skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything "predictive" probably uses Neural Engine. These are iOS features, but a lot of them apply to MacOS too

- Visual Lookup
- Animoji
- Face ID
- recognizing "accidental" palm input while using Apple Pencil
- monitoring users' usage habits to optimize device battery life and charging
- app recommendations
- Siri
- curating photos into galleries, selecting "good" photos to show in the photos widget
- identifying people's faces in photos
- creating "good" photos with input from tiny camera lenses and sensors
- portrait mode
- language translation
- on-device dictation
- AR plane detection

Core ML API allows third party developers to use Neural Engine to run models
I don't think parser combinators or parser generators should be included in a list of productivity multipliers, personally.
I knew you were gonna mention this one and I don't think it really qualifies as it's not really an unspoken rule, it's the pretty well known and strictly defined adjective ranking order.
People don't sell drugs to help people, they sell them to make easy money. That wouldn't be such a bad thing if drugs didn't destroy the live of so many people, and the lives of those around them. Not all drugs are so bad, and that is reflected in their classification under the Dangerous Drugs Act.

I can only assume that you or anyone you care about hasn't died or destroyed their life due to drug addition?
Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (2017)
This is 100% April Fools, right?
Does this system pre-populate the forms with everything the IRS already knows about me and then I just modify the things that are incorrect? Can people upload their tax documents from all the financial institutions in some standard format that automatically figures out what form to use and populates maybe 95% of the fields and marks the empty required fields with yellow? I ask because I have an id.me/IRS login and they do not appear to have this data until I give it to them.

This is the system I am looking for. I think it would make the lives of the IRS employees better and would save me time and money.
Yes, and your computer is a ball of interconnected microservices too.
For American residents the first thing to do is to maximize 401(k) contributions, since they reduce income subject to Federal and state income tax in the year they are made. My wife and I have done that since our 30s -- now we are in our early 50s.
https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question95438.html
TBH that kind of sounds like a notion that would have been held by somebody with a lot of leisure time. I can't imagine that your average dairy farmer would have been particularly good at swords, math, or poetry.
I'm not concerned about evil robots. A coordinated cyber attack? People intentionally exploiting bugs in perception? Errors in general?

I think the risk of a malfunction is much higher with a robot than a sober human, and probably most legally intoxicated humans.

I don't base it on Hollywood, but in years of programming experience. Anyway, did you hear about the 737 that crashed due to a software bug last month?
> requires distributed and consistent state

Distributed yes, but not necessarily consistent. You can use CRDTs to manage "partial, flexible" consistency requirements. This might mean, e.g. sometimes having more than 5 instances running, but should come with increased flexibility overall.
This American[1] has never given the name much consideration. If you pressed me on the question, I'd mention that Canada has a team and then I'd shrug. This NPR article mentions several possible reasons, but no one knows for sure:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=467571...

1. My apologies to the residents of the other South, Central, and North American countries that the U.S. has taken "American" to refer to ourselves.
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> as US taxes aren't that much lower than in Europe.

US taxes being similar to Europe (which in my experience is true) certainly does not equate to an equivalent safety net.
There is ambiguity in the word "have."

It's borderline obvious we will have a taxi/Uber replacement for most of lower Manhattan, east San Francisco and southeast Phoenix before 2030. (Technologically, at least.) Less confident in long-distance interstate-only driving by 2030, but that's better than 50/50.

Beyond that, the edge cases are innumerable, so it's difficult to estimate. Nevertheless, we have clear line of sight to domains where, for all intents and purposes, a human-driven vehicle will be obsolete (if not necessarily yet unquestionably uneconomical) in well under ten years. That's far more than we have ever been able to say for fusion.
Apple has made huge compromises to try and give some privacy back to the consumer, who lost it all from paying for cheap products where the product is you. And people just ignore this progress because they want to be anti-Apple. It's sad.
On my pc motherboard (and all the ones I've had forever) if you hold the power button in for like 4 seconds it does a hard-power cut.

Just don't complain the next time you start it up that disk files you were writing to when the power failed are corrupted.
As soon as I saw the video, I thought they were a few days early.
Big fan of this site back in the early 2000s. Now I'm Bullet Journaling.
Machine learning used to raise child vaccination rates
(1) Linear algebra. E.g., part of it is part of the crucial, core math of my startup. Also as we see today, Jack J Dongarra just won a Turing Award, and one of his best accomplishments is what he did for LINPACK, numerical linear algebra.

(2) Integer linear programming set covering. A super nice way to get likely very close to optimal solutions to some really nasty real world problems in combinatorial optimization.

(3) My favorite text editor, Kedit. It is a PC version of the IBM text editor XEDIT, written by an IBM guy in France, apparently on his own time. It used Rexx as a macro language, and Kedit uses Kexx, its version of Rexx, as its macro language. XEDIT and Kedit are elegantly designed; the macro languages are also elegant. Kedit is my most important tool.

(3) Hierarchical file systems, e.g., Microsoft's NTFS (new technology file system). I just find the hierarchy in the file system as a natural a taxonomic hierarchy for organizing information.

(4) Yes, once I used Monte Carlo simulation of a continuous time, discrete state space Markov process to estimate the surviveability of the US SSBN fleet under a special scenario of global nuclear war limited to sea. So, it was potentially an enormously complicated calculation but due to the simplification of the Markov assumption, how the continuous time was handled with a Poisson process, and the Monte Carlo to do the numerical part, I got the whole project done in just two weeks.
There’s a difference between banning an app and banning an account.
Google is worth 1.8 TRILLION dollars. How much would you have to sue them for before they start to give a shit?

1.8T is an unimaginable amount of money.
Just need some AR glasses to completely seal yourself off from your surroundings.
If I understand correctly, you're probably referring to a stereographic projection [0], and I see that the upper tip would 'close' the inverse image of the graph of 1/x on the sphere, something which doesn't happen if you take the closure of the graph with respect to the usual topology on R^2. This is not my field, there may even be some fancy topological concepts such as connectedness or arc-connectedness related but I don't know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_projection
Two days early!
> I wish we lived in an alternate universe where paranoia about nuclear reactors wasn’t so much of a thing, and that we could have nuclear powered cruise ships just like the Navy has nuclear aircraft carriers and subs.

I think we can all agree that anyone who judges Royal Caribbean or Carnival Cruise Line to not be as competent and responsible in nuclear engineering matters as the US Navy is quite obviously paranoid.
There's no need. This transition will be slow. A few cities first with a limited number of cars. And then it grows organically and probably initially quite slowly. It would take many years to upgrade all taxis world wide. The production capacity to produce the vehicles simply does not exist yet.

So, the grid won't collapse. Drivers won't starve overnight. Legal issues will sort themselves out as early adopters encounter them, etc. Plenty of time for everybody to adapt.
Past performance does not indicate future returns. However, I too don't believe that self-driving cars will be here in 5 years either.
Let them play with other children of their age.
Television and the majority of movies are just brainwashing.
Eh. Governments should absolutely not get in the business of creating or running an app store. Mobile computing is, effectively, a necessity in the modern world but the web already serves as a great independent distribution platform. We should rather focus on not enabling the technology giants to gimp the web for their business moats.
Pro movie directors do this too. In fact, it's so ubiquitous, there are several millions of dollars per movie project that go strictly into editing.

One of the best known examples of this, from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, notably did not even have a single real Balrog appear in their raw footage.

It's a shame he resorted to cheating - but what's strange is the trilogy is universally acclaimed as one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time.
I have a few friends that run their own crypto nodes b/c they don't trust cloud providers (and their employees) to have access to their private keys (which may control millions of dollars).

Would this tool minimize the risk of an employee snapshots the disk and RAM of their machine?
The EU's proposed Digital Services act mandates a proper appears process for account suspension/termination related to transmitting "illegal content", is "or incompatible with its terms and conditions".

This appeal is required to be real, actually reviewing the content or conduct in question to determine if it violates the law or terms and conditions. If there is enough information to conclude that no violation occur, the company is required to reinstate the account.

If after the appeal, the user is still not satisfied they can appeal to one of a set of government approved arbitrators, who will listen to the dispute and decide the case. It is the user who gets to decide which of the arbitrators will be used (among those certified for the relevant category of platform). The company always handles its own expenses associated with this process, and if the company loses, they must reimburse reasonable fees and expenses incurred by the user.

These appeal processes also apply to removed content, not just account suspension/termination.

There is an exception for "small and micro enterprises" though.

The main downside of this law is that its primary purpose is to create a DCMA++ framework over in Europe, but it still looks to have a much better balance of concerns that the laws here in the US have.
I don't think a single fatal school bus collision will do much. After all, there are fatal collisions with human drivers all the time and yet there is very little public support for banning human drivers.
This is a really long and informative article, but I would propose a change to the title here, since "Generics can make your Go code slower" seems like the expected outcome, where the conclusion of the article leans more towards "Generics don't always make your code slower", as well as enumerating some good ways to use generics, as well as some anti-patterns.
A lot of negativity here but I guess the target market is locations where the air pollution is bad enough that the benefits of escaping it outweigh looking like an extra from a sci-fi B-movie. I remember hearing on the radio in London how air pollution was going to be very bad one day approaching 10 on some scale. A scientist was being interviewed and was asked "Where would the pollution in Beijing be on this scale?", he replied "About 300"
> but hypothetically we can go from AST back into SQL and start doing some super crazy shit like patching hand-written queries programmatically.

And you've stumbled into rewrite-rules and the realms of query-planners/optimizers!

If you enjoy this stuff, it's really fun to learn about.
Some people have no control over their environment. Suddenly getting laid off isn't a mark of "dishonesty."

It is offensive when "unforeseen circumstances" is casted as "dishonesty." This kind of thing is routinely done to criminalize the poor.
You can only change them before a animation runs. If you are in middle of an animation hit Stop/Reset and then adjust.
A.K.A 'Snot Cannon'

I can see this has having the similar type of negative public health impact as the Dyson Blade dryers in public toilets, simply circulating fecal matter further in an enclosed space.

Naomi Wu with the critique: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
Do we? Where? The best version currently in existance could be (generously) described as an automated bus that only drives on a pre-mapped grid and still needs human supervision because you can't quite trust it yet. The most well known commercialy available "autopilot" (from Tesla) is so hilariously bad that I honestly don't understand how it's even legal to use, much less to sell for real money.
> People aren't cogs

Exactly. They are extremely adaptive, capable of learning and doing many things. Sure, not everyone can do everything, but there are also no purpose-built humans capable of only one job.
Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
> Children playing at the park? Is that even a thing anymore?

Have you been to a park in a child-raising area lately? They are absolutely packed all the time with kids. Sure, you don't see them downtown, but you head out to the suburbs and you absolutely do.
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
ISBN 0-02-905980-1

https://wtf.tw/ref/carse.pdf

"A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility"

Short Read, very dense, and fully free.
I'll bet Jack Dongarra could pass the Turing Test as well! What can't he do?
Considering how much backlash there is around valved respirators, a purification system that blasts aerosolized droplets of spit out into the air seems like an obvious failure
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Totally agree. I have a hard time taking seriously a perspective on the merits of a data technology that is so dismissive towards concerns like MVCC, ACID, and normal forms. These have been foundational to data technologies for nearly 50 years at this point for a reason. To discard them as "impractical" indicates to me a severe immaturity of perspective.
yeah I am still confused because in the first part there's jumpy graphics and in the second part there are stable graphics, and I'm not sure if this represents a change over time, or different vehicles, or what
I think I prefer the Scorpion design to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn_(ship)
I don't think it's fair to say that either Cruise or Waymo avoid downtown areas. Cruise cars come pouring out of their depot at Van Ness and California nightly at 10pm, like bats or something. That's not downtown but it's in a very dense, very busy area. Cruise's offices are in SoMa where Dropbox used to be, and I see tons of Cruise cars in the vicinity of Folsom/Embarcadero. I also see Waymo working Embarcadero on both sides of Market, which is downtown.
april fools ? it's only two days away
Not only a new language, but one that, once in use, doesn't really look like something built for this purpose, if that snippet's representative. That is ugly.
I'm intrested in knowing what TOS the "associated" developer account broke?
Virtual learning in the palm of your hand
I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm saying that it isn't commonly used. Objectively, a great majority of people can live their lives without even thinking about or performing calculus outside of the classroom.

That is why I questioned whether knowing calculus is really a piece of fundamental knowledge that allows a 10x performance increase. For the majority of people it's not going to help them. Even if they deal with calculus in their field, I don't see it providing a 10x increase because unless one is mathematician, the calculus portion of their job will be inconsequential and likely be automated or computed for them.
Depending on what you mean by widely rolled out, I agree. Driverless trucks driving on the highway and in well-marked industrial areas seems extremely plausible within 10 years. Driverless taxis at slow speeds as a shuttle service on campuses and fair grounds are more or less already a thing and will only grow.

Driverless cars in a European city center, during snow, ice and rain seems unlikely within 10 years. But we don't need that to see transformational change.
An explanation for the atol difference between numpy and math, by the author of math.isclose():

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/10161#issuecomment-350...

plus a ton of flogging/benchmarking common libraries (numpy, scipy, scikit-learn) and discussion about np.isclose()

... and also this gem:

import numpy as np

a = 1
b = 10
rtol = 1
atol = 0
np.isclose(a, b, rtol=rtol, atol=atol) # True
np.isclose(b, a, rtol=rtol, atol=atol) # False

(For the record:)

import math

math.isclose(a, b, rel_tol=rtol, abs_tol=atol) # True
math.isclose(b, a, rel_tol=rtol, abs_tol=atol) # True
That's so true. Switched to Mailfence recently. I still can't get used to it that whenever I click on something, the action gets done immediately. Its web/mobile client is a bit limited but crazy fast.
Tornado Alley is shifting toward Dixie
Another little picky example: gnome-terminal is my favorite of the various spiffed-up xterms. Start up a KDE session, and gnome-terminal does not appear in the menu even though the full GNOME is installed on the system. I have to run it from the menu's search function.

At least, this is the case on Ubuntu Focal. Anyone else using KDE and gnome-terminal?

ETA: I can't even make a quicklaunch for it in KDE.
The 3rd gen iPad was released 2012 ($499), air 2013 ($499), mini 4 2015 ($399), pro 2015 ($799), pro 3rd gen 2018 ($799-$999), you get the idea. If we take an higher end average (assuming she got more bold over time) and use $999 for the average (keeping in mind that she also bought Surface Pros) that's roughly 40,000 pieces of equipment she stole.

2013-2021 is 8 years. That's an average of 5,000 per year or roughly 100 per week.

Wild.
> What's the point of making "Republican" so prominent in the article? Is it just to use the negative connotation most WP readers have about the Republican party to malign Facebook a little more?

A person self identifies with a party that has questionable (/s) practices in a democracy and they’re being maligned. Jokes are funny because they have truth.
Sounds like Google. Slow, steady and more reliable.
I guess this is the modern equivalent of the c10k problem http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
How have some people avoided getting Covid?
You need to renegotiate your time off or find a different employer…

As a related side note: unlimited time off gets a well deserved bad reputation, but there are plenty of real examples. A great indicator that it’s real is a minimum policy.
They are definitely not what we are use to when we hear the word headphone but I think they have a specific usecase and market they can address.

I think they are good for anyone doing woodworking, gardening (have pollens), labs where they are chemicals, and similar outdoor work environment.

The problem can be the cost. Dyson are not cheap so and they market that can use is not going to spend that much money.

but the concept is neat. Pushing a boundary
Only place I ever expect to see this is on an airplane.
Utterly ridiculous. My best friend lives 1600 miles away, and has for 10 years. We chat daily, sharing more details of our lives than I ever thought possible.

My mom lives 2000 miles away, I only get to see her once a year. Yet we talk on the phone, write emails, have FaceTime, and yes, like on FB or Instagram.

A cousin I haven't seen in a long time will take catching up at meals and activities; that's the role of family reunions.

The idea that you need to be physically close to be emotionally close is just silly.
I think this blog goes into more detail: https://blog.waymo.com/2021/06/beyond-the-bike-lane.html
A person's professional life lasts for around 30 years (probably much more for the people born on some interval from the 1980's to 2010's, depending on your country).

How does that speed compare?
I think the target market is less “COVID” and more “Beijing air pollution”.
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They are driving around the streets of San Francisco. It may not be Mumbai, but it's not the highway either.
Definitely within 10 years. 50 years is insane.

Just the other day my Tesla model 3 drove me home from a restaurant 10 miles away, at night, with plenty of other cars on the road, through side streets and on a highway, without intervention. Did it do weird things? Sure, but nothing that made me nervous enough to intervene. Compared to just a year ago when it was still phantom breaking on the highway and couldn’t do side streets at all. All the people saying it’s still decades away don’t realize how quickly things are progressing.

10 years is a long time and progress is not always linear. Think about what happened to the internet between 1995 and 2005.
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>>Current issues stem more from legal wrangling over who is liable than whether cars can drive in 'driverless' mode.

Honestly don't believe that at all. The tech is immature and works only in a very narrow set of circumstances with a lot of constraints - it's so far away from being functional that the whole legal discussion around it is almost academic at this point.
Those aren't strollers they are traffic testers.
How does this compare to Doppler[1]?

Is there a way to handle the configuration in Terraform?

[1] https://www.doppler.com/
In my opinion the reasoning why "SPAs [are] way easier to reason about in the abstract" is neglecting to acknowledge that most applications evolve over time.

There is no well-defined API on the server side. The application logic is smeared across code the runs in the browser and code that runs on a server. That "API" is usually merely an HTTP endpoint that connects both sides. Adding new functionality to the application requires touching both sides, and changing the HTTP endpoint. I would use different approaches to build those HTTP endpoints and to build a "proper" API that's used by different consumers.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the authors of the Tech Radar, and we've actually written about this coupling between the two sides of an app in a different context here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/ui-bff-shared-...
Guidance by Railway Tracks (2016) [video]
Grafana Cloud
The thing I remember about living in the UK in the 80's is that there was an economic boom where people became wealthier. Not just the equivalent of dotcom billionaires, but your average blue collar worker.

It was enough of a cultural phenomenon that there was a comedian created a character called "Loadsamoney" - a cockney carpenter that was earning massive amounts of money.

People moan about "boom and bust" economies, but for the last 20 years I think all we have had is "bust" and no "boom".
Programmers are lazy. I've seen more than my fair share of the default behavior of a language like Java implemented. Which usually means just making a system call for the current time and will return the time in whatever time zone the system happens to be set for.
I think this WP article is rather illuminating:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_power-supply_pin