skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Siri to set a timer. That's it. And I do it by holding my power button to activate her.

My only other use of Siri usually involved phrases like "stop", "go away", "close", "fucking close!", "you stupid fcking * ** close the **** thing" when Siri would pop up out of nowhere and interrupt whatever I was actually doing. I had it turned off, but occasionally somehow it's back on, listening.

Other actual attempts at using it have been no better than 50% effective, so it wasn't worth the trouble. And I was speaking very clearly and articulately.

I've observed a friend (a Googler who had Google-fied his house) have frequent useless conversations with the Google assistant, so maybe 50% is the best you can hope for. No experience with Alexa, but I'd be too scared to even turn it on; I might end up with three refrigerators delivered the next day.
If the builds aren't verifiable and you can't put what you want on there then it's just promises, which are worth nothing.

> Remember: You don't actually own any iOS device because you can't run unsigned code that you wrote on it.

We agree about that!
Yet gov banned nuclear energy; now it's becoming ridiculous.
> For all the open source and other development that occurs and is “indexed” on internet discussion forums there is countless boring ass shit behind the scenes in sweatshops around the world and corporate back rooms.

Much of which is also in Python.
"Built for a future that no one even wants or asked for"
A zoom call costs the same if 20 or 40 kids attend.
And support DRM to protect media companies' IP.

Because $$$ talks, and there's a lot of money in media.
Pixels had a defect where emergency calls didnt work with MS teams installed. Both platforms wither under the lights
Man I wish I had a robotics club growing up x)
Vim After 15 Years (2017)
things will balance out, people will consumer fewer of luxury goods, will consume more of cheaper stuff.

Brands will keep spending to keep their customers, and cheaper alternatives will keep spending on ads to promote their sales.

In competitive market and free economy ads are a fundamental engine that will keep economy running. Ads is sort of toll booth that takes their cut no matter what
Hot diggity, I don't know anything about money, but if you look at "free cash flow" at the end:

> FREE CASH FLOW
>
> 3MO 2022 3MO 2021 9MO 2022 9MO 2021
>
> $ 173 $ 9,547 $ 13,151 $ 25,876

Does this mean they went from 13k * 1M to 173M in free cash in the last year?
Android it works pretty much perfectly and you can speak at normal speed.

With Android it pretty much works perfectly and you can speak at normal speed. <== Same sentence dictated at full speed.
No kidding! She obviously knew what was wanted, but instead of doing her fing job, she tells you how to do it yourself. She doesn't like when I tell her to F herself. I hope some of those recordings end up with Apple training.
I’m not sure about other fields, but NIH Federally funded papers have a PMCID (along with a PMID) and are free
Oval's is bleak. Looks like anti-tank caltrops strung together with barbed wire.
Presumably packets which continue to arrive at the old host must get forwarded to the new host, and returning packets must be spoofed. Or does this also involve some upstream network reconfiguration?
I don't think it's controversial that trust in Apple's extremely locked-down ecosystem basically comes down to "we promise". If it's closed source you can't verify. Even if it's open, if it's not a reproducible build (or your own build) that you install yourself then who knows what's on there and what it does?
Netflix Account Sharing Crackdown Results in Surge of Subscription Cancelations
Zuckerberg runs it.

In no other company would a CEO be allowed to essentially go rogue like this. All companies with dual-class shares will eventually trade at a discount, this is FB's time.

I don't even think the Metaverse is a bad idea, but applying the SV mentality of: we just need to lose more money than anyone else won't work, that isn't how the real world works unless you have someone even dumber to pay you off (i.e. stupider VC fund, IPO)...FB is top of the food chain, no-one else is coming in on this.

They either need to slow the cash burn (the numbers are just ludicrous) or spin the company (not possible).

This kind of thing happens and the discount can last literally decades. With dual-class share, there is no way to close it and most investors know this so they are just selling.

I will say it again: dual-share class isn't smart, the market isn't dumb, investors aren't stupid, it will go wrong eventually and everyone else is paying the price for Zuckerberg's own desire for self-aggrandizement.
> > Python is the first or second most popular language.

> By what metrics?

Hmm, why don’t you answer your own question?

> Redmond quarterly from June shows Python at #2,

That clearly is one that puts it “first or second”, yes.
Check out Prodeus on Steam or Xbox Gamepass if you are trying to scratch that itch with a modern take.
Your username is a game I love playing on my Quest 2. Streamed from my beefy PC ofc. CS 1.6 on VR. What a time to be alive!
I use it a lot (without criu or libsoccr) for high-availability shenanigans, to avoid the reconnection delay. Machine A is 'main' and had established a connection to distant-machine 1. A crashes (the hardware stops), machine B takes over its MAC, IP and all its established TCP connections. Nothing can be seen from the distant-machine side (maybe a gratuitous ARP slips out... to no avail). And yes, for <1 millisecond takeover this is necessary and I thank the criu project with all my engineering heart for not going the 'just put a module in there and be done with it' but actually making sockets checkpointable and restartable, and saving me from the pains of a userland network stack.

The actual details are far more funny and interesting (we could talk about checkpoint not being an atomic operation for the kernel, how you need to do some magic with "plug" qdiscs and qdiscs being applicable on egress only you'll look into IFBs and I love Linux it is so versatile and full of amazing little features). Don't forget to hot-update conntrack too...

And since libsoccr is GPL you might need to do this yourself, and you'll want to do it anyway, because it's interesting and you'll learn so many things.

My only gripe is the checkpoint still being a bit slow and maybe if I keep annoying Jens Axboe on twitter maybe soon it'll be a io_uring chain <3.
Appreciate the feedback! I’m personally less rules based as well aside from no parties, that’s probably strictly required by most lodging. Aside from that I agree.

Keep in mind these are all configurable by the trip planner in the UI
Weird. I have showdead on but was this actually deleted? I see no such comment, but see the other dead comment where someone said a poem or something in another thread.
Hey, you can your relaxation with a side helping of micro transactions and loot boxes.
I consider myself a patriotic American, but I don't know that the government even follows the Constitution in the first place.

NSA has been hoovering up data of innocent Americans, and the IC in general, works with foreign ICs, to target Americans without reasonable cause, just blanket vacuuming.

Much of the govt, including federal, state, and local, has been purchasing private data without a warrant signed by a judge. Or they tap incoming fiber. Am expecting the next shoe to drop around traffic buying, not just location, without a warrant.

Civil forfeiture is rife, violating the 5th and 14th. It is mainly targeting minorities

Likewise, traffic cameras proliferation, mainly targeting minorities.

US Govt, state govts are actively pressuring BigTech to censor, causing them to become state "actors", and "agents of the State" themselves

We're coming off multiple scandals of govt employees criminally pursuing regionally unpopular politicos and their allies, but escaping sanction through regionalized trials

Large govt decrees ended rent collection, closed businesses, and did untold damage to the US. I can understand this, but not the lack of compensation to all the landlords that have been ruined by this.

The problem we have is, the US Constitution isn't being followed in the first place.
Apple fans always pull that excuse out "It feels better, it sounds better, it's stronger!" and don't even think about how much e-waste and stress Lightning ports have caused over the years
> still doesn't know exactly what it's for

It's a $30 billion a year business.

Maybe they know a little more than you think.
I use vendors rather than storing myself. Tokenization only :)
buy the dip doesn't work if you are jumping from a plane
It's not a crime to have poor safety culture, but poor safety culture causes crimes to happen.

That is, you may induce your employees to commit crimes, while not personally violating any laws.

Or your employees may commit crimes because middle management thought it was more important to hit their targets.

There is an obvious moral conflict here; the laws have not caught up to the complexity of corporate culture.
Self hosted communities. I can still play on ~5 CS 1.6 servers where the same people hang out since 20 years.
I concur with all points, and I envy your brevity.
> Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are framed as donations.

I don't see any evidence of this on the Kickstarter website.

> Steam Early Access allows you to request a full refund at any point up until the actual launch of the game

This is not true. They are considered normal purchases.
They need jazz and classical music in order to continue to be named in the wills of octogenarians.
Ben@villagersapp.com, reach out!
I think you misunderstood his comment. There's no reason to lash out at him for his job situation. Many people don't have that many options of great jobs where you chill all the time.

Most jobs out there are sitting nearly 8h at a desk, with breaks of course, even in Europe. Not everyone has a hot jobs market where you get to set your terms.

Dicking around all day without doing much work is something I've never seen at any tech company I worked here but only in YouTube videos on life at top tech US companies.

Maybe I was born in the wrong county/continent.
Honestly I think it’s much better to optimize for the native use case rather than FFI.

FFI can pervade an ecosystem making changes (including performance optimizations) to the host language more difficult. It also tends to complicate build and deployment stories. For example, from my Mac I can trivially build a native binary that will Just Work on any Linux system, even one without a libc. Contrast that with Python where I can’t even install popular packages onto most non-Ubuntu Linux distros. And there’s a lot of other things like that which crop up with pervasive FFI.

I’m convinced that the FFI sweet spot is “difficult but possible” and native performance should be good enough 99% of the time.
How many people use diction? I'm surprised cause I know virtually no one who uses diction, myself included.
I'm very sad... I did my engineering thesis with a Lego Mindstorms on 2009
The Science of the Thrill
I've never had success ordering on Aliexpress. The orders always get canceled. I made an account specifically to order RISCV boards and none have gone through.

Am I going crazy or is this just bad luck?
Note: loud.
Record-breaking transparent solar panels pave way for solar windows
The description doesn't seem to include what kind of popular music works best for conveyance and stealth. I'd like to listen to the music to hear what the attack sounds like and how hard to detect it is.

This also raises the question of whether existing, unaltered, popular music might be might be usable in such an attack.

It also makes me wonder where else DPS are used as a crucial security component.
>"Lepore talks about national abortion, immigration, and firearms policy and how they'd be impacted by a more readily-amended Constitution, but I think she should take a wider view and look at things like how speech and free association would be impacted."

I feel like the author is looking at using amendments as a way to implement legislation that is permanent. Our Federal constitution is fairly concise, whereas some State constitutions are so easy and readily amendable that legislation gets codified in almost every session [1]. The challenge with doing this is that the constitution itself converges into just another body of law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Alabama

Edit: Instead of "permanent", "decisively" would be more appropriate. A constitution that can easily be amended can just as easily be un-amended. A response to this comment said "way to settle national controversies" which seems far more fitting than what I originally wrote.
Had another CT scan last Friday, at the ER. They couldn't tell her the cause for the reason she visited (extreme pain, abdominal swelling, fluid buildup) but they did find that blood clot, so that's a new and terrifying change. She's had a lot of CT scans and MRIs and this is the first time she's had DVT. Now she's on blood thinners, so she doesn't die in the next month or so. Unless she cuts her finger chopping vegetables (almost happened while I was typing this) and she bleeds out.

(I have new additions to the first aid kit, for this new problem.)
Yeah, it's really amusing that anyone expects anything innovation-wise out of the US when we basically put the minimum amount of money humanly possible towards education (for the majority of the country). Looking at Asia and the Nordic countries and how highly they value educators, it's clear where all the talent is going to be in the coming decades.
> unless there is some kind of "signature" that can be detected

There is.

You're right that the encryption probably can't be overcome. The risk is more that it is detected and then the adversary beats you up until you hand over the password.
I guess the hope is that revenue will eventually grow exponentially and outpace growing costs
> For case (2) there should be some super-capacitors in the power supply.

Agreed, but sadly, I am not aware of any PSU with super-capacitors installed so that it can ride out the 1-2 second flickers. So at the moment there is no built-in ability (besides exclusively using a laptop) to prevent the 1-2 second flickers from also causing a hard shutdown.
I love surfing and skiing so should be planning those too. See my email that I’ve included a bunch in this thread and I’ll add you to a “village”
not sure why you are down voted it pretty much sumes the situation up

Nuclear makes _financially_ no sense, only undoing the decision for a earlier shutdown done after fukushima makes sense. But building nuclear power plants takes at least decade a so it's not even an option to consider for short term handling of shortages in the next years and nuclear power was only ever cheap because of it being highly subvention.

It also makes geo strategically no sense as it's a sigle point of failure and a rather catastrophic point of failure, too.

Germany had a budding promising solar and wind industry which was basically killed of by politicians from CDU and SPD. Worse it's more then obvious that the politicians behind it have tight connections to the coal and gas industry to a point you could call it corrupt.
Mark doesn’t give a shit about share price, otherwise there would be buybacks right now. Meta still has a donkey which shits gold: even facebook still had 4% DAU growth yoy, while people make fun about fb using users to tiktok.

No, Mark wants a war chest and will increase investments for his meta verse.

But I would never bet against Mark.
My colleagues and I had a moment of fun somewhere in remote Iceland, offroading on the way to a glacier. On an iPhone 3G, we were able to ask trivia questions and get pretty useful responses.

Aside from setting a timer, I've not seen Siri do anything more useful in 9 years. You haven't missed anything.
Elon Musk Is in Twitter’s Office and Will Address Staff Friday
This sounds like something that would have been perfect for MythBusters.
I don't think profitability is what matters here.

They simply are burning way too much money for an R&D phase.

Are they building giant factories or something?
Multihoming is one of the key features of most protocols invented after tcp (sctp, QUIC, mptcp) and for good reason, it is so so useful in many scenarios.
There has also been a fully playable version of Quake that runs in the browser for many years. Super cool, was great for slacking off at work back in the day haha

Edit: Quake Live it was called. Unclear if it's still offered in the browser as it seems to have made it's way to Steam.
I use an iPad as my main personal computer. It’s like what Google wants you to use a Chromebook for, but without the janky framerates. It’s the most pleasant web browsing device I’ve come across.
I never said it was a failure. But it's certainly a supplementary device for most people.

If all iPads disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow, it wouldn't be nearly as big of a deal compared to if that happened with smartphones or laptops or PCs, etc.

Meta has a big hurdle to overcome to make success out of a device with no real practical use so far, and one that you have to strap to your face.
Possibly?

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html
It’s really just a fraud concern in the short term if money is involved but definitely planning to change that
Careful now. Self-assortment into those who don't play at all and those who play at least three hours per day? There's good reasons to think those weren't otherwise equivalent populations in the first place. I'm buying "associated" but any sort of claims about effects from the games are going to have to come from elsewhere.
A complicated -- usually poorly functioning -- application form is a solid red flag, especially when I've given the information in another form, usually a resume.

Then again, I've gotten all of my positions through responding to the constant recruiter spam beyond the age of... idk 22 or something. A mostly out of date LinkedIn profile is almost exclusively my career search tool of choice.
>Self hosted communities.

if that were the only catch then people like myself and parent wouldn't return to these games simply to fight a bot match.
You should have shorted Meta the day this video dropped. Not because it showed lazy workers, but because the worker shared it on TikTok, not a Meta-owned property.
Corebooting a ThinkPad X220
> don't know any peers (millenials), that are able to afford

> In my high COL area

Yes, it is a problem that Millenials refuse to live anywhere other than Instagram-worthy locations. God, what would Becky think if I posted a TikTok from flyover country? And imagine shopping at Walmart, I would literally die frfr no cap.

How we could ever solve this vexing self-inflicted problem, I have no idea. What a quandary.

> seems like a very outdated concept

Yes, much like the outdated concept that building tangible wealth in underpriced assets is worth the cost of a slightly lower number next to the heart icon. Fucking boomers, amirite?
Yeah, it was a crude estimate. Call it 10-15 years if you want.
> not really enough to justify breaking compatibility and making people repurchase everything from scratch

That’s LEGO’s game plan though X)
I like the idea of the Constitution as a living document, updated over time, but I'm also really glad it's so hard to amend. It's not perfect, but there are usually extremely good reasons for pretty much everything in there, and so if we're going to change something, it seems like a prerequisite should be a deep understanding of why something was put in there in the first place.

Take the Electoral College. It's en vogue right now to talk about abolishing it (it's also popular to talk about it as if it's sacred, and in both cases, it seems a lot of people's feelings about it are based on whether or not their favorite candidate won a recent election, but I digress). If people want to change or even remove it, that's fine, but they should first have a very deep understanding of why it is how it is - an understanding that's a bit deeper than they got in their high school U.S. Government class.

If you go back and read the Federalist papers, for example, you can't help but come away with a profound admiration for how much thought people put into these things, even if you don't agree with their conclusions. There's just a ton of wisdom and thought there. If you can come up with something better, great, but among other things you really should have to articulate their original reasoning and make a good case for how their concerns aren't relevant now, or that your idea is a better set of tradeoffs, etc. Just saying that the EC isn't fair falls way short of that - yeah, they thought about stuff like that, a lot.

Another reason why it's good to have a hard-to-modify Constitution right now is because we are currently pretty terrible at negotiating politically and building any sort of consensus - the hard work of bridge building is often skipped, and so more legislation is passing with the slimmest of majorities, and each presidency seems to do more via executive action. (And to whoever is tempted to respond with, "yes, the X party is terrible at this" needs to take a closer look at their preferred party, because both of the 2 major parties are terrible at it, just often in different ways. But they are both corrupt and broken to the core, at least on the national level) If we can't pull back from this and get to a more sane working and collaboration environment, the "unamenadability" of the Constitution might be the thing that saves us (or, maybe, the thing that delays our drive off the cliff by a few years at least).
If Tesla doesn’t have a culture that values safety, why are their vehicles safer in crashes than all other comparable vehicles?
I'm pretty sure autopilot in planes can land them. They don't do this because they need pilots to be trained in how to land them in the event of autopilot failure. I know for a fact there are non-commercial planes, for example, that will detect pilot incapacitation, find the nearest airport, account for local weather, talk to ATC, and land the aircraft.
Ironically, she will complain if you cuss at her and call her names, but she won't turn herself off. And when she pops up without my request, and I want her to go off, it seems there's no verbal way to make her go away... even verbally abusing her.
> You mean essentially installing a package via cloud-init which takes a second to add?

No. I had to rebuild the entire image, from the boot image up, to support MPIO Fibre Channel with the capability to install successfully via PXE network boot even if one of the two fabric paths was down. This was to support large-scale deployments to diskless blade servers using a central SFTP server, where the installation target was a SAN disk array.

This is actually possible to achieve purely via Windows, using various Cygwin tools, but it is incredibly painful.

I used Linux in a virtual machine to do the build, which made this was relatively quick and easy[1] to implement. This makes sense, of course! Windows is easy to use to build Windows images, Linux is easy to use to build Linux images. Similarly, I would use MacOS to build MacOS images, and so forth.

Note that I basically never use Linux, except for rare cases such as needing to deploy the XenServer hypervisor, or some network appliance. Nonetheless, I did not "reach for Windows" as my preferred option, despite my vastly greater familiarity and skills with it compared to Linux.

That's my point. The original article author has only a hammer and sees everything as a nail, even screws. It doesn't matter if the hammer is great at driving in nails. It can be awesome at that. If you need to drive a screw, pick up a screwdriver, instead of writing clever blog posts about how hammers can be laboriously filed down to enable them to clumsily turn a screw.

[1] The requirement was complex, the actual change steps to get there were not too bad, even for a "non Linux person" like me.