skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately for greek<->english, the offline image recognition isn't available. It does work for other languages, even ones like Chinese. There is a little eye icon in the bottom right of the app that lets you download the language for offline instant translation.
You say "protect a country's border", I say "potentially kill innocent people without human judgment or intervention". Regardless of your personal stance on the moral / practical utility of national borders, surely there are better and more humane ways to protect a border than to treat anyone who approaches it as expendable machine gun fodder.

I'd much rather work on Facebook, which at least provides some tangible benefit to me as an occasional event organizer in exchange for wasting my time and trying to sell me crap, than this. Hell, I'd work on XKEYSCORE before working on this, and that's an extremely strong statement coming from me.
I can solve the privacy problem by not using their products? I disagree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter

Also, my own personal privacy is less secure if it's a relative inconvenience for employers. If everyone but me gives up their privacy then there's more pressure on me to follow suit.

The argument even doubles back on itself. If these comments aren't interesting to you... don't read them. Embrace tree-style collapsible comments.
> Just today I transferred about 25GB of video and photos, and I probably wouldn't have bothered to record these videos if I had to transfer using SD card or cable.

Now try to take pictures on holiday without cheap & available 4g or wifi. I prefer a few 256 GB microSD-cards. It takes just 10 seconds to swap it out and put in a fresh new one. You can transfer the contents into a Macbook at speedy 90 MB/s.
>Not going back now even after the whole headphone jack fiasco with iPhone 7+

The Pixel 2 doesn't have a headphone jack either: https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/04/google-unveils-the-pixel...
>> The analog headphone jack still does as good a job of connecting headphones, speakers and such in a practical sense as it always did.
>Many people -- I'm not claiming it's the majority -- disagree. Many people find headphone cables a big pain in the ass.

I agree completely - wireless headphones are amazing, I hate dealing with cables.

My first pair of bluetooth headphones were shit, and very difficult to switch devices, so I went back to wired. My second pair of bluetooth headphones (Bose QC something) are fantastic! Easily connect to multiple devices, easily switch between the devices. My third (AirPods) are similarly amazing, easy to switch devices, easy to pair.

I'm never buying a pair of wired headphones again.
Not having a headphone jack sucks. I use the iPhone 7 so I don't have an audio jack.

Instead of trying to remember to bring the lightning headphones or the lightning to audio adapter around, I've simply given up on using headphones. Which is terrible since I used to use my free Apple headphones a ton (on previous iPhones).

As much as people online rave about airpods, I don't need another $$ device in my life to charge and possibly misplace.
I had 2FA via a yubikey, though.
TouchWiz is better than stock android now. It has lots of additional useful features, especially in the areas of split screen and power saving.
> We’re looking for feedback on how this can be better, and open to partnering with others who want to make use of this data for good.

Responding to the feedback and data discrepancies mentioned here would be a good start. The HN community here is testing this for you for free and providing you with valuable feedback, and asking you questions that you need to answer, if you want to make your product useful.

I don't see you (OP) responding to anyone. The 2 posts from you are both promoting the site.
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I think a better data source would be professionally produced audiobooks. Better, clearer voices, nearly perfect "transcription", enormous supply already recorded on a wide range of topics potentially available from one or two sources, etc.
Thanks - I was under the impression it is entirely open source - except maybe for proprietary blobs/drivers (in my mind, that's open source enough I suppose). Better Samsung than Google if you ask me... Canonical/Ubuntu tried something like this and failed miserably. I'm not sure how this is going to be different ... without some major backing down the line. Starting things and prototyping things is fine and dandy... but making this a viable competitor to the established players... that's a whole different ball game.
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Why mix ETL and training?

I am using TF, and in my workflow I first do all ETL in some separate process, dump all training/validation data into TFRecord file, and then my training program consumes it.
Clear separation of concerns without any performance penalty.

And I can iterate over training logic with various parameters as many times as I want without touching ETL.
Most people have no idea about security at all. Most developers, product managers, etc are part of most people.
In my experience, customers that are friendly and treat the staff like equals get better service.
Anecdotally, my experience with Bluetooth headphones is that they’re easier. I don’t have to do anything more complicated than you do — if I turn on my Bluetooth headphones in range of my computer, they connect. If I turn them on in range of my iPhone or iPad, they connect.

If any of them start playing sound, it comes out the headphones. No cable twiddling required.
Batteries are also the key missing piece behind self-flying personal transportation drones. The problem of making a self-flying drone is in many ways easier than making a self-driving car, because there's no legacy infrastructure (i.e. human drivers & pedestrians) that you need to deal with. You could create skylanes that are entirely computer-controlled and pack densities of vehicles that would be impossible with manual control. They also travel 50-100% faster than cars and use air-miles (i.e. straight-line distance, not drive-around-obstacles distance), which means that it'd become feasible to live in remote areas like the California coastline and commute to major cities.

Unfortunately, the aerospace people I've talked to have indicated that the energy density of current batteries really isn't practical for commuting, or for planes in general. You're looking at 15-20 min of flight time, which will barely get you across town.
I have been doing this on Android for a few years using Ivona, FBReader with the FBReader TTS+ Plugin. I got Ivona (beta) from the Play Store before they were bought by Amazon - it looks like Ivona voices have since been pulled and are no longer available.
Because you have had experience with them, or because you haven't had experience with them?
Looks fine to me. What's wrong about that syntax?
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In many cases, some of these answers can even be googled for fairly easily. In other cases, like "What was the first car you had", can be guessed randomly with a relatively high chance of success (Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic probably cover a good amount of them).

Some have taken to use random gibberish as the answer of these questions. Others have pointed out that that's also not great.

What really would be good security questions? Should security questions as a concept even be a thing at all?
Can someone explain? Since everything is done on the cloud what is so special about these buds? Why can't you do the same with a regular headset (which also has a microphone) and Google Assistant running on any Android or iOS device?
This is certainly an exaggeration, but I think they are referring to the integration between the language and UI elements, which can be easily changed live. The difference is that the Smalltalk UI was designed so that you can swap the code behind it during a development session and save the result in an image file, while other toolkits use a more traditional build-and-display approach.
Trump and Sanders both campaigned against neoliberal “free trade”, and both justified that opposition in terms of jobs for the American working class. The Trump camp repeatedly highlighted this fact.
You can enable/disable warnings in gcc on a line-by-line basis using pragmas:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html#D...
Good site! Being able to see all the models on GitHub is awesome to be able to find new things to print.
I don't understand the difference either other than Assistant seems to be replacing Now. The issue, I'm finding, is that Google Assistant requires that you turn on the recording of usage data and history to your account, such as Web & App activity, Location History, Voice & Audio activity. All recorded and tied to your account. I don't believe this was the case with Google Now.

Google, to their credit, normally allows you to erase all this data and turn recording off, but with Google Assistant, they require it all to be on and recording. I avoid using it because of this restriction.
I've been out of the loop on Golang security for a bit, but last I recalled there might have been some timing vulnerabilities in the crypto library.

Is this not the case anymore?
Apparently it's semi-decent, thank you!:

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Many of them much better than what can be found here.
It depends what you call viable. Who's your market? How many do you need to sell to break even? If you're Microsoft or Amazon, you need your mobile product to take market share from Google and Apple, but if you can make a profit making a couple thousand phones for some people who want to buy them, that may be a perfectly successful business model.

In my case, I want my phone to make calls, send texts, and browse the web. It'd be nice if it had some apps, but I probably don't need more than a dozen or two. If you don't need a giant rival ecosystem as your definition of success, it's much easier to succeed on a smaller scale.
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> There's also a distinct possibility of running OpenBSD on my phone in the future

How would this happen? Is OpenBSD working on it? Is someone porting OpenBSD to the Librem 5?
Enough people think their congressperson is doing well enough to keep them around while Congress as a whole is riding the country into the ground. Who's right?
It's not hard to boot plenty of SoCs on mainline kernel, plenty of open devices use TI OMAPs, for instance, that's pretty well supported. What's hard is to provide proper GPU acceleration, support for all included hardware and power management tailored for particular device. Seems like i.mx6/8 are good with the first one (sadly, OMAP sucks there), that's nice. However, regarding the rest - you don't expect that Librem 5 will be really usable as a phone on mainline Linux on launch and some time (possibly years) after launch, do you?

GTA04 project has had (and still has) a massive aspiration to upstream all the kernel changes and drivers, but they're still not done after many years (although close), because a lot of things that actually make the mobile device usable are device specific hacks that rarely are accepted upstream. Now it boots on upstream kernel (or not, it changes from release to release), but if you really want to use it as a phone, you still have to use Goldelico kernel. Which is of course completely open, just not mainline. Earlier, with Neo Freerunner, the situation was similar, aside of the fact that amount of non-upstreamable hacks were much higher and there was no stuff like device tree back then, so nobody made any serious progress on upstreaming.

Also, booting is one thing. Getting everything in shape to be usable as a every-day device with small battery is another. The road from "booting on mainline" to "workable smartphone on mainline" isn't doable in a year or two, when you also have to design and produce the device during that time.

However, that's not a big issue at all. Mainline eventually will get better and better, and if you have active community and try to minimize the deviation from mainline, rebasing isn't that hard. What can be an issue is power and thermal requirements of used chipset. I don't know about any mobile device that has used it before (but that's doesn't mean it doesn't exist), and I've already seen projects rejecting them as "not for mobile", that's why I'm eagerly waiting for more info about this SoC's performance.
> In fact - Apple even introduced controls to stop scalping of Genius Bar appointments

Yeah, they prevent the purchase. That sounds reasonable. They decidedly DO NOT brick the buyer's phone, or their entire digital life, if they suspect someone bought more than the limit.

Also, even if they did, which would be just as horrible and outrageous as when Google does it, at least they have reasonable phone support and retail stores. It's not just about Google's indefensible behavior in terminating Google accounts, it's about how the company wants to be relied on for everything digital without providing even a bare minimum level of support.
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It is absolutely bizarre, and I had a hard time believing it too, but it does seem to be true that many would-be Sanders voters voted for Trump.

I think what it comes down to is that most people of any political persuasion are basically politically illiterate and vote their feelings. Sanders and Trump are both:

* not Hillary Clinton;

* male;

* very different from the other options.

For some people, that's apparently enough.
Consider the information that Google Now was providing you before. It was almost certainly using this data.
to quote TFA.

"ECC RAM can detect and correct 1-bit errors and, thus,
deal with single bit flips caused by the Rowhammer attack.
Furthermore, IBM’s Chipkill error correction [27] allows to
successfully recover from 3-bit errors. However, uncorrectable
multi-bit flips can be exploitable [2, 3, 42] "

Maybe that, combined with a lot of weasel words about the effectiveness of ECC muddy the water.
It is possible NOT everything is done on cloud. It is normal that parts of the model reside on the device itself, for efficiency concerns.
I worked on this feature and commented on why we didn't support other headsets here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15404918
Now the bar is an Irish pub called the Brehon Pub. It doesn't look all that great inside. But it does have clean beer lines.
The idea that an iPhone in landscape gets the same styling as an iPad in portrait has always kind of bugged me.
I really think they could have come up with a better name. This whole presentation just felt awkward with headphones jack removal, AirPods clone, portrait mode for photos, Live Photo’s clone, AR demos...and on top of that these pixel buds with camera that will be forgotten and abandoned just like most of the stuff google does
Agreed - I am arguing with them as if it's reasonable but it's entirely not.
How about a limit argument then?

Ok if not 10,000 years, why not 500? Still too much? Another 50 then? At what point does this argument tell me I should just kill myself right now because I don't "deserve" to live any longer?

It seems to me that you've chosen an arbitrary number (current average lifespan) and somehow chosen that to be "fair" and that living any longer is "selfish" and "ego driven".

In the absence of modern medicine we might live on average for 50 years. Is living that extra 30 years I might get from technology also selfish?

Hypothetically, if everyone can live forever if they want, is it ok then?
I think everyone by now has paid attention to the success of Apple and realized that people will pay much more for hardware than software. As long as Google maintains leadership in this area, there's a lot of benefit to them to tying their software to high-end hardware and not much downside.
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It's really hit or miss. I've had to escalate to get my son's Pixel replaced twice now.

The replacement they sent has the wide-spread microphone issue out of the box, and I just haven't had the gumption to deal with yet another support experience.

I've had great luck so far with my Pixel XL and love it - one of the best phones I've ever owned. But the Pixel I bought along with it has been by far the most unreliable piece of hardware I've bought in a decade. It's really soured my opinion of Google, even though so far they have (grudgingly) replaced the item.

I'm dreading replacing it for the third time, as I know they will refer to their 2 replacements limit in their warranty contract. Zero of those replacements were anything but known hardware issues on the handset itself thousands of others have reported on-line.
Too bad that name was already taken. Did Douglas Adams (or his estate) license it out to AltaVista in the first place? Wait, no, it looks like the name is biblical.
You're kind of missing the point. If people lived 500 years it still wouldn't be enought. We're biologically programmed to want more.

Knowing there's a time limit, you would want to extend it. Knowing there's no time limit, everything would stop having any meaning. Why would you get married and have kids if you could have it 100 years later?
> when you sell a billion devices and the little jack costs a buck a device you just made yourself a billion dollars for nothing

You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not the money you save; it's the money you make by selling adapters.

Also, there might be legitimate engineering reasons for getting rid of the 3.5mm jack. It is rather large by modern standards, maybe there are also water-proofing concerns. It's a trade-off I wouldn't make, but I'm neither Apple nor Google.
Please give us concurrent collections.
Listening to podcasts in mono via a single earbud is my favorite use of the AirPods. So glad they're not wired behind the neck like these Pixel Buds.
One of the biggest causes of this for Objective-C was the lack of the Foundation framework (a higher-level interface to Core Foundation) - but this is being reimplemented in Swift. See https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation

Of course UIKit will still be missing, but thats sort of expected.
u54 rolls off the tongue. Sounds like a u-boot, too. With a night club.
Their goal is not to compete with Android and iOS but to cater to those who value an alternative, and understand the compromises they will have to make.

If the hardware is good enough and open, a lot can happen. They will need very good integration with PWA because this will likely be the best source of apps.
Isn't it already happening ?
I think you mean Douglas Adams.
I bought from Google and they replaced mine on warranty after I (truthfully) described it as having been "run over by a car." I expected them to say no, but was very thankful that they helped me.

They did tell me that this was a one-time deal though.
You don't already?
This may be a recent change? The last time I tried reporting excessive CPU usage, the Code Helper process didn't have any context info in the command line.
Are you not concerned with the data Wire collects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069674

Versus the data Signal collects:

https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/

Although I agree Wire looks like a much more (visually) polished chat service, it seems like they (Wire) collect more data than is necessary.
I'll just leave this here: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xy9p7n/samsung-ti...
Yes, the lack of the cable in my experience means that they are more secure in your ears, not less, as everyone laughed that they would be.
> No cable twiddling required.

But charging is.
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I tried it, but I didn't see the point, since I was already using a tiling WM. And I can configure the shortcuts for my WM whereas with tmux I have to learn all the specific shorcuts.
You can also shorten it to:

{ doSomething($0) }
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I think you have to still use your phone give it to the person who you are talking with.A phone is the one actually sending the translated voice to the earphone.
I don't see what is so different in here.
Even if there is no background noise present, the quality is nowhere near that of professional studio recordings and would be very noticeable in the output.

Also, for traditional systems you need a lot of data from one speaker only, they can't take advantage of other speakers' recordings (although WaveNet does that now).

And "TV natural" might not be the style of natural you want from a TTS system.
I use the Bose SoundSport wireless headphones that have same design and never had a problem with tugging. I use them daily walking from a park and ride to work (~ 1 mile one way) and in the gym. The most I do is move the cord to the front of neck for squats.

I like having the cord as I can pull the buds from my ears and let them hang around my neck when I stop to talk to someone.

I originally got them because I kept yanking the cord of my wired ear buds when walking and found wired headphones really inconvenient in the gym.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327056
Sure, there have been several implementations of this idea on the front-end. Sproutcore was working towards a UI builder at one point for example, and extjs has one as well since both of those use a standardized layout engine.
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>>> People used to only live to an average of 30.

Common misconception. While median lifespan was that, it was heavily influenced by infant mortality.

It was bad, but it wasn't that bad
They _look_ more silly, though! But I love my Airpods.
As an iPhone 7+ user, the dongle life sucks. Seriously considering “upgrading” to an SE, especially if they do a refresh, just for the jack.
How is it illegal for someone outside the US to comment on a US election thread? Is it illegal for CNN to talk about Russian politics? Is it illegal for Russian media to cover US politics? Why would it be legal for institutions but not for individuals? How is any of that undemocratic?
We now know that snopes.com is extremely politically biased.

Do we know that? Really? Or do "we" mean "it seems to me that Snopes.com is debunking reports from my side of the political aisle more than they are from the other side, therefore Snopes.com is extremely politically biased?" Because even if that initial premise is true, "Snopes is unfair to my side" is not the only possible explanation.
There are so many bars in Chicago with dirty/yeasty tap lines...so sad...
I'm amazed nobody on HN isn't talking about this announcement. It's not as revolutionary as Microsoft might want you to think but it's still interesting what they are trying to do.