read and maintain it -- from a technical view. (They might be clueless about the business logic, but that is fine.) Granted, I am not always successful in this goal!
Yeah, that's what I was (a bit) worried about. I just don't want to be passed up for an offer, (or something similar) simply because I went to a smaller school.

Hopefully the graduate degree matters more in my case.
No. While both rare coins and NFTs have value as a collectable, it's different because the silver coin has at least some intrinsic value. NFTs do not.

If no one else wants your NFT, it's not worth anything. If one other person wants it, it's worth whatever it is to them. If you buy NFTs for value, you should consider it a part time job to continue the hype machine for your NFTs in the hopes of getting some sort of bidding war going for them among as many people as possible. This isn't so different from other collectible markets. This hype machine is likely the reason you know what an NFT is in the first place.
A few questions:

1. What does "ownership" mean in this case? It seems that the NFT holder has basically no rights when it comes to the work. (since, as you point out, ownership of the NFT is different from owning e.g. the copyright on the work)

2. If the rights of the NFT holder are violated (whatever those might be), who would enforce them?
How the Ford Motor Co. Invented the Squid
I think of NFTs like a digital receipt.

I get the impression that the folks spending a lot on NFTs are using some kind of crypto coin to pay, and that crypto coin may have a certain dollar valuation now but had a much lower dollar value when they obtained the coin. In other words it doesn't feel like they are actually spending the dollars, the effort to obtain those coins was less than the effort to obtain the actual dollars.
Needs (2020) in the title.
Blockchain and Voting
Sovereign Wealth Funds Invest in the Netflix of Russia
Bird announces its 3rd-generation scooter with automatic emergency braking
There are also plenty of services with really incredible uptime. You just don't hear about them because they're deep in whatever stack you're using and haven't broken publicly in decades.

It's all about good engineering practice and architecture.
This is awesome. Feels like Smalltalk and TCL had a baby and the crib was made out of Erlang.

We need more people doing projects like this.
Hey Ken! Thanks. Yep that spec (dated 6 October 1959) says:

4.1.1 A-c power. The a-c power system shall be a 3-phase, 4-wire “Y” system, having a nominal voltage of 115/200 and a nominal frequency of 400 cps. The neutral point of the source of power is connected to ground (see 3.2), and the ground is considered the fourth conductor.

and

5.1.5 Steady-state frequency. The a-c power systems frequency shall be maintained at 400 ± 20 cps for steady-state operation.
Soon, hundreds of tourists will go to space. What should we call them? (2019)
> 1. Childbirth is handled by midwives (Jordemothers) instead of doctors. Doctors are brought only when medication or any treatment is necessary.

This is perfectly rational in the context of publicly-funded healthcare; for many mothers (younger and in optimal health) pregnancy has little complications. On the other hand, we really benefited from high-intensity pre-natal care with frequent ultrasounds, as we were able to increase our kid's chances of survival with lung development-accelerating steroids.

What I mean is that it's a wonderful cost-saving tactic which doesn't imply better care. In Brazil we have MDs handling sore throats in overloaded ERs, and it might be more cost-effective to have teams of RNs in a more distributed proactive fashion. I still can't think of a case where, individually, I would prefer a RN rather than a MD handling my sore throat. Billionaires might even have MDs clipping their toenails to care for fungi.
Alex Karp is the Co-founder and CEO of Palantir.

Palantir basically builds software systems to let organizations ( Primarily United States Intelligence Organizations and the US or Western Hemisphere-based multi-billion dollar gigantic business corporations ) integrate their data, decisions, and operations into one platform.

Their software also empowers entire organizations to answer complex questions quickly by bringing the right data to the people who need it.

Alex Karp is smart and tough at making decisions and staying by them.

One of Palantir’s stated goals: “becoming the default operating system across the U.S. government.”

Alex Karp has made sure to refuse to work with America’s global adversaries.
Do you think grades / things you did outside of school would matter? Would a top student from a small school have a better chance than an average student from a good school?
Nope, i am saying just like they gave away fake age for the reporter, they could've used just some random photo from backlog of a nondescript soldier with azov patch to put into article.
I am not arguing that was not there. I am just arguing that the article is not really a proof of him being a combatant.
Indeed. There is a lot of talk in my field equating large variance in reviews with bad reviewing, but sometimes it's just because we are humans.

Take for example a paper that presents a very innovative method, but with subpar results; and another one that presents an incremental improvement on some existing method, but with results that advance the state of the art.
Which is better?

Even if you ask knowledgeable, careful and honest reviewers, you will get contradictory responses, because it's highly subjective whether you rate originality as more important than results or vice versa (and other factors, like whether you think the first method can eventually be improved to be useful or not, which is often just an educated guess). I see this happening all the time, and I don't think it's something that can be "fixed", it's just how humans work.
amzing.wish i was an early invstor. would been awesome
I thought I'd seen bad analogies before, but I had no idea what was possible.
I said it’s schizophrenic because of its format which is more a consequence of the modern web than any particular person. Why did he say gain of function couldn’t be applied to a pre-existing virus and result in a highly infectious corona virus?
[1] Tanya Khovanova, Soviet-American mathematician who became the second female gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiads.

https://www.tanyakhovanova.com/

[2] Filippo Valsorda (cryptography)

https://filippo.io/

[3] David Wong (cryptography)

https://www.cryptologie.net/

[4] OpenBSD everything

https://www.undeadly.org/

[5] blog with some funny articles

https://idlewords.com/

[6] Might need a proxy/VPN to access this site

https://www.otherhand.org/

[7] Not a blog but something nice

https://thenicestplace.net/

Edit:

[8] weekly useful/curious datasets

https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/

[9] documenting startups getting swallowed by the big fish

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
But you hate it when the things you sell get cheaper. That's the problem. Even if you're an ordinary employee rather than an owner, you get squeezed when the owner makes less money. Their debts remain fixed while their income decreases.

If that leads to your income being reduced (or you're downsized), you have less to spend and your contribution to demand goes down. That starts the process all over again with whatever you consume. The worst case is a "deflationary spiral" where that keeps going round and round.

It's widely thought that a small (2%) inflation avoids that spiral by encouraging people to spend their money today rather than sit on it. It slowly eats into fixed incomes, which isn't great, but in general it keeps the economy moving for those who are employed. Ideally it pumps the GDP faster than inflation, allowing us to compensate for those on fixed incomes.
It's just an example...
I like how we said the same thing but started our answers with the opposite conclusion.
Max Planck - sorry I didn't define that (https://www.mpg.de/institutes).
Off topic, but I always do a bit of a double-take at how Americans use "Adjunct Professor." In Canada, that would be called "Contract Academic" or similar. I'll bet it is different again in Europe, so for clarity, that is basically a low paid teaching position.

In Canada, an Adjunct Professor is unpaid, but actually somewhat prestigious. It is a recognition of your abilities in a field and might be given to someone in industry who collaborates with a researcher at the university (for example).
Not me. I started as an EE.

Wanna check out my first professional engineering project ever?

https://littlegreenviper.com/TF30194/TF30194-Manual-1987.pdf (Downloads a PDF)
It describes the scene, tells you how many faces are visible, whether or not the image is focused, lighting conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAafjodkyE

They can also generate alt text for photos which do not have that information already. Here's a video of the person in the original article describing this feature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBJUHkLTTA
It’s perfectly conceivable that social factors contingent on race (and importantly income and wealth background too) could impact IQ though. That is a lot of the argument that racial differences in IQ do not describe biological differences.

> Totally agree race is a social construct.

Right, and if this is the case, then racial disparities in IQ are describing social differences, not genetic ones, because race is not genetic.
I remember something similar when there was a load balancing issue with some website where it would randomly assigning a user with someone else's account.
> Some issues with LaTeX development are essentially intractable.

Could you perhaps open this claim a little? What's wrong with the L3 programming layer? (https://www.alanshawn.com/latex3-tutorial/ - Already integrated to the format)
The real problem with Facebook at least is build times -- using the native stack incurs something insane like several hundred hour build times IIRC. So the native stack is just a non-starter once you get to a certain (ludicrous) codebase size.
I suggest renaming the US Embassy street in Vienna as Evo Morales Street
Not really. Mortgages are secured against the property, and attract low interest rates compared to unsecured debt like a credit card.
My feeling is that David Brin's notion of a transparent society is probably a more sensible policy than trying to maintain privacy: https://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html

In the twentieth century world most of us were born into, there was an assumption of privacy through anonymity simply because it was hard to keep track of everyone. Unless you were a wanted felon, moving to a new town essentially meant a new start in life. But with the amount of information that's collected and processed today, that simply isn't the case. Even if you keep a low profile on social media, you're still going to be tracked by a banks, credit card companies, and a multitude of private corporations and government agencies.

We can make laws against the buying and selling of personal information, but these are going to be hard to enforce. For example, a small retail chain might build up a private database of their customers. What happens if this chain is simply bought by a larger company? Can this company hold onto the customer database or are they forced to destroy this information? What if they split the company into retail and wholesale operations?

To be fair, saying that laws are hard isn't a reason not to make laws, it's just that we should have a clear understanding of how difficult it's going to be to maintain privacy in an era of cheap cameras, facial recognition software and ubiquitous computing. We can make it difficult for individuals to have access to this information, but it's going to be really hard to prevent deep pocketed organizations from collecting this information. The danger is that privacy laws will ensure that the public doesn't have access to information that large corporations and government agencies have access to.

We really need to consider what type of personal information is private and what ought to be understood as public. For example, if I own a house, is that information private or public? If you think that should be private, you have to make the argument that we're better off living in a society in which it's difficult for members of the public to find out who a piece of property belongs to. What about a car? If I inherit a million dollars, should I be able to keep that information private? What about who I marry or divorce, or who my children are?

Certainly there are some things that should be private. Encryption works, and we should be able to hold private conversations. One could make a strong case that medical records ought to be private. But we need to have a clear understanding of how we're going to keep these things private, and what are the costs and possible consequences of keeping things out of the public sphere.
Except I don't think you've even bought a copy of the photograph - the autograph is the only thing you've bought.
It's not hostile, it's just the truth.
Newborns can die from lack of food, water or touch.
Scrolling around the comments, I'm not seeing much discussion about funding. Are billionaire friends a requirement to set up an independent research organization?

Asking as an engineering PhD doing what feels like gopher work for big companies. I have armchair dreams and ideas for doing research again, but I've never been clear on how one would get that first grant.

Also, as an alternative to a purely academic route, is it practical to create an institute focused on more worldly things like patents or consulting?

I imagine a professional network would be key no matter what path you take!
I believe the user id actually was the email address when they started out.
And the example is weird: it explicitly explains you can do with fewer tests if the value is not true. Multiplication by N,U,ERR silently gives 0 as a result.

So multiplication by an ERR is not an error (from what I understand from quickly reading the ref).
as if this is unique to amazon. the only difference is amazon gets much more media scrutiny compared to other companies.
"Plus, I've found that forcing myself to write function documentation, and justify my decisions, has resulted in me putting more consideration into design."

This, this, and... this.

Sometimes, I step back after writing documentation and realise, this is a bunch of baloney. It could be much simpler, or this is a terrible decision! My point: Writing documentation is about expressing the function a second time -- the first time was code, the second time was natural language. Yeah, it's not a perfect 1:1 (see: the law in any developed country!), but it is a good heuristic.
> When you use Camera, VoiceOver describes objects in the viewfinder. To take a photo or start, pause, or resume a video recording, double-tap the screen with two fingers.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-voiceover-in-apps...
Neat but it seems like your neck would pay a price.

The voice commands are also cool but needing to pause between each one seems like a huge drawback, compared to typing where I can just blaze through.
3D Driving Simulator on Google Maps
Great, so now link each request across services, combined with the timings of each individual component within each service. LogInsights is for logging, not tracing. Logging is not a replacement for tracing.
The people harmed by the externalities of your personal choices because you live in a society where some degree of cooperation with the larger community is required.
Another fun, if more subtle divide is right around Hibbing, MN -- step west and water flows down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, step north and water flows up to Hudson Bay, step southeast and water flows through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4206243,-93.0430116,12.7z
That's assuming that revenue from MDN plus will go only to fund more premium content.

I don't think that is true (maybe I missed something from their page?), which means they will always have the incentive to make more premium content in order to generate more revenue, especially if they need it to cover the expenses.
> save as pdf...

Unless they intentionally break it somehow, my print dialog can already do that to any page.

Actually it's even easier: "file -> export to PDF" is an option in Safari. Saves a couple clicks.

I get the idea, but including that on the list of premium features is really weird. Are they just not going to provide a print stylesheet at all, unless you pay? Maybe that's it.
Competing with Elon Musk on space domination.
Phil's Old Radios
Whatever it is, it should be antifragile though.