skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We do know that Amazon will hand over your Echo data if the gadget becomes involved in a homicide investigation. That very thing happened earlier this year, and while Amazon had previously refused to hand over customer data, the company didn’t argue with a subpoena in a murder case.

Bullshit. Amazon fought the subpoena up until the defendent essentially said "whatever, give them the whatever recordings you have". The linked article even says this.

This whole thing is luddite fear mongering. There are legitimate reasons to worry about IoT devices, but mostly not for the reasons outlined here.
A Priesthood of Programmers
For sure, but the issue is whether you should borrow so much that it becomes a public policy issue.
So you make it clear up front that while they will not be asked about any criminial convictions, they will be asked after and will simply have wasted their time.

Plus you usually don't have just one good candidate, you typically have a couple, different people might even prefer different candidates. If you really only have on qualified candidate, what will you do if they quit?
I'm not arguing for a soul or any sort of emergent properties of self-awareness or consciousness even, I just believe that in our current state of AI/ML/neural networks/deep learning, all of these techniques and algorithms simply optimize for some goal (or reward function like the author stated). Maybe one day we'll build a self-aware AI within a "hard metal-machine" but in my opinion we're far off from that.

If we build something one day that acts like a philosophical zombie [1] for example, then yes topics like self-awareness, consciousness, theory of mind will all be at the forefront of conversations regarding AI. But right now all we have are algorithms that optimize towards a goal and we have journalists jumping in on the hype talking about robots inventing languages, the desires these robots have, and robots teaming up to destroy humans [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

[2] https://www.maxim.com/news/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence...
or until they run out of money
Taxes are at historically low rates, and current governments have continually borrowed from the future to fund wars and tax cuts (outstanding US government obligations are in the trillions of dollars [1]).

Of course taxes are going to go up. Plan accordingly. If you've put millions of dollars in a pre-tax retirement account, you're a fool if you think it's coming out at anything near current tax rates. You're banking on a political climate that cannot exist existing. That's your fault.

And before blaming your average citizen, look how little anyone cares about what citizens want regarding net neutrality, a tax bill that is going to gut entitlements to support tax cuts for the top 1%, and so on.

[1] https://treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current (~20 trillion dollars in US gov outstanding debt obligations)
microcenter. i like their warranty. pay $20 per year and if nothing goes wrong i smash the computer and they give me a gift card with the original amount i spent, all i have to pay is the cost of the new warranty.
I love Stack Overflow, but what exactly is the point of this? It seems like they're trying to implement Slack, which itself is a fairly terrible idea. What problem does this solve that isn't already solved by others?
If Monsanto kills all the insects (and some humans on its way) famine could follow too.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Echo+Teardown/33953

Hardware teardown of an early generation echo. Worst, all of this is electronic waste in a few years.

We all do this and just by design, smartphones and laptops are not made to last. We accumulate such a staggering about of waste considering the energy/resources used to produce this.

The larger problem is that technology enables us to consume more, so I don't see how technology can ever solve the problem unless a serious shift in perception happens.
> You don’t need an artificially intelligent robot to tell you about the weather every day. Just look outside or watch the local news or even look at your phone.

This sounds like someone who's never actually lived with an Echo (which, being gizmodo, wouldnm't be surprising).

Being able to think of a song I remember from my childhood, say it, and have it play while I cook dinner is magical.
Please stop spamming this everywhere...
The thing I don't understand is, how does it unravel?

It feels like politically acceptable short-termism of shunting education costs onto future generations. No-one's going to 'lose' money over it. Who will suffer? It doesn't look like it will be corporations that will suffer, save some institutions will close when the endless supply of money suddenly dries up. It looks to me like it will be governments, a political ticking time-bomb much worse than the growth of numbers of pensioners vs number of workers. Is it a potential social disaster where a lot of people will end up sent to a new version of debtors prison for a bit? Or will it massively impact future GDP of developed countries, as people won't be able to spend, they'll be paying back this onerous loans. Having the exact opposite effect that it's supposed to, instead of growing GDP by growing skills, it'll be killing it by curtailing worker spending potential. Tax revenues might fall due to higher education instead of grow.

Governments seems to be making these student loans rock-solid backed by government assurances to the detriment of future generations.

I haven't looked into it enough to know and am lucky enough to have paid all mine off as it was much smaller than today's crazy amounts.
Are there currently any alternatives to Ethereum? (turing-complete programmable cryptocurrency)
Doesn't it also benefit universities who can then keep upping costs because the loans will rise to match the costs no matter what?

Prior to the change was there a shortage of student loans (with a lot less people choosing university) or did we just shift the loan balance from the government to private industry?
Where do you find one? I'm looking, and it appears that it's sold out.

I found http://www.banana-pi.org/r2.html

But I'm still having issues finding where to buy?
When the next recession strikes, interest rates have no place to go but into negative territory. The rates will be either explicitly negative, or effectively negative (inflation higher than interest rates).

When that happens, bitcoin will be the only safe haven in the world to protect your wealth. The bubble people will be changing their tune very quick.
While I agree that one can gain a great deal of enrichment from studying non-lucrative majors, I think people should highly consider double majoring in this case. I majored in computer science AND philosophy as an undergraduate. Doing both took under 5 years.

I think a lot of people don't realize how little they will earn with their degrees compared to how high their debt load will be. That's not including people who fail to even finish their degrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electronics_High_Power...

Seems like the weapon can be put in cruise missiles.
Wishing you good luck, sounds like totally legit, even trusting service, I will refer in the future for sure.
Depending on who's listening (post-processing recordings in bulk) and your tone, scolding your children might get you a visit from the authorities if over-eager busibodies are listening.

Do we really need more of that?
But it'd be trivial for them to slip an extra bit of hardware, wire it to the existing mic and use that to do all the actions they wish. At the point where someone has physical access to the device the game is over.

This is not an attack - its an immutable law, if someone else has unrestricted physical access to your device, it's not your device anymore.
I feel like this only works if you already have a good manager. A bad one will just say 'both' and then keep complaining that they aren't both done.
How do you express the type `Vect 3 Int` using this library? F# doesn't support it and all the example types appear to depend on other types, not on values like 3.
> It's far less kludgier than using a phone to turn your lights on and off.

Why can't you just stand up and, you know, flick the light switch?
This kind of nonsense puts me in mind of "Wall-E". Fat, inert humans being hauled around on hovercrafts, their every need tended to by a watchful panoply of machines.
If someone in my family gives me an Echo/Alexa/whatever, it's going in the trash.
> learning a trade or skill instead of four years doing something hate for a useless degree they'll never use.

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

In a compassionate society, we'll encourage people to pursue art or music or mathematics or dance and plumbing or auto repair.

There are enough educational resources to go around; our economy just hasn't found the right shape to make good use of them.
'I beat type 2 diabetes with 200-calorie drinks'
It could detect an open microphone, which is the topic.

The microphone's input would either need to be transmitted continuously (which is detectable with Wiresharp or other traffic monitoring tools), or stored which neither the Echo or Echo Dot have large enough capacity to do for any significant length of time.
Huh? It has not been rejected -- it is up to compiler/linker what to put in RPATH, and you can totally set RPATH to $ORIGIN. There is a nice tool, chrpath, to do so. For example, java sets it to:

/usr/bin/java: RPATH=$ORIGIN/../lib/amd64/jli:$ORIGIN/../lib/amd64

I believe the reason it does not happen by default is that binaries go to /usr/bin, and no .so files should appear there. Also it breaks when hardlinks are involved.
Any prototype would have been tested in the lab first.
As someone who self-builds PCs, I second the recommendation for PCSpecialist for people who aren't planning to do that themselves. I've used them for laptops at home and our small biz gets all our desktops from them.

Lots of options, good sales, aftersales etc. - Build quality is great.
CompUSA used to get all my business. After they left the area friends informed me about Micro Center and it has been my favorite since.

R.I.P CompUSA and RadioShack.
I don't know why you're being downvoted for this; I've found _great_ stuff in other people's trash this way.
Amazon unveils new cloud services at pace of a startup, despite market dominance
It baffles me that anyone would allow such a device in their home, let alone pay for the privilege.
No. William grew up at a time when the Kingdom of Jerusalem was strong and was Archbishop between 1127-1135. At no point was William ever in danger from Saladin. Saladin actually captured very little territory from the Crusader states until 1187, when a decisive battle was fought and he captured most of the Levant. William would have had reason to fear him then, but he had passed away the previous year.

Also, Saladin did not sell anyone into slavery as long as they paid a ransom - a measly 10 dinars. Anyone who paid was allowed to leave Jerusalem with all of their possessions. When the Patriarch of Jerusalem tried to leave the city weighed down with treasures, Saladin was advised to keep most of it but he took nothing except the 10 dinars and let the Patriarch leave with the rest of his wealth. Saladin did not want to break the promise he had made - that anyone who paid the ransom was free.
I second this. After being a all Mac household for 10 years I finally built a computer for the first time since college. I didn’t want a “gamer” case so I decided to go with an NCASE M1 Build. After a year I am very happy with it. I did all of my research and planning with Reddit and pcpartpicker.

https://imgur.com/o5KmRpn
That's why you need something municipal dark fibers that every ISP can cheaply rent. The last mile is the expensive part or a network which should be open-access and never belong to a single ISP.
There is also a haskell streaming library called conduit: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/conduit
Intuit to acquire TSheets
I built a machine learning rig using PC Part Picker recently. It's nice because it helps you make sure the components you are ordering are all compatible.
IIRC, all phones shipping with Oreo are required to support Treble.

Also, Treble doesn't allow you to get updates "without having to wait for the OEMs", it just makes it easier for OEMs to update Android, since they no longer have to rely on chip manufacturers (e.g. Qualcomm) to provide updated drivers for the new OS version.
By that point the Allies (actually originally just Roosevelt, with the others following along) had insisted on unconditional surrender:

"those Germans — and particularly those German generals — who might have been ready to throw Hitler over, and were able to do so, were discouraged from making the attempt by their inability to extract from the Allies any sort of assurance that such action would improve the treatment meted out to their country."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_surrender
You can't put together a PC, essentially lego blocks, because it will wake your child? Does your child sleep strapped to your chest? I don't understand this at all...
are modern prolog just a layer on top of the old semantics or somehow an incompatible paradigm ?
The vast majority of folks can't afford something that expensive without an ROI. What's being discussed here is how our current system encourages getting into debt for it and how that's negative for our society.
Its was constant factor rich edge case
OT.

Thanks for being pro-freedom (pro-privacy), but you are selling a privacy-respecting system and your name is "Adtac"?

For privacy-conscious out there, anything with "ad" in its name screams "acceptable ads"/shady advertising corp masquerading as a privacy company.
> I am here to say that smart speakers like the Echo do contain microphones that are always on, and every time you say something to the speaker, it sends data back to the server farm.

Yeah, you're here to tell lies then, unless you have some sort of evidence that this happens that we don't know about. Unless someone says "Hey Google" or "Alexa," ain't nothing happening. When Google found out a small number of Home Minis might accidentally do this because of a hardware bug, they responded by immediately crippling the physical button on every device.

Amazon and Google do plenty of terrifying stuff with privacy; there's no need to make up new stuff in order to write a fluff piece.
I immediately thought of https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit
Agreed, but mostly imo because the light switch works fine as it is. I believe smart lights solve a problem that doesn't really exist. Of course this stuff could be really helpful for people with disabilities, however.
Thanks for creating Commento. I tried the demo- it looks excellent. I'm sure I'll be using it somewhere soon.
There's a difference between being able to read a map and having memorized a map. I read maps all the time, be it google maps or even the maps in video games. But I rely entirely on navigation to get places because memorizing a map is not something I find value in.

I don't think that's a bad thing, either. This is how thousands of years of social progress happened. We stopped learning how to use sun dials. We stopped learning how to use a sextant. These were replaced by superior implementations and the world moved on to bigger & better things.
I spent 10 minutes looking up and down to make sure the GO has nothing to do with Golang. Why picking such a name?

Thought Android is trying to replace Java with Go...especially they keep call this a Go Edition.
Got this deal a week and some change back, along with a separate two-pack to dip my toes into home automation.

The TP-Link smart plugs will work in full concert only about 75% of the time; it's Home => Kasa, then an Alexa => Kasa integration.

"Ok Alexa, turn off/on the Living Room" gives me hilarious permutations of which of the three light up, are delayed, need to be asked again, etc. I've done enough wireless network testing locally to know it isn't network strength getting in the way.

It was a nice toe-dip and I'll probably keep messing with the idea of home automation...but I am really not impressed with the lack of responsiveness and consistency. Probably going to shift gears more to localized automation next without involving the cloud.
How Dishwashers Ruin Ruby Apps
From the linked article:

> Thornley also argued that Germany was almost defeated and, if Hitler were assassinated, he would become a martyr to some Germans, and possibly give rise to a myth that Germany might have won if Hitler had survived. Since the idea was not only to defeat Germany but to destroy Nazism in general, that would have been a highly undesirable development.

Hitler was an eloquent and persuasive person who effectively represented/exploited Nazi philosophy. There were certainly (secret) critics of his policies and goals, but he was not some kind of sorcerer with a spell over the German population as if, on his assassination, the Axis powers would shake their heads and blink their eyes and say "wait a minute, are we the baddies?"

The same applies even more to modern politics because modern states are not as totalitarian in their removal of critics - they must therefore have stronger supporters. You cannot blame only Donald Trump or Theresa May or Xi Jinping or Angela Merkel or whoever your opponents figurehead may be; they have huge political parties behind them and are backed by huge numbers of constituents who identify with their message. There are surely strong effects from having these leadership positions, but you also need to reach their base with your message.
> irrational and stupid

Is it irrational and stupid? In a society at the limits of of its resources and stuck in a Malthusian trap, there is often zero-sum competition between members of the society.

Until the modern period and real technological growth, most humans lived in societies that were approaching local research constraints. Famine was common. If your neighbor had a bit more, it's likely because you had a bit less.

In that sort of a situation, learning that your peer makes twice as much as you thought is revealing quite a few things: e.g. you could have found a way to get paid much more and society is less equal or 'fair' than you thought.
I like the Echo and I'll admit that there are privacy concerns. What do you think are ways to mitigate those (besides hitting the mute button)?

I was thinking about monitoring the outbound data (to detect voice streaming). What tools would you use for that?
Yeah, but unless you're putting the down payment on a house every year, that's an extra 110K (post-tax!) dollars every year after the first. I can't imagine how I could spend that much money, especially since the mortgage and car payments are already taken care of.
Yep, I don't have time to look at my phone, go to a website etc. always, or want to. I spend enough time looking at screens all day and night. It is nice to be doing something else and ask Alexa with my voice, which is doing nothing at the moment, what the weather is, the price of bitcoin is, to play Mozart, etc.
eBay and pawn shops.
Yes and no. Sure, I'm no longer envious of, say, that friends who makes a ton of money; I now know what goes into that and I don't want to have any part of working like a hyper-caffeinated beaver.

On the other hand, when I was younger, seeing someone drastically less competent making more money didn't bother me. I thought it would catch up to them, and besides, I want in it just for the money.

Now, I know incompetence won't necessarily have consequences and that those other things don't mean anything, didn't happen, or whatever, and all I got out of the work was money.

Watching those people gets galling.
Have you found benchmarks yet for the second point (DB perf)? I assume by "new cache architecture" you're referring to the switch from a ring to a mesh for L3, which was almost necessitated by having more cores in SKL. But at the same time they reduced associativity from 8 to 4 (worse) and made L1-L3 non-inclusive (unsure of the effects yet). They did expand L2 a bit though.
I'm pretty sure there are vector libraries available to F#. Dig around and you will find them. Then just apply dependent type to a type in that library. I don't work with them myself.
Not in the cryptocurrency field. In this field pegging has a precise meaning.
Better get rid of all cell phones for the exact same reasoning, except it’s a listening device that follows you around.
But as far as I know student loans aren't securitized and leveraged in the same way as mortgages were, so I'm not sure that the fall out will be as bad.

The root problem (as others have noted) is too many people are encouraged to go to college and even though most majors don't make economic sense students (rightly) feel that they need a college degree to be a competitive applicant for good jobs. Maybe I'm just in an ideological bubble, but it seems like there's pretty good agreement on this issue, but no real way to do anything about it.
Give him some tax cuts to go with it
Phones, tablets and laptops also have microphones. Do you have any of those in your home?
> Put it this way, do you want Tim Cook making idealistic decisions with your retirement savings? Do you mind losing 80% of it because you don’t want them doing business in china anymore?

That settles it then: dystopian miasma it is! Can't let morality or ethics stand in the way of a small number of my dollars[1].

[1] Your 80% figure is totally bullshit. Only an idiot has 80% of his savings in Apple stock and Apple does not do 80% of its business in China. It has manufacturing elsewhere and so much cash that I'm sure it could quickly ramp up whatever production capacity it needs wherever it needs it.
But it was still sent from a PC instead of another phone so not really the commercial use-case. And regardless, why would they not mention it instead of making this guy sound like he actually wrote the whole sms system?
Seconded; robozzle offers more variety and bigger challenges.
That is a good point. But you also probably don't want to tell people you have microwave tech so that they develop counter measures.
How about noise?
I think the sentence is meant as 'too many people who don't understand research and are therefore willing to discredit scientists'
Any Apple store in a state without sales tax. I usually have enough opportunities to cross state lines that it's not too big of a deal.
They have been at this for fifty years, don't hold your breath.
How would that work if you don't have a set scale? IE you will pay depending on what you can get away with? "We are willing to pay upto 300 thousand for this SE position, but we will negotiate that with the other applicants and take their offers into account".
I'll add to the pile of "I build my own" comments. Haven't bought an off the shelf PC in decades. If you're using it for gaming it's the way to go. There's a trade off in time of course and if you don't want to make that trade I'd suggest one of the bespoke system builders like MainGear et al., but I can't personally vouch for any of them.

Plenty of help available if you're interested in building your own(feel free to message me, even).
The article puts it well:

> Although the Echo brings about questions of privacy with its 'always listening' microphones, many of us walk around with trackable microphones in our pockets without a second thought.

I guess you didn't give a second thought either (unless you don't have a phone?)
I love the explanation I got from my high school physics teacher for why microwaves aren't dangerous to be near; anyone comment on whether it's actually accurate? Or whether I may be misremembering it?

'You can look into the microwave safely because the holes in the grate are smaller than the amplitude and thicker than the frequency of the microwave.'
Contentful was born several years ago (back then as StorageRoom) through Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616041
How is it different from a cellphone really, though?
Nah, let’s find some flashy Valley name for the concept and disrupt the market.