skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will probably be one of those devices that will only work for Americans in America speaking American English in a particular accent. Maybe some Canadians too, if the voice reconigition is particularly good. Many English speakers like the British or, God forbid, the Scottish will be treated as if they speak an entirely different language.

I find Google's natural language AI extremely lacking in Dutch but I'm not switching languages to get my phone to do what I want it to do. I need to say broken sentences to get reminders to work right (the equivalent of "OK Google, remind me at 9 turn on washing machine" because any connecting words between the command and the input will be parsed as part of the input).

At least Google Assistant seems to work better than Siri, but I'm not sure if that's because Google's AI is better or if Apple's is just worse. If Google can't get it right, their tiny competitor will never be able to get this working outside their tiny target area.
I'm less concerned about some random "young person" than all the distinguished luminaries selling their prestige and intellect to work for the likes of Google and Facebook, despite their massive surveillance of the population.

I've yet to hear any of them even try to defend their choice to work for these privacy-trampling corporations.

Getting a job at such places is still seen as a great accomplishment. This has to stop if anything is going to change.
Oh this is cool! I've been using AntennaPod for a few years because it was open source, but lately started having issues with the media session and was looking for an alternative.
I’m fairly certain that most “gay teens” don’t come from ultra-conservative households.
This is clever.

Can we render on server , then upgrade to render on client progressively?

Also can we load other wasm using server push in the background . You get runtime plugins then
Create a Mini-CRM with Cloudy CMS: Listing Filters
How is that different than what happens with major papers now?

At least the choice is the reader’s, the feedback is immediate and the start-up costs low.
In my experience, an average person seeing that one of their commonly-used tools is down due to a big tech company failure is just going to proclaim "snow day!" and not really mind at all.
Turn the Other Cheek: the radical case for nonviolent resistance
Tons of internal stuff; think of anything that is minimum wage knowledge worker does, some fraction of it is probably obvious enough to be automated. For example, categorizing PDFs (which go through OCR) into broad buckets so that the right specialist can look at them – the system might not be able to figure out 100% of them, but even taking a chunk out of the human workflow at 99% accuracy is pretty valuable It’s important understand what a massive flood of PDFs some organizations get on a daily basis
Article: "VICE may receive a commission if you buy products through the links on our site."

Article: (proceeds to include a dozen unique-looking links which actually all go to the same exact analytics/tracking/shortening/affiliate link)
Well it certainly needs another decade or two of iterations before it can replace what we have now, I imagine.
"And then the question must be asked: is this text here, the one you are reading, not just some kind of propaganda?"

I guess you are the good guys. Who pays your bills? Is this post propaganda?
Story of Palomar - 1948

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4miVqgNSRVY
The scandalous 'ostie piene' cookies of Italy's Monte Sant'Angelo
"What did you expect" - ha!
Nice. The keyboard controls could definitely feel snappier, but once I got a feel for the mouse controls I settled right in. And taking the coach offroad is super fun!
It might be possible to engineer a type of democracy that solves this problem, partly by combining two seemingly opposite ideas. For instance, imagine a society that has frequent elections, but for long terms. An example would be a society which elects 9 people a year, for terms of 11 years, thus establishing a legislature of 99 people. The frequent elections would be a vent for all of the populist rage that we see, but the long terms would mean that, once people are elected, they have plenty of time to get real work done, without having to worry about re-election. The system would work even better if the legislature was stripped of all power save the power to appoint people to committees, and then "the intellectuals" (people with a lot of training) could work to either control or advise those committees. Those committees should be far enough removed from the populist rage that the committee members should be free to focus on delivering good government. I wrote about this here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...

On this topic, I also wrote:

"In our highly specialized and complex world, all real political power needs to move to specialized committees"

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...
I can second the recommendation for Kagi. It's been working very well for me the past 2 months now.
Todoist would be my preference. While you're at it, look at Twist (by the same company) as a Slack replacement.
It's called “Pocket”, so probably not ;)
Here's a hypothetical (although as of right now admittedly VERY unlikely scenario):

It's 2035. Google has continued a worldwide decline with the invention of several highly accurate AI drive search systems deeply integrated into technology. Their video streaming service, which started declinging in the mis 2020s has just closed down following years of losses.

To try and regain its financial footing Alphabet has decided to slimline its offerings, closing several loss making services, including Gmail.

Most users of Gmail have been using it for close to decates, and are only given a couple of months notice that they'll lose their email addresses that they've relied on for thousands of online services, banks, businesses, etc. With no secondary account recovery process, billions of online accounts will become inaccessible for millions of users across the world.

----

Sensationalist? Absolutely - but you get the picture. Relying on a free 3rd party email address vs paying ~$10/year for at very least your own domain with free forwarding to a basic free gmail account is worth it.
You are aware that oil as an industry probably lifted the most people out of poverty in all human history right? Think of all the plastic you see in hospitals and ask yourself what would replace that without oil. It is so useful and valuable that countries are willing to go to war to secure its access. Things are never as black and white as people are willing to believe.
Hanania has got interesting things to say, especially on the central premise of culture war being primarily a differentiation technique that elites use to distance themselves for the middle and lower classes. I just wish he wasn't so transparently racist, makes it impossible to publicly discuss his more sober views, but perhaps that might another point that he is obliquely making
This can be misleading. Most local banks aren’t using the type of technology the bigger banks are, because those smaller banks tend to run on banking-as-a-service platforms. So the smaller banks are often essentially just proxies to larger ones.
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/search?q=...
> I don't have to think and do math in my head

Imagine being a computer programmer and not thinking nor doing math in your head.

Good thing there are other people to do the thinking and math for you, huh?

Because the multiplication table for 0.25 is too complicated...

Next you'll need an enterprise-grade library for adding numbers together. Because sums are hard, man. Who's got time to remember what 1+1 is?
Why does news (and hence this theme music) have to be breaking, urgent, perplexing and disruptive?
Thanks for confirming what I predicted, nothing is sufficient to disagree with you.
Vampires have to get their hearts pierced, lest they rise from their graves. Did it work?
Oh please, the BBC is a mouthpiece of the British state
It would be nice if autodrive was on to start so that those on mobile could see it in action, even if control is currently not possible.
And not more than 10s of quick phone ad when mom is calling.
RPA. Get a tool like UIPath or BluePrism that writes to the legacy UI, then build modern tools that communicate with UIPath's API.
Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
I'm excited to finally launch Outstatic, an open source static website CMS that doesn't require a complicated setup or signing up to a third-party service!

You can access the documentation here: Outstatic Documentation.

I invite you to start by deploying our example blog to Vercel and giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun it is to use Outstatic.

Please, let me know what you think. This is the first public version of the project and all feedback is welcome.

If you dig the project feel free to leave a star on Github. I appreciate your support!
“Permission to fail” is a desirable property in a research setting, not a global name service. This justification is in tension with the one offered above, and there’s been no evidence so far that “web3” is becoming more resilient instead of less resilient.
The fact that the slavic people and the Vikings were very close to each other, to the point where it was common for Slav (mostly from Poland) and Viking ruling families to inter-marry, is well established [1].

The Vikings went quite farther than Kyiv, as the existence of the Varangian Guard [2] (part of the Byzantine army) attests to (Varangians was the name the Vikings were known by in the Bizantine Empire). And as we know, they also reached the Canadian coast [3], so it's not the least surprising to me that their trade extended from Greenland to at least, Kyiv.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#Intermixing_with_the_S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians#Varangian_Guard

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows
I still think it's fine, way better than Google. Google gives too many 'sponsored' results.

DDG is just bing of course.
Me three. If there’s a single (female) mosquito in town, it unerringly zeros in on me.

I’ve read that mosquitoes are attracted to “high sugar” (i.e. higher amount of polysaccharides) blood types, which O is. The Chinese even have a saying of people who are mosquito magnets: “You have sweet blood!” (I was told this a lot when I lived in China.)

That said, mosquitoes also seem more attracted to fresh meat, i.e. new and different smelling prey. Live in one locale for a while, and predation by mosquitoes seems to diminish. Perhaps it’s an ancient defense mechanism.
Many blind people are already successfully using iPhones. The experience could be better of course, but many apps work really well (I will admit I haven't tried FB Messenger, and don't currently have an iPhone to hand).

This would actually create a nice loop, and it would (hopefully) make app Devs take supporting blind users more seriously.
Mosquitoes used to prefer me, but after switching to a keto dietmostly ignored me. Now back to a regular diet and I am a mosquito magnet again.
> My register doesn’t allow registrations longer than 1 year.

Ummm.. then maybe get a better registar? It's not like there aren't many to choose from.
Yeah here in Europe that is a lot of money. In Silicon valley it's pocket change but here it's not.
Have heard good things about linear.app
I'm not. There are countless reasons why this or that move would make sense for Russians. For example just to spread chaos and keep the world and its resources divided and force Europe into some kind of deal. Especially if they have not much to loose.

For Russians it's not a gentlemens' chess or card game. Or rather is, but the one played in russian prisons – if russian criminal looses, he punches opponent into face until opponent admits that it was a draw. After the game friends of the criminal visit the opponent and turns out that it wasn't a draw either.

Disclaimer: I was forced to spend about half of my life in Soviet Union.
I'd say people who work as solo entrepreneurs or independent contractors are usually either "sociopaths" (of a particular kind) or some kind of sociopath/loser mixture, depending on how mercenary and ambitious they are.

(In this case, as in many others, I don't really like Rao's "sociopath" label, as it has the wrong connotations. "Politician" or "machiavellian" may be better.)

The average, say, independent contractor software dev, the "mercenary" type, is a loser/sociopath hybrid. Unlike typical losers, they forgo the security of a steady paycheck and employee benefits in exchange for a (often significant) income boost and personal freedom. They forgo the slightly paternalistic employer/employee relationship and instead engage with their employer on purely capitalistic terms. On the other hand, they typically avoid internal battles wherever they work and simply follow the bidding of whoever signs the cheques.

Solo consultants who actively get involved in helping management make decisions act more like "sociopaths" out of necessity ("politician" may be a much better word for this case). Indeed there's a whole category of solo consultants/executive coaches who basically exist to act as "consigliere" for senior executives who need political mentoring (dressed up as leadership training, career coaching or whatever).

I don't know much about how Scott's industry functions. One guess: partnerships between two or more independent peers typically consist of approximately-equal "sociopaths". If they're "good" sociopaths, these can be very productive business relationships. All parties know what they're getting into, and everyone respects each other as a peer. Healthy startup co-founder relationships should be similar. (Rao's later essay, "Entrepreneurs are the New Labor", suggests that the tech startup scene was becoming filled with more "clueless" young founders as technology hype and startup boosterism attracted more naive youngsters.)

Anyway, based on many of Scott's posts, it sounds as though much of his job does involve political skills: advocating for his patients' needs against some medical bureaucracy, talking patients out of doing stupid things, and so on. All of these are examples of "good politicking" (and might illustrate why the "sociopath" label is deficient).

(I'm turning into a sightly-less-cranky michaelochurch, heh. I guess every forum evolutionary niche needs to be filled.)
Ofcourse it could be part of the solution but just slapping current available solutions onto this problem won't solve it. It could be part of a solution I agree but in it's current state I rather not complicate this further with a technology in it's infancy.
Ah, yeah, keeping grandma alive by keeping her warm. So evil.

Protecting your country from attack by evil dictators (or benevolent democracies - i.e. the difference between North Korea (nukes, exists) and Libya (no nukes, destroyed)). Truly evil.

Sorry, can't justify tobacco, TBH
I wonder if this is also applicable to bees. When I was a kid, we got caught up in a swarm (there were five of us hiking in the woods). I was walking through the swarm as though I wasn’t even there. I think I had maybe a handful on me the entire hour, while my friends were literally covered in them, even under their clothes and underwear. I never get bitten by insects, ever. I can count on one hand how many mosquitoes have bitten me in the last decade.
In principle this is true, but my experience for accessiblity is: Apple first (they are amazing), Windows second (although many use 3rd party apps like JAWS), then Linux a distant third.
What a sad and inspiring story
IPCC 2018 report list solar PV with 48g eqCO2/kwh (median):

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

Nuclear is 12g eqCO2/kwh (median)

The levelized cost of electricity is also listed as cheaper for nuclear.
To reduce that risk you can always use multiple domains from separate registrars that redirect to the same address.

Especially if you can use service X to restore access on service Y (which is often the case), make sure those use independent domains.

As often increased security comes at the expense of convenience and cost, but it can be worth it.
Thanks for answering, but it seems like a utilitarian cop out, hand waving the problem aside. To keep me alive I just need to react to the physical wavelength, the internal experience isn't really necessary, sort of like reflexes. A robot can just as well be trained to react to red wavelengths detected by some sensor, but it doesn't have an internal experience of that color. I don't think it's meaningless.
More accommodation. Most of them will fail first year. Or if they don't, Harvard needs to up it's internal standards.
Wearing blindfold...
> Namecheap immediately resold the domain to a squatter

No I don't see how their post allows one to infer that Namecheap "immediately" resold the domain. Their policy is a 30 day grace period, and within that 30 days the domain should become non functional, so if you're actively using it then you would know something is up.

Sounds like jamiek88 was squatting on a somewhat desirable domain and is just sad they couldn't follow some basic instructions.

I have no idea what the "because of COVID" thing is about.
I am one of them. And until I showed this [0] video, my partner didn’t believe it.

[0] https://youtu.be/38gVZgE39K8
What's Corning's secret? It seems they have been at the forefront of innovations in their industry for almost a hundred years. Has no one ever disrupted them with a crucial patent? Almost everything in the world changed in the past hundred years yet they're still world leader.
Burned Out on Your Personal Brand
I want to learn how they managed the distance based on wavelength penetration or if they used all or almost all the soectrum.

I'm even thinking about CDNs based on colors and distance that a wave can travel.

It is promising
>> "You are aware that oil as an industry probably lifted the most people out of poverty in all human history right?"

Great. How many of them will die or be set right back due to climate change? You can't pretend like externalities aren't screaming toward all that vaunted progress. We could have dealt with those externalities in time without your beloved oil industry's propaganda. It's too late for prevention. All that's left is mitigation and trying to prevent the worst outcomes by getting off oil ASAP. And it's the oil industry's fault.
>Abusive parents also exist. Rather more commonly than pedophiles too, I'll wager.

Saying that “parents can be abusive” isn’t an argument against giving parents in general authority over their children. Generally, parents are the most trustworthy individuals in a child’s life.

Besides, if you widen the definition of abuse enough then you can turn 50% of parents abusive. Lots of deception has been done around the word “abuse” by silently widening the definition and then labeling people abusive to make it seem like they’re something they’re not.
Well yes. Largely being pushed by Apple.

In every single aspect of Laptops. Speakers, for Example. MacBook has always had better speakers than all PC Notebook for years if not decades. If it wasn't for Youtube reviews, no PC marker would pay attention to speaker quality. They just use the cheapest one to save cost.

Trackpad.

Keyboard - although I argue that has regressed in recent MacBook even with the new scissors.

Processors. We now have passively cooled SoC. Fast enough to do 90% of what consumers demands.

Screen. We are still some years away from 120Hz, 260PPI, High HDR, Ultra Thin, Energy efficient Display. Something like Nano-Rod OLED.

Batteries, Both in Cycle Count and Energy Density.

Thunderbolt 4. And hopefully Thunderbolt 5.

Web Cam Display.

Durability, better capacitor and PSU designs.

NAND- Faster IO.

WiFI, and WiFI 7. You now get wireless transfer speed that exceed 1Gbps. Hopefully some day integrated 5G as well.

There are still loads of improvement that could be made to Laptop. In 10 year time we could have a laptop that would resemble the MacBook in 2014. But much better equipped in performance.
"You can explore over 400,000 digitised photos taken from our aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs preserved in the Historic England Archive."
Just tried it out, it looks very nice but the problem is that it forces you to manage everything there, i.e no back-sync to GitHub.
Sunken Lane
Working for FAANG (as a software dev) is still also linked with prestige and high salary. And moral ambiguity, to some, but not to all.
I would recommend writing down the worst and best case scenarios that could happen with your software, then determine if you notice either that through severity or quantity the software outweighs the positives, don't release it.
And if they had gone screaming to Washington about how there was going to be a disaster more than 50 years in the future, you think anything would have been done about it? There's no serious action now, and everybody knows about it, and we have tech to actually do something about it, which we really didn't back then.
They did have a license to LotR, and cite the Appendices of LotR as what it's adapted from in the show credits. It radically departs from these to the point where there's really nothing in common other than a few character names and the idea that some people made some Rings.

Tolkien did not write that much on the Second Age - of course most of the story would have to be made up! Even including all Tolkien writings, the Appendices of LotR still constitute probably the biggest source on the SA. I don't expect anyone thought they could do otherwise. But rather than filling out the outlines of a story, the writers chunked it in the trash and made their own thing with the same label. (And frankly, the writing is not very good, particularly for a billion-dollar show. It's watchable, but nobody is ever going to mistake it for a tour-de-force masterpiece. The writing is the quality you'd expect from a low-budget scifi channel show.)

I don't see anything necessarily wrong with that[1], but I am puzzled why people seem determined to defend it as "they did everything they could." They definitely did not, they made a creative decision. Probably the best thing to do for someone who likes Tolkien is to regard this as someone filming their AU fanfic and to come into it with zero expectations.

[1] The thing that is wrong with it is that Tolkien would have hated it, as he would have the movies. I do find this very depressing. But I don't think a series that Tolkien would have liked could have been made in 21st century America, so I didn't come in expecting that.
Just AGPL it, I hear it's an effective ward against Alphabet.
What's the easiest way to boost your career as a developer? Learn to touch type
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