skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the digital assistant doesn't do anything for me either. I'd probably turn that off if I could. Also, I have one I carry around in my pocket that I rarely use.

I bought it for the sound and the algorithm they are using inside it to distribute sound with the x tweeters and y mics and all that. I think it's something that hasn't been done before, or I've never owned something that's done that. It might be over hyped, but I hope not.
Yes. The team has started making some good improvements to self serve, though, and it'll keep getting better.
That's a very interesting observation. You're possibly right. A few others here have recommended "often" instead or totally different constructions.

Point in fact, I have never had so many replies to a comment on HN in all my many years here. I've hit on something obviously. I can't reply to everyone but I do want to say that I've read all the responses and they're super interesting and food for thought. :)
What is the scenario in which Facebook subverts end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp by pushing out a malicious update?
Sometimes I will say something like, "I'm not sure if I made myself clear [which is true], could you tell me what you thought I said?"

This is better than saying something that implies you are afraid they didn't understand because you think they are a poor listener.
Can you connect to wireguard from windows?
One way to test this would be to use a scoop that's 2x bigger than the other scoop, and putting in 3 scoops using the smaller scoop vs. 2 scoops of the bigger scoop.
I could see where you might draw that conclusion, but I think it more likely that the two things simply aren't correlated at all. I use absolutist language constantly, but it is more along the lines of "strong beliefs, held lightly." It is generally quite useful to get people to challenge your statements if you've making them in a sort of absolutist manner, and then you get to find the difficulties and nooks and crannies.
When does SpaceX plan to put something down on Mars now, seeing as how they have proven they could reach Mars?
Funny or Die's Matt Klinman: “Facebook has destroyed independent digital comedy”
Stopping the arms race. People already started using deepfake for political reasons, and putting them in porn scenes. A bunch of Ivanka Trump videos started showing up and had to be taken down.

Once that flood gate opens up, its just people mapping faces for shock value.

But non-porn, expect that to be new juicy MEME content.
The Gutenberg Project had free e-books decades ago, but people did not and do not devour Beowulf the same way they do an Instagram feed, even though Beowulf is even easier and cheaper to access.
This is something of an absurd argument when Apple's modus operandi is to, for example, enforce Apple Music as the only native HomePod music service.

And as a sibling comment mentions, HomeKit is not as open as what Google and Nest already use. The onus is on Apple.
> What interventions can be made to reduce this pay gap?

Does the pay gap exist after adjusting for insurance costs and expected long-term driver-born per mile cost not covered by insurance, which Uber drivers bear? Since the cause of the higher pay seems directly linked to the reason for the gender-based difference in insurance rates, this might be something to consider.
It's all subjective for sure. What I find interesting is that some cultures show a preference for clothes that are (imho) somewhat objectively less comfortable. Pants in humid climates. Suits at all. The history behind why things became the norm is interesting. This article shows how America is changing. This isn't a bad or good thing - it's just an interesting thing.
Not standing your ground is not woman-explicit attribute. Although it is more common among women.

And no, that's not workplace discrimination. That's ability to do one's job.
openssh supports a full pseudo-interface VPN mode, so its no longer limited to select ports.
But they never were separate, right? Nest employees had Google badges and had offices in Google buildings and ate lunch next to Googlers.

This just smells like politics.
Jim Carrey urges people to delete their Facebook accounts and dump the stock
saying the connection often drawn between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth. It has always changed and will change”

Article and scientist went from science to agenda and advocacy pretty quick.
I hope they find remnant species deep in these jungles one day. Similar to the Coelacanth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
I find homebridge easier to use than I thought. I know it's not the real solution, but it is the geek solution.

Using homebridge with the smartthings plugin is more responsive than smart things itself ironically enough.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-nest
There is no windows support yet, although you'll definitely know when it arrives.
Good catch! I really shouldn’t post before I have had my morning coffee.
Type what you can, draw diagrams on white boards or paper and take pictures of what you can't. Very simple and cheap workflow.
I'm saying that even if we recreate entire society to handle men-women differences better, we'll still have gender pay gape either way. I don't believe it's possible to have 0% pay gap. Even in ideal world. Unless we'd implement that solution.
This is the number one reason that I use tinc, and something that competitors (including WireGuard as promoted at the top of this thread) don't have without additional work.
I’d like to make a graphic novel but I can’t draw for shit. A combination of software and machine learning could help me do such a thing.

But the plot, design, and everything directorial is still up to me.
That seems like an unlikely outcome of this event, not a foregone conclusion.
Automation speeds up metro trains
I have a "wireless" thermostat (Honeywell Redlink) and there are a lot of problems you have to think through to make it work. In particular, what is the failure mode when the thermostat can't communicate with the furnace? What if your internet goes down and it can't communicate with your phone? You might need a different failsafe for when it's 0C vs 25C outside, but what if your exterior temp sensor stops working or can't communicate with the furnace? Not to mention the security implications of having an appliance on your network.

All these problems are made much simpler with a wired thermostat and battery backup. I wish it was easier, but in this case "smart" doesn't really buy you much energy or UX savings over a simple programmable wired device.
Meditation has helped me a lot. It helps the "you" that wants to stop worrying to be present. You learn how to be aware that you're worrying while you're worrying. Then you can stop it by gently placing your attention on something positive or constructive. The more you do this, the easier it becomes.
> The DNC was not paying Correct The Record as you claim; they were independently funded by donors around the country, all of whom are listed here:

Super PACs have NEVER taken advice or worked directly with national campaigns. (they verifiably do)

> Correct The Record had about a dozen full-time content producers writing favorable posts about the Democratic candidate online.

> If this was supposed to be your evidence of a vast DNC conspiracy to ruin Reddit, I'm incredibly disappointed.

I would say reddit going from a place that once supported open and free ideas, to one that only pretends to, is a very dangerous thing. Shilling is real, people are paid to do it. On both sides. Clearly the left wing has the advantage on reddit.

> And given the 328 million Russian Twitter accounts used in the general election to produce paid pro-Trump content, do you really want to have this conversation?

NYtimes writing slam pieces about our president? More fake russian collusion stories? Color me shocked. I don't trust the media, and neither should you. The whole Russia story is hogwash.
Pretty cool. Now I have an incentive to populate my profile beyond the current cache of titles and dates.
Well, not that I don't believe that there is a lot of good, free content out there - on the web and off - I have found that, when I want to learn a new technology like Git, or Scala, or Angular, the $30 or so I spend on an O'Reilly book is well worth the time I save plodding through incomplete blog posts or sparsely maintained documentation pages.
Ah! That explains it.
The whole library is pretty low level actually. If you plan on using it I recommend wrapping it with a better API.
The thing hanging on the wall is a receiver for remote control and a fallback local control.

The reason you need a fallback local control is because, in many environments, heating/cooling control failing is a dangerous condition.
LISA Pathfinder was the “quietest place in space”
Apparently not.

>Nest's brand, known for the internet-connected thermostat it created in 2011, isn't going anywhere, Osterloh and Fawaz say.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-and-nest-reunite-in-push-to...
In can correlate with lack of ability to think in terms of trade-offs and nuance.

"Wishy-washy" seems like a proxy for a better defined characteristic, but I'm not sure what. Indecisive? Ambivalent? You tell me!

It is a false dichotomy to portray communication as either absolutist or wishy-washy. You can communicate precisely and confidently without falling back on inaccurate hyperbole, which is often what absolutism is.
Tech Giants Back U.S. Bill Governing Cross-Border Data Searches
Ignoring your distasteful name for a moment; you have a very black-and-white view. 2 person job? Said who? 1 person sex, or 3 person sex, or more... Who says 2 is the only or even the best way?
Good to know. I wasn’t trying to sound fatalistic. Just pointing out it’s unworkable if true.
SigmaVPN doesn't seem to be in active development, plus there's no documentation.
Denmark split as row over teenage Facebook sex video widens
Hmmm... You're right of course. I didn't describe that well. I meant Unix file names and way of working with files vs. Windows. In other words, forward slashes, symlinks, mounts, sane permissions, etc. I hate dealing with drive letters, etc.
What's a good name for this?
Combining the ideas of both posts:
You can spend less if you buy more targeted-to-you and higher-quality items that you'll wear more often. Finding these items and customers is a data (and marketing) problem.

E.g. I spend less overall than I did a few years ago but each item I buy is more expensive. I've learned the value in quality clothes. I give smaller batches of more money to well-picked retailers rather than lots of small batches of money to big-name mass-market retailers.

An app that capitalizes on people coming to this realization (and knows how to market and execute it well) could make a killing.
You could set a scene on a “city street” or “small town street” or “country road” and have the NN make the setting without it having to be drawn by hand.

After all, movie studios already do something to that effect. When I was in Rochester a few years back they were using a few streets to film action scenes for Spider-Man 3, which would have been far more expensive in New York and hardly anybody would have noticed the difference.
Great project! This will be used by recruiters like myself. Only today I had to send an ugly Linkedin-PDF resume because an applicant didn't have anything else. I would have used ceev.io, if I knew about it before!

Let me ask, aren't you afraid of this: If you get big enough, Linkedin will fiddle with their HTML and your app won't work anymore, right?
On a not dissimilar note, https://jsonresume.org/ tackles similar problems anl could use some love.
Think you might be on to something. When I was growing up, the counter-culture was liberal. Now, liberal is mainstream and the counter-culture is conservative. Never thought I'd see the day when a suit and tie would be the daring, non-conformist thing to wear! :)
These things never stay contained though. The hate subreddits feed off of and seep into the rest of the site. In the old days someone had to make a conscious decision to visit a site like Stromfront. You weren't going to go there unless you already were interested in racist ideals. On Reddit those ideals are mixed in with everything else. This makes it harder to notice you are being exposed to hate and/or influenced by it. The end result is that Reddit is a boom to recruiting for hate groups.

There are three main ways of interacting with Reddit: posting, voting, and commenting. Hiding the obvious hate subreddits helped address the posting of topics. That was an important step and I don't want to diminish it. Reddit has tried to address the voting aspect with various tweaks to the ranking algorithm but whether it has been effective is still debatable. They haven't done anything as far as I'm aware to address hate comments. That is left completely up to the users and moderators.
no trade offs

This is almost never the case, and CDNs are no exception. A CDN like Cloudflare that reuses your domain(s) means that they become just a useless point that your dynamic requests have to travel to and from the main server. A CDN that uses its own domains requires extra DNS queries, extra TCP & SSL connection setup, etc, plus it only starts loading when the browser has started processing the HTML.
Good point. Skin color serves biological purposes.

I will refine my idea so that skin color is not useful for purposes of describing one race’s general superiority or inferiority.
"dangerous", "worse", "rotten"...

The tone of your response has piqued my curiosity more than the content of your response. Why such a strong, negative reaction?
Only thing that stood in bitcoins path was transaction speeds, people moved to other crypto currency because it was easier to trade.

The ease of use issue will be addressed, and regulation for banks, and it will moste likely take off. Like ripple, banks are already using it to keep large transfer fees low.

The over price bubble will even out, doesn't mean crypto is going away.
Thank You for Correcting The Record!
Indeed we've had nice conversations with the author about using Tinc's full-mesh logic ontop of WireGuard.
https://docs.datproject.org/#
Nest is being rolled into Google’s hardware team
Usually, when tenant is incapable of paying bills, he becomes ex-tenant.
The Buddha patiently answered most people's questions, but there were some he refused to answer at all, saying that they should be put aside.

Many of these were questions about absolutes:

Is the world eternal?

Is the world finite?

Is the self identical with the body?

Does the Buddha exist after death?

In fact in the buddhist path one goal is to see how everything† is impermanent and dependent on conditions for its existence.

†Everything but nirvana.
> Generally it's such a shame that society is made to ridicule anyone who is wearing or behaving in a way that is out of fashion.

These subcultures would probably have much less interest and much higher turnover rates if they weren't considered different and ridiculed for it.

That's part of the appeal. The pressure applied from the outside makes the members of the "we-dress-this-way" club feel closer to each other.
Can anyone provide any further details on what device(s)/software provide Samsung's TTS?

Similar details on the best ways to use Google's would also be much appreciated!
That's interesting. Maybe even more-so (at least for me) since Brazil is a latin-american country but one with Portuguese roots as opposed to Spanish. I don't know if the different types of colonialism hundreds of years ago can really account for pants-vs-shorts but it's fun to play with the idea.
No, apparently Nest is still both a brand and a coherent unit, but instead of a direct subsidiary of Alphabet it will be a unit inside the larger Google Hardware unit.
Insects are actually very eolutionarily complex if you think about it. It’s much more logical for a single celled organism to develop say a membrane than a carapace. Especially since single celleds start in an ocean to our knowledge.
Because home control / voice control is already established (Google Homoe, Alexa, etc). Why would I want a single voice controller when I can leverage the mesh of devices I already have around my home?
Timdb ?
Visual Studio Code January 2018 Update (version 1.20)
So I've read that it's enough to know that "there is a U(1) gauge symmetry in the Lagrangian" to derive the Maxwell equations from. Basically U(1) => Maxwell equations.

Is that true? Are there any other assumptions required?
Thank you for posting this, I would have ignored the Supplemental Materials link otherwise.
Show HN: Telepresence-open source fast, local development of Kubernetes services
Microsoft hasn't been too different in that regard. In terms of interfaces with any real userbase to speak of, the only real Microsoft UI systems I can come up with could be characterized as

* MS-DOS/Windows 3.1-like
* Windows 95-like
* Windows 8-like

Windows 8 basically was born and died in a couple of years, to be replaced with Windows 10, which is very much the same basic set of metaphors as Windows 95. There's a start menu, a little dock of pinned icons next to it, a taskbar, a clock and some little icons for what are basically background processes. There's a maximize and minimize and close button on windows. There's a File/Edit/Whatever set of menus. You can right click for context items, many of which are consistent with Windows 95 20+ years ago. That basic system is now something like 21 years old now.

You can maybe argue that Microsoft forgot your message five or so years ago, but they obviously rediscovered it.
dmidecode decodes the dmi. lshw lists the hardware. lscpu lists the cpus.
It's nice as long as you don't criticize their advertisers. The admins shadow-banned my 8-yr old account for criticizing a sponsored post from AMC.
I'm wondering since you mentioned it.

When does it make sense that the 2% is worth it? Or is it in your eyes, that there should never be an extra fee?

Have you thought about it from the other perspective? That they are giving you the cheaper price at a cost to themselves, hedging the bet that the 2% will make them whole?
Secret Documents on “Covert Swiss Cold War Army” P-26 Vanish Mysteriously
/r/HailCorporate is an echo chamber that insists any time a brand is so much as mentioned without negativity, it must necessarily be an attempt at viral marketing.

Meanwhile in the real world, people talk about brands in everyday conversation all the time without the sanction of the corporation behind it. Not that paid shilling isn't a thing, but they take the confirmation bias, way too far, to the point where calling shenanigans will get you attacked.
Are you suggesting that people only go on vacation for the status? Or for that matter buy smartphones for that reason?
Well, reddit has been policing content for a very long time. So far they haven't been held responsible for things that "get on the site but shouldn't".
Linux Canada Edition 2018 : ln -s /usr/bin/man /usr/bin/people
$ people fsck
You're also (I presume) an engineer. Most writers don't have the skills to build something like this.

One way to look at it is "I'm losing 10%". Another way is "I'm now making 90% I couldn't have otherwise made."
Usually you'd use SSH in socks mode if emulating VPN behaviour.
Whatever meets the terms of the contract...
Apple on engineer hiring spree, with steady expansion since 2016
How dare I wonder.
This is a silly argument. Do you think Rust is not going to "survive for any length of time" (the OP's quote)?
Ask HN: Balancing interviewing and day job?
I'm currently working as a software engineer, and I'm looking for a new role at a new company. I've reached the later stages of interviewing with multiple companies, and every single company wants an on-site interview for 4-5 hours.

How are you supposed to manage that with a full time job? Vacation days? Sick days? Flexing your hours?

I'm sure there are multiple ways to do so, but I'd love to hear some advice from those of you who have been through the process.
Could it be this talk? http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/media/eps/jodrell-ba...
Question I've been wondering about for the giant Tesla advertisement is if they had to make any modifications to the roadster to support being in space? The background space temperature is -455 F and obviously also zero gravity.
Namibia's Nimbus acquires stake in Paratus Africa for $8M
Vertical ML is so 2017, it’s all about diagonal ML
I wasn't aware of SBCL's interpreter mode, but it does say "in SBCL interpreted code is not safer or more debuggable than compiled code." I haven't used it myself yet, though, so it's possible there are interesting differences to the user. But to be clear, when I said "observable," I meant "observable to the running program." The standard I'm using: if an implementation detail is not observable to the program (with some restrictions, like a program can't just measure how long it took to execute), it's not a property of the language itself.

> That's why it makes little sense. Lisp does not use the same representation internally and externally. Externally programs may be characters in a file or on a display.

It's a bit confusing to have you reiterate what I've said in this thread without your saying you are doing so and are in agreement. Let's go back to the very beginning of our discussion:

> > I think Alan Kay using the word "homoiconic" for Lisp was a mistake. The syntax of Lisp really is not the same as the internal representation

> A Lisp interpreter executes internalized s-expressions.

"Syntax" as in "what the user of the language types." At the least, I meant sequence of characters vs s-expressions. But, I also did the confusing thing of saying "the internal representation" to mean a property that all Lisp implementations share. Some Lisp interpreters directly examine s-expressions, sure, but, given the context, I assumed that your pointing this out meant you thought it was evidence that I was mistaken to think Alan Kay was mistaken.

> Actually s-expressions are a data format, not a format of the programming language Lisp.

I take it the answer is "yes" to my question "Are you drawing the distinction that it is only when an s-expression is paired with an interpretation that you get an AST?"

> Thus the s-expression does for example NOT represent any syntactic informations about the source code

In Lisp, there are two levels of syntax: syntax classes from the source code, like symbols, numbers, lists; and syntax classes from the s-expressions, like what you go on to say.

(Meta-question: am I coming across as someone who's ignorant about the design and implementation of Lisp? My experience observing lispers communicate is that they seem to assume nobody else is familiar with the details of Lisp and how it works!)
If you like this, you might enjoy Randal Levenson’s work. http://www.randallevenson.com/project.html
OT but related to Drag&Drop, my IntelliJ at work is set up with the "drag files with ALT pressed" setting, mostly due to my "lazy" clicking that ended up trying to move around classes across packages disrupting my flow.
Would love to see that option in any file manager as well.
Also I hate with a passion the "drag selected text" feature
Yeah, no. Bitcoin has issues of trade speed, but alt-coin and things like XRP Ripple are going to be used to keep transfer fees down. If lightening market can fix high fees and transfer speeds, bitcoin will stick around, if not...

People and companies have tasted the experience and freedom of bypassing payment processors, they wont go away, it will just evolve.
The assumption here is that a random tenant won't afford to pay for electricity. Which isn't a huge bill as bills go.

I'm kind of shocked by a culture which assumes that kind of thing.

Also, electricity is a kind of neccesity so cutting someone's electricity is a bit like leaving them endangered, which is arguably a crime.

The owner of a building has to collect rent anyway, so I don't see why electricity would be an especial concern.