skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An eye for an eye (via satellite) leaves the whole world blind.
> The Amazon Echo does include a physical mute button that disables the microphone on the top of the device or can be turned off when sensitive information is being discussed (this is a hardwire mechanism and cannot be altered via software).

I had wondered this.
And his papers 18 years ago have nothing to do with AI.

I briefly worked with his team at Amazon and know that he knew almost nothing about AI or ML.
My Echo is near my kitchen, and I mostly use it when I am doing stuff there. So I can tell it to play my news briefing and get the weather while I make my coffee in the morning. I can listen to music, set timers, and convert units when I am cooking and may have touched raw meat.
The speaker is also much better than my phones, so its nice to be able to tell it to play specific songs, playlists, artists, or stations when I want to listen to music.
Organizing data in a spreadsheet as if it was an SQL table is not a good idea.

In one hand, if you're organized like that, you come up with a schema and follow it, why aren't you using SQL directly?

On the other hand, by using spreadsheets as tables you lose 80% of the spreadsheet's flexibility and powers.
Embedding is basically syntactic sugar for delegation.
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Wait. Isn't that how investing works? You invest hoping to get a return - but sometimes you don't. A loan in which students (or anyone) can't default is getting close to debtors prison. Whoever invested without caring who they gave the money to should, well, get those returns: $0.
This isn't about shooting down a rocket. This is about disrupting the launch complex. It's about sending enough energy into a complex that computers, the ones in the offices, stop working reliably enough to launch. It is possible, but imho would require a dish far to large to fit on an aircraft. So I agree that it doesn't exist, that this is propaganda.

EM interference is why launch complexes use fiber. You don't want a lighting strike near a 2km cable to cause a squib to fire somewhere. Lighting protections also protect against EM attack.
Standing or sitting while you work?
It benefits people who can pay back students loans and people who need students loans to make extra money.

Before loans were non-dischargeable, you'd have students run up their debts and declare bankruptcy. This sort of fraudulent activity had no consequences since student loans are unsecured.

The result was that the private student loan market was small. Nobody was going to loan money they'd never get paid back.
Unless I misunderstand their test code, the article says they could reproduce the problem using an array of 67108864 Integer objects. That doesn't sound like an impossible amount of memory.
Are there any posts that analyse how the economics of offering $10/month streaming plans work out? Since they are hosted on AWS, data transfer is expensive, and coupled with the licensing of the content they serve, how to they manage to offer streaming at such a low price point?
I think people confuse the two because of the perceived doublespeak. In general, people accept that a CEO's responsibilities are to the shareholders, no arguments there. I think the disconnect comes from speaking publicly about the importance of freedoms but then complying with Chinese censorship. If you're going to comply, which they have every right to do as a business, don't provide lip service about the importance of openness and freedom of information, individuals, etc.
Because public refutations aren't worth anything. If the money doesn't exist, they have every incentive to lie.

"Our bank is totally solvent, honest" doesn't work during a bank run. Real banks show their books to regulators.
The weaponization of space is generally outlawed by the Outer Space Treaty of which both the United States and North Korea are signatories.
> One thing we’ve learned is that there are deployment models where Linkerd’s resource footprint is simply too high.

It does seem like JVM based products standard answer "Buy More hardware" is becoming untenable.
Are you talking about the F-35? The latest estimates peg our total expenditures on the F-35 at 1.5 trillion through 2055:

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/07/31/how-dods-15-trillion-f-35-br...

We've spent less than a trillion on it so far. I don't know where you got your 13 trillion dollar expense, but I'd like to know more about the claim.

I don't argue that we don't have the money to take better care of the poor. I'm just reluctant to advocate for more money until our welfare system demonstrates its efficiency. If it kicked butt, I'd want much more money going into the welfare system. But it's awful that so many good intentioned people run a system so poorly and the most vulnerable take the hit.
Presumably the same way saying you're a "women's rights activist" makes you fighting for a good cause and saying you're a "men's rights activist" makes you a sexist, and saying "black lives matter" is fighting for a good cause, but saying "white lives matter" makes you a Nazi.

The language is preloaded with a lot of existing conceptions about the state of the world currently, and the sort of people who use each set of terms.
It's normal for companies to not share that kind of data to everyone - however, in this case it's normal for a trusted (by public) auditor to publish that all this data has been shared to them and that they vouch that it's appropriate.
> jpetso: Yeah! For example, the government could become a stakeholder in all companies to ensure that the populace's interest is taken into account in addition to profit... wait a second, that's what China's doing

What kind of stupidity is this? The Chinese government is an authoritarian oligarchy and doesn't give two shits about "ensuring the populace's interest." It cares about maintaining its power and control.

I think you need to cleanse yourself of your free-market straw men. It's not a bad idea for there to be more stakeholders in control of companies than just the shareholders. For instance, you could split the board between shareholders, employees, and customer representatives. That's not a radical idea either. IIRC, German unions have long had seats on their employer's board of directors, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
I usually get refurbished computers directly from Dell or apple. The price is not the best but I find the process easier.
If you have a microcenter around you I would check out what they have. They do not have their refurbished parts on their website.
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This is really cool (rooting devices is wonderful -- and they should all be open for home modifications!), but also not something that has any real effect on the average consumer.

Physical attacks are, in my opinion, uninteresting, because you may as well just plant an old fashioned bug.

Consumers should be wary of purchasing used devices like this generally. I am not, however, aware or any wide spread scams involving physical attacks on consumer electronics.
> Metered usage is not a violation of neutrality

According to the document the FCC released trying to justify this stuff, ISPs can't always figure out how do that, so they need paid prioritization: "Without paid prioritization, ISPs must recover these costs solely from end users, but ISPs cannot always set prices targeted at the relevant end user".

See paragraph 252, which starts on page 142, of this document: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017...

Here's the full paragraph in case the FCC site gets slow (their file hosting wasn't designed for a world where people are actually interested in FCC documents):

FCC> 252. Efficiency. We find that a ban on paid prioritization is also likely to reduce economic efficiency, also likely harming consumer welfare. This finding is supported by the economic literature on two-sided markets such as this one, and the record. If an ISP faces competitive forces, a prohibition against two-sided pricing (i.e., a zero-price rule), while benefiting edge providers, typically would harm both subscribers and ISPs. Moreover, the level of harm to subscribers and ISPs generally would exceed the gain obtained by the edge providers and, thus, would lead to a reduction in total economic welfare. The reasons for this are straightforward. Some edge services and their associated end users use more data or require lower latency; this may be the case, for example, with high-bandwidth applications such as Netflix, which in the first half of 2016 generated more than a third of all North American Internet traffic. Without paid prioritization, ISPs must recover these costs solely from end users, but ISPs cannot always set prices targeted at the relevant end users. The resulting prices create inefficiencies. Consumers who do not cause these costs must pay for them, and end users who do cause these costs to some degree free-ride, inefficiently distorting usage of both groups. When paid prioritization signals to edge providers the costs their content or applications cause, edge providers can undertake actions that would improve the efficiency of the two-sided market. For example, they could invest in compression technologies if those come at a lower cost than paid prioritization, enhancing efficiency, or, if they have a pricing relationship with their end users, they could directly charge the end user for priority, leading those end users to adjust their usage if the user’s value does not exceed the service’s cost, again enhancing economic efficiency. And to the extent an ISP has market power, antitrust law would only allow such ISPs to engage in pro-competitive paid prioritization practices.
Isn't this the problem with everything connected to the internet now? Facebook is recording your ex-stalking, your phone is recording every place you're traveling, email servers have your private messages, Google now has your photos, and your ISP knows what porn and political sites the people in your home are viewing.

Yes, the echo and other voice-recognition devices have certainly upped the surveillance ante, but this is not a new problem unique to this technology. We have no privacy whatsoever online in any way, shape, or form. Everyone laughed at all the poor suckers who got caught using Ashley Madison, but imagine the blackmail material these companies we have trusted since the dawn of the WWW could have on their users.
Telling people to go and upvote a post is a little desperate, don't you think?
https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/938060149368881152
I’m not talking about price. I’m talking about scale
> > The Google Assistant for the JioPhone
> Even after reading twice I don't understand what is special about this other than the carrier branding.

The JioPhone is a feature phone, i.e. it doesn't run Android.
I thought it was amusing that a mere two weeks ago, this exact same author wrote a review of an Echo-enabled speaker entitled The Best Bluetooth Speaker Now Works With Alexa and It's Amazing.

https://gizmodo.com/the-best-bluetooth-speaker-now-works-wit...
I don't put company email or company chat (slack) on my phone.
> Tether exists to normalize arb opportunities between exchanges. That's what it was created for.

What things are created for and how they actually behave often diverge.
And after reading this news, North Koreans likely in rush to use some dead simple and reliable knob for launching, instead of computers.
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> They are doing exactly what they were programmed to do.

Just like you are doing exactly what you were programmed to do by your DNA.

The self-awareness is a strange loop where the program itself encodes a simplified model of itself within itself.

That's all self-awareness is. Meta-information. Humans just have REALLY GOOD meta-information that rolled off the evolutionary assembly line over billions of years.

It almost sounds like you're positing a magical `soul` that comes in at some point, and for some reason it will only inhabit squishy wet bio-machines like us but not hard metal-machines. You're not doing that, are you?
What about the larger cost to the environment?

Is it worth having rare earth minerals mined by literal slaves in Africa and China?

Is it worth the energy associated with transporting the resources, processing them, assembling the device and delivering it to you?

All for the convenience of not pulling out your phone while you are tying your shoes?

I do not understand this uncritical consumption. $30 may be 'a steal', but think about whom you are stealing from.
The one universal truth in corporate America is that if your boss’s boss spent a million dollars on somehing, they’re going to make you ‘use’ it if it’s the last thing they do.

Because they worry it will be if they fail. See also multi year contracts for software that’s terrible.
Companies have to post the jobs themselves; though some of the current listings have been scrapped to get it up quickly. I will keep adding more if the initial response is low.
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How can you do a compile time check on data that has not entered the system?

You can apply the same technique to Vect 3 [1,2,3] or any other type.
I recently got a Google Home, and I've been thinking about how to potentially build a "is-the-microphone-actually-recording?" device. A basic one should be possible just by watching the power draw, but that would probably trigger if it decides to download a firmware update or whatever too. I expect this has been done before?
Perhaps only tangentially related, but your comment reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from Charles Babbage, regarding his analytical engine:

> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Having very little time to build my own (requires light and noise that would wake kiddo), I read reviews.

This led me to Velocity Micro. Disclaimer: I'm a gamer.
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With you on this. I've never bought a new PC, always eBay or self build.
Oh, I was imagining that referred to a situation where you have a stack (say 8K to keep it aligned), then a 4K guard page (which faults when you grow past it), and then someone probes past it, at 16K. Which may be mapped to all kinds of other things, no?
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My stuff usually comes from Ebay or Newegg, which have already been mentioned. But if you want play fast and loose, check this sub-reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/

This group is dedicated to finding and getting good deals on hardware, and sometimes those deals can be insane if you play your cards right.

For instance, a few years ago I managed (using the instructions found on a thread there) to knock almost $200.00 off the cost of a particular Core i7 CPU. It took some interesting footwork. Basically, at the time you had to get a particular coupon from someone on Ebay for Staples, then you went to staples and ordered the CPU (which was on sale there with the coupon), then once you had it in your cart, they would do a price match via chat with a rep to what was available at another physical store (Microcenter? can't recall) - there was a couple of more steps involved, and depending on how you did the steps, you could get more or less off the price - so you had to play the steps right. In the end, I didn't get the best deal, but I came really close; it took me a few hours to do everything "just right", but the CPU at the time was well worth it; it turned a $300+ CPU into something costing just over $100.00, beating out even AMD's best mid-range offering at the time (IIRC, AMDs mid-range at the time was the 8350 or something like that).

I needed the CPU for a build I was doing for a Core V1 case, which is mini-itx - and AMD didn't make a mobo at the time that supported their better CPUs; you could only go with Intel. While the Mini-ITX Intel boards were cheap, you paid thru the nose for a decent CPU - so jumping thru the hoops was well worth it for me.

So - pick out the hardware you want or need, then see that sub-reddit for any deals on parts - also be sure to check out their related community sub-reddits, which can also help you out picking hardware, answering questions, etc.

One other note: If you're into Macs, consider building your PC hardware to support a hackintosh build; if you do it right, you can make the build in such a manner that you can swap out drives or dual-boot between Mac and Windows (or Linux, or whatever). One of the best resources is this:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/

Be sure to check out the "buyer's guide" to find out what hardware is best for supporting a hackintosh on a variety of budgets. A hackintosh isn't for everyone; they can be flakey at times (and don't expect support from Apple, either!) - but if you like that kind of adventure, building your machine for it will generally net you a pretty good general PC while allowing you to do the hackintosh thing.
In what way do Apple's tax arrangements here lead to people choosing to inject themselves with heroin?
We're a ways away from it being as powerful as our current internet solution, but it's called a meshnet. On a super basic level everyone connects to eachother via wifi. No ISPs or mobile providers are part of it.
Not doing this was a really bad mistake. I think most of his successors would have tried to find a peace agreement quickly.
>No offense, but that's ridiculous. There's money owed here. The schools already got it, the banks are owed it. Someone needs to make that right, you can't just "forgive" debt without some party taking a huge hit. Which one?

No offense, but the banks should take on risk if they're charging interest. Right now, they can have their cake and eat it, too, which is stupid - no offense.
But did you need to go to school for that 'priceless' education? You can learn a lot about the humanities at your local library. Maybe it's not the same, but does a private school with a 60k tuition seem 'worth it' for humanities education when the alternative is a cheaper vocational education and self-study?
Not arguing about the propaganda point, but there are legitimate reasons for not shooting down test missiles.

If you always shoot down test missiles, then NK just has to keep firing test missiles until they build one that doesn't get shot down.
Yeah, that's good to know. Anyone have some insight on the implementation of the Google Home mute button?
1). No. As explained in the post, the data "exchange" is accomplished by creating another variable of similar type in the destination kernel so the resulting variable is independent of the homonymous variable in the sending kernel. No third-party modules such as rpy or R.matlab is used.

2). That is certainly on our radar after JupyterLab matures and provides a stable API. The core of SoS Notebook (namely the data exchange model) should be easy to port but the entire frontend would need to be rewritten.
I would never have one of these devices in my home, and I'm surprised I see so many of them in homes of people who are in the tech industry. I wondered if people in security would have them and so I contacted one of my good friends who is a security expert. "What's an Alexa device?"

He's a Kiwi. Amazon hasn't made it to NZ yet. He's only seen them on TV shows.

Interestingly this article is nothing about what gets transmitted, but just hacking the device. It would be kinda cool if we started to see projects to turn Amazon devices into one of the open source variants like Jarvis.
They have not publicly refuted the claims, because a meaningful refutation cannot consist of their own statements about their own situation - it must include a trusted third party/auditor claiming that they have verified books and assets of Tether, and have verified that the claims match reality.
Education doesn't always need to have an ROI, sometimes it's just worth what you spend on it.
Am just an armchair commentator but surely NK already has hardened facilities prepared for an EMP from a nuclear strike?

I don't see how a b52 with a kerosene powered engine is anywhere near capable of delivering that same level of radiation.
a dependent type is a type whose definition depends on a value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type
I don’t think people are saying compilation doesn’t matter. Certainly, I would consider C++ to be a language that is at the high performance end of the spectrum. High performance languages, high level languages like C++, Rust, Ada, Haskell, Ocaml, And Swift have relatively long compile times but I would classify them as languages suitable for applications requiring high performance. Go is an interesting exception in that it produces pretty high performance results without long compile times.

But you do have a point. Things are so much better now than when I started programming 50 years ago. Machines and languages are so much better. Programming is a dream compared to back then.
Psychology is a superb background for both marketing and design. Possibly better than a marketing or design undergrad. It’s also a great lead-in to an MBA. Heck, I think it’s put you in good stead to get finance jobs. Have you studied psych before? I got a minor with my CS undergrad and all my psych classes were invaluable.
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If they have this internal spot instance market they should schedule crypto mining at a super low priority.
https://makerdao.com/ is a decentralized stablecoin that is coming soon hopefully.
Personally, I'm considering getting an Echo or Google device simply to help contribute to turning "voice as the user interface" into a solved problem.

We've thought we were close for 50 years. Siri was cool for a couple years but I want to move beyond the 5 year old.

For those who truly hate these solutions, Mozilla is crowd sourcing a solution. Perhaps it will help to get us there.

https://voice.mozilla.org

Once the problem is solved, we can move it completely offline. For now, I'm excited that Google and Amazon have turned this into a race.
Netflix likely doesn't transfer most of their data through AWS, but instead Netflix Open Connect: https://openconnect.netflix.com/