skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
back of the woods in Europe, the same would cost you nothing.

Sure, it would be much cheaper when one or more patients doesn't survive in the first place, for example.

Keep in mind that story is a donation appeal and is weak in details -- for example, why a healthy mom needs to stay in a $10K/day NNICU private room for months on end is beyond me (would that even be an option in "backwoods Europe"?) The article also misstates ACA numbers.
I'm still not seeing how that is any more distressing than seeing, say, your boss' boss, who once took obvious relish in firing one of your friends, continue to be successful in the office every day, you know?

You are going to encounter your financial superiors at work quite often, in ways that are a lot more directly impactful and a lot harder to ignore than pictures on facebook, and this is not new.
Isn't Lisp particularly good at making your own DSL?

Anyway, the majority of the programming community tends to dislike that sort of freedom, preferring maintainability and the ability to work as a team where every team member isn't off creating their own dialect.
As others have pointed out in responding to you, you don't only have to be following the super-rich and super-successful for your feeds to project an image skewed toward their experiences.

Thanks to the heavy-tailed distribution of most aspirational resources (whether that is followers/friends, likes/retweets or various offline resources), we encounter a "generalized friendship paradox" (see https://doi.org/10.15195/v1.a10 among others) where on average our friends in our social networks score more highly on a variety of attributes than we do.

So it's enough for us to follow a few individuals on the long tail of a distribution for the paradox to apply that, even though most of our friends might not be particularly impressive individuals when compared to ourselves, on average our friends are much more popular, successful and beautiful than we are. Thanks to the structure of our networks (and online networks might have greater skew than offline networks), socially-induced anxiety can come about quite quickly. Not a lot of curation is needed.
OverWatch Player Suspended for homophobic insult
Siri, Echo and the other voice-activated command lines without screen are not meant to be used by muggles, they fit the needs of Silicon Valley engineers and no one else. Maybe they can retrofit some parts into muggle-worthy products some day.
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No, it's a pragmatic use. When you're persecuted, burned in furnaces, kept in concentration camps, gassed, etc -- and the rest of the population don't lift a finger about it, if not cheering, then you don't sit to ponder whether 100% of the German population does that to you, or it's just 70%, or maybe "merely" 30%.

Hey, just curious - if you'd change this historical example to a situation where persecuted people were able to actively organize and defend themselves from being killed (organize a self-defense force, then an army, build a wall around, etc), but overall population around them would still want to do it and cheer when it happens, would you call this racism? Because this example is not hypothetical and is routinely called "racism" and "evil" in mainstream western culture.
Cramming 110 million people almost entirely along the coastline of a California-sized country also helps.
You know, while correlation doesn't necessarily equate to causation, it has to be said... There hasn't been a gun-related massacre here in Australia since we took away semi automatic and automatic firearms. I don't know when the last time a child here even accidentally shot someone else with their parents firearm either, I don't recall hearing of it in recent times.

Arming teachers will not solve anything while there is a culture of gun violence in the country.
In fact, I see this as making it worse. They're talking about actively desensitising adults to shoot at a child. Even seasoned soldiers have problems in that scenario.
Companies see the Cambrian explosions of growth (and equities appreciation) that follow successful UI shifts and want to reproduce that with voice UI.

You could do a hell of a lot by establishing a framework for third parties to use such that they don’t stomp upon each other and the system-reserved words/phrases, as well as homophone rejection/discrimination, then brute-forcing lots of recognized cases. Right now, I’m seeing second-system effects in voice UI efforts by everyone (possibly excepting the dedicated voice recognition outfits like Nuance), by trying to apply a general machine learning approach to all of it and eschewing brute-force as not pure/clean enough.
Fitness tracker data 'reveal locations of military bases and personnel'
> When Apple bought Siri it had a solid 5 year lead in voice control.

Ehm what? Siri was initially released in 2011, I think Google Assistant in 2016.. so yeah.. there's 5 years difference between Siri and a product called "Google assistant", but before that Google had "Google Now" which was also controlled by voice, and MANY years before that Google pioneered with Google Voice Search and other apps which could be controlled by voice.

So let's get the facts right... Apple didn't have a 5 year lead, Apple was so far behind that they were forced to buy another product in order to even have a chance to catch up!

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice_Search
“Motobot had to be taught how to balance the bike at lean angles from zero to over 50 degrees, at speeds between 5km/h and over 200 km/h."

Article doesn't say, specifically, but it must be doing something other than just sitting static to achieve this?

[edit]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dUb5T7DU-Q
Bike has outriggers!
We're going to see a lot more of this. Banks don't just provide security in the form of trust, they provide a physical security as well. Any robbery attempt will involve more than just a single victim, ie. Bank staff.

Do cryptocurrencies have a way to make a single person less vulnerable to being held at gun point and stripped of an entire fortune?
>The reason is simple - if you make others feel inferior, by being better at anything in any way than them, they hate and envy you.

If that were true, the sports stars would not have been popular
"Life" is not classified as a proper game because of a very unfortunate combination of gameplay mechanics - it has permadeath, suffering (unheard of in pretty much any other game), lots of grinding, and it's very unbalanced. Any one of these alone is OK, but taken together, they make for a shitty, and ultimately one-time experience.
The author leaves the punchline a little vague, possibly in deference to a16z portfolio interests. My rendition is this.

Value capture for any tech almost requires owning the customer relationship. Customers (non-enterprise anyway) buy must-have solutions, not fancy bolt-ons. Ergo, inventors must sometimes build the mundane parts of an app/platform in order to fully cash in on the fancy new parts.

This need goes against founder/inventor philosophies. It's wasteful and boring. That's what makes it so hard. It's also more difficult to fund building the broad solution.

I think that many of today's AI companies are going to come up against this dilemma soon. Can a tool that analyzes CRM data make as much money as one that handles the whole problem?

(Think of how many times CRM tools have been reincarnated in the last 30 years. Building yet another is not that crazy.)
How will you get an AI-based personal assistant?
It certainly requires good voice-operated AI technologies.
So in order to get there, good AI's have to be built AND tested AND trained. Siri, Cortana and so on definitely provide the developers with a great source of (free) training.
Is the current thought that brainwaves affects the brain? What's the mechanism for this? They aren't even really waves like we think of radio waves or magnetic waves. Saying that brain waves have a "function" like a Scientific American article seems so backwards. I'm a little confused why the language used around them is of casuality.
This is the future that Her presents[1]. There's a scene on the subway where everyone's chatting away to their AI, and you can see how it could be normalised.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
For those who love playing wargames there's a website that regroups most (if not all) of them with scores.
https://www.wechall.net/
Well he is known for calling a spade a spade. No matter how blunt that may be.
On the other hand, in my experience most of the people who complain about voice operated AI being useless have been found using Siri. Google Assistant on the other hand works really great for me, and I use it all the time (in my phone, and with Google Home). I find it amazingly useful that I can ask my phone to check the time, my next meetings, while I'm shaving/taking bath/cooking or I'm just feeling lazy to get up and pick up the phone. Also, it is useful in setting reminders which I do a lot. I also send whatsapp/text messages using it or play YouTube videos/google play music just by asking the song I want. Sure, sometimes it doesn't recognize, but most of the times it does. It's incredible value addition for me. Just being able to ask a question in my natural voice without manually unlocking using a PIN etc. is so useful.
> "Our culture is dying, but it's OK because we can bring in some third-worlders to keep the population numbers up!"

Our culture isn't dying, our culture was created in one of the most multikulti countries of the world with about ~10 000 000 people, and now (thanks to wars, partitions, Holocaust, ethnic cleansings, forced displacement of millions of people) - we have almost 100% uniform population declining from 36 000 000, and will probably stabilize at around 25 - 30 000 000.

The problems are economical - social system won't survive the transitional period, already retirement fund is over 20% of our budget, and if the prognosis is correct it will go up several times (now 2-3 working people pay for 1 retirement, it will invert when baby boomers retire, see https://www.populationpyramid.net/pl/polska/2016/).

It's not sustainable, and ~1 000 000 Ukrainians isn't enough (but it's still very helpful in the long run).

> that Saudi Arabian kids know who Shakira is is not a sign that Western culture is winning---at least, not the good parts.

You've choosen the least important part of my statement, but whatever. The fact that western culture is global is very important, culture is how cultural assimilation works. It's more important than any religious factors. Showing people that your way of life results in better quality of life matters more than any priests or ideologies.

As for religion - it's already mostly cultural, very few people (even in theoretically 90%+ Catholic country like Poland) treat Christianity seriously and adhere to the rules, like going to Church and participating in communion each week, and confession each time you have a mortal sin (like masturbation). Most people visit churches several times a year, and don't consider chemical anticonception or masturbation sinful. Hell, half of them don't even believe in God as described in the Bible.

And, we have a pretty good example of what atheist Poland would have looked like - Czech Republic :) I feel at home there, and wouldn't mind our culture changing to something like that. It's much more practical and honest culture. I think it will, eventually, simply because Catholic church is too involved with politics for the last 25 years. You can't preach meekness and routinely drive in limousines with highest level politicians or take millions from them in shaddy deals.
I'm not sure how amenable you are to alternatives, but after suffering myself with chronic pain in the past and discovering kratom to help with the pain in lieu of a narcotics prescription, I would suggest looking into this to improve your grandfather's quality of life. Years ago, my dad had surgery to "fix" a turn muscle that healed poorly, and was prescribed Tramadol for long-term pain management. After the docs started cutting everyone off, my dad suffered greatly from the pain, and I couldn't stand to see him like that, so I introduced him to kratom, as well. He takes it once in the evening before bed and he has also stopped getting regular migraines. The kratom subreddit is a good place to start looking for information. Just be aware that special interests have been spreading disinformation for a couple of years now, so take everything you read with a grain of salt. Do your own research and draw your own conclusions. There is a growing body of research available to help.
> I don't understand the current focus on all of these voice-operated AI things

> I can see a future where AI voice control is incredible

It's not going to work overnight. I think it's great that apple integrated Siri in their product even though it wasn't very useful. There has been great progress in just a few years. I was skeptical too but I use it more and more. Things like "remind me to ...". "Play ...". I also use google voice quite often with my android TV box.

That being said, I'm always much faster with a keyboard. I prefer a smart text interface that understands basic actions, fuzzy search and so on.
>If you are perfectly content with your life, then Facebook probably won’t be an issue at all. But if you have _any_ area where you don’t feel fulfilled - like bad life/work balance, insufficient funds, loneliness, unfulfilled baby wish - then Facebook is going to rub it into your face, daily, that others have what you desire, and does it in a misleading way.

I am super amused that in the middle of a heated debate on the internet, a stranger is implying that I am a happy, well-balanced person with a full life :)
Gee, if only they had a Linus Torvalds type around to block irresponsible commits.
I meant 'randomdrake posting relevant DOIs and abstracts all over HN threads discussing things that discuss scientific papers. But thanks for the clarification on the content of this paper :).
I hope this comment is ironic.

Great code should be predictable, obvious and easy to change.
How do people use those things?
>>Apple is also fumbling the future—the Voice First future. Voice First simply means our primary mode of interacting with computers in the future will be with our voice.

Oh god please no. Interacting with computers using voice is probably the second worst way of doing it, just after using motion gestures. There are some good uses for it(although I think even voice controls for lights is pushing it, it's more pain that it's worth), but having it as a primary mode of operation? No thanks.
I've known plenty of people who do 400mg 2-3x/day for weeks/months.
i do see a lot of people believing the Alexas system is much better but int he end alaxa is just build up on regex.

that is ok-ish for simple languages like English were the words themselves dont change.

but in many other languages, the words in sentences change depending on their relationship to each other.

eg simple information in English like "the cat is sitting on the bench" is encoding with the order of the words whereas in other languages the information the `cat` is `sitting` on the bench rather than the bench `sitting on the cat` is encoded in how the word `cat` and `sitting` and `bench` (and maybe `on`) change. This change can be rather complex based on lots and lots of factors such as gender of the `cat` and `bench` the type of verb eg `sitting` and the preposition `on` (some languages don't even bother with this since it's added to the verb).

apple's approach is much more upfront work since they do all this natural language logic in every language they support. But for developers who use Sirikit is is much better.
> In the AR and VR future we won’t be typing.

Oh please god no full stop imagine how hard it would be to even write a simple hello world program example ellipsis linebreak linebreak three backticks no not that delete word delete word backtick backtick backtick c linebreak void main open bracket int argc comma char asterisk argv close bracket space open curly bracket line break tab print-EFF open bracket double-quote percent d backslash n double-quote comma argc close bracket semi-colon line break backtick backtick backtick

Chance of success? Zero. Time taken? Three minutes.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted; this is all true.
Oh, is it a desktop-only OS? No embedded device / server capabilities? These two worked out for Linux...
I know that it's policy to downvote sarcastic/non-constructive comments, but this is fairly poignant I feel. How on earth can someone come to the conclusion to arm teachers and effectively train an adult to shoot a child, instead of just controlling the supply of high-powered and semi automatic firearms.
They did, once upon a time, after a fashion:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

https://www.wired.com/2002/01/bill-gates-trustworthy-computi...
Chromium: Memory Leaks
People can and do all the time, they usually just link Paypal to their bank account (or something similar) as an intermediary to avoid handing out their bank account number to strangers.

And furthermore, how is the web comic artist going to pay their rent? Landlords don't take tethers, so at some point they need to cash out to actual dollars and receive an ACH transfer from an exchange or the like. Are they really better off being forced to trust a crypto exchange?
As far as I know this is slowly changing. According to scientists I've met (life science fields) there is an ongoing trend towards demanding raw data and even the code used to analyze it. Not every journal everywhere yet of course, but the consensus seemed to be that in 5 to 10 years it would become the new norm. Which might cause quite the disruption. Having seen quite the amounts of code written by PHD students I'm 100% sure tere are many, many bugs out there. Possibly leading to faulty results.
Precisely how to understand causation is controversial.

But I'll just say that most philosophers don't find anything incoherent in the idea of nonlocal causation. (Hume's classic attack on local causation might be worth a look.) See BoiledCabbages comment for a nice explanation of a model that involves nonlocal causation.
I found this to be very ironic based on the time it probably took you to type all this out haha!
I am working with vim for about 18 years now, I won't change my preferences just because some smartass decides that a sparkling fun touch bar will be better for me.
But in this case they had not patched their windows machines for a vulnerability that Microsoft fixed months before. It was really a case of dumb, careless IT.
It's a prosecutor's job to get someone convicted. So, given they succeeded, why do you consider them incompetent?

Perhaps the innocent man's own lawyer (defender) was incompetent?
Didn't Torvalds already accept Intel's "garbage" Linux kernel patches?
> Amazon has 12,000 people working in Alexa.

Is this true?
I’ve found countersteering to be a very effective way of adjusting the angle of a motorbike while riding. You basically push the handlebars in the ‘wrong’ direction and the bike just leans over.

It’s scary when you first try it going down a motorway (it’s less sensitive at higher speed), but very effective indeed, and doesn’t require moving your centre of gravity.

I don’t pretend to be a professional racer though. They do seem to lean a lot.

PS. You can do this on a bicycle too, but the reduced momentum makes it much more sensitive.
Linux had its fair share of major vulnerabilities. Starting with heartbleed.
I have an 1.7 Ghz i7 processor, and 8 GB of ram. I mostly use a browser and an iterm in my workflow, this macbook air will be still enough for years.
And my biggest problem with that machine was the keyboard, which is not good for me.
The only thing you need to know when it comes to optimising code is very simple: You can never make code run faster. You can only make it do less.
IOTA is the coin that invented their own cryptography using ternary logic. Practicality doesn't seem to be a core value.
I suspect it's as it reads. This blog appears to be about a browser codebase/product. I'm guessing a report that "it hangs on Facebook.com".
That's probably because the majority of programming community is doing commodity products, which are optimized for delivering consistent results on schedule with cheap and replaceable staff. Which is good for the business of making such commodity products, but it puts a limit on what kind of products you can make.
The article linked to a fork of the deleted github repo: https://github.com/eggdroid/eggseed3/blob/8b92ec0f8b251c9fe9...

But that piece of code should've triggered red flags even if the hacker didn't add a payload to overwrite Math.seedrandom to always use the same seed. The fact that https://github.com/davidbau/seedrandom isn't cryptographically secure should've been enough to turn you away and warn other. And if you read it a bit more you'll notice that it is mostly junk code (unused variables like visitedHash, newindex).

Props to the hacker for the method acting. From the commit log https://github.com/eggdroid/eggseed3/commits/master I would not have suspect any malicious intent and just attribute it to incompetence (which might've worked better underhanded-c-contest style instead of using an explicit backdoor).
If my argument is "mistaken", why are you focusing on the language that I used instead of just disproving my argument?

I would also be interested that if the gender wage gap is real and it is as believers describe it, how would you explain it without going into conspiracy land.
Q&A with David Aktary, CEO of ERC DEX
I didn't even know people are working on this kind of stuff.. and on a lot of other fronts too, Apple is losing its edge by not having the newer form factors like 2 in 1s and detachables. so much potential there.. but it's really not their bread and butter any more..
Yep, AFAIK none of them involve installed tools (I've only ever done Bandit), they will mostly be interactions with things such as SSH, HTTP, PHP etc.
The sentence is saying that there was a bug in a previous version of TenFourFox that caused the browser to hang when browsing to Facebook, and they speculate that they have fixed the bug in this release.
About what? Would you have a link?
I won't be switching any time soon, but it's certainly possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
Military?
Sometimes pain management is a balancing act between dangerous side effects and misery that makes it hard to want to keep living. Chronic pain isn't really something a third party can make decisions about; it may be that ibuprofen isn't the right choice, but lots of other choices (opiates, for instance) may have even more negative effects (like addiction and risk of deadly overdose).

Of course, there are folks who take over-the-counter meds as though it is safe at any dose and frequency. That might warrant a nudge toward reading the label about safe dosage, or a mention of a recent study on the subject.
No, it isn't.

Programming is specialized work (I'd call it a discipline, but then we'd have to argue whether it's more an engineering discipline or art discipline). You have to gain knowledge and experience to understand it.

A bridge blueprint is not understandable for all. It is understandable for all who took time and effort to gain education necessary to understand it.

(The motivation between this comment is to counter the increasingly noticeable sentiment in our industry that everything needs to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator; it's an understandable sentiment if you're selling something and want the biggest market, but it goes against what's needed to build great things.)
Date and time on Unix V7
Nope, that is literally the dosage mentioned in leaflet inside my box of pills: 2x200mg, up to 3 times a day, do not exceed 6 weeks.
One doesn't just "grow things" in New Zealand.
Your forum could still be "about anything", yet not cater to lowest common denominator.

It's only when you deliberately want to attract (and retain) as many eyeballs as possible, then the quality necessarily has to go out the window.