skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talon voice can do everything a keyboard and mouse offers, plus more (contextual awareness, higher level abstraction). Very powerful in combination with modal editing. I'm not affiliated, just a user.

Granted, this is for a specific user base and yes, not in coffee shops.
Eight years ago, before the English decided to catapult them out of the EU.

(A major argument from the English side against Indyref was that an independent Scotland couldn't be part of the EU, but a united Kingdom could - that aged poorly.)
They had one 8 years ago and the situation changed drastically since then.

Northern Ireland for example gets to hold independence referendums every 7 years, so there hardly exists any real argument against holding another one…

Besides the fact that Westminster would likely lose, of course.
I use voice assistants for one task:

Setting a timer.

The oven is in another area of the house, so when I come back to squeeze in some work, I often just said "Voice Assistant, set a timer for 10 minutes!"

And that's about it.

Apart from that I worked on some chat-bots in the past and it's the very same thing to me, just even a bit worse because of audio.

Natural language processing simply isn't there AND there is just a few very niche use cases in my eyes.

So if they go away again, I won't cry or rather my tears will dry fast.
That reminds me of the handwriting recognition approach [1] used in old Palm Pilot devices. Even though the shapes it expected you to draw resembled the corresponding letters, you would never draw them like that if you were writing on paper.

You knew that you were drawing something designed for a computer to recognise as unambiguously as possible, while being efficient to draw quickly and easy to learn for you. I feel like that's the kind of notion that voice interfaces should somehow expand upon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
I’ve read that sloths we’re responsible for spreading avocado seeds, but it makes me wonder whether those seeds were always that large?
Generally a good Idea, but writing the location-names or even coordinates in the timestring seems like bloat and slightly unreliable as it does not documentate from which point in time and which culture the timestring originates. As it's necessary to use a database anyway, why not just put a timezone-id there?

2022-11-23T08:52:02!tz:423

Just have the rule to never change an entry in the database, only allow appending new entries. This way, you can be sure that different timezones for the same location/coordinates are always matching the correct timezone. Any recalculation can be maintained in the database with rules, if necessary. And you are even independent of language and political changes for a location.

And you can even maintain multiple versions of the database, if neccessary. Just change !tz to !tz2, !tz3, etc.
What a trip to memory lane this brought me to.

I actually used Yahoo Pipes at a job back in 2008, the concept of data mashups was really interesting and we tried applying it to mesh our GIS data with other sources to mashup and enrich the results from our databases.

I don't remember much from that project but do remember having fun with Yahoo Pipes interface, I had completely forgotten about it until this popped up.
I also wondered the same and could not recognize any of the normal speed cubing methods.
2014. The result was much closer than polls predicted. The argument is the circumstances have fundamentally changed: Brexit (2016) is proven to be an economic and regulatory disaster, and Scotland is out of the EU against its will (62% voted remain).
I'm 100% with you on this. Taking inspiration from other peoples' systems is good, but it's important to design your own. One that works specifically for you.

Also fully agree with having a mind for whatever is on top of your mind, corresponding to your current context of "work", as well as using daily notes.

My daily notes are my anchors. I generally write down things that I've discovered/done there, and extract parts of those to separate notes during my weekly reviews.
I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
Oh boy, I hope you didn't jinx that one.

A few years ago I couldn't imagine Brexit becoming a reality or someone invading... well, let's leave it at that.
People are asking if this kind of information is useful at all, because it does seem to be stating the obvious. However, as a coach, I’ve found that a lot of kids don’t move well.

Probably a third to half of twelve year olds have very easily correctable errors in “obvious” movement patterns. But you have to know what to look for and you have to know the right movement. Even adults make movements that are “wrong” and can be corrected with just a little coaching.

I’ve also seen videos (that were very useful) on how to teach young people how to run, or how to go from stop to sprint. This is one of those things where having the mechanics broken down to small steps is very helpful for an amateur coach so that we can help children improve their movements. With that said it’s also hard for an amateur to be able to distinguish between good advice and bad.
>Larger animals are more efficient with their calories, expending less energy per pound vs a smaller animal.

Interesting. If this is true, why do feed efficiency graphs look like this?

https://ib.bioninja.com.au/options/option-c-ecology-and-cons...
> Bürgergeld is increasing Arbeitslosengeld 2 aka Harz VI. They want to increase it from 449 to 502 euro per month.

That's the cash-part of it. They also pay for housing + utilities, health insurance and additional costs, it comes down to about 1000-1200 Euros per months for a single adult.

> You usually get it for 12 months.

Yes, and then you get it for another 12 months. And then another. And another. They require you to renew your claim once a year ("Folgeantrag", "Weiterbewilligungsantrag"), but there is no limit on total duration, the idea is (allegedly, maybe it's just to annoy people, who knows) that you have to prove your eligibility and you'll commit fraud if your claim is fraudulent.
Like Arrakis, only crazy cold instead of crazy hot
And also why “defund the police” does not resonate with black communities the way it does with white liberals.
Let's not play daft, we all know why this issue has come up again
> But how? Even if those interfaces were actually working, it's still extremely inconvenient to talk when you can click

Working from home changes that. I can see many more opportunities for a multimodal input interface. Examples:

1. My fingertips now are closer to the "reply" button below this text area than they are even to the touchpad. Touching "reply" is half a second, moving one hand to the touchpad, aiming the pointer at the button and clicking takes longer. With a mouse: much longer. Anyway, my screen is not a touchscreen. I'll click.

2. Or, with an assistant, I could have said "Click reply", provided that the assistant knows where the focus is and that it can read the form I'm typing in.
well, that's not how I would address it. Remember here in HN you have many people interested in that subject (experts or not): app makers, artists, lawyers and what not. remember spotify was done based in a whole piracy movement/situation.
> (Although in the English of most former colonies that didn't violently rebel, it's pronounced "fart")

Also true in American English. You have two things wrong:

1. The rhyme calls beans "the musical fruit".

2. "Toot" is relevant in that context, being a way you can describe blowing a horn.[1] But obviously, the primary reason for using the word "toot" there is that it rhymes with fruit, not that it's the normal word for farting.

[1] Or sometimes another instrument; there's a tongue twister that starts "A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot."
To be fair, that’s an issue with siri integration, not siri itself. Kinda sad that Apple’s own products doesn’t implement that properly :/
It’s also in the EU’s interest to make the UK a pariah. A lesson to others on the dangers of leaving the bloc. I don’t see the EU caring so much about restoring free trade with the UK. It would present an image of groveling and send the wrong message.
What I want to know is how a ballbearing-less fan suddenly decides to go brrrrrrr.

So far I've been lazy and just replacing them, but I'd be nice to know as they seem fine when I spin them manually.
It was a strange argument in the first place. If Luxembourg and Malta can be in the EU, why not Scotland? Hard to imagine them being refused.
Nick Black's personal wiki is a treasure trove. The style is a little terse, but it's a non-issue for me.
Reputation takes a lot longer to get back, when the failure to admit your own fault finds you 100% at fault.
Was the whole planet 4-4.5 degrees cooler, or on average?
It’s not encouraging that even the most common use cases for these systems still have rough edges.

The Google ones do support named timers, so you can say “start a pasta timer” and later ask “what’s left on my pasta timer” etc. I thought Siri added this at some point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if not.
Sure, our company deals with business documents and typically sells products higher in the stack. Our OCR offering is available to customers, but only if they buy a significantly larger pack of products that does information extraction. As a matter of fact, OCR results are included in there, so customers could (and very rarely do) buy the whole package for OCR purposes only. It's just not advertised/sold independently, so it doesn't make much sense for most customers to buy it for that purpose (unless they have really tiny volumes) because price-wise is much more expensive than alternative products only selling OCR.
Are there people who call a question an "ask"? There is a common nounal use of "ask", but that refers to a request or demand, not a question.
Nobody ever got fired for buying an Intel.
I think, or at least for me, one of the major frustration points with voice ai is how dumb it has been for the last two decades.

When you tell a mercedes navigate me to "exact road and adress" it barely gets half of it right. and usually that just the number.

Now i don't have a speech impairement and have tried in 3 languages, none of them work to my sophistication.

The worst thing though, personally, is all the shitty patents around voice activation keywords. It's disgusting.

Finally i am also an IOT guy with a lot of toys, and i would have written my own personal assistant if it would not be for the patents. After all the hardware is surprisingly cheap.

All the problems are solved too. but if you believe i would write free code for megacorp amazon without pay, you might be heavily mistaken.
I use Alexa for shopping lists, I get a “toilet paper added to your shopping list” confirmation after adding items to my list.

It’s not perfect though, for example when trying to add fruit and fibre cereal it will often add two items, “fruit” and “fibre”. But its close enough that when I get to the store and check the list I know what I intended to add to the list.
Brexit became a possibility the second UKIP became a threat to the electoral chances of the Conservative party. It's very likely that Labour would have won in 2015 if Cameron didn't promise that referendum.

Scottish Labour already has a committed anti-independence position, so they likely will let the SNP win over doing a similar promise. The only other possibility is a coalition government with Labour, but I don't see any government making the same mistake after 2016.
And then it typically interacts and fails without feedback. I've tried so many times to tell Siri "Send a message to x that I'm 10 mins away", only to realize much later that "message delivery failed".

No clear feedback, a weird timing issues where it just stalls and show the message it' about to send in case it got it wrong.

It's just a terrible UX all around.
It really reads as if it was created by a "bullshit corpspeak generator".
Sure, it's a possibility.

There has to be people out there whose entire reasoning for buying a stock is "I have no clue what this company does or why this is valuable, but a whole bunch of people are talking about it, so maybe they're onto something, so I'll throw some disposable income at it just in case".
Yes, I love recursion. Haha!
How is this easier to understand? And is the Rubik's Cuber hard to understand at all?

You got 26 cubes in 3D space that need to go to their correct locations. They can move in 3 axis. They are color coded for recognition.

I think anyone is able to solve the first 2 layers intuitively. Just start by following one of those 26 little cubes and see how it moves about.
Figuring out what works well or not while driving isn't a great idea, but using the ones that work well seems fine for most people.

Saying "Hey Siri, text Fred <pause> I'm on my way but stuck in traffic, eta 4 o'clock" or something along those lines nearly always works fine for me and is no more distracting than having a conversation with somebody in the car with me. If Siri gets some of the message wrong I'll either send a new one using clearer speech or wait until I'm not driving to fix it if the mistake isn't important.

Sure, it would be possible to then allow myself to get distracted by focussing too much on some weird aspect of it, but equally it would be possible to get so emotional in a conversation with somebody sat next to you that you stop paying attention to the road. And we (most people at least) don't say "it's not safe to talk at all while driving", we just make sure not to go over that line of getting too distracted by the conversation.
This won't stay secure for long.
The alternative would be to actively undermine Rust's type system (and guarantees):

- RwLock hands out multiple references (that's the point), Sync means a type can be used from multiple threads (concurrently), if RwLock<T: !Sync> was Sync it would allow multiple outstanding references for the same !Sync object, which is not legal.

- Mutex, however, only hands out a single reference at a time (which is also why it can always hand out a mutable reference), meaning semantically it acts like it moves the T to the target thread then borrows it = nothing to sync, that's why Mutex<T> is Sync if T is Send.

- For Arc, if it were Send without the wrapped object being Send it would allow Send-ing !Send objects: create an Arc<T>, clone it, move the clone to a second thread, drop the source, now you can try_unwrap() or drop() the clone and it'll work off of the second thread.

This is a problem with threadlocal state, but also with resource affinity (e.g. on windows a lock's owner is recorded during locking, and only the owner can release the lock, there are also lots of APIs which can only work off of the main thread.), or thread-safety (Rc for instance would be completely broken if you could Send it, as the entire point is to use an unsynchronised refcount).
Classification of Locomotive Axle Arrangements
I think that the case made was arguable, but this was always the likely outcome (assuming that the Supreme Court accepted the case in the first place, which they did). It's extremely clear that the Scottish Parliament can't legislate for independence. It's also clear that they can, in general, legislate to hold referenda. The question is whether a non-binding referendum (that is, one which is advisory and non-self-executing, though obviously with political importance) on independence is in breach of the "don't legislate on independence" reservation. You could make a case that the referendum couldn't change the actual constitutional arrangements (and the Lord Advocate did) but the argument that it's part of a process of change on forbidden matters seems a stronger one to me - as the court found.
Not sure I understand your point.

Should I try to build my own car? Or my own CPU?
No matter how free they make it to use, I just do not want a robot listening to me all time.
Interesting note and a curious thing to apply in my local area. We have lots of cross breed lizards like horned toads and newts and anoles. We love their feeding habits.

Compared to the rainforest lizards, our prairie ones are 4x larger on average. Like dwarf iguanas in some respects with large claws and speed.

I’m also a huge fan of dragonflies here in north Texas - quite common seeing 3-5” long ones zooming about with gorgeous variety of colors. I’ve noticed they appreciate outdoor fans and treat the breeze path as a playground.
> What? So if I'm an employee of the DNC, and I want to blow the whistle on what I see by leaking documents, I need to somehow get the corresponding RNC documents or else I'm a spy?

No, that's not what the parent is saying. If (1) you have acquired documents on both the DNC and the RNC, (2) they are both damaging and (3) you choose to only leak the ones about the DNC... well then it's not as clear cut and ethical as leaking both troves.
I can explain a little more than the other replies.

The situation has changed a lot and the reason why is brexit.

In 2014 the Scottish referendum a central part of the "No to independence" marketing was the idea that Scotland would be out of the EU and would be unlikely (or uncertain) if they would be able to return to the EU.

The victory margin for remaining in the UK was quite narrow and interviews from that time indicate that it was a large problem for many.

In 2016 in the Brexit referendum Scotland's regions voted unanimously to remain in the EU, but of course they were outnumbered by the English and Welsh.

So, since a central promise that inspired many to check the "No" to independence box to Scottish independence had changed: the conversation has come about again.

EDIT: I'm currently going through old youtube videos trying to find interesting "on the street" conversations and it's absolutely shocking how close the argument for Independence and Brexit are. I am not sure it's consistent to be pro-brexit and anti-scotland independence.
I think your friend gets at why people think Twitters IT costs can be cut though (ignoring his idea about compression): They think Twitters product is mostly the delivery of tweets.

But's not. Twitters product is ad inventory and their ad placement platform, and the engine driving engagement that boosts their ad inventory by reordering the timeline to keep people scrolling. Those are the hard parts.

"Just" delivering and storing tweets is easy. If you ignore the nasty business of the moderation. And most people have never even visited analytics.twitter.com and seen how much data is available to them about their own tweets, much less looked at ads.twitter.com and seen how precisely they can be targeted, and the precision Twitter offers in what kind of things you can pay for (engagement, follows, media views, clicks). And they've certainly not tried running ad campaigns in those categories, and seen how good Twitter are at showing your ads mostly to people doing what you're paying for.

Musk's actions makes me wonder how well he understood the complexity of Twitter too. Surely he must have looked at those other aspects of Twitter before he made his bid.
Deploying Dane (TLSA) for SMTP with OpenSSL
I looked into MS The World nearly a decade ago. Back then they would only consider you if you had a net worth of at least $10mm.

I was on their mailing list for a while, and every month they would have a new cabin for sale, complete with PDF brochure including a floor plan for the deck it was on.

You could rent a cabin for a short stay if you wanted. I forget how much the yearly dues were if you owned a residence.
The New York Times' political stances are just as obvious as those of WikiLeaks, and I say this as a long-time NY Times reader.

I gave the 1619 Project as an example of how the Times' political biases shine through. It's a clear-cut case in which the Times ignored the objections of the actual experts on American history (including the historian they asked to fact-check the project, but also several heavyweights of American history, such as Gordon Wood and James McPherson), and published ideologically motivated, rubbish history. The way the Times then dismissed the criticisms of academic historians (the 1619 Project lead dismissed them as "white historians") left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. This was one of the Times' flagship projects, which they put on the cover of the paper and which they have heavily promoted since.

> nihilistic attitude towards journalism

I'm not nihilistic about journalism. The NY Times, despite its obvious political sympathies, is still a very useful source of information. So is WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks published some extremely important information that the public had a right to know. The value of WikiLeaks was that it did not have the same close relationship with the US government that the NY Times has, and that it was therefore more willing to publish material that would gravely embarrass the US government.

To give you one such example of how the NY Times' relationship with the government compromises its journalism: the Times knew about Bush's unconstitutional warrantless wiretap program before the 2004 election. It refrained from publishing the story, at the request of the Bush administration. It was only when the journalist covering the story threatened to publish it by himself, outside the Times, that the Times finally decided to run it. That was a year after the Times found out. In other words, the Times withheld a major story during a Presidential election, because the President (who was also one of the candidates) claimed vague security concerns.

WikiLeaks would not have withheld that story. That's the major difference between the Times and WikiLeaks - not that the Times is a bastion of political neutrality.

Julian Assange has been sitting in prison in the UK for years, fighting extradition to the US, which wants to lock him up for 175 years. The suggestion that he's not a journalist, because he's politically outspoken, is one of the tactics the US political establishment has used to justify going after him.
Thanks for elaborating!

For some reason I find British politics very interesting although never having set foot onto British soil.
It's less an issue of size and more of economics etc.

Also the precedent it sets for Catalonia's independence movement and the issues that causes for Spain is another pain point that has been brought up (edit: Though as I understand it, Spain's position is that as long as Scotland does it "legally", and not by secession, they're fine?).
The only plausible problem was a Spanish veto, to avoid encouraging secession by the Basque country and Catalonia. If done with the consent of the Rest of the UK, though, I don't think that would have eventuated.
4DToys is a VR game where you can "physically" play with 4D objects - as a 3D being of course, so you only get so see and touch one 3D slice, but the object is free to move in 4D (there's an actual 4D physics engine). There's something out of this world to hold a 4D cube in your hand and rotate it. You also get a software cursor to move yourself along the fourth spatial dimension.
What better than NIMBYs self isolating and only annoying their own? The logic holds up I think.
tl;dr: pay extra to actually use the CPU you have already bought.
> There /is/ power to-be-had, but nobody has really tapped it.

This kind of thing can't be built for modern mainstream operating systems because they generally prevent subjugation of the OS components and other programs, even if the user wants that, ostensibly for security reasons.

Unlike a human operator, an assistant "app" can only operate within the bounds of APIs defined by the OS vendors and third-party developers. Gone are the days of third-party software that extends the operating system in ways that the overlords couldn't (or wouldn't) dream of.
No. It was obviously not a transplant.

Yes I'm familiar with modern sociology and anthropology and their attempts to reinterpret via cloudy misinterpretation of certain non Western European (thus necessarily unfamiliar) cultural artifacts to retrofit them into a pseudo history to reinforce 21st century created paradigms of gender.