skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ignored the game at launch and only had time to play recently. To me, it felt like a complete game given how fleshed out the sidequests were. The narrative seemed to be setting up for an absolute spike of a third game.

Admittedly, the other two deus ex games have stakes that ramp up low>medium>high through the game, but at the expense of sidequests and exploration. I figured the follow-up to MD would be able to hit the ground running and have plenty of space to be wildly high stakes the whole time. Maybe even get as wacky as the first did, but in a "plausibly serious" way.
Explanation:

If both tests fail, return the 'id' (identity) function which when applied to (show n) will return the number as a string.

If one or both tests succeed, return a 'const' function which will simply return the appropriate string and ignore the (show n).

This example was illuminating. It helped me realize I'm wasting too much time with Haskell.
To me it seems mostly a composition problem; we need a better way of expressing these kinds of application constraints in a formal schema so we can encode/decode application data structures to CRDTs without requiring invasive intermixing of the two concerns in a way that explodes complexity of both the app and the CRDT details.
Its jokes are dumb and boring. Amazon can’t afford to put funny jokes on it.
From the article,

"Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather. Those questions aren't monetizable."

This is mostly how I use Alexa, but those requests to play music are backed by an annual Amazon Music Unlimited subscription that I wouldn't bother with if I didn't have Alexas throughout the house.
Ask HN: Which direction do I go: privacy-centric or Skynet tracking?
I’m building a virtual office software (https://www.getvocal.app) with free video and voice chat to differentiate from Zoom’s 45-minute free plan. We’re now investigating user activity reports, but I feel uneasy about it.

Both MS Teams and Zoom provide companies data on their employees’ activities.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-analy...

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363213-Getting-...

These reports go pretty in depth. A company can see how many messages you’ve sent, how long you’ve been in a call, who you’ve been talking to, and more.

I’m thinking of, instead of adding user activity reports, differentiating by setting an employee privacy standard. I’m running into a dilemma though. Employees that I talk to want privacy and employers that I talk to are divided over whether there is value in these invasive reports. Some employers want the reports (or some of the execs of some companies), but they also want to minimize the perception of invasive oversight.

What do you think I should do? Offer the reports or not? Go all in and offer extremely detailed reports, possibly integrating with time tracking software like Clockify and Toggl? Or go in the opposite direction and target privacy-aware companies and employees?
With tcp being connection-oriented I think it's not too hard to get right, especially if the OS won't reuse a closed socket right away. Definitely worth considering though. Of course it's doable without netstat if you can track down the right apis https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47659365/find-process-ow...
Uminal: Extend LLMs with custom apps that auto-compose with each other
Hey HN!

I'm working on a new project called Uminal, which enables anyone to extend large language models (like GPT-3) with custom apps that auto-compose w/ each other.

In short, imagine if anyone could extend LLMs with new skills that can interact w/ the real world. That's what Uminal enables.

I would love to get some feedback on it, so thought I'd share a demo video of it on HN!

Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/211327fd8e854513b909b0f69eadd2f8

I'm currently working to get the prototype online very soon.

Thanks!
Also plays Downton Abbey.
23 m^2 is an area that consists of 23 square meters. That is, 23 squares, each of which is 1x1 m. If the entire area is a square, it would have less than 5 meters for each side (i.e. just under 16 feet).
They were common in the US in many areas but are seen as a liability as it’s easy to install them wrong.
Dr. Daniel Lemire's blog: https://lemire.me/blog, covers lots of technical items on optimizations in various programming languages, Lemire's work is currently in use across a number of projects and he consistently delivers fantastic improvements, he usually accompanies these improvements with a blog post describing what he did. He also occasionally posts interesting Science and Technology links on various topics not limited to tech, but health and education as well.
They tell you that they will sometimes listen when they don't hear the wake word (or hear a near miss) and report back home what they heard. It's closer to "listening all the time" than I am comfortable with.
Many regions offer free community college as a way to handle this. Often, community colleges will partner with local manufacturing companies to develop training plans that give those people new technical skills (win for that person) and training on the systems used at the manufacturing plant (win for the company).

I think this is the best way as its solved at the local levels which means the solution is customized for the local area instead of a one-size fits all solution that the federal government would have to create.
There were some Blu-ray players with high quality analog video outputs. I've played modern Blu-rays which surely had HDCP protection on them on analog display inputs.

They're rare, and you'll pretty much only find them used I imagine.
People have different preferences.

I have a dual monitor setup including a 48" OLED and Love it. It's the perfect size and I will not go smaller ever again. I can sit back in my chair and still be able to read everything.

The 48" monitor is exactly the same size as two 27" monitors in portrait, so it's great for two windows next to each other - say if I'm programming on the left and have stackoverflow on the right.

The other monitor is mostly for stuff I'm not using at the time, like foobar2k or some window that I want to keep an eye on but don't need to use at the moment. Or youtube.
Even if it were more sophisticated, I don't really see how it makes money. Even if it could absolutely nail that slightly more complicated command, and manage your home automation with natural language processing... that doesn't make money either!

I agree completely with your assessment, that they behave more like a verbal CLI than a proper assistant, but solving that well doesn't seem like it offers a great opportunity for monetization.

My hope is that the open source voice assistants get more popular, and it gets easier to flash the Amazon Echo to be a satellite device for the open source voice assistant. I've looked at running the open source voice assistants locally, but the biggest barrier I had was the cost for each of the microphone/speakers. Amazon's really got the cost of those things way way down.
I vouched for your comment. Don’t see anything wrong with it.
> The debit card comes with fees. Lots of fees. About 3%, plus a $7 charge. Plus, by activating the card, you authorize My Banking Direct, a service of New York Community Bank, to use your financial info for marketing purposes.

Sounds like there was some er… lobbying involved.
Back around 83 I got to do a project at this facility working with a guy who built prototypes of consumer products. I was in middle school.

The project was to make a wireless joystick for the apple 2. You could go to the basement and fill out an order sheet and get any kind of electronic component. The order was filled on the spot while you stood there.

I didn’t know anything about the assembly written for the project. The mentor did all that. However I got to do all the wire wrapping and some of the other bits. It worked! Good times. No doubt this is one of the reasons I ended up as an engineer…
Same. This fooled me, as I was reading quickly and missed the duplications. Interestingly, I felt something was off but didn’t think anything of it except maybe “my eyes might be getting tired.” Consciousness/cognition as a prediction machine, and the the resulting cognitive biases and tricks, are fascinating.
Mastodon for Workgroups (VB6, Win9x)
ESA mulls Solaris plan to beam solar energy from space
Do you know what office space costs? Incredibly difficult to imagine the coffee scheme is netting an observable dent to the balance sheet.
Perhaps VW wants to see if there are alternatives to a platform owned by a person who also owns their direct competitor? Or perhaps VW sees the massive uptick in Mastodon users and wants to get a leg up on their competition by going where their customers are going. Or perhaps VW doesn't want to tarnish the image of their brand in the eyes of their prospective customers by posting on a platform which is very rapidly relaxing moderation standards and has a CEO who appears sophomoric at best, unhinged at worst. Brands love stability; Elon provides little.

I too wish the media would stop covering a lot of the twitter developments, but for a different reason: We shouldn't give unnecessary attention to narcissists.

As far as twitter no longer aligning with the media / left's political interests, which interests are those? I don't see people throwing a fit because Paul Ryan tweeted about lowering taxes or reducing the deficit, they're mad because twitter is re-platforming people who have said or done things that the VAST majority of people think are objectively terrible.

It is Elon's right to do whatever he wants with his platform, and it is everyone else's right to complain about it, including the media.
Or they heard google is already planning to do it (which a lot of ppl heard too) and trying to get ahead of it in the news cycle
It seems like a uniquely US thing to provide government services via private entities like this. I most recently ran into something similar when creating an Apple developer account. In order to do this you need something called a "DUNS" number, which apparently everyone in the US has heard of, but which was new to me. This is a unique number that every corporate entity in the US supposedly has, but which is provided and administered by a single private corporation, which uses similar dark patterns (at least with foreign companies) to try to funnel you into signing up for their identity monitoring in order to get the number you need. It kind of boggles my mind that the problem is, "need unique identifier for every corporation operating in country", and the answer is, "farm that off to a private company so they can do marketing off it".
Much, much worse in red states. I know from experience.
Have a technical platform that encourages you to be spontaneous sounds a bit paradoxical, but maybe it could do it in a subtle way - so that the user does the creativity part, not being fed "creativity slots" on a conveyor belt like the previous concept. It's worth exploring.
> What more would I use it for?

Well... Amazon would want you to do something with it that makes them money.
I use my Alexa all the time, but 99% of it is:

Alexa, time!
Alexa, set an alarm for 5 minutes!
Alexa how many minutes left?
Alexa, turn off/on all the lights!

That’s basically it. I wrote some apps for it a long time ago to do custom stuff like read me some Reddit pages, but the SDK changed or something and eventually they just died and it wasn’t obvious to me how to recreate it/not worth the effort. I really wish there was an easy way to just put python scripts onto the device or something. The process of going through Amazon is pretty unnecessarily complex and annoying.

I know there are ways of doing this stuff with raspberry pi, but also: not really worth the effort. If I cared that much I’d just make a PWA for my house and give that to my wife and kids.
>you don't really know exactly the optimum amount of time to cellar a new vintage.

This is a hidden benefit of belonging to a wine club. Often you can talk to the wine maker and/or they are opening enough bottles regularly that they can give you a sense of when it's time to drink. After you've been through a few years of the syrah or the cab sav, you get a sense for yourself too because you start to get the pulse of what the winemaker is making.
They play this in Nauvoo Illinois at the summer vacation spot for members of the Christ of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sister missionaries taught me a song to solve this and leave the last leg in the middle.
Great article, however the Roger Sterling character quote from Mad Men popped into my head

"My father used to say this is the greatest job in the world except for one thing — the clients."

or if you are internally focused and not directly dealing with clients

- "My father used to say this is the greatest job in the world except for one thing — the Managers".
What things in the room with you right now WEREN'T made by using code or programming of some sort.

Vynil albums, the carpet in my 80's house. Not much else.
Small remark though, you shouldn’t age wine in a fridge (the humidity is too high, and temperature too low).

There are some fridge-like "wine cellar" contraptions that work well (keep optimal air quality / temperature).

Or a basement does the trick if the humidity is right (needs to be high but not too high)

I remember when I was a kid, my parents had a room in the basement for storing wine that was entirely airtight, with an AC-like device that controlled the air. That’s probably extremely overkill if you aren’t a wine buff (& storing huge quantities of it) though
What bothers me isn't just the wasted money and time. It's the opportunity cost of all of those devs not working on other stuff.

Alexa pulled talent from everywhere throughout Amazon. It took up a huge portion of the hiring funnel for new devs. All of those people could have been doing useful, money-making, cost-cutting things instead.

I can think of at least a dozen really brilliant devs I worked with in Amazon Fulfillment who left to go work for Alexa. They'd tell me what their team/group/org did and I'd ask "but how does that make money?" and they'd laugh. "Yeah, last year I heard we had less than a million in revenue, but hey, they're certain it'll become big somehow".

What a waste of talent.
Generally in BigCo land you need a value prop that will allow your buyer to do 1 or 2 things (or a combo) - take out massive cost, or drive large incremental revenue.

Most of the voice solutions I've seen kind of nibble around the edges of this, don't get traction, and slowly die a slow death somewhere deep in the middle of the RFP or evaluation process.
It is pretty rare for me to buy movies on physical media, but I do sometimes buy some. I only really buy movies that I would want to share or watch again some far time in the future and don't want to risk getting de-listed from whatever streaming sites I have access to.

The vast majority of video content I consume I probably wouldn't watch more than once. But in the rare cases where I'll probably watch again and want to share it with the future, I'll buy it on physical media.

I do this for other physical media as well. There's been some music I have on vinyl or CD which I can't find on Spotify or for digital download. Most music I wouldn't care if it disappeared tomorrow, but some I'll want to have in the future for sure.
You do not appear to know what the word "ambiguity" means.
Search more on the author of this book. Some really bad things have been written about him.
The original was fairly railroaded as well, outside of a few hubs. Which is exactly like DXHR, come to think of it.
That’s an incredibly rude way to try to invite someone to a learn about a subject.

Having said that, I think that if these things are so obvious in your opinion, you haven’t considered real world scenarios.
Yet it's still deeply engrossing. I remember buying the triangular version from Cracker Barrel and bringing on a beach vacation. Everyone played the heck out of it.

Growing up we had one in the same cross configuration we see here. My grandfather made it from wood with a router, stained and sealed it. It was on a circular piece of wood with a groove running around it that the jumped marbles could be put in.
When exercising, don’t lift weights – lower them
As a Windows/Android developer, you probably don't apply at Apple for a job, and as an Apple employee you're probably not too enamored with developing for Windows/Android.
2D visualization of the 3D Rubric Cube
Which makes it even more amusing!
It already does a form of this. You might ask it the time, and it will reply with the time and some ad telling you about other things that it can do.

It’s really annoying.
Well, we live in a free society. If someone wants a talented person to work on project X and they think that the project sucks, they can try to change teams, or resign to something that looks more interesting.
Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
IMHO leaking PII is on an entirely different level than "just" malware.
And you know vinyl made after about the 90s was also made using code.

(90s is a WAG, but I'm guessing it's -/+ 1 decade)
Amazon has a white paper on how it's supposed to work. According to the paper, yes, it's technically listening to audio, but storing it only in a temporary RAM buffer until it detects the wake word. I'm personally mostly interested in what gets recorded or sent to the cloud.

"Echo devices use on-device keyword spotting designed to detect when a customer says the wake word. This technology inspects acoustic patterns in the room to detect when the wake word has been spoken using a short, on-device buffer that is continuously overwritten. This on-device buffer exists in temporary memory (RAM); audio is not recorded to any on-device storage. The device does not stream audio to the cloud until the wake word is detected or the action button on the device is pressed. If it does not detect the wake word or if the action button is not pressed, no audio is sent to the cloud."

https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/A4B/White%20Paper...
Raspberry Pi Pico Now Made in Kenya
Sitting back, reading the comments, and using '~>' to indicate a paraphrase.

This conversation seems to have gone like this:

Ancient Apocalypse ~> Archaeologists are lying/participating in a conspiracy of suppression

Archaeologists ~> _Ancient Apocalypse_ -- and therefore, Netflix -- is not only lying, but profiting from lying. These lies directly hurt science and scientists.

(Some) Hacker News ~> OK, fair, but you did not account for how fascinating and entertaining those lies are! Marketplace of ideas!

My take:

The extent to which the sociopolitical circumstances of the pandemic have incited otherwise-rational engineers to entertain conspiracy theories about vaccinations, masking, woke intellectuals and mind virii, 'mass formation psychosis,' etc. is disheartening.

One is reminded forcefully that while intelligence may be generalized, _talent_ is subject-matter-specific, and that good epistemology is, in fact, a talent, and one moreover that is always rare, especially when not selected for.

Let me put it for you another way.

Netflix -- the 'N' in FAANG -- is making money by willfully undermining belief in science and scientists at a particularly vulnerable moment for the civilization. *Our industry is doing something as bad as fracking, and we are not univocal and unequivocal in our repudiation.*
Not the walls, at least not in Doom.
Not sure how that's a loophole. I'd love to have done as well as him with my IRA. Should he just aim for the mean return?
Given how much “domestic” auto manufacturers produce abroad, does it really matter at this point? I am generally in favor of industrial policy and I understand why the sourcing rule was included, but this effective immediately rule is absurd. And if the real goal is to replace more ICE cars with EVs, further limiting the already extremely limited inventory that qualifies for the credit seems very counterproductive.
free is the worst price
Who said that kotlin requires intellij? Not a rhetorical question. I've never heard that claim before. Afaict there's nothing about the language that would make it impossible to use in another ide.
I personally think a lot of psychological stress is caused by white collar work that’s stressful mentally but physically sedentary. This mismatch messes up your eating habits and also causes stress you can’t resolve. It used to be that mental stress was usually accompanied by physical exertion, e.g. being in fight or hunting an animal. Now we get all that mental stress but no physical relief.
I'm just an amateur and don't care to study strategies, etc (I do want to do) but mostly with brut-force and heuristics. Even with my limited experience, I believe Black made the first mistake by the 14th move on D5. It is downhill from there. The only chances of recovery is to wait for your opponent to make a mistake.
Same story - I've been using a 55in oled for a couple of years now, it's fantastic, especially with something like Rectangle for window management
Amazon is known for spending a lot of money on ideas that may or may not pan out. At least under Bezos, that was a very critical factor to the overall success. [1]

> “As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the right scale for a company of our size if we occasionally have multibillion-dollar failures.”

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2018-letter-to...
I agree with the parent and grandparent comments.

That said, when I was sponsored for an E-3 visa by a US company the recruiters made it clear that my position was permanent (subject to performance) and that the company would sponsor me for a Green Card.

These representations were contradicted by the legal documents I presented in my interview at the US consulate.

Nonetheless, I can imagine some employees on these sorts of visas might take their employer at their word and plan their lives accordingly.
Can't you just download the lower-res video using yt-dlp, or isn't that a thing on twitch?
Stuff like this makes me wonder if a career pivot to learning to program was a mistake. Smells like everyone but the veeery top 2% is gonna get knocked down to $100k or below and be treated as lackeys for features dreamt up by sales.

https://youtu.be/_NeJ3Kg6OUo
Pharmacological targeting of glutamatergic brainstem neurons: weight reduction
Link to games?
I assume you are in an apartment complex and not a free standing home? That is, you are a vampire, stealing your neighbor's heat. Otherwise, I do not see how that is possible.
Related:

https://www.scummvm.org/old/docs/specs/introduction.php

https://scummeditor.scummbr.com/

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SCUMM/Technical_Reference

https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm

PDS: Observation: ScummVM seems to be an interesting fusion of some kind of old Forth stack-based machine (which would give it the ability to run on any computer, including disparate early 8-bit machines) and common tools/libraries/functionality that most 2D (or 2.5D) games would need, including but not limited to image processing, animation, sound, moving background graphics, etc., etc.

Anyway, it's a rather interesting way to gain 2D/2.5D game program portability -- on completely different computer architectures... thus it's worthy of more study...

Also, compare to other stack-based languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_...) -- including Adobe Postscript...
Curtained with Fire: World War I, a Century On
This seem to be along the same as what I've found with coffee. I've talked to a lot of specialty roasters, and they personally fly around the world to meet with farmers and work together towards growing certain profiles.