skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Mountain View - San Jose area is one of the bike-friendliest in the whole USA, and there's still no way I'm riding a bike around here (or letting my wife take our kid on one)

So long as morons are browsing Instagram on their 3 ton deathboxes while speeding around town, it's just too risky. My coworker got tapped by an SUV in a very low-speed fender bender. He was out of commission for months, all sorts of broken bones, it was brutal.
I've switched to using a Chat-GPT shortcut in lieu of Siri and it's absolutely amazing. Apple should figure out how to license GPT and run Siri through it.
Don't worry, you're just catching up in one hour on 10 years of NLP research. There has to be some conceptual gap to cross. After you clarify the "vector" and "computing similarity" concepts, it's pretty nifty. You have a text

emb = model(text)

Now you got the embedding. What can you do with it? you can calculate how similar it is to other texts.

emb1 = model(text1)
emb2 = model(text2)
similarity = sum([a * b for a, b in zip(emb1, emb2)])

Just a multiply and add, this is trivial! So if you do that for a million texts, you got a search engine. Vector DBs are automating this for you. There are free libraries just as good. And free models to embed text with, OpenAI also have some great embeddings. You can use np.dot to compute similarities fast, up to 100,000 vectors it's the best way and get exact, not approximate results.

The great thing about embedding text is the simplicity of the API and the similarity operation. It's dead simple to use. You can do clustering, classification, near neighbour search / ranking, recommendation, or any kind of semantic operations between two texts that can be described as a score. If you cache your vectors you can search very very quickly with np.dot or other methods, in a few ms. Today you can also embed images to the same vector space and do image classification by taking the text label with max dot product.

You can also train a very small model on top of embeddings to classify the input into your desired classes, if you can collect a dataset. Embeddings are the best features for text classification. You can think of this embedding method as a way to slice and dice in the semantic space like you do with strings in character space. All fast and local, without GPUs.
If the program can do something useful while not proving anything interesting, then no, programs are not proofs.
That would be very ugly source, as Datomic is written in Clojure and AOT compiled to Java bytecode. Due to the architecture of Clojure (especially, the use of macros) it is not exactly possible to work backwards from JVM bytecode to anything that looks like the original source code. It's not like Java where a clever decompiler can exploit output patterns generated by the Java compiler to make reasonable guesses at the structure of the source code.

But this is all besides the point; Datomic is now free (as in beer) with a great license (Apache 2.0). You can use this amazing tool for free, and you have as much need to look at the source to do so as you might need to look at PostgreSQL's source.

Some of us have been hoping for this day since Datomic was first announced, but even as an insider (I have been working at NuBank NA for less than a year) I was stunned at the speed with which this decision was made and implemented.
In my experience, it's still pretty prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe. I was able to smoke in a restaurant in Bulgaria three years ago, and you get nothing like the social disapproval for smoking you tend to in Western Europe (I've since stopped smoking cigarettes.)
I thought 5G solves scalability issues (at least better than 4G)
they have 200 employees on linkedin, many of whom are not engineers. How they can carry two such major and complicated projects(browser and search) with such headcount?
> Of course the reality is that Alberta's success likely has a lot a lot less to do with their political policy choices, and a hell of a lot more to do with the fact that they get absolutely ginormous oil royalties that funds their every budget wish.

I think this also reflected in their bimodal provincial politics. Unlike other province, there's just two teams, and they're the polar opposites (provincial NDP squarely on the left, UCP on the very-right for folks from outside Canada).
Why is it prejudiced? This name is very common so if you actually have some levant friends there is very good chance they have this name. And with the influx of people from Pakistan and Levant this is a fact - they didn’t study English to know it well, but to survive in a hurry. Is sad and practical… should you want to label it. Like it or not. Perhaps you should also call prejudice that Ivan and Marsha is associated with slavic (if not Russian)…
Boston Logan you can definitely hop onto public transit pretty easily. But I'm pretty sure you're not just walking to anywhere in East Boston from there easily.
I seem to recall hearing from MS affiliated people in my network that someone revisited GDI circa 2015? It also wouldn't shock me if there's more that can be done.

Also worth noting that various parts of MS have declared GDI as legacy at various points in time. Yet it remains a critically important component.
I'd guess it would be a complaint about the age of the accusation. Veteran watchers of the court know that those sort of accusations aren't a serious impediment to confirmation however. Who can forget Clarence Thomas's Coke cans? They were even more credible and provided only a minor delay in his appointment. If you want that sort of behavior to matter you need to elect better representatives.
>I'm surprised there are more Apple TV users than Apple watch users.

I don't think these stats suggest that there are more Apple TV users than Apple watch users.

They say more people use the App Store on tvOS than use the App Store on Apple Watch.

As an Apple Watch user, I'm not surprised by that all. Why would I want to browse the app store directly on my watch? That's annoying and cumbersome. I do it on my phone, it's quicker and easier and therefore I assume that'd be counted as iOS app store usage.

And I also reckon most Apple Watch apps people use are companions to apps they installed on their iPhone anyway, rather than Apple Watch only apps.
I use carplay in my CX5 and have no issues (my cx5 does not have a touch screen at all, 2022)
It's infuriating when I ask Siri to play a song and it decides to pick an obscure remix of the song one day, the actual song another day, then another remix another day.

Did they test this at all? Why would you ever pick a more complex/verbose option from the results list?
Very old timers called this rhetoric.
Well impeachment is a political choice more than a legal one, and to be blunt, I haven’t seen a damn thing in any of these pieces that looks particularly damning; just that as a matter of course the Justices should also take better care to follow whatever procedures they’re subject to since they’re not expected to show leniency to anyone who doesn’t follow the procedures of the court when they have business before the court.
"[writing] mini Lisp interpreters in a cabin in the woods" sounds wonderful!
Ok don’t know whether Freud was a charlatan or simply one of many explorers of his time, who believed in his theories. (Consider Lysenko and others.)

But his nephew EDWARD BURNAYS in the USA is the reason Freud came to USA and we even know about Freud. And Burnays was far more successful using methods of mass psychology — very meta, he renamed Propaganda to PUBLIC RELATIONS.

Burnays got women to smoke, and helped promote the public stock market, which now is used for IPO of many startups. Google “Century of the Self” for a great documentary.
It seems to be very city specific.
Had exact experience a few times while in Miami and switched back to Uber for rest of trip.

Drivers are smart, they network, and they talk. I'm sure theres some idiosyncratic thing going on where Lyft is more gameable for drivers in some cities. Could be Uber-Lyft price spread plus cancel policy / penalty on drivers.

Most of these guys drive around with N apps running, so they switch to more lucrative ride / app / etc on the fly.
advertisements about smoking were always about being independent and tough/rebel.

We have Edward Bernays to thank/blame for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
It's much cheaper. Especially the non-4K models were dirt cheap for Apple products.
While we're ranting about the 'infotainment' systems on cars, how about the apps? The Kia Connect enrages me every time I have to use it for my wife's car. It makes the in-car system seem snappy and awesome. The fact that they want to start charging for it after the 'trial' period is un-believable.
> where Freud never even was mentioned

Maybe he wasn't mentioned by name, but he was a major influence on earlier versions:

https://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/clinical/dsm
I'm using WebGL for game development right now (and am somewhat looking forward to WebGPU) -- I'm not saying everything needs to be in the DOM. Just most things. It shouldn't really be the default for application frameworks to target Canvas (and multiple frameworks do treat it like the default rendering target). Like I said:

> There are a few places where this doesn't make sense, but if we're honest most application state even for native apps really ought to be represented in the form of an interactive document.

An RTS may be an exception to that because for most RTS games you can't sit down and describe what's going on in the game in a clear way using a pure-text tree or interactive document. But "exception" is the important word there. Most web apps aren't games, most web apps shouldn't be laying out complicated 2D/3D graphical scenes.
Mental health problems in young people are also at all time highs and nicotine has known palliative affects on some mental health problems.
> Homework wasn't really supposed to teach the subject per se. It was supposed to instill some discipline and personal responsibility.

Wut. Not at all. Studies have shown you need to touch / interact with / refresh something at least 3 times for it to stick. The point is that you do the lesson at school, touch it again, later, at home, and then ideally once or twice more before a test. Maybe many more times, like running through problem sets or flash cards.

It also serves as a way to see how well lessons are sinking in. If Lil Timmy ain't scoring well on math homework but does okay on English then maybe he needs someone to explain it differently, push him a little, try different approaches, etc.

Chores are a fine way to teach responsibility, but that ain't why 8th graders get math homework or college students write term papers.
Sapphire Schrödinger’s cat shows that quantum effects can scale up
> Sure, but encoding the factorization of a large prime into 2-MAXSAT would necessarily imply constructing a hard instance of the latter.

That should work if you pick something like one of the unsolved RSA challenges or something.
Sure, my point is that only a googler would even consider this kind of breaking change as a sensible option. People in the real world with regular code tooling would reject the proposal before it got started.

The analogy to Angular that others have made is spot on. It's not just first-mover disadvantage. Google has particular blind spots for certain pain points, like deprecating APIs. Also q.v. Google Cloud.
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The whole wikipedia article reads so sad. From the vulture crisis, to the 18 million feral dogs, and more than half the world's cases of rabies. India has been managed so poorly for decades. As a foreign born person of Indian descent, it's sad to see. Every time I visit back, it's very lively but always heartbreaking to see suffering, and poor infrastructure, and wide range of standard of living between peoples and classes.

A huge majority of all the educated class have been leaving the country for decades. I see the trend starting to abate, hopefully, means more problem solvers, and forward thinking people change the country for the better.
Assuming it's accepted right away, it'd be in the merge window for kernel 6.4, and since Ubuntu 23.04 just came out with 6.2, you'll have to wait for 23.10 at the earliest.

Or you could just compile your own kernel and test it out.
I mean, you could also say B F Skinner was a charlatan for behaviorism, and so on. Very reductionist to say that though!

And you can say B J Fogg is a more modern charlatan. And Robert Cialdini. But all of them put together very interesting theories!
Robert Bork's nomination was rejected by the Senate in a vote after about 3 months (about typical time for a Supreme Court nomination hearing).

Merrick Garland's nomination was never heard by the Senate, and lapsed at the end of the Senate session with no hearings nor votes taking place for almost 9 months.

Seems like a critical difference to me, at least.
I went for years not drinking alcohol. Wasn't 100%... I'd have a spirit out now and then but only if I wasn't driving anywhere. This limited me to conference/hotel setups where I was staying for a few days. So... I might have a few drinks 2-3 times per year. It was largely a health/safety concern, but also a financial one.

Partially due to covid/lockdowns, I started drinking at home more regularly. It's now 4-5 times per month, vs 2-3 times per year. Still can't do too much - heartburn in middle of night if I have more than a drink or so.

Part of the reason I felt more comfortable taking it up was financial. Denied myself this 'indulgence' for a few decades because the cost always seemed relatively high. I can afford it now more than I could 20 years ago, so I'm trying out new things and seeing what I like.

But I definitely felt some social awkwardness when you'd be the only person in a group not drinking. I think the social expectations have changed a bit over the decades - it's not as expected. And... I've changed over the decades - I care far less what people think of me in social settings like that.
Maybe the employees who are parents push harder in salary negotiations because they have people depending on them.
This is a nonstory, tbh.

The reality is Apple deeply cares about releasing a polished product. Releasing an LLM-based Siri that makes really bad gaffes would be a PR nightmare. Google already suffered that when it opened up Bard despite pushback from folks working on it.

The fundamentals of LLM architectures, training, etc. are now no longer "secret sauce" tons of major tech companies are working on in-house LLMs at this point. I don't see Apple as not having a future for Siri, it's rather a silly conclusion that doesn't have much behind it at all
Or you can take the light rail directly from the airport into the city for $2.50 (and presumably catch a cheaper taxi there).
its probably differences in fare & penalty rates.

if they get punished $5 but Uber fare is gonna be $10 more, switch.
Just the fastest and most ergonomic browser I've tried.

I wish Firefox was like Brave, to be honest. Until that happens, I'll stick to Brave for both mobile and desktop.
Also, the OP pretty much says they are not in Ukraine in a comment:

> I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine
> - Taxis are hit and miss when it comes to cleanliness

So are ubers lol. Especially mid-day when the only ubers that seem to be out are old tiny cars.
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>Burnays got women to smoke

I think being allowed to use an addictive substance would deserve a great deal of the credit.
It's a waste not because the app sucks but because if you're looking for clever solutions for weight loss you've already lost.

You can just write down on some paper, twix 200 calories (or whatever), done. It's on the side of the wrapper.

Or just sack off chocolate bars. They're good as an occasional (e.g. monthly or something) treat, but really it's just not food is it?
No proof inside?
Voice matching? I heard some banks do that.
Using Brave Search feels like the Google Search from mid 2000s. Anyone tired of Google should give it a try.
The issue is definitely not obvious to a non-tech person. It isn't even obvious to me why text-image pairs should be considered, by default, public domain and fully commercializable by any and all.

The bigger point is that in all probability, the client's costs were minor (<10k), and these kinds of bumps and scrapes that happen (and what one needs to budget for) when choosing to to push forward with a large-scale and obviously controversial project.

So discretion (and concern for the project's overall public image) would call for using a feather rather than a sledgehammer here, as I see it.
I haven't had occasion to look at the options for years but SFO to San Jose or thereabouts used to be horrible. (Whereas BART to downtown SF is easy/cheap.)
But then I don't see why people are willing to draw conclusions from mouse studies in the first place, certainly not medical. They don't even generalize over all mice.

If anyone still takes them more seriously than a mere hint, I can't see why they would criticize them for excluding females. This study at least doesn't show much difference, and many other factors are excluded anyway.
I looked a used car site and looked at cars 10+ years 200k+ miles for sale that were used. I looked at which brand/models were the best from long run perspective.

Then I bought one that was like 5 years old at the time.

At the time is was a Toyota Camery.

If you don't plan on keeping it for 7 years and/or your not planning on driving it bunch of miles then go with a lease.

going the other direction if you want to have fun and have a flashy car that makes you sound richer than you are the best bang for your buck is a used porsche boxster. at least in the midwest. You won't impress car people or rich people but at the end of the day you still drive a porsche.

And what ever you do don't let them drive it especially if they're drunk.
and unlike on Deimos there's no danger of accidentally jumping off into space (Phobos escape velocity is about 41 km/h)

That, sir, sounds like a challenge! I accept!
Apple does lay some turds. MobileMe. Whatever their attempt to make iTunes into a social media network was called. Maps until recently. Usually they fix them, but Siri never seems to get better.

For what it's worth, I think Alexa has gotten worse, but for different reasons.
> because the network is unstable or unavailable

All of Apple’s services by and large handle spotty networks horribly.

Take Apple Music for example: if you want to play music you’ve downloaded to your device, it’s often better to switch into airplane mode, because with a present-but-poor signal it will still try to load album listings etc over the network, and sit there on a spinner.
The title is perhaps not ideal, but it seems like municipalities do need to collect this information and use it for projects to improve pedestrian safety, so using machine learning to make this type of sensor cheaper and easier to install seems useful.
> A regular govt worker receiving a $25 gift card has to report it or could be fired, but once you get to Supreme Court, you can do whatever you want.

For the regular government worker, does it matter who gives you that card? In the private sector, it's an issue if the card comes from a vendor, customer, etc, but if you just get a gift from some unaffiliated party there no need to report it to your employer.
> And the democrats would do the same thing

The Democrats helped force a Democrat appointed supreme court justice out in 1969, over a similar but lesser situation, even though Nixon would get to appoint a replacement.

> In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign after his financial relationship came to light with businessman Louis Wolfson, who paid Fortas to consult for his foundation. Fortas was a Democratic appointee, but the scandal led to a bipartisan call for his resignation — even though his replacement would be named by Republican President Richard Nixon and shift the balance of the court [0]

I definitely don't see today's Republicans doing that. Eleven months before an election they unconstitutionally refused to vote on Obama's nomination of Garland [1] to the Supreme Court, but afterwards they were ok breaking convention and approving Barret and other judges as lame ducks after an election where they lost their senate majority [2].

This is quite the change from several decades ago when Nixon resigned because he knew that some Republicans would vote with Democrats to impeach him. I guess that back then our constitution and institutions were more important than party and power [3].

[0] https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/19/clarence_thomas_abe_f...

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/594574-mcconnells-unco...

[2] https://rollcall.com/2020/10/30/mcconnell-senate-judges-lame...

[3] refer to the book "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
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I think reading the Information article, there were 2 issues, which it wasn't good at separating. The AI model sophistication and usage are one - and yeah, I think they could be more creative in using LLMs and such. But the other one seems to be a back end issue, i.e. that brief mention of "clunky database slowing down iterations/upgrades". That always seems to be an Apple Achilles heel...and I'd hope also they are NOT using that terrible IT infrastructure company (Agilent or whatever) to outsource their backend...
You are wildly off.

For perspective, Microsoft has ~200,000 employees. Lyft never had 2,000,000.

You might be thinking 2,000,000 drivers. But I checked that fact and apparently they have 20M registered drivers. Maybe 2M of those are active. I don't know. But Lyft never had anywhere near 2M employees. It looks like at their peak they had around 4,500.
If people just drive over it, it isn't doing anything.
Interesting story on that, Robert Nardelli (HD CEO 2000-2007) fired all the ex-tradespeople that Home Depot employed in their stores, because they cost more than younger and less experienced labor.

Straight from the GE "How to mortgage a company's future for a small boost in the present" book.

There were also some hilarious anecdotes told about him refusing to get out of his car in the corporate parking lot until security met him and escorted him in, presumably because he understood how much employees disliked him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nardelli#The_Home_Dep...
Authy does a neat thing where it prompts you to re-enter your password every couple weeks even though it doesn't need it, just as a practice to keep it fresh in your mind
I built carefulwords.com simply because I wanted to type a word into the address bar and get a large list of synonyms and some historical quotes using the word quickly. For example:

https://carefulwords.com/solitude

https://carefulwords.com/think

etc. Also unlike thesaurus.com, the search bar actually focuses so you can just start typing!

It's not perfect, I need to do a lot of editing, but nonetheless I use it almost every time I write, now.

The site is a little over 30,000 static HTML pages built with a number of TypeScript scripts that compile some sources for synonyms, parts of speech, and the quotes.
You've written this like an implication but you forgot the reasoning.
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I wish it was easier to see some of their books, or even copy and search the author from each page.