skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there is a misunderstanding.

The point I am making that you are referring to is that while you may be able to understand a piece of text in a foreign language translated visually by Google Translate (because your eyes can jump forward/backwards in the text, reread a confusing sentence, you can pause for a second and try to make sense of it, etc.), if the exact same text were translated in audio form, as part of a live, 1-1 conversation, you wouldn't be able to make sense of a lot of it because you can't do all the things I just listed which help deal with imperfect translations.

It's the same thing as if I read you a very complicated scientific paper you're not familiar with out loud, versus you reading it yourself. You will understand more in the latter situation.

(imagine if we had this back and forth in 2 different languages using Google earbuds, instead of over a textual medium :-)
> The main finding of this paper is that none of the existing mitigations is fully adequate, not even ECC.

I think that is bit misleading; this paper specifically did not analyze the effects of ECC at all, all their work is strictly focused on non-ECC systems. All the references to ECC are to other papers. Furthermore, while not "fully adequate", ECC is still quite effective mitigation

> [...] existing hardware countermeasures such as using memory with error-correction codes (ECC-RAM) appear to make Rowhammer attacks harder [...]

> ECC RAM can detect and correct 1-bit errors and, thus, deal with single bit flips caused by the Rowhammer attack. [...] However, uncorrectable multi-bit flips can be exploitable [2, 3, 42] or can result in a denial-of-service attack similar as described in Section IX-A depending on how the operating system responds to the error

Unless the situation has radically changed, my understanding is that ECC changes Rowhammer from a practical attack to more of a theoretical threat. And generally DoS is highly preferable over something like privilege escalation, which is further benefit of ECC.

Consumer-grade ECC can't come soon enough.
i'd like to have a small wearable camera that's on all day, snapping away, even if it was 3fps, and have some kind of voice recognition/hands free operation. Could wipe the storage daily. Wide fov, fast lens and optical stabilisation would be nice.

The Xiaomi Yi's (and other Chinese cameras using Ambarella/HiSilicon/Allwinner SoCs) are cheap and pretty scriptable, but a bit too big/obvious. Anyone know of a camera that would work? This Google one doesn't take pictures of everything, and is pretty expensive for what it is.
I used it on my Pixel in a recent trip to Japan and it was a life saver. From translating signs and bus schedules, to communicating with a waiter that didn't speak English about an issue with my credit card.
No kidding. Mine are 4 and 1.5, and my hobbies now include watching Paw Patrol, being the starting gun for pee races, and picking up toys in rooms that were clean an hour before. I think back on the days where I could play video games or practice the guitar with such fondness.
I agree that bitcoin's use of sha256 nonce seeking is a very easy target for critique. My broader assertion though is that proof of work, by design, will always centralise into a few, one way or another. Other theoretical schemes may be more resistant to centralisation though my instinct is that unless you find some sort of PoW mechanism that strongly anchors to some universal and impossible to simultae physical constraint of the universe we inhabit, POW mechanisms of any economic value will all race towards centralisation shrinking number of signing peers.

Proof of stake at this time is purely theoretical. It lacks strong proof that it solves the problem it sets out to solve. I personally doubt it is a viable solution and my belief it is a dead end avenue of research. Notable there are no large scale implementations yet, even eth rolled back the clock on POS.

Never heard of XRP before. Very briefly scanning, looks like a distributed consensus type protocol, which isn't anything new doesn't attempt to solve the core concern about decentralised trust. Realise am being a bit flippant here, I need to study more which I will, but this is my initial impression.

>> I assume you mean "there are other better solutions [to the problem of creating a decentralized ledger, or whatever]". What are those better solutions?

No I am not saying this at all. Why is it incumbent on me to solve this problem merely because I advance a critique of the current solution? Does my failure to bring an alternative to the table make my critique invalid? I don't think so. I have been puzzling over this problem space and exploring some ideas for alternatives. The problem is hard and honestly I am probably not smart enough to solve it. But the problems are interesting so I'll keep turning it over.

In terms of my thinking right now, I am not even confident that problems solved blockchains are even problems worth solving, that blockchains provide us, as a society, anything of value at all. Too much is given up: notably for example dispute resolution. Look at all the long parade of thefts and errors that have happened on Eth, the legacy to date of the idea of "the code is law" is problematic at best. To date I can only think of one real use case that has made me think blockchain/bitcoin is actually even useful : when US DoJ leaning on Visa/Mastercard to cutoff funding to Wikileaks, bitcoin provided good stopgap technical solution to this grotesque legal excess.
Not yet. I could add Apple Watch if enough people want it.
Answered my own question (sort of)... similar positions listed on USAJobs were GS-13, or in a few cases listed with a salary of $70-$90k or so.
no, a patent holder CAN NOT charge whatever they want. Apple tried it during their quest to destroy Android (Samsung) a few years back, but most of their utility claims were "apportioned" accordingly. Apple was able to gorge the entire profit on per device on a couple of frivolous design patents, but the SCOTUS stepped in to reverse that absurd ruling last year.

Contrary to your unsubstantiated claims, Qualcomm's licensing rates are publicly available and published time to time -- often in the range of 3% to 5%. Apple according to this article pays nowhere close to the published rate that most other handset makers are paying.
> A lot of these will be used by businesses on paid GSuite accounts where the monetization of user data doesn't happen:

YET.

GMail also launched without ads and datamining.

Google retroactively added it, without opt-in, and mined all your data later anyway.

If Google can physically access something, you have to assume they will data mine and publish it at some point.
TIL 2015 was "back in the day"
I'm curious why Google doesn't sell its Chromebooks in Europe? Is it because of some EU regulations or it's just Google that's not willing to expand its Chromebook territory here? I can definitely see the market here.
Call me cynical, and maybe some lobbying gets done on net neutrality but I can't help but feel that NN is just a cover for avoiding responsibility for election-related astroturfing.
> it's a no-brainer to choose JS for just about any complex UI

Javascript? Sure. Electron? Maybe not. Show me an Electron app with load times that aren't measured in seconds. Or an Electron-based text editor that doesn't choke on a moderately sized text file. VS Code is currently taking half a gig of ram on my notebook with three text files open...

I happen to quite like VS Code, but to claim that Electron is a no-brainer is simply false. There are serious tradeoffs.
Marni Walden, exec responsible for Yahoo deal is leaving Verizon
Seems like they do different things, Clip seems like an indoor "set it and forget it" kind of toy. There's no manual setting of modes, resolutions (from what I've seen so far). Very casual feel.

Plus mounting capabilities are probably few. GoPro is more for creators, directors, people who know what they want to achieve with their video.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

The only shorts for which I've ever been rich enough are in clothing stores - and my comforts extend beyond my clothing.
I understand the comment, but how does that apply to Google Translate specifically?
1996-1997 was just a huge time for arcades because of the fighting games. Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter 3, Tekken... crowds would form around those machines.
Google Clips Captures and Curates Meaningful Moments W Movidius VPU Inside
I'm talking more about portable business logic, libraries I could write and access on all platforms.
There is a checkbox in Xcode preferences to change it back. Not sure where as I’m on mobile, but that annoyed me to no end till I found the option.

I agree on faster and better, but still buggy. Autocomplete still regularly dies for me and requires a restart (of Xcode.)
Yep, another thin article published on Tedium.
Light-Activated Nanoparticles Help Fight Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Owning the domain makes for great email address portability. If I hadn't read so many of your comments here over the years, I probably wouldn't suggest this, but I think a good strategy is to buy 2 domains, one for trusted entities (i.e.people you know or your bank/ credit union) and one for non-trusted entities (i.e. Amazon or commercial entities in general). Use your domain registrar's email hosting for trusted entities (add PGP for extra goodness), and use a commercial provider (e.g Google, Fastmail,etc.) for the non-trusted entities domain.
Is there a reason it's exclusive to Pixel Buds?
yes, however it is very rare I ever need to type that in an editing environment. I am usually not cracking jokes in my code :)
Every single one you've posted has been educational for me. Really helped to internalize good design more than reading theory.

I enjoyed that you also did the Mario mobile game. I don't think too many game designers would make half of the mistakes Nintendo did there, but it's amazing to see so many examples of poor design in one place.
Unfortunately, it's not just the politicians. Key to the making the buyback work was that people were willing to sell. If you tried it in America you'd get white militias in standoffs - think a new Cliven Bundy every week - and cops slaughtering any black person hesitant to turn over their weapon.
I lived this in the 1990s. I wish I could upvote it 10 times.
In the grand scheme of these things, large spree killings like Sandy Hook, Orlando, and even this most recent tragedy are pretty infrequent.

There is a great deal of pathos and "something must be done!" but, especially given the history of gun control in America and given the current political situation, extreme caution and conservatism is the order of the day.

I appreciate how terrible all this must seem--especially for the increasingly gun-ignorant elite and urban population that is susceptible to a lot of the outrage porn--but we really need to be careful about the road increased gun control or confiscation would set us down.
— The disclosure filings show that Reddit hired the Franklin Square Group back in July to lobby on "Internet issues, including net neutrality and liability protections for online platforms."

Who else has lobbied for the liability protections of online platforms? Kim DotCom?
GitHub and Source Code
We have all source code managed by GitHub. If our exception logs include file names and line numbers, is there any tool that we can use to examine the exception logs along with the corresponding source code in GitHub?
These machines look rather uncomfortable :/
"Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has said that he worries the site is vulnerable to Russian political influence campaigns."

The "site" is vulnerable? Isn't the problem that Americans are vulnerable to influence campaigns?
Yea... but how much of those features are really from HTC, Samsung, et al and not duplicates of features from iOS or even custom roms from XDA?
I wonder about this as well. What are people finding is the best use of the default container - what opens as a new tab?

Do you keep that your personal container, and opt-in to other containers like work, shopping, etc.

Or do you use the default container as your most used type - perhaps work - and opt-in to personal/shopping containers as needed?

Keep the default container blank and try to always open up a specific container?
Thanks for your detailed response. You mentioned:

>"I forwarded email in Gmail, and move over forwarded emails as I can."

I didn't understand what you meant by moving over forwarded emails. Once you forwarded them aren't they available on Fastmail's IMPAP server? Or is there some other cleaning process you go through? Thanks.
Its cool that you can use the earbud case to recharge your phone (or vice versa). However, as a lefty I think it'd be annoying to be forced to use my right hand whenever I want to control my headphones.
It’s a deeply ingrained cultural belief in the US. Plus a practical necessity in the Southwest and probably all rural parts of the US. What the US really needs is a way to unify the employment opportunities between the cities and rural areas.
A big thing that I use is that if you do quick open (`ctrl+p`) and then type `term `, you can then type the terminal number to go to the specified terminal.
I wish I could be more specific but I looked at this for the site I work on and quite a bit of it is incorrect.
Parent comment is correct. From footnote #2 from here: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_2

> Free, unlimited original-quality storage for photos and videos taken with Pixel through the end of 2020, and free, unlimited high-quality storage for photos taken with Pixel afterwards.
Is all voice in a room with a person wearing Google Buds transmitted to the cloud??

Isn't that prohibited and eavesdropping onto unsuspecting citizens?

I mean it's not just temporarily processed and immediately deleted afterwards. That's Google trying to get WiFi SSIDs, (Satellite, Street, Indoor, Face, Object) Pictures, Voices, real-time Geo-Location of consumers and whatnot.. it's getting off the hand..

I was shocked when I first discovered that my "ok, Google" conversations were stored in the cloud indefinitely with a badly designed and hidden Web-UI that allows "deletion" (whatever that legally means with Google-speak).
How well has everybody been served by that mandate?

How much of the current fuckery of healthcare and costs is directly due to the insurance complex?

Hint: it's nontrivial, and in fact is a direct cause of rising costs in healthcare.
Humans are vulnerable to influence. Hence marketing.
AFAIK, nothing was permanently or irrevocably deleted. From all the public statements at the time, all that happened were the accounts were suspended.They would then need to reach out via the recovery link to prove they were really a person (and not say, a bot). (I'm just going off public statements here).

In terms of handling and deleting user data, I do know we have some pretty clear guidelines around this - user data is sacrosanct. You can read up in the ToS, or if you need specific guidance around your personal circumstances, I would always encourage you to consult a legal professional.
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I feel like such a novice, but what exactly do lobbyists do? Do they bombard gov't officials with emails, show up in-person, convince people to follow their clients' agendas, etc.? How will they be employed by Reddit? Why is lobbying even a thing?
yes, people actively rewrite it in rust instead

More seriously, software certainly wears, not relative to itself but relative to the environment it is run in. It wears in the sense that active maintenance operations are needed to have old software perform as it should: installing old libraries, running it in emulators, etc.
Yes, gun violence is a problem, however:

How do you remove 400 million active firearms from the entirety of the nation? The situation with Australia is not analogous, you cannot map that one solution to a completely different context.

Constituents do not want to have their firearms taken away, the politicians aren't corrupt in this situation, they're doing exactly what they were elected to do. NRA's contributions to politicians aren't that impressive, what's impressive is that the organization has millions of members who very actively vote for their interests.

How do you explain a Breivik that happened in a heavily regulated country like Norway?

What do you want to do about trucks? Should we ban them too?
I haven't looked in a recent laptop, but a while ago there was a standard for a single interior expansion card.
I do wonder how other countries do with racial equality. Maybe the AU and UK are the nearest comparison. I know the Us isn’t the only place to have a hate issue.
No.

Qualcomm's patented features do drive market demand (or add value) for mobile devices, including that of Apple's. That's why Qualcomm can ask a percentage of the entire device.

This is not so with MacBook Pro -- unless Qualcomm can prove it otherwise.
> It sucks, but it's better than the alternative (e.g. somebody pilfers all your email and commits identity theft).

That’s what happened to me.

I had a Google account, abandoned since 2012, disabled. A few weeks ago I got an email telling me someone from russia was trying to log in, and this was prevented. The next day, another email – telling me that I successfully logged in from Russia, and had successfully changed the password.

Google offered no way to get the account back.

I had the creation date, a list of every email in the account, the used phone number (although it had since been shut down and recycled), the old password, and control over backup email.

This was not enough, Google left the account in control of the attacker.

I requested through a Google employee friend their internal form to handle this. Also, no success. Instead, they talked with the hijacker.

In the end, I managed to contact the new owner of the recycled phone number, and together with him, I managed to run the account reset procedure, and regain control.

________________________

Conclusion: Google’s account "security" is useless against hijackers, prevents you from getting your account back, and is just a fucking pain in the ass.
Perhaps the solution is a little bit more nuanced; or do you seriously believe that half of the country is totally irrational?

I suggest you look into the stastics of shooting deaths in the U.S.. You'll quickly see that banning "assault" rifles is statistically insignificant, especially when considering the benefit of arms.
This is Google, so they'll release a paper and then someone will clone it as an Apache project. Or maybe Linux Foundation these days.
It's probably going to end up similar to the equally hyped objectiveC where the core language was made portable but few of the tooling/API's used for real world OSX applications ended up supporting anything but OSX in any production ready capacity despite GNUSTEP actually shipping a ObjetiveC/OpenSTEP clone for Linux.

For the time being swift on Linux is a case of a few PaaS vendors trying to product differentiate by also offering swift frameworks because they can(due to modern container wrangling) more then due to any real market demand.
Facebook to build a $1B data center near Richmond, Va
Are any of those voices published? Would be interesting to try rendering audio books with them.
I too would pay for a "supporter badge".
Wait... violently clannish? So... Democrats vs Republicans? Violently racist? I think I remember something about that from the recent news. Completely male-dominated. Lets see, how many politicians, movie directors, CEOs, etc. are filled by males? Hmmm. Hierarchical based of physical appearance? Um... calling all pop stars and Kardashians. Believe in God. Something like 80+% of Americans. I'm super confused on what part of this is supposed to be absolutely unacceptable in today's culture. You have some serious blinders on or an unbelievable amount of naivete if you believe that.
Thanks!

I'm not sure that Yahoo's TF on Spark is fully baked, but maybe its users can tell me more about that. I know it's not commercially supported. That's more a business model distinction, but it has technical consequences. Skymind built the DL4J stack from the ground up, so it's easy for us to maintain and extend, and we give enterprise a way to derisk adoption with a support contract. There is no equivalent offering for TensorFlow outside of GCE, let alone TF on Spark. In the end, it's more useful to think of DL4J as a complement to the Python ecosystem, rather than competing with it. We import TF models through Keras, and soon we'll import them directly to help people productionize the models they train with TF. That's important for large orgs committed to a JVM compute environment.
Try applying for a job as if you don't have any professional experience. Almost everyone wants Python, Java, and something with 'C' in the name for junior positions. However, in my limited experience, they only (reasonably) expect (somewhat) in depth knowledge of one ecosystem and just syntactic knowledge of the other two. Took me about six hours to learn Python to answer the interview questions.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "the vim keybindings acting up"?
> Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has said that he worries the site is vulnerable to Russian political influence campaigns.

As a major proponent of uncensored speech on the internet, the implications of these accusations worry me. Politicians, practically by definition, have a conflict of interest in terms of moderating political speech.

The idea that these same politicians could be drafting law-based "solutions" for such moderation leads me to draw hyperbolic comparisons to dystopian novels.
The render time is fairly fast on most modern browsers on desktop machines (though there's much more variance on mobile devices for some reason).

For the most part, it's good enough for the professional mathematicians on mathoverflow.net, where the math can get quite hairy. (I was active there many years ago, and even then the render speed was better than acceptable)
Yes, it is. I'm already doing something similar with this Git encrypted remote helper:

- https://github.com/spwhitton/git-remote-gcrypt

Pass is a password manager that uses Git (or, rather, can use Git; it's optional) and I use the above-linked helper to configure a common remote repo (that's hosted in Dropbox) for all of my local copies of my password repo.
I remember reading something a decade or so ago which said that to simulate the entire known universe, even using selective windowing, would require more energy than the entire universe has. Wish I could remember the source.
Yep. All it takes is service discovery and a not-totally-familiar with ZK jr. sysadmin.

This is all in service to my point about simplicity and safety.
Strictly speaking, the text is never 'entirely in sync' because spoken words inherently blur together and are seamless; individual letters in the text do not start and end at precise intervals. This is one of the things that makes speech recognition so hard: letters, syllables, and words do not really exist as discrete things on the raw audio level. So this problem exists for any speech transcription dataset. To provide a loss function, then, you would use something like CTC: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=FD2... Fortunately, NNs are good at handling noisy data, and in practice they work very well for speech recognition/transcription.