skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be full on board for a voice assistant, but I control the server and the traffic, so Amazon is a non-starter.
Doesn't that saturate Tor? Bittorrent via Tor was always highly discouraged to not overload the network with all the p2p traffic and IPFS is a very similar technique.
Conversational interfaces just aren't any good, and until they're perfect they won't be useful. The primary issue I've seen (having worked with slack bots) is discoverability, how do you find out what a bot can do without asking lots of open questions? The most useful bots I saw were those that didn't try to be conservsational but had a fixed grammar for commands and questions (along with a good help response). And at least with chatbots you've got the textual context you can scroll back on and read as opposed to trying to keep track of what's happening in a conversation with a non human who you can't see.
Not really - adding toilet paper to a shopping list is not clicking the "buy" button. And if you set up a timer you get quick confirmation that it has been set. If the timer is accidentally set for 100 mins it's easily corrected.
Does it really matter? It will likely remain backwards compatible forever.
> You are free to think that, but most folks' use of the term relates strongly to cryptocurrency.

Most people have no idea what web3 or web 2.0 is. But yes, the common definition is the decentralised web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
Oh yikes yikes yikes. Yes, I wrote that question way too fast and mixed things up. You're totally right, Bessel functions are related to FM and not this ringing. I got things confused. Sorry about that

"Aligning the signal's period with the window length M allows reproducing the whole infinite duration signal from a N coefficient slice because all slices are identical."

Yeah but this isn't really a solution. I mean, yes.. you can cut your data to be a multiple of the frequency you're looking for, do an FFT, look at the phase. If you didn't know the exact frequency you could also do a "search" truncating your data at different values and looking for a peak. But that's.. ugly.

The problem is you end up throwing away data. In my usecase I have maybe 2-3 periods of the frequency I'm interested in. Truncating my data throws away a lot of information. I'd like to do an FFT of all the data I have (it's actually not evenly spaces, so I'd probably have to interpolate it) then I'd like to look at the ringing directly and estimate the original frequency and phase. Ideally after that I'd somehow calculate some uncertainties on those values
> Is there some sort of legal liability involved?

I would say, definitely. Apple does use third-party components as well, with presumably closed firmware/drivers.
> I think there's potential here.

But how? Even if those interfaces were actually working, it's still extremely inconvenient to talk when you can click. You have to be somewhere where talking out loud doesn't disturb the people around you. That excludes most situations: open space offices, restaurants, coffee shops, public transport, cars with passengers, and most places in the home except maybe the bathroom.

And even if you're all alone in a silent place, giving instructions out loud takes more time than configuring a screen, and will always be error prone, because the feedback will always be ambiguous and imprecise.

Except maybe if the feedback is on a screen, but then if there's already a screen, why not use it.
Occam’s razor says that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

The simple explanation is that these people had no idea about each other, since identifying and coordinating that effort would be tantamount to a grand conspiracy theory; and I don't buy that people are so extremely competent as to have working apparatus to catch this.

That it was politically convenient for Russia doesn't necessarily mean there was any collusion and I think it's odd to jump directly to that conclusion.

There are lots of things that are politically convenient for Russia, like the way the wind is blowing in Ukraine right now. -- that does not mean the wind is colluding with Russia.
I’ll add onto this, cmd-shift-p is the reason to use VS Code over neovim/vim.

For every plug-in I’ve installed in vim, I used about 5% of their behavior. I’ve spent time looking through plug-in utilities and thought “oh that’s useful” and then forgotten about them by the next day. I’m aware that in vim, I can type :substring<tab> and get a list of commands. As far as I recall, I only get name matches. VSCode’s action search massively improves the user experience of this, allowing me to scan descriptions of plug-in commands.
The USSR was built on a weird combination of Marxist-Leninist ideology (which should, in principle, be anti-imperialist) and ye olde Russian imperialism, and Putin seems to have absorbed most of the latter.
One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems*, this author really missed the Forest for the trees.

*unless of course one system is scraping the other and has no control of what it outputs.
China may have ‘passed the point of no return’ as Covid infections soar
I didn't necessarily mean 5 different timekeeping devices (though that would probably be more convenient in many cases), rather than an astronomer needs to keep track of multiple different "times" concurrently.
Voice assistants are shit. The number of times my friends have got alexa to turn the light on first time is functionally zero.

And, they don't really explain the syntax constraints. Which are massive.

Try ab initio without knowing how to do it, to get OK google to open an arbitrary google authored app and direct it to do something. Compared to learning how to use the OS UI keyboard shortcuts or applescript. (Which btw like Windows is basically fully documented because all the libraries are self documenting for their call structures)

The voice interfaces are universally badly designed because spoken command sentences are not well understood as a modality of command, distinct from mouse, gesture, touch or keyboard.

Until voice is baked in with a documented syntax in "man" format, i won't believe its first class.

How do I even know for any arbitrary app what voice directives it uses? How do they correlate to any other command input? How consistent is this with other commands in other apps? Does "stop now" always mean the same thing between a mapping routing app, and a tape backup app? Isn't "stop" contextually defined in a way ^C isn't?
They use gamescope under SteamOS, not Linux in general where you already have another compositor. Running all games under a nested compositor (gamescope) would have some perf impact (even if a small one) as well as an unexpected cursor acceleration profile.
It's not really. While they managed to make the news, and were the most prominent, they are hardly the most effective at providing leaks or whistle blowing (assuming you believed that was their purpose)
The "gore" in question being a 400 year old painting by Rubens which is world-renowned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(Rubens)

Does this really need a warning, or should you just avoid the internet entirely if a Rubens is too much to cope with?
Yooooo I _love_ everything you’ve posted on this thread. Read the blog post, had my thoughts, came here and saw them (and more) written out better than I could ever communicate hah.

Have you seen what Venue Pilot is up to? Product feels like it has a ways to go, but the overarching idea & presented feature set is banger IMO.

Standout to me is the integration of the entire booking flow into the ticketing backend; holds, offer, date(s) confirmed, offer produces settlement, settlement is semi or fully auto generated from ticket sales, etc etc.

Feels like that tooling is so obvious to anyone with a technical background, yet it’s completely non existent in this world of business. Not sure VenuePilot has it dialed (yet?) but I am digging where their heads are at.

https://www.venuepilot.com/
Almost everything https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/ puts out. It is all very much about pushing around in protocols, devices, networking, and playing around with things that most people don't think about. There are very few blogs that hit the mark with most of the posts, but that's one that sticks in my mind. If you want some specific ones though: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dive-into-the-world-of-dos-v...
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/traceroute-haikus
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dell-switch-hacking
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...
Whistleblowers can do whatever they want and be judged accordingly.
"consumers were just as happy to sit down and click away until they had the basket they wanted" — same reason why although many people hate lifting their butt to go shopping, some would happily do. Nobody likes checkout lines though, that's universal.
Obligatory reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
Who gets to decide what’s good and wrong?
I forgot to mention: we do have biconnected components algorithm [1], and since all biconnected graphs are strongly connected, it can be useful.

[1] https://memgraph.com/docs/mage/query-modules/cpp/biconnected...
One can be jewish and antisemite.
It's not a nonsensical statement, just a necessarily false one. "2 + fish = chair" is a nonsensical statement.
I’m fairly sure that it is not as easy from a legal standpoint. Apple does manufacture some of their own components, but they still have plenty of third-party ones, where the usual licensing applies - so the same reason why it’s hard to run third-party OS on android phones.
So I'm trying to pretend you realistically have something huge to expose... and want to make it through the week or possibly the rest of the month without going to jail. Booting up a site on Amazon with a stolen CC is probably not that smart.

>> it's going to be copied a thousand times over by journalists

not really if it's a fucking terabyte of data
I think so. Also "in real life", in 20 years around coders, I only met 1 Vim user and 0 Emacs users. Everyone else has always been running the IDE for that language, or something like Notepad++...
You want utility. The big players want a product that can be monetized and milked for revenue.
Lesswrong blog by Eliezer Yudkowsky - deep dive into biases, rational thinking and acting. "The sequences" is a series of posts that explore the topic in depth, definitely influenced me when I was younger.

https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
What "selective information feeding"? Did Assange have some damaging information about Trump that he refused to leak?
How do you propose we fund the internet without advertising dollars?
A VPN does not protect you well from law enforcement.
if a people holds certain actions to be reprehensible, then completely unironically, yes.
At least for my family, the voice recognition seems to be getting worse and worse with each update. Nowadays google doesn’t seem to turn off the alarms or the music after several tries so my son just comes and unplugs it (touch controls are also a fucking mystery), my wife tries to make her phone ring so many times she can find without help in the meantime. Alexa doesn’t understand what I try to order and it’s easier to just find my phone and type it. I thought that somehow the devices were just having physical issues with time, but even a new one has the same problems. So far it seems like I would get a better experience by rolling my own stuff and training it with our specific voices.
For the Steam overlay they also need to intercept input (while the overlay is open).
Kind of surprised by the "metered" access to accelerators.

Intel has some notes on the interfaces, see https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi
> invisible captcha

Disabling javascript saves the day again?
> Driving or in the kitchen when cooking seem the be the most successful.

Since the voice assistants are incredibly stupid I find it extremely stressful and distracting to ask them for anything while driving.
I don't understand how this thread and comment about WEF turned into name calling between you two, but I'd like to address this:

> Because when you look at NGO that openly works to support young people and is openly proud when young people succeed you see conspiracy.

They don't care about young people and their success. They influence impressionable people and having them owe them favours. Young, politically passionate and famous people fit that bill nicely. All they care about is lining their pockets, at the end of the day. They're a bit like modern Mafia. Mafia used to threaten people physically, and these people hang the looming threat of getting cancelled.

WEF is a lobbying group. And everyone knows (sans those in lobbyists circles) lobbying is just corrupt. A pig with lipstick is still a pig, and all that.

If you look at the videos posted, they either circle jerk about how great they are and set vague and forgettable goals about the "greater good".

Look, I like your version much more, but it's naïve to ignore human nature. They're using people's good faith like yours to spread their bullshit gospel.

A comment here linked a wikipedia link to the WEF; I recommend reading it in full before forming your opinions.
A lot from Dan Slimmons, especially :

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/08/02/stop-apologizing-for-...

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...

or

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2017/06/30/cap-your-ticket-backl...
It's your prerogative to not care about someone being imprisoned indefinitely and illegally as a political prisoner because they have different politics than you, but it's not a virtue.
Another small erosion of ownership.
Admittedly I only skimmed the comments but “how will they make money from it?” wasn’t acknowledged. Hell of a lot of effort to build up an inference engine for natural language processing and they’re going to want to profit from it. Unless, as some have noted, surveillance will be their funding.
How to switch to light theme?

The font is almost unreadable if you are reading under sunlight.
Have we got any historical data or decent models? I guess the problem
with this is there's no precedent to formulate a null hypothesis
against.

If inflation was a factor it would affect digital systems linked to
the same currency equally. Cash would still win out on availability.
My feeling is that, in the absence of digital systems, physical cash
would in fact gain value as a tangible asset intermediate to barter of
portable wealth.

Remember the main purpose of cash in my scenario is a flywheel to
buffer the economy until things come back online, not as a permanent
post-disaster substitute. The main thing is to stop needing the army
to guard food trucks or shoot looters. That's what we're undervaluing
about cash and what I think the bankers, in their zealous bid for more
control, are completely missing as a political dimension about how
real people and real societies work.
True. I personally have setup my distro to launch directly into gamescope optionally for SteamOS like experience. On desktop client they still either hook or use vulkan layer (latter often in proton, thanks to dxvk). However I would not be surprised if they started using nested compositor even on desktop.
Despite the tremendous amount of effort that's gone into creating large language models, there is still no way to hold a goal-directed conversation with voice assistants. There is a lot of implicit context in normal human speech that needs to be inferred or clarified. None of these speech assistants can do handle anything more than the most rudimentary clarification dialog.
The big cloud providers have encountered this many times, and are experts at combatting drive-by fraud like this.

The largest and default "big cloud provider" in the US is also a retailer and might be the best organization in the world at detecting and preventing credit card fraud.
Hard agree.

My current workplace culture (at least in the HW dept) is much more towards zero-documentation than anything I have experienced before and it has been a nightmare as a relatively new employee.

I waste so much time in reviews because I have done something non-standard despite having checked the standards docs but it turns out the standards have changed and no one bothered to update the docs. We don't even write specifications for products before we start work on them; if I make some architectural changes during the design, there is nowhere to record it. Drives me insane.

IMO there are two things that should be documented about any project:
1. The product itself: at least its interfaces, features and general architecture
2. The process of design: what changes were made vs the original spec, why, and when

If you want to know anything contained in that set of information here, you have to know who worked on the project so you can ask them about it, and then they have to be able to remember. It's not uncommon that changes are suggested and discussed multiple times within a project, or that changes are made but the reasons why are forgotten before the project is even complete.

I often joke that projects here are more "observed" than managed.

Exactly as you say - emails/meetings are ideal tools for discussion and decision making but for lasting records, you need documentation.
Great to know, though more of a Mac fan myself... (sorry)
Totally agree. "Hey Siri, start a timer for X minutes" and "Hey Siri, play Y on Spotify" are the entire extent of my voice assistant interactions.
I highly recommend reading One Second After by William R. Forstchen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

I used to teach and consult on various preparedness topics and people used to ask me what my favorite "survival manual" was. It is this book.

TL;DR - 90% of the US population dies in 1 year.
The person is a salaried employee. They are getting paid by their employer. The web site is a personal portfolio / blog /resume site. Traditionally you're paid in attention on that sort of thing and use it to bolster salary via opportunities.

Getting a few dollars here and there from a personal site's ads feels cheap and detracts from the article. Tip jar, fine. But ads no. It just feels dirty. Even if they are "ethical".

From my perspective (as an employer) I see this stuff and think holy hell they'll want to stick advertising on everything. Turns me right off.
NFTs are cool now?
When all my fiat money is taken, I cannot use it anymore, therefore it's removed.

If you make an exact copy of my fiat money, yet I can still use it, nothing is stolen.
Hissar Sheep
*piracy sorry
IDK from what I hear many Twitter employees basically worked on anything they felt like. At Google advertising rules the roost and everyone knows it.
Mmhmm, I never handle my phone while pooping, no siree.
Okay, much of what you say is relevant to the professional woodworker. But the OP was not discussing the professional woodworker and "gatekeeping" as an accusation is not relevant to the professional woodworker. No one is denying that for the actual industry, for the objective of actually producing accurate, reliable, long-lasting furniture, power tools are the superior choice.

>Who cares how you cut the boards?

Everyone who enjoys the feeling of satisfaction in shaping wood with more limited tools. The kind of hobbyist who does this for fun. People, presumably, like the OP given his other comments. No, they are not "playing real sports" - they're having fun. And again, for that express and specific purpose, recommending hand tools over heavy automation makes sense. The expectation or even recommendation that a hobbyist should invest a thousand dollars into a table saw, router, planer, dust collector, etc. acts as much more serious gatekeeping in that it makes the practice of woodworking seem a lot more formidable than it is.

In addition to all the baseline skills that you pointed out that everyone who shapes wood will have to learn, the OP is also recommending a way of working that makes you interact with the wood more slowly and much more physically than using a power tool. What they said is true; cutting a straight, clean edge with a saw is a more difficult skill than doing the same thing with a power tool. The difficulty, as they explicitly noted, is the entire point. To find a skill that you very obviously don't have and learn to live with your mistakes as you improve.

I'm only going this far because you said, first of all, that "it doesn't take any more skill to use hand tools" and second that "even doing something as simple as jointing and planing a board requires hundreds and hundreds of dollars of hand planes, or else months of searching for them in very rough condition and then the know how to refurbish planes." Neither of those statements are, as far as I can tell, true, and the second especially would strongly discourage a lot of people from starting the hobby. Tell me that I need potentially a thousand dollars' worth of heavy, dangerous equipment and a large dedicated space to use them in, and I will probably conclude that the hobby isn't for me. But a small tote's worth of hand tools and a corner of a room? I can work with that!
My Alexa asked me today if I wanted an Avatar theme. No I really do not, Alexa. I was reminded of the article a few days ago how they can’t monetize this well and are somehow losing $10 billion. :)
Playwright Test Runner
Any pointer on that?
Rust has many convenient shorthands like the ? operator, where `let x = foo()?` is equivalent to

let x = match foo() {
Ok(value) -> value,
Err(e) -> return Err(e),
}
People gave him some crap because he didn't leak the white rose Trump leak, but it was already everywhere and he mostly just declined to promote it. Other than that, there were no Trump related leaks in the inbox, so it's not like he leaked for one side of an election, but not the other. Also Trump's corruption was already known far and wide. It's the kind of shit he brags about.

I was pretty shocked not only at how far right media twisted the contents of the Podesta emails into wild conspiracy theories like PizzaGate etc, but fully disgusted at the sheer volume of people who just ate all that up without a moment of critical thinking.

Even still, no sane person thought that Trump was going to win. Even the couple days before the election, all the polls had Hillary up by a wide margin. I highly doubt that Julian was hoping for a Trump presidency. I think it's much more likely that he was imagining a Clinton presidency, but where people were a lot more critical of her actions.
> The number of times my friends have got alexa to turn the light on first time is functionally zero.

I have a room called "Study" and the only lights there are called "Main Lights".

- Hey, Siri, study lights 100%

- Did you mean these lights: "Study: Main Lights"

:facepalm:
HashiCorp HCL is the fastest growing language on GitHub
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it
Voice assistants are infuriating. Every day I feel like Siri and Alexa would understand less and becoming worse.
I've gotten pretty good at doing chores one handed...
For sure! Why can't it be "we have updated/created X policy, please find it here: <link to document in policy repository>" ? Is that so much harder?

Most document management systems have a notification system built-in so that you can automatically email your all-staff mailing list when there is an update. It's very much a solved problem.
"one-sided airing of dirty laundry in the lead up to the 2016 election"

Are you talking about the mainstream media here? They leaked every scrap of dirty laundry about Trump that they could find (not all of which were true), yet Wikileaks was the only one willing to leak the DNC leaks.
My guess is one way it could break, if it was otherwise, would be if T relied on thread local state.
The press of governments hostile to them.
FTX: Why Didn't the Government Stop the Crypto Scam?