skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just buy an Alexa / GoogleHome / Nest / SamsungSmartTV and wave your privacy goodbye. It's a free-for-all out there for invading your privacy, and the big players are in the lead. No need for obscure knockoffs.
Ask HN: How do you optimize/hack sleep
I was wondering if anyone follow any pattern or tricks to optimize sleep. Like take power naps or sleep only for like 5 hours per day
And after a 1000 years we still accept brittle transparent non bullet proof glass and doors made of wood as the global norm to protect our valuables from burglars. Welcome to humanity
Just because you can force a blockchain onto something, doesn't mean you need any of the features a blockchain gives you. It just means you really like to say "blockchain".
> you'll be given a stern talking to and sent home

Yes and then sometimes that person dies as the recent case in the news about the girl with asthma who was told off for being late and sent home to die.

The NHS’s matronly they-know-better is a real problem of an effective state monopoly on healthcare. You can’t complain or take your business elsewhere. If they tell you to go home that’s it and there’s no other option.
Exactly, and the biggest problem with these programs is that they are administered on a federal level.

Some things that work well for high income coastal areas may not be ideal for the flyover states.
This is such an excellent use of parallax scrolling
I've been using:

Server side:
Apache Web Server
CouchDB
Perl or Python

Client side:
Pouchdb
jQuery
Bootstrap
Moustache/Handlebars

On client side that toolset provides an almost seamless API that gets you authorization, authentication, offline/mobile first, and data sync among all connected devices. And it's a very fast app because it runs almost entirely on the client side and transfers very little data between the client and server.

There's not a lot to do on the server side with this setup. PouchDB/CouchDB work together to handle the CRUD routines for both the client and server side and to sync data automatically and/or on-demand when the client is online.

You can also setup a 2nd CouchDB on a remote server to replicate your data to for automated backups. And it's fairly easy to configure a cluster of CouchDB servers with load balancing.

Productivity is what we're really looking for in a framework. To achieve that you want a very low learning curve and a very rich feature set. You want to leverage what you already know, as opposed to "learning a new way" to do things.

For me, this "stack" provided that.
It is usually all done under the auspices of diplomatic missions in a we-know-they-know-but-pretend-we-don't-know-but-really-we-all-know kind of way.
> have a pet project

I do. My daughter. She's vastly more interesting.
Simply by the fact that none of these attempted to build a chromecast receiver?

There were three groups working on such a receiver, Google with their Chromecast, Amazon wanted to support receiving chromecasts with the fire TV, and open source projects trying to receive chromecasts on the raspberry pi.

Google changed that protocol a few times, only Google's products can receive chromecast streams today.
Nah. Mountain Dew techno Red Bull 24/7 hacking parties for me plz.
Note that the UK also has a small private system; if you're really not happy with waiting for appointments or operations you can pay to be seen. Some higher-paid jobs come with health insurance, which is really cheap because anything difficult or expensive can be shunted off to the NHS.
Undergrad lin algebra and calculus ... start there! Although there is no skimmable view of those worth a damn. You need 2-3 months @ 8 hours a day.

Stats thereafter is pie, ML low hanging fruit will come easily.

Good inference and learning from data on the other hand is experience: expect years, no shortcuts. In fact, suffer. It’ll make the journey as informative as possible.
Thanks for commenting my comment.

2. Yes, up to the legal team and what types of processing you do. If you do processing that the data subject would not expect you to do or that is not in their interest you have to consider this carefully. Maybe allowed or not under legitimate interest but you have to be careful and do a proper assessment. I believe, and I have heard many EU data protection lawyers state, that consent is a last resort option. Probably not universally shared but many ppl appears to think in that way. Also, remember that consent bypasses important principles, such as the necessity test present for all other legal basis.

3. I agree, both RTBF and SAR rights under legitimate interest but no absolute requirement to automate the process in any case. Implementing voluntarily data portability good practice which could tip the balance when using legitimate interest, see below.

4. Yes, and concerning legitimate interest, if you implement these best practice measures this could “tip the balance” in your favor if you read the WP29 legitimate interest opinion.
> How many gamers do you think are going to give up Steam and go to the Windows Store?

If Microsoft buys Valve -- a move they're already rumored to be considering -- and shutters Steam, all of them.
Maybe just a classic case of trying to make more money by saving on material costs and passing it off as the same product?
You are confusing legislation and enforcement. A great deal of legislation has an extra-territorial dimension.

We live in a connected world, so ignoring this legislation should not be assumed to be free of consequences.
I don't think it matters to the principle, but rather to the practicality. It's now practical to aggregate massive amounts of data and create a privacy concern that's unlikely to have existed in the world of offline records.

The principle is freedom of speech. If you tell me that I cannot write down the names of the people who came to visit me today without their permission, you are violating my right to freedom of speech.
Which of the other desktop OS has a stable AND consistent base system?

Microsoft is backwards compatible to an insane degree. Which gives you stability but not consistency.

OSX is consistent but Apple throws out backwards compatible features every other year, so not really stable.
The GDPR applies to european citizens living outside Europe.

You have a fire in your kitchen, and instead of addressing it, you're closing the door.

From the inside.

[Edit: And to be clear, if I ever heard about a site pulling this sort of shit, I would be extremely compelled to issue GDPR requests towards it. This mindset amuses exactly nobody except you.]

Edit 2: I'm being a little snarky here, so here's a bit of actual helpful advice: Instead of trying to be a smartass with the law, which never works, do what every other one-man shop your size will do and ignore it until it becomes an issue. Once it does become an issue, comply in the best faith you can.

Most requests you'll get will probably simply be: "Please delete my account" and "Please send me a copy of my data". You have 1 month to comply with it. I have no doubt you'll be able to.
Anyone knows of some reading material on how such an engine could technically work?
I wonder how a nuclear reactor could create propulsion.
Usually when you are testing things, they will fail a lot. Like SpaceX, a lot of boosters crashed, that doesn't mean it is less awesome what they developed and it worked in the end once they got kinks out.

This is weird article.
On the other hand, streams of interesting new oral Type-2 diabetes medications have been coming out. E.g. Gliptins and gliflozins

Unfortunately, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's treatments have been a black-hole for research funding. Many have tried, most have failed.
You don't need batteries, you just learn to save your files often.
I live in the third world too and can say that even with crappy power supplies computers resist quite well blackouts and brownouts.
This article on matrix calculus seems pretty good for someone familiar with ML and DL concepts but not on the maths:

http://parrt.cs.usfca.edu/doc/matrix-calculus/index.html#sec...
Oh come on, it's always fashionable to blame the current government. The Guardian's view (which has shifted further left and become more "us vs them" divisive in the last couple of years) of an already unpopular Conservative government is not the first source I'd used.

Personally, I've seen these reports come up from time to time, and having experienced some of the other countries listed find it very hard to believe. It sounds like a lot of the data is collected from patient surveys. My claim that citizens have a positive-skewed view of the system is relevant (I recently read a survey result where UK citizens considered the NHS a greater achievement than defeating the Nazis and the abolition of slavery).
a) It is not a big change from the 1995 regulation. It is incremental. There is a feeling that the previous regulation lacked teeth with the multinationals, some of whom have chosen to ignore it. Facebook have lost two cases over aggregating data in Belgium and Germany in the last month.

b) I don't know if you are familiar with European law, but what you see as vague is what others see as flexibility. Laws setting out the spirit of what you are trying to achieve tend to age better than a rule based approach.

c) They did [0]. Because of b) it is not part of the regulation itself.

d) They were under the existing regulation, so why wouldn't they be now? The 'vagueness' as you put it gives a judge considerable flexibility to see if the steps taken to safeguard privacy were appropriate to your size

edit:add reference
[0]:https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Take a look at the Coursera specialization: Mathematics for Machine Learning [1]. The specialization isn't free but you can certainly apply for financial aid.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine...
Indeed, while macOS has global libraries ("frameworks") such as Cocoa, Core Data and so on, which are obviously versioned along with the OS (with a semver type system to handle compatibility issues), user libraries are typically bundled together with the app. While macOS comes with shared libraries in /usr/lib such as like readline, LibXML and OpenSSL, trying to use them from an app is almost always a bad idea, most of all because the libraries tend to be very old. Many Homebrew packages have an install flag to control whether they should link to the system libraries or provide their own.
Topology for ML sounds amazing. Got any papers/links?
Looks like exactly what I would suggest, although I’d argue EC2 might be slightly overkill. You’d get more for your money with Linode/DigitalOcean/OVH or even Hetzner’s new cloud offering. Will help save some pennies early on.
Yeah, but that doesn't matter here because it's present in both the newer era balls and the older era balls. We also know that seven of these are used baseballs, meaning they could very well be deformed or off center from use. There's a reason that they only use a baseball for about 8 pitches. (https://www.foxsports.com/other/story/major-league-baseballs...)
It transmits everything after the wake word. My example of the Echo being used to monitor the political education of children is very plausible. It depends on a child using the wake word and asking the Echo an innocent question without understanding the broader implications, e.g., that something bad can happen if you let some big powerful group know that you're asking questions that they don't want people to ask.

Last I checked, the Echo had 3 potential wake words: "Alexa", "Echo", and "Amazon". I don't use "Alexa" because I knew a kid named Alexa growing up and I didn't like her. I don't want to remember her every time I talk to the machine. I use "Echo" but when I'm listening to audiobooks or podcasts and the word "Echo" comes up, the thing activates, and maybe I _don't want_ Amazon to know what podcasts or books I listen to. It also happens on words that sound kinda-sorta like "Echo". Random "accidental" invocation and the loss of control over the listener then becomes a real thing, especially with a wake word like "Amazon".

All they'd have to do is say "We've found 'Amazon' is the best wake word and 90% of our people use it so it's the default now", and suddenly, they'd be hearing a lot of casual conversations and opinions about what people think of this 'Amazon'. Now imagine that this really does become a tool for political oppression and they add a few "silent wake words" that don't make the ring light up.

I have 3 Echos. My kids ask it questions all the time. If I were to teach my children some politically incorrect belief or some religious tenet that counters the dominant religious tenets of the day, and they ask the Echo for more information about it, someone at Amazon may hear that, and a computer at Amazon would certainly process and analyze it.

Some day, the result of that analysis may be flagging for further investigation or addition to dissident watchlists. They may even apply this to archived recordings, all of which you yourself can play back (for now).

Imagine someone from the other side of the aisle guessed $Prominent_Politician's Amazon password. What would happen if there was a voice recording of that politician asking something that doesn't look so good? Would the attacker just say "Oh boy I better not share this, that wouldn't be very nice?"

In this age when people like Jo Cox and Steve Scalise are targeted by radical citizen-assassins, how can we pretend there is no risk? How can we pretend like this data is somehow intrinsically impregnable to technically sophisticated political extremists? And what happens when a demagogue mainstreams that extremist perspective, and writes laws that require Google or Amazon to submit these recordings for the good of the people?

I'm not trying to be alarmist, and I obviously think that the tradeoff is not horrible right now since I have 3 of these spy devices (and a Nest cam), but we have to understand that these are real things, real possibilities. It is very naive to presume that this couldn't or wouldn't happen (or even that it doesn't on some scale -- I'm sure a subpoena or NSL could get this data).
From a non-financial POV:

Elon Musk, John Carmack and Satya Nadella.
> But in my book, if one wants the title Senior Engineer then one has to have built and shipped something that generates more revenue (directly or indirectly) than what the system cost to build and maintain.

Wouldn't that eliminate engineers at companies that never found product market fit, or figured out their monetization strategy? Many projects get shipped, delivered, and used without generating revenue.
I'm being downvoted because it's simultaneously terrifying to most people and an unpopular opinion. It's pretty blatant that's what is going on however. China for one is leaps and bounds ahead of the US in progressing down that path (they hardly ever deviated from the extreme nationalism path, for a mere decade roughly). Xi will push it a lot further now.

I don't see a good argument that globalism (as we knew it) was going to continue perpetually, that there would be no inflection occurance. It makes perfect sense that a trend like that would have an inflection and go the other direction eventually.
You made me think of roko's bassilisk [1]
I must say that I, for one, welcome the rule of our robot overlords.

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
Unions didn't make it too expensive to manufacture. China just made it way cheaper (slight difference there). A Union made product doesn't increase the cost of the product much, but employing people at wages that provide a moderate income level does reduce profitability.
A lot of patients are anything but emergencies though. Since it can be near impossible to get a same-day doctors appointment in some areas. In the South of England it can be weeks.

So people just go to the hospital A&E dept instead, sometimes for quite minor ailments - although not always.
I believe this is true. In my country (Sweden) it appears like consent outside of offering internet services may require the data subject to be 18, not 13 (Sweden has made a local adjustment to 13 years of the 16-years old rule referred to). So this rule may actually be a relief of who can consent to what.
It's certainly been discussed in the forums I've read, and it could certainly account for some of it, but the mid-season spike in home runs starting in 2015 seems to point to at least one additional factor that would be somewhat consistent across all ballparks (including climate controlled). The balls seem to be one of the only factors that would account for that.
Definitely, here is a key sentence: "The decrease in drag is probably a result of a smaller, slicker baseball with lower seams."

The article ignores the fact that it is air resistance on the seams that creates the "break" in a curve ball. Less drag, less effective curves, ergo, advantage to the batter. So more HRs might come from less effective pitching.
I think the AirPods form factor is perfect as a non-intrusive AI medical assistant for caregivers and even doctors.
Linux from Scratch Version 8.2 released
No, it does not have to be automated, and if manual / email approaches work at your scale that's fine.

The legislation explicitly refers to "proportionality", although people exploiting the FUD around it to drum up business rarely use the word.
It's interesting looking at the reputation and practices of amazon and ebay over the past 20 years. Ebay started out with random individuals, and slowly became more reputable as it attracted large sellers of knock-off brands. Amazon started out with decent brands, then slowly became less reputable as they picked up large sellers of knock-off brands. At this point, they occupy essentially the same space, despite starting off with completely different bases.
> The good news is, no one wants a nuclear war anymore...

Donald seems to really want it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/9483555570...
As for a math captcha, http://random.irb.hr/signup.php

sometimes it'll be simple arithmatic, other times multi-variable calculus.
The last expensive electronic item I got from amazon was a surround sound speaker. It can beat up as shit in a box. I ordered another of the same speaker off eBay, came in pristine condition.
>We'll also see a massive leap forward in new, particularly stunning technologies again as nations begin to aggressively compete through technology to ensure survival. Nothing drives a leap forward quite like that.

This attitude assumes the linear progression of conventional warfare that existed among humans until the 20th century. A large scale nuclear exchange will be the end of us all.
It's protocol isn't opensource also.

Yes, Google does opensource a lot. But that doesn't mean they should open source one of their "few" hardware projects.
> Google is a predatory monopoly that is leveraging their existing power in search to move directly into consumer goods.

How is their search dominance coming into play here? I see leverage of youtube, and leverage of android. Plus plain-old mass media advertising campaigns. Not search.
> My electricity company replaced all Vs with Ks in letters to us for 7 months

What does that mean?
React Native Authentication in Depth Part 2 – Real World Auth Flow
As an Italian who can read French, I don't think that's true.
> If they tell you to go home that’s it and there’s no other option.

Not even remotely true, if you don't mind paying. You can see a GP privately, there are already lots of apps which let you book appointments. A colleague had an ear problem, couldn't get an appointment with his local GP and so used one of these app-based services and got a same-day appointment with a doctor near the office.
It's not true that there's no other option, there's a decent number of private hospitals and most major cities will have a private GP practice in too.

Just like the American system, this is only useful for people who can pay for it.
Looking at the first page of search results for "Chromecast" on Amazon:

Top result is a counterfeit with the Chrome logo on it.

Second result is Amazon's Fire TV stick.

Third result is Roku Express.

4-7 are counterfeits with logos on them that don't precisely match the Chrome logo, but are clearly designed to falsely evoke Google's brand.

8 is a generic with no Google-related logo on it.

9-11 are counterfeits with almost-but-not-quite Google logos on them. 12 is a counterfeit with the Chrome logo on it.

13-14 are accessories "for Chromecast.

15 is a counterfeit with the Chrome logo on it.

Amazon correctly identifies which product category Chromecast is, and puts an add for Fire TV above the search results, indicating that they exercised some amount of direct (non-algorithmic) control over that page. I'd say Google has a pretty open-and-shut case for trademark infringement here.
Buried deep in the comments from a Wirecutter review:

Before turning on your dishwasher, run your kitchen sink's hot water until its hot.

Obviously lots of pros and cons, but for me, it's a great tip.

Cons: Takes time. May be completely unnecessary

Pros: Hot water is "free" for me, electricity is not. Cleaner dishes. Shorter wash cycles.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office Faces Political Pressures
Why is WASM so weird? Why not just thinly model modern CPUs so it can be almost transliterated?
While your logic makes sense, there is far more to war then economics, otherwise the middle east wouldnt be a mess, and then there is the vietnam war.

Something has changed greatly. It is the fall of globalism and the rise of nationalism. Putins reminder he has the will to use MAD is sign of the new times.
That’s not true. You’re within their scope if you process and/or target EU citizens.

It might of course be difficult to execute the judgment but they can still sue you in the EU. In the US that happens also, for example when some stakeholder sues a foreign website that infringes on their rights. If the sued entity doesn’t show up in court, they just issue a default judgment (meaning the plaintiff wins by default). You can even sue a John Doe in court (at least in the US).

In practice, the EU is also resource constrained like any other government entity, so you probably won’t have much to fear. I mean they’re not going to sue millions of companies all over the world, it just means they have created themselves a new stick that they can choose to use.

I hear that they’ll likely first go after entities that have a big impact on the public (i.e., the most blatant cases).
That was a at a local GP, not a hospital though, IIRC. It was also the doctor who'd made the decision not to see the girl.

https://news.sky.com/story/girl-5-died-after-doctor-turned-h...
Running a live test of a nuclear powered aircraft/drone would certainly be an environmental incident (I'm avoiding the use of the word "disaster" until one crashes).

Running such a test in the airspace of a potential 1st tier opponent would be madness - it would absolutely be seen as a warlike act and repercussions would be immediate and widespread.

It's not like having a moving radiation source would be "stealthy" in any way - after 9/11 many US police departments bought portable Geiger counters so tracking one would just be a matter of correlating the readings.
If only there were a good way of heating the air without contaminating it with radioactive emissions. If we could figure that out, such an engine would be useful in many non war related jobs.
The ER is appointment only and you get turned away for being late? If true, that would be horrible, but I suspect it isn't.
Ok. In that case, I have just learned simpleton terminology for this. :-) (Conditional probability, I already understand, of course.)
Richard Stallman's computing habits
Imagine a guidance from Apple saying they would make $2 per share with 47% probability. Investors will freak out.

So? People freak out all the time about things that are true. It doesn't change that it's true.