skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can be useful when you’re looking after kids, you’re carrying a child/stuck away from your phone.

I’d guess voice assistance could be useful in other situations too. But for me the error rate still seems too high, and there are limited applications.
Blame the journal.
Scientists are generally pretty busy. Writing a (life sciences) paper is an incredible amount of work usually done in a short period of time. Preparing raw data and explaining what everything means is quite involved. If they don't have to do something they won't.

The journal should mandate data access, then it will get done. This is crucial for human experiments, if only because the authors can lose the data and it will be gone forever.
There might (in theory) be some kind of backdoor on the device, that could allow the chrome app to send the private key or seed somewhere...
I'm blocking social media on my phone now (LeechBlock), I mean I know how to disable it, but it reminds me of not doing it. When I activated it I started noticing how often I just habitually check my phone to get trapped in this hole. My rule is now to only use social media when I'm at home on my computer. That already precludes 95% of my social media use, because I'm rarely at home.

I have a smartphone only since I'm 24. I can't imagine what it's like for a teenager growing up this way.

I'm dabbling with mindfulness as well now, and I jog without electronics. Listening to music while jogging isn't really something that has to do with social media, but more about the meditative aspect of jogging.
Yeah, it doesn't work well for me either. However my 6-year old son uses the Google assistant on my phone a lot. "Lego Ninjago Kai video please", "Play". "Why do dogs have tails?" That kind of thing.

I think it works brilliantly for certain narrow domains - answering factual questions, directions, distances, top rated attractions etc. And is quicker than typing and scrolling. But I agree the AI behind it has yet to demonstrate any real broad understanding - assimilating various contrasting opinions from text, providing context etc.

I also personally don't want to sit on a train, couch or a dentist waiting room listening to people talking to their phones or watches.
> Lawyers currently have one of the most bi-modal salary distributions of any profession.

I understand what you're saying but I feel like the top 50 would be occupied by people in various types of art, food preparation/serving, personal care/service, and writing. It would probably be top 3 easily for the amount of debt most of the lawyers go into for their degree(which seems to be the issue you are getting at anyways).

https://www.bls.gov/oes/bulletin_2004.pdf
Do we ever observe or detect the larger universe outside our light cone? Yet astronomers say it exists.

What about other minds? Do you ever observer/detect someone else's experiences, thoughts, feelings? Or just their behavior from which you infer a mind?
>And Occam does not work that way.

Well, Occam is not a physical law, so that's neither here, nor there.
Also my phone has 64 gigasomething so is obvsly better.
When I wake up in the middle of the night, I ask Siri what time it is, so I don't have to open my eyes.

That's about it.
Too bad. I had high hopes for these guys... Seems like selling programming paradigms is a tough business...
Not really. Some insurances offer to take the cost of homeopathy, but no doctor will prescribe "crystals" or other new age stuff. Are there black sheeps? Yes, like in every profession.

How a doctor reacts depends highly depends on the illness. If you have a cold, your doctor will recommend some tea and rest, but if you have a tonsillitis, you will get anti-biotics. And there is no such thing as a pain index.
>The most sensible explanation I've heard came from sir Arthur Eddington. His claim (roughly) is that probabilities in quantum theory model our knowledge of the quantum system, rather than indicating anything intrinsically probabilistic in the system itself.

That's counter to a century of experiments and theories. If that was the case, QM would be a trivial classical theory.
Work for a year then take two years off? Or retire earlier? Again, I didn’t say that people wouldn’t work at all. I said that the barrier to obtaining a personal autonomy is too high in a society where providing the essentials of life has been largely automated.

We keep people working by making it had to survive otherwise (high rents that don’t represent the maintainence/construction costs etc).
Healthcare does not. Some insurances do, but you can opt to switch do another.
"Some kind folks have translated the article into..."

They are not doing it out of kindness, they are probably going to add ads and PageRank-siphoning links to the translation when you're not looking.

"WebDesignGeeks" was an outfit who used to pull this scam all the time to popular programming articles, and their "translations" were just the output of Google Translate.

Don't link to unchecked translations and don't let them be hosted on someone else's site.
I think the Japanese font used on Android might be doing something like this! Look at this screenshot: https://ibb.co/hUAgWw

Upper line - complex kanji,
Lower line - its components.

When you look at the complex kanji on the upper line, some of its components look unnaturally stretched, as if they were automatically scaled instead of being drawn by hand. So I'm guessing the design is at least semi-automated.

(It's common for kanji like 日 and 雨 to have slight visual differences when used as components – the tiny 'legs' 日 has are missing in 曇 and 温, at least in the font I have. But it still looks like they just have a few variants of each character that are reused)
Pizza B4U Order Is Seeking a Web Developer (/sarcasm)
Unfortunately, they didn't mention noise properties in the abstract. Is it present in the paper?

Edit: it is. The device is actually pretty difficult to implement as it requires liquid hydrogen cooling. The noise is shown to be temperature dependent but a full error analysis is not present. Looking forward to further research and an attempt to convert this quantum device to higher temperatures.
Not the main point of the paper, but

>it is argued that the COMPAS score is not biased against blacks because the likelihood of recidivism among high-risk offenders is the same regardless of race (predictive parity), it can discriminate between recidivists and nonrecidivists equally well for white and black defendants as measured with the area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic, AUC-ROC (accuracy equity), and the likelihood of recidivism for any given score is the same regardless of race (calibration)

Simpon's paradox [0], probably one of the most insidious problems of well intentioned statistics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
It definitely has some basis in reality, because it fits experimental results. The exact nature of that fit is up for debate, but the experiments are certainly part of the real world we try to make sense of.
Fatal mistake, and they lost a huge number of Siri's team by letting it rot the way they have.

It’s not fatal—lets not be melodramatic here.

I suspect they know they screwed up and have taken steps to correct. Remember that Siri on iOS, the watch, macOS and AppleTV were all different; they're working on a unified Siri across platforms so that the things Siri knows how to do aren’t in silos.

We’re already starting to see the results of this: the new “read me the news” works on iOS 11.2.5 and also on HomePod: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/23/apple-releases-ios-11-2...
>What's easier to imagine - correlations between particles far away or many universes which are not actually real in any sense you can define?

Many universes of course. At least that doesn't mess up with the workings and casuality of this universe.
Until you realize ALL subreddits are almost entirely gamed by marketers.

Why do you think the reddit hive mind in small hobby subreddits conglomerates on a few devices / items?

Reddit is literally the most shilled platform. Easy botting + the up vote down vote system
I'd love to see such technologies developed more, but the focus needs to be on accuracy and speed. No current systems I've tried excel in those areas when used by people with accents. I've seen others code by voice, but for me, the voice recognition systems are about fifty percent accurate most of the time, aka useless.
I use voice transcription out of necessity because my touch-screen is broken.

It would be pretty nice if it actually understood what I was saying instead of sometimes randomly capitalizing words and not offering a lowercase alternative when you press the word, and occasionally outputting something wildly phonetically different than its input.

I've come across several phrases that simply will not translate and must be entered manually.

Android, FWIW
It's not that people aren't trying to do that, it's just insanely hard. That is the end goal for all virtual assistants, but it's still years (I would even say decades) away.
Talk time, browsing time and video watch time are even worse than technical specs, because they're heavily dependent on specifics of particular use cases. Is it "time watching Netflix" or "time watching YouTube" as tested by C-suites' kids? Or "time watching a video on our optimized player under minimum brightness, no connection and all other measures of power optimization engaged"?

The thing is, I don't trust the vendor. They have every incentive to stretch and lie in their marketing copy, and they do that. And you can put any bullshit into self-selected "real use" metrics like "talk time", "browsing time" or "number of songs / photos that fit on the device", by choosing unrealistic values in some parameters that make the result look favorable. But you can't cheat much on raw GHz, mAh or GB. In the atmosphere of (experience-based) lack of trust, I prefer raw facts and making the necessary ballpark calculations myself, thank you.

("Number of songs / photos / movies that fit on the device" is one of the more annoying/dumber metrics ever. It's as if car companies gave you "number of cities you can round-trip through on full tank" instead of MPG or l/km values.)

Or, if the vendor insists on "real use" metrics, they should at least provide the math behind it, so that I know they're not pulled out of the asses of people in marketing department. The core problem is, still, that I have experience-based (and market-understanding-based) bias against trusting what a vendor says at face value.

--

RE washing machines, don't confuse engineering numbers on the interface with use cases (the "technical specs" of a product) and the engineering numbers for internals. I don't give a damn what kind of motor you put inside, much like I don't give a damn what particular CPU you put in a mobile phone. The motor turns, and apparently has enough power and torque to drive a loaded machine to stated speeds; all I need to know now is how much power it (or rather, the whole machine) eats and how noisy it is. With phones, the CPU is ARM and runs Android; there's little user-facing difference between various SoC models, so all I care is how much cores it has and how fast are they.

(And yeah, I actually might be interested in the materials used in the internals of my washing machine, as a proxy for its reliability; however, given how hard it is to find reliable white goods these days, I just don't bother - I assume they're made out of costs saving and super glue, and plan accordingly.)
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Eh, this seems to be missing one important detail. At least it's massively important to me as a potential buyer of an AI home assistant.

That detail is that HomePod doesn't spy on me. It does not upload audio recordings of my home and it even shows a visual indication when it is listening at all.

Doing speech recognision on the device is way harder, so it's not a surprise to see them being later to market than others. However this makes Apple's product the only viable one on the market for me.
Do you have an example? I don't observe any bias in /r/vaporents, for instance.
That would be horrible honestly, people didn't even like Cucumber a lot, which uses this approach only for several situations
It's not a good sign that they've lost so much of the original talent on the project.

The WSJ had a very public exposé on the topic over the summer: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-siri-once-an-original-no...

I don't know of any good redemption narratives for tech products that lose their founding teams after acquisition and exist in the headless/nebulous state that Siri appears to be in now — outside of the Macintosh itself, but it had to hire back its founder and spinoff product.
Cities Amazon snubbed for HQ2 can attract other by investing in tech talent
I transcript and I've found it's actually a good exercise.

Plotting out a text and plotting out spoken dialogue require different mental gymnastics and it was actually pretty hard to dictate entire sentences without pause until I'd been using it for about two months.
I kinda get what you're saying but in practice zero filtering would be a horrible horrible user experience. The content velocity on Facebook is so very high that unless you filter the feed in some way - it becomes a different product entirely, or perhaps even unusable.

And in the case of "Let the user choose the filters however they want", the business portion of the company takes on a massive risk. Remember this isn't a charity. Facebook wants to be able to make a lot of money and exist independently as an organization. Furthermore, they want to be able to predictably grow the business.

The reason I push back against your suggestions is because I see them often - solutions that swing too far into the realm of idealism and entitlement. Facebook is a business, so you have to be able to provide solutions that recognize the importance of the business side of things.
That's what I thought until i witness people in my family using: 1. Google voice and 2. Alexa (and raving about it)

I think tech people just find typing away much faster and voice interface kinda annoying, but a lot of more 'average type of users' really like the voice interface better.

I wouldn't have predicted, but voice is here to stay and it has long legs. It seems that casual home use, and in car (where the next battle will be) are the best uses of it, and not mobile/while out
While the American Bar Association certainly dose not use violence the whole system stinks like a protection racket. The fact they pushed states to enact a form regulatory capture is pretty messed up.

Then add the fact apprenticeships are not the norm so these lawyers are not making as much. Overall, it's quite silly and sad.
>And my memory goes back to the mid 80's

Your memory is faulty. They usually beat competing flagship models by a long margin, ever since the first model:

E.g.

https://www.gsmarena.com/a11_in_iphone_x_crushes_top_android...

Or:

Until now, Samsung's flagship smartphones have always been king of the Android phones – but Google's latest offering has finally knocked it off its perch. Another shock is just how badly the new Sony XZ performed. It finished in last place, some two minutes slower than the iPhone 7. This isn’t the first time the Apple iPhone has won Gold in a speed test. Earlier this year, the team at PhoneBuff pitted the iPhone 7 against the now-discontinued Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The iPhone managed to open and close the chosen apps in a total time of 1 minute 40 seconds, while it took the Galaxy Note 7 a whole 3 minutes and 14 seconds to complete the same task.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/7396...
I highly disagree with this, though I like your statement on principal.

Greatness is highly dependent on context. I think your statement on greatness would apply to code that helps you learn and think.

This is, however, NOT the kind of code I'd want to see at work. Great code in a business setting is simple, easy to understand, and has absolutely no subtlety.

If I was looking for a literary example, great code in a business setting would be like the writing style you'd see in a newspaper: written for easy consumption by the greatest number of people possible.
MTP/mass storage may be switchable. At least on my older CyanogenMod device, Settings>Storage>menu in upper-right>USB computer connection, gives a "Connect as..." selection of MTP, PTP, Charge only, UMS (mass storage).
That requires about 200W of liquid hydrogen cooling right now. Brain, some 20-40W of above room temperature water cooling. (Also evaporative.)
Total efficiency equation is not yet favourable.
For a more general analysis of programming paradigms, see the work of Peter Van Roy [2], which decomposes paradigms in the individual components [1] that are used or avoided in each particular paradigm.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Programming_paradigm...

[2] http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf
Simple answer because they are not that clever
Judging by the error-riddled messages I receive, most of my correspondents using iPhones to send me email or text messages appear to be using this method of text input on their phones.

As a result, I have become fluent in "dictato" much the same as I became fluent in reading typos in the 1980s when I first started using text chat a lot (on dial-up BBS systems).
I'm a software engineer. I code in vim and use Ubuntu on my desktop which I built myself. I say all of this to give the reader context for how I tend to interact with tech. I'm 24.

I do a lot of texting, and a lot of the time it's a mixture between plain old thumb texting and swiping for longer words. But about 30% of the time I use voice to text.

I use Google's assistant and the voice to text is excellent. It even uses context to go back and correct ambiguities (synonyms) and even cooler -- mistakes. If I say "I baked a match of cookies", it will first transcribe match, but as soon as I say cookies, it will in real-time go back and change match to what is obviously correct -- batch. Note this doesn't work with direct assistant commands ("okay Google what time is it?"),but it definitely does work with text messages you send while talking to the assistant ("okay Google, send Brandon a text message: I'm baking a match of cookies" gets corrected). This helps with stuttering or mistakes you make while speaking.

It's certainly a bit of a mental shift to get used to speaking text messages. Saying punctuation marks out loud is awkward. but it's definitely at the point where it's convenient.
Their web site is even kuronekoyamato.co.jp.
> I guess I don't see how seeing people who are more successful than you on facebook could possibly be more distressing than seeing those people at work

I think you're hoping over a few categorical issues that create the social media dysthymia. It's not about seeing people who are more successful. It's not about "better" or "worse". It's about social regulation in formative egos.

From your posts you are coming off like an aspergersy male adult engineer -- I'm one of those myself, so I mean that with love -- dealing in concrete world value from the perspective of a fully formed ego not used to internalizing the external. Equating the discontent with rational motives jealousy or envy or desire, instead of judgement and personal failings implicit in habitual social comparison.

Fundamentally social media habits can create two major areas of discontent: comparing your behind-the-scenes life with other peoples highlights reels, and the comparability of the elevated personalities. To take your "boss" example: that's generally not someone I identify with deeply because my daddy wasn't as rich, and I didn't inherit the company, and blah blah blah. To our primate brains `bosses` tend to be `others` and not `us`. If that boss were your childhood buddy, OTOH, you'd have a different take on things... And that different take, and the implied reflection of being less than or worse than, that you would have with a familiar person having that role is what social media does with vacation pics and such. You're not seeing someone in another group, like someone famous, doing something fun. You're seeing someone in your group doing it, causing an implicit comparison. And this comparison is based on purpose-selected content made to project a happy image, is non-stop, asymmetrical, and always worst when you're at your lowest.

These contexts and framings are fundamental to how marketing works on us, and are a shared facet of human representation of the world around them. What you're not getting here is what a 15 yo will feel like after 3 hours a day of staring at a crappy feed that you, and most people on HN, would find deadly boring. We're also old enough and self respecting enough to avoid that crap when/if it starts to hurt. I bet HN readers are highly active online and suspiciously inactive on social media...
Also the case where you have lots if transient users. Far better to have a first-rmtime visitor experience s mobile-friendly webpage that can act as an app than to throw a "download our app" message at them.

For companies with more reliable visitors, Native definitely has an edge in options, but if a company is trying to build feature and experience parity across platforms, much if that edge is dulled.
I was talking about the risks of having a USB device (not a keyboard, nor a mouse) being able to _act_ as one, delivering payloads. It can look like a normal usb drive or be tiny like a yubico key.

My subthread started as a reply to "Want to transfer files between computers? Can't use a thumb drive" and I wondered if that on its own - disallowing data transfers by say blocking USB mass storage device drivers or something - is useful or enough, when anything I can connect via USB can _act_ as a keyboard for example.

At no point did I talk about bringing an actual keyboard or mouse anywhere.
"Here's a patch" - "Here's a patch to disable that other patch" - ...

What's next? Repeat? Sounds like this could turn into a maintainance nightmare quickly. Also because I've introduced things like that myself in the past, and that was for normal applications and not a kernel or OS. Somewhere, someday, there's usually this one exception for which none of your rules hold true and the thing blows up in your face.
Anyway, I'd love to see the actual code for this. Not a chance probably?
At least in Italy, children are almost exclusively given paracetamol (Tylenol) to lower temperature. Ibuprofen is only used as an anti-inflammatory drug, for example if they have faryngitis
Initially yes, but I think we would also see a flight from cryptos in general shortly afterwards because of the risks posed to the whole space by a collapsing/fraudulent Tether.
Clock speed, number of cores, amount of RAM, battery capacity, etc. are not just "random numbers". They're very descriptive in real life, for devices grouped by similar purpose. They really are good enough they can be meaningfully used to compare mobile phones between all vendors using nothing but pre-school math, and they also have two additional benefits:

1/ They're more "natural" - which means it's easy for everyone to give those numbers, giving you something to compare in the first place. With "real-use" measurements, one vendor will give you "video time", the other will give you "browsing time", and you can't compare them.

2/ They're harder to fudge. Amount of RAM is amount of RAM, it does not depend on what testing procedure a vendor uses. "Video time" is not directly comparable between brands.
If you write in a child's language, you will only be able to write children's books.

To add to p2t2p's comment, procedural programming doesn't offer very powerful high-level abstractions. OOP on the other hand is so powerful that it's easy to do wrong.
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Not being on Facebook, what does

"contains speculative fixes for hangs on Facebook"

mean?