skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One advantage is making sure that those on the quicker end of the bell curve don't have their time wasted. Not just in classes, but later on with their colleagues: If you know everybody can make the same jumps you can, then you can explain your thought processes without having to jump back and remind people of things. In addition, this helps everybody see each other as colleagues and peers rather than creating a weird situation where some people who are nominally on the same level end up being teachers or tutors rather than peers. It also helps create and set norms around what information people should know or be able to find as opposed to 'John can't search a database' or 'Cindy shows up without knowing first order logic and derails our presentation asking about it every slide'.

Not providing some kind of weeding out/gatekeeping is a great way to disincentivize the talented because then they spend their careers as teachers or hand-holders instead of what they actually want to do + they end up frustrated having to slow down.
fyi HomePod Mini also has those sensors
I'm curious why you pay for those services and not the others. Is it a matter of topics, teaching style?
On the other hand, especially when offering an online service, cert monitoring and/or robust automation are essential. Blaming browser behaviour is missing the point in my opinion.
What makes me somehow believe in the information theory of aging is that old people look "noisy".
But wasn't that flux 100% in high-level software?
Are there any batteries in development with a 1500 Whr/kg density? I think I remember one (LiS type?) that is supposed to hit 1000 Whr/kg in the next few years. But that was the highest I heard of so far.
I'm holding out to see if Matter fills the gaps I see in Apple Home. I have too many devices that are not supported in Apple Home. Many of which are not easily replaced, such as an appliance.
50$ a month is something that matter if your income is low
What do you mean by having to link/unlink them?
Toxic article from Time about ChatGPT using Kenyan Workers to make ChatGPT less toxic. We went full circle here.
I have a pair of original HomePods. Love them dearly.

Just read through the page and couldn't figure out what's new. I was expecting much more from a new version.
It sounds like you're suggesting some different approach for how to calculate a wage offer. Can you elaborate?
Nothing is safe without SSL (expired or not), if you are on public WIFI.
Now imagine a world in which packages provided correct *.pc files that properly supported static linking
Great for my kids.

Another option would be Mu: https://codewith.mu/
Scientists unravel secret of swing in jazz
Siri complain time? Well, my newest problem with Siri is: Let's say I want to play some classic song (like Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd). So I say "hey siri, play sweet home alabama" - and what I get is not the original one but some newish remake/remix/reinterpretation.

Why on earth would you play some unknown version over the popular original?

Oh also ... what's the "next song pls" command in German? With Alexa I can say "Alexa, weiter" and the next track plays. With Siri? "Weiter" won't do anything. I have to say "Hey Siri, nächstes Lied" ... or I can just switch to English and say "Hey Siri, next" which then works.

Oh another one: The German Siri pronouncing English song titles with the German voice-set makes my ears hurt. Like you would read an English word but pronounce it like you would a German word.

But then again some Band/Song Titles she gets perfectly right. Cannibal Corpse sounds like perfect English.

Those AI assistants are a hot mess and get worse with time. Seems like feeding more and more data into your model won't make it better.
Stereo pairing was a feature of the original first generation HomePods . Siri has always been a limitation of buying this product due to the best bang per buck for the audio quality.
Because of bootstrapping
I can't describe how much I hate purely e-mail merge requests. If your e-mail doesn't get a response in a week or so, everyone will have forgotten about it and the relevant people have gotten 1000 new e-mail since yours. With something like gitlab/github/sr.ht/gogs/gitea/anything else, your MR will remain in the relatively short (compared to an inbox with all incoming e-mail) list of open merge requests, clearly visible in a web interface.

Issues you create are the same way.

I very, very rarely experience having my MR or issue completely ignored for years with projects which use a web issue/MR tracker, except for with unmaintained single-person hobby projects. But it seems to be the rule with e-mail, even for actively maintained serious projects.
Visual Studio becomes even more pie in the face?
Interesting to see a follow up. I didn’t think we would get another HomePod. I suspect they realized it was priced too high and the first version was just too expensive to produce.

On a side note, I still have my old Apple Hifi and it continues to sounds great. I use it as computer speaker via optical audio.

I also have a pair of Sonos Ones and a Sonos Move. I am fairly underwhelmed by the Sonos One sound quality, but the Move sounds great and is very convenient as a portable speaker.
> You can't just use eminent domain and take out all buildings and highrises on both sides of Market Street in San Francisco to build a 10 foot wide roadway only for bicycles on each side.

The goal isn't to create pedestrian and cyclist space from building footprints, it's to repurpose the existing roads and streets away from cars, to pedestrian and cyclist use.

Here are a few links to examples of successful conversions. Please note that no buildings were torn down to make any of this happen.

https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-...

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2022/06/21/seven-stroads-ha...

I live in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Most people would say it's "fully built out" despite the oodles of new construction happening just slightly farther away from the city center. Still, light rail is being built right through Plano and Richardson and Addison, all existing built-out suburbs. The "Silver Line" will be done in a few years without tearing down tens of thousands of existing homes and businesses.

https://dart.org/about/project-and-initiatives/expansion/sil...
Does it work with Spotify yet? I remember the first one could only be AirPlayed to (if I'm recalling correctly).
Ahh thanks, I checked the actual mini product page which doesnt seem to be updated yet.
I feel like 10 years ago or so, everyone would have seen this and thought it was understandable that a project like ReactOS would still be in alpha after all these years and still somewhat unstable. However, since then lots of open source OSes have started and have had some stability, although no widespread usage yet, primarily because these OSes are being developed on the side by people like google or facebook. And so may be that is why people look at reactOS after all this time and are surprised it's still a small shop.

It's similar to GIMP. GIMP was "impressive for open source" in 2013 but now it's behind the times when things like Photopea exist. May be ReactOS hasn't kept up with the progress people now expect from open source projects.
The choice of words reveal the intention.
Definitely a lot of precedent for `=` for headers:

https://pldb.com/languages/asciidoc.html

https://pldb.com/languages/creole.html

https://pldb.com/languages/texti.html

https://pldb.com/languages/mediawiki.html
Mostly books. Old school ;-)

Toureztky's Common Lisp A Gentle Intro to Symbolic Programming
Norvig's PAIP
Seibel's Practical Common Lisp
Graham's ANSI Common Lisp

I'd like to snag a copy of Sonya Keene's book on CLOS but hesitant to drop $50+ for a used book.
Does this imply potentially automatically updating, instead of me remembering to go get the MSI?
The title here is the fourth item in the list of highlights:

• Cellular responses to double-stranded DNA breaks erode the epigenetic landscape

• This loss of epigenetic information accelerates the hallmarks of aging

• These changes are reversible by epigenetic reprogramming

• By manipulating the epigenome, aging can be driven forward and backward
Matter might be the thing you've been waiting for.

I only have 3 light switches in my apartment, but I made sure they had Matter support.
Nice, summarization of the red would be helpful, and then be able to jump and get context on that conversation. Also something like genius but for these earnings calls transcripts would be cool to get more metadata and insight to cut through the fancy finance speak and get to what’s really being said.

Otherwise nice work!
They're for sale again for starters. The first generation was discontinued a couple years ago. I think they had some manufacturing issue which meant they kept dying prematurely. It's possible this is basically a small spec bump + they should actually work this time
People do complain about Brampton as well. Just because it's not in this article doesn't mean people don't bring it up lol... I've definitely seen listings that won't rent to muslim/hindu people etc., for example
That command uses `#lang racket` which means it loads an awful lot of modules.
Try an example with `racket/base` instead.

$ time racket ~/tmp/bd.rkt
hello

Times:

0.12s user 0.04s system 94% cpu 0.176 total

The file used

$ cat ~/tmp/bd.rkt
#lang racket/base
(displayln "hello")

Also use `raco make` to compile your scripts before running them.
Next Generation Battery Recycling
Speaking as an immigrant from America, I really like DigiD! I wish the US had something even remotely similar. The fact that we do not have a standardized national ID easily available to everyone is embarrassing.

DigiD has some minor annoyances, but it's a helluva lot better than some alternatives I could think of.
If we're going to expand the term "slavery" to include at-will employment for pay, we should probably repeal the 13th Amendment and replace it with something a little more precise.
Am curious. How often do you use a voice assistant and what tasks?
It's not supported in every application, but most web browsers & document browsers have some kind of middle-click autoscroll situation. You may have to toggle it On in the settings. Basically you middle-click once (or click & hold), a little scroll icon appears, and then the document scrolls based on how far your mouse cursor is from the scroll icon. Click again (or release) to stop scrolling. Functionally it's pretty similar to the pitch bend wheel you describe. Works great when it's available.
I'm very interested in computational law. Drop me an email if you ever want to chat.
Re the force - it's the settings 93.2%, and the nub preference 6.8%. Different height shape and grip of different nubs work for different people.

Otherwise agreed. I find track pads Incredibly wasteful - we've continually canibalizing the keyboard for sake of larger track pad. I bit the bullet and splurged on t25 (with traditional keyboard including home row)about 5 years ago,and it remains my daily driver.

Especially the smaller you go, including what used to be net books (12" and smaller) - track point is exactly as effective at all scales, whereas track pad and keyboard compromises become worse and worse.

P.s. For some reason even though I'm a rightey,I use track point with my left hand which lets me switch it up a bit and makes for less of a stretch. Using track point for me is effective efficient and completely automatic. Track pads, still a struggle, whether I'm using it myself or watching somebody else scroll scroll scroll :-/
sed -I 's/are terrific for bringing philosophers back into/are a reasonable tactic for attempting to drag screaming, kicking, & biting philosophers back into/'
Most of my comments mention the fact that the escape hatch should be limited to certain use cases, such as local networks, certain TLDs etc...

Tying the validation requirements and CA bundle to the TLD would be a useful strategy and would in fact increase security in most cases.

For example imagine the official Chinese government CA can only issue certs for .cn . The TLD could also mandate TLS v1.3 and the latest crypto algorithm.

This simultaneously protects the Chinese from Western interference, and Google from Chinese interference.

"Encryption only" never-expiring certs could be specifically banned for .com .bank etc... but allowed for .local, .lan, .hobby and plain IP addresses.

This increases security across the board without sacrificing autonomy.
My first Mac was a 12” 867 mhz (I think?) PowerBook. It had the footprint of a sheet of paper in 2003.

I genuinely don’t understand this product. And I similarly don’t understand the appeal of Siri. I thought the first one was a failure and they’d either walk away or change things dramatically. Like go the actual audio playback path and make it a respectable tower speaker. Add in a sound bar and satellites too. That could get a purchase from me. Or just make the Minis the interface and make Siri something people want to use.

Talking to computers at this point still feels like the 3D/VR products that get introduced periodically and ultimately fail. I also similarly don’t want to be around people talking to their smartphones in the places they’re already glued to them.
It's anyone's guess as to whether or not the OP was trying to troll.

That said, I can see some benefit in occasionally testing viewpoints that are "obviously" true.
At this point, AI also solves this problem with pretty reasonable accuracy. You can feed gpt3.5 some html and ask it to write a python script to parse all of the button text.
Ballistic parachutes have been around for a long time. I wonder if they can use that with an audible alarm to eeduce the likelihood of a person strike.
I think they struggled with a very stubborn userbase.

I used it and thought it worked brilliantly.
Yeah, windows and mac has a different approach to things, and seemingly people do not want to invest the time to properly learn a new OS when changing.

"I've used computers for x years, and if mac is so intuitive I should just get it, and mac sucks because you can't move folders only copy them in finder".
A variation of this I've heard multiple times.

MacOS is intuitive for people who's never used another system in my opinion. If your muscle memory and workflows have been shaped by windows, you're going to have to look up how to do things.

Like, holding down option with certain clicks to reveal more options is not something everyone know, and it's applicable (used to be at least) in many places.
> without requiring the blessing and grace of a distant 3rd party authority.

Nothing stops you installing a private CA into the trusted roots for this kind of case.
Google Public DNS plans to enable case randomization
Sure, but "ageing is a result of increasing entropy" is pretty much the same as saying that ageing is caused by the passage of time.

The interesting part here is that they narrow down which loss of information is important.
Atmospheric lasers used as lightning rods
Not sure I would call this "help". These workers were subjected to the most vile and graphic depictions of sexual abuse content imaginable for next to nothing.

This whole thing makes OpenAI seem evil if you ask me. Just another company exploiting people who are already being exploited. It's depressing.
Not an equalizer but Reduce Bass setting does exactly this. I actually have it on at all times because it makes the HomePod sound more flat, the default has too much bass for my taste.
Ha! I run a simple hit tracker and most of my posts get single digit hits a year. I rent a server to run my blog and write a blog to have something for my server to do.
It's a combination of 1) inevitable diminishing returns -- we've done all the easy stuff and a lot of the hard stuff, and 2) institutional incentives now favor safe, predictable science, rather than high-risk speculative projects.
The display on top is much larger.

The new HomePod has 4 microphones and 5 tweeters.

The original HomePod had 6 microphones and 7 tweeters.

New one weighs 5.1 pounds vs. 5.5 pounds previously.

Via https://twitter.com/rsgnl/status/1615719411813593097
I haven't made the assumption that more speakers = better sound.

It's possible it's experiencing the same gradual and nearly imperceptible quality decline (from insanely great to merely extremely good) that most Apple products have been undergoing the last 5-7 years, but I will reserve judgement until I have one (two, actually) in hand. Apple's brain drain and productmanagerization is sadly very real.

Fingers crossed that someone in Apple is holding it to the same standards as AudioAccessory1,1 (HomePod1), but not holding my breath as I think the guy who I believe was the main force behind it (Christopher Stringer) left Apple to create a company called Syng and a product called the Cell Alpha.

A stereo pair of Cell Alphas is $4500. A stereo pair of HomePod2s is $600.

Also, I think one of the main reasons the HP1 flopped is because it was too expensive. If this thing is 95% as good as the HP1 but stays in production because people are buying it because Apple figured out how to sell it for 15% cheaper, then it's a win.

We'll see!
> What the author fails to consider is that this diminished position has nothing to do with the tools, and everything to do with the population of people who were coming online in the early 2000s.

I think it does have something to do with the tools, but not in the way the author is describing.

Rather, the need for personal homepages was diminished because search engines replaced them! When I came online, around that time, I was introduced right away to search engines as the way to find things online.

This of course was always an incomplete replacement. Search engines provided a window into a much larger set of content than any one curated website, but they were more easily manipulated, so smaller and more niche content would be comparatively harder to discover. The popular sites, and the sites whose ranking was manipulated, rose to the top.

I've started to wonder lately if it would be beneficial to revive personal, curated homepages for this reason. They can't replace search engines entirely of course, but the breadth of information you can discover on rabbit holes from older sites is mind-boggling and I feel like there's something there.
> And who the fuck is doing that? Because they're not god-damned cheap if you do that!

Nobody is doing it yet because nobody is even close to having too much solar or wind at this point. But that's still likely cheaper in the end.

> And yes, I'm angry, because empirically, on the very grid I use, that is exactly what has happened. We're paying, not the "extortionate" $100 or so nuclear promised, but over $500, because something needs to keep the lights on at moments not convenient for the intermittence.

Nuclear promised power too cheap to meter. That's never materialized. Nuclear promises many things, but so far shows no signs of fulfilling them.

Eg, Hinkley Point C in the UK is infamous for that it's already economically nonsensical and can only exist because the government guaranteed a subsidy. It's already not competitive with modern renewables. That's unlikely to improve in the future.
Wasnt there a Wonder kid who sold something like this to yahoo? Ahh the early 2010's - what a time to be alive.

https://www.uktech.news/news/nick-daloisios-news-aggregation...
Haha, yes! I'd love to see that too.

Making workshop tools yourself that you get to use later is both really both really fun and a great way to learn things along the way ...even if it seems you can almost always buy the tool cheaper online.

There should be some kind of makefile for all the bits you need to make a lathe.
It would have been less exciting had he the first round of layoffs had headlines like "Amazon retrenches on its Alexa division" and this round been "Amazon retrenches in its retail efforts". Some parts of Amazon are still actively hiring.

Framing it around headcount is useful for Amazon: the lazy investors will think "Ah, amazon is cutting expense because of the economy. Smart!" and buy rather than seeing "Some of Amazon's efforts are not bearing fruit" and sell.
You can get a really, _really_ good pair of professional studio monitors for 2000$. I'll confess that I've never heard the HP1 but that is a bold claim!
I find that lots of developers do not have a website. Many just have a Twitter and Github and that's it.
I think its a cool theory and seems the most reasonable from all the other theories of aging. However I am a bit disappointed when I only see David's name on every paper published on this topic. Why dont other institutions start similar studies to verify this claim?
Today Anon discovered poverty and economic inequalities.
> I find their performance-review and promotion obsessed cultures to be really draining

I don't even work at a FAANG company but this resonated with me so much.
Do you live in Nederland still? You can request the verification via post instead of using your passport. If you lose your DigiD login, you can also create/request another. The account acts as a pointer to your official ID. My wife made a mistake and had to attempt the process 3 times. Not a problem.
It’s not just money - how do we manage shared resources like the atmosphere, night sky, and various orbits?
Poverty and inequality are terrible. OpenAI should be ashamed that they just made it marginally better for some folks in Kenya instead of solving this massive problem in its entirety that has nothing to do with their company. /s
Now you finally understand why this meeting is annually held in Davos... So they all have an excuse to go to a place where it is legal...
“ This code has been disclosed in response to a request under the Dutch Open Government Act ("Wet open Overheid"). This implies that publication is primarily driven by the need for transparence, not re-use. Re-use is permitted under the EUPL-license, with the exception of source files that contain a different license.”

It sounds like they might not been very keen to maintain the app.

Can there be alternative better implementations or DigID “hardcoded” to one provider?
This is marketing copy so I assume that the sentence was deliberately constructed.

> We know a third of web traffic comes from bots with their insatiable appetite for attacks.

I read that run-on "with their" as a universal quantifier. There are no bots in that sentence that do not have an insatiable appetite. They could have added that quantifier to indicate the subset of bots they refer to:

> We know a third of web traffic comes from THOSE bots WITH AN insatiable appetite for attacks.

or even, simpler:

> We know a third of web traffic comes from bots with AN insatiable appetite for attacks

That's how I read the grammar. Language can be slippery, and can be made slipperyer. If we read it different ways we read it different ways.

To your question, of course those things are bad, and of course people use bots to do this. They also use web browsers and humans to do it. Some bots are bad. Some people are bad.
Not sure I get it. You got an example?