skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HomePod setup was annoyingly buggy when I tried to do it last week. Got a generic “6699” error which Apple support docs said I needed to install Home and Music apps. Did that and got a new error. Apple docs literally said to wait “30 mins” on Home app for a mode to reset configuration. Documented screenshots @reaganbwilliams on twitter. Returned the device this morning.
"Highly laborious process": I guess if the technology was available to preform this process, then automating it would be relatively easy. The materials that make up a human are cheap enough.

Edit: I read the article. So they are assuming in the future that they won't bother making a new human, but just load the brain state into a computer simulation, which would be even cheaper.
McDonalds employees make more than that (~$14 /hr). The real estate that the restaurants sit on is also quite expensive so sucks up a lot of that revenue.
First hit for googling "Spectre Javascript POC": https://github.com/ascendr/spectre-chrome
Society is very difficult to change, and activist groups aren't pushing in that direction as a whole (Autism Self Advocacy Network is far smaller than Autism Speaks.) Drugs are easy to make acceptable as long as the medical establishment is ok with it.
One of the concerns about treatments for ASD and ADHD is that parents could be incentivized to do what is convenient for them, rather than what is best for the child.
With home improvement returns make sense. You’re going to want to start the day with more than you’ll need for certain jobs.
Not slow poke?
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And that would end so well. Nothing like infringing on the 1st Amendment (if you're in the USA).
Is each cancer considered unique, though? Or would the cure for, for instance, breast cancer, also deal with other forms as well? After all, we already have fairly standardized procedures for most types of cancer.

So if it is possible to cure several with the same cure, then I'd disagree with saying there's over 200 different "fundamental" types of cancer.
> Not that ADHD and ASD can be compared

My understanding is that ASD and ADHD are often found together. I don't have enough familiarity with either to know where one begins and the other starts.

Thanks for sharing your perspective, as the parent of a child just diagnosed with both conditions it's useful!
> Trying to draft those with the most resources to fight the draft is just not going to work well.

Agree completely.
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But is intelligence a lethal mutation? Big picture perspective, nuclear arms and environmental degradation...
this. there are cheap silk ones as well for people who don't mind the fabric on their eyes.
> Simpler languages aren't always simpler to actually write software in.

I completely agree with this. But when you're learning to program, the goal isn't to write software. It's to learn the lessons and concepts that will one day allow you to write software.
> I started wondering "why on earth doesn't dominos just staff a call center in India and have the orders forwarded to the store's ticketing system?".

Or, y'know, Twilio. Voice recognition on limited grammars (such as pizza toppings + addresses) is already crazy good. And the system can always repeat back what the customer said to confirm it parsed it correctly.

Or, go one step further: have no phone number, only a website. There's an cellular MVNO in Canada (https://www.publicmobile.ca/) that operates using this cost-cutting model, and they seem to be doing pretty well.
To be fair with three people in the company position titles are meaningless. You will not get to do only one thing, nor will anyone else. Each of you is required to wear many hats and contribute at all levels. Even if that means cleaning the toilet before an investor or potential client comes for a visit.

You maybe the most technical of the group hence your CTO title. So the team is probably looking to you to drive the core tech decisions. Other roles have their key priorities respectfully. But even than you should all work more closely than ever and collaborate at this early stage.
So let me get this straight: are you arguing that because some portion of bugs each year is due to vendor negligence, it is OK for us security researchers to make the vulnerabilities public and expose users dependent on the vendor any time we want?
I would rather just ask the NSA what information they would like from me and send it to them directly.
Thanks. I have exact same thought.

Don't get me wrong, I think consciousness arising from sufficient complexity is also very much a possible answer, and I don't discount it. I'm just not totally convinced that there isn't more too it. Until a general AI arises, I don't think I will be convinced, and even if it did, who's to say it inst still just an approximation? Multiple AI intelligence domains slapped together with some approximation of a pre-frontal cortex. Even then, biology may still be something entirely different.

Sure, you start venturing into the supernatural realm talking about this, but who's to say that given sufficient time and study of this phenomena, the supposed "consciousness is everywhere" becomes the new natural science, and gives rise to new technologies we couldn't even conceive. It would be like discovering Electromagnetism all over again.
Why not indeed. Advertisers in general don't want to be associated with extremists of any stripe.

From the linked opinion piece in the story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

"YouTube leads viewers down a rabbit hole of extremism, while Google racks up the ad sales."

So the big question is, why not demonetize them? Removing all ads probably has a pretty significant impact on the algorithm already.

Why doesn't YouTube do the right thing? Stop making money on extremists? It seems like doing that would auto correct the problems.
Counterpoint: a similar service called Carrd.co is doing encouragingly well for its sole developer.

https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/971417263969579008

This market is huge. If you can carve out a niche somehow you can do fine and not everybody needs to become the next SquareSpace.
>If I want to turn on a light, I walk to the light switch, and then I turn it on

Compare this to: "What's the point of remotes? If I want to change the station, I get up and walk to the TV". Once you get used to being able to turn lights off by voice, you get lazy and happy.

And it's not just one light, BTW. Suppose when I go to sleep, I want all lights except the porch lights off. I don't have to walk around the whole house[1] switching them off, when instead I can just say "Sleep mode lights" or something equivalent.

[1] You know, the 3000 sq ft houses people outside of SV have.
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Wouldn't a company have to post every single position because of labor laws, etc. They can't just have one generic position to cover many, or? That would open the doors for bad hiring practices and just picking anyone you want (without proper due diligence) rather then the best candidate possible.
This trend of attempting to outsource the faculty of skepticism is stupendously dangerous.
Flying pizza oven swarms with predictive flocking patterns.
The population won't stabilize around 11 billion in the unlikely event that affordable solutions to significantly extend life exist, never mind the technology to resurrect the dead from stored brains...
look at the x axis. it goes back to feb21.
In addition to lacking wheat pre-agriculture there's a reasonable amount of evidence that the modern increase is due to the elimination of gut parasites - previously the increased immune activity in the gut was beneficial (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403024/).

There's also some research that suggests modern high-gluten wheat varieties have more of the proteins that trigger coeliac disease (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44609)
This comes down to the fact that each Amazon team manages its own hiring (and so has its own job postings), whereas Google has one top-level posting per role.
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Of all of the lousy jobs I’ve had, fast food wasn’t nearly the worst. And If I were forced go back and work any of them tomorrow, I’d still be a happy and healthy person.
One word. Juicero.
I would enjoy reading such a blog post.
It's moronic. These retailers know whether you recently purchased the item you're returning.

Why are they counting it against you?
Obviously, yes. Your "some portion of" should read "virtually all".

I answered your question. But you didn't answer my question.

What about the flaws that aren't unintuitive? What about the bog standard integer overflows vendors routinely leave in code because they won't pay what it costs to ensure they don't ship them?
> Folks are pretty willing to give up their fingerprint for access to Disney parks.

Wow, I hadn't heard about this and was genuinely surprised it's actually a thing. Fortunately, apparently it's opt-out:

> Are all guests required to use Ticket Tag?

> If you don't want to use Ticket Tag, you can simply carry and show a photo ID that matches the name identified with your ticket.

From their Privacy Policy: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en_CA/faq/my-disney-experi...
Picard had to remind Computer that he likes drinking his tea "hot" 15 times a day -- all signs point to voice assistants forcing us to be hyper literal because they like to mess with us.
I tend to lean toward a trait, and there really is no arguing that there are benefits, at least on the lower end of the spectrum. Modifying genes for "ideal" traits in humans seems like a bad idea to me...
A large part of the internet economy operates on the assumptions that services like AWS and Google and Facebook remain available. Businesses are built on top of these services, and it's not clear that other SaaS providers could fill the gaps, were the big guns to fail.

Tens of thousands of businesses would lose their primary source of income (google ads).
Tens of thousands of businesses would lose their workplace services (G Suite).
Analytics systems that are running 24/7 for multibillion dollar corporations would shut down. Who has the capability to fill that void?
Millions of creators would lose their platform (Youtube)

You can definitely claim that "Too Big To Fail" is not a true concept, but the significance of the failure is not to be taken lightly.
I have the nagging feeling that Telus is trying to kill the PublicMobile 'experiment' by transitioning their customers to Koodo before the bury the coffin.
>It’s not really possible to outsmart the market.

This is exactly what advertising does, and it works great.

There are other ways, but in any case this assertion is a fantasy.
I also agree, living in the east bay. In cities like Hayward, Union City, San Leandro, Castro Valley, you will most likely find that most people you meet locally don't work in tech. I can see the same for San Francisco, but chances are people on HN tend to hang out in neighborhoods like SOMA where it's a lot more tech, than neighborhoods like Sunset where it's not.
Yes, yes, and then no. They are under no obligation or requirement to maintain a given system, and, I would argue, it's unreasonable to try to do so given how powerfully unique each aspect of the situation is (or must be).

Not just anyone can lead a company; not just anyone could (I presume) lead a company like Tesla. Any process by which you would select that level of uniqueness, it seems to me, must necessarily be unique itself.
I tried jeff@ once. I received a quality reply in <24 hours and my issue was resolved. As far as I can remember the English was perfect.
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-blocking-enzyme-lin...

The above mentioned study links raising HDAC2 to reverse effects of Alzheimer's disease.

I doubt that the autism study with mice really 'cured' autism. I think the cancer drug reduced cognitive abilities, so mice seemed to react 'normal'.
Fire everyone at Agency A for shitty behavior. Then turn around and realize everyone at Agency B is cooking the books, so fire them. And so on.

Then turn around and realize basically every large institution humans have ever built relies on shady, selfish, behavior and stop caring about reforming individuals since thousands of years of policing have done jack and squat to remove the behavior from the species.

Seriously, this forum is the worst for overlooking relevant variables (human biology and contemporary culture as a whole) for their trite commentary, usually rooted in nothing more than culturally acceptable bullet points.

Hundreds of years of the same sort of thinking. Still happens.
I'm a fan of the open source Zulip for how it does threading. Those threads should be linkable and searchable, but I'm not sure.
I tend to agree, the trust I have in Amazon around handling my information security is quite limited - I mean that goes for a lot of cloud providers, but Amazon just doesn't seem like an organization that cared much about data protection. I once submitted a couple of bugs to them and wanted a CVE, but only thing they said is. Thanks you, we fixed it but we won't acknowledge any of this externally via CVE, because well, it's the cloud, we don't have bugs or something along those lines.
I was at the tail end of PLATO.

What I know about it at UIUC was that it was used for course information, for quizzes and lab tutorials, and for grade books. The other school used it for quizzes.

I never had the ability to author things in TUTOR.

I did have access to games and some other programs, but from what I recall, the big excitement had long since disappeared. Bear in mind that students might have a 386, VGA, and Sound Blaster, along with the ability to dial in to the internet or to BBSs. Why would PLATO interest them?

The PLATO systems were expensive, so there weren't many places with them, often staff or a tutor was present, and the rooms were locked at night.

Instead, more of my friends were using the mainframe for online chat. The mainframe terminals (a few were even TTY, with paper instead of glass) were much cheaper, so the terminal rooms were open 24/7.

The mainframe was also dying because microcomputers were getting to be more powerful. I found out that I could compile one of my FORTRAN assignments faster on my 8086 than the mainframe could.

A couple of years later, Gopher came out, and then Mosaic, and thus the modern internet world was created.

You'll note that Mosaic was developed at UIUC, the same place as PLATO.

This has come up before, and the author of the book is an HNer. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6666430 for an earlier discussion.

My experience with PLATO is one of the reasons why I knew that the push over the last 10 years or so to MOOCs, and cyber schools, and other computer-aided teaching, was nearly all hype. That is, if it were easy or as obvious as the promoters implied, then PLATO should have figured it out 40 years ago.
No reaction from the stock market. I'm not interested.
If these were Hollywood produced films from Hollywood artists, there would be talk of defacement, interfering with the integrity of the work, etc...
Not sure if it will work for your use case, but you can also CNAME the _acme-challenge record to a different domain (or a subdomain with a separate zonefile), dedicated only to authorizing certificates.
As far as I know, Leprino doesn't have any low end or "fake cheese" products. Just saying the ingredients are on par with other uninspired chain pizza, but not pure garbage.

Little Caesars does skimp on quantity. Like 2 pepperoni per slice, and perhaps less cheese, for example.
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Food and rent actually work.
If this were true, people would be making billions using advertising to push stock prices up and down. The fact is you can make a new market but you can't interfere with pricing without negative side effects.
So if someone said they'd shoot you in your sleep, but replace you with a clone with your memories and give that clone $100. You'd do it?
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Don't you think you're being a little hyperbolic here? Less than nothing? Really?

I worked fast food for 2 years, one full time. I did not mind it one bit, in fact, as far as jobs go, I liked it for the most part - the only really shitty part of it was the terrible pay and smelling like grease after your shift. My sister worked with me and she enjoyed it to. It's also not particularly physically demanding.

Retail, on the other hand, was very soul sucking to me. My hypothesis is I'm sensitive to the bright lights they use in retail stores.
I hope they use the fund to cure themselves of their grandiose fantasies of enabling immortality. The brains they "preserve" will end up in a trash can 10-20 years down the line when their company fails or management changes.

Reminds me of Alcor and Ted Williams. Or the myriads of "companies" that promise preserving your stem cells but in reality it's just one guy with a LN2 tank in his basement.
Accounts just mean a unique identifier on your server, and don't inherently require personal information. I.e. you can probably set it up so an account doesn't need an email address.
Agreed.

I'd add that if someone is (a) unwilling to wear any hat at any time or (b) trying to take over people's hats without reason then you should drop them, quickly.
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That logic could also apply to fidget spinners.
The digital version of a fictional drug from Neal Stephenson's novel of the same name.
> I actually disagree that Apple should make it easier for you to physically use your phone whilst driving.

My college banned smoking on campus halfway through my studies. They removed every ashtray from campus. This lead to people littering cigarette butts everywhere.
I think it depends on how bad it is. If it's in a way that a person is introverted and has some peculiar communication style, that's one thing and if the person can not go outside, visit public places, hold a job, get an education, etc. then it's a different thing. I imagine some people would very welcome it, some would stay away from it.
Yeah, wouldn't surprise me. We have 2 public "open positions" for software engineers at my company, when the actual number is more like 80. We just don't post multiple time for the same role/level
They also lose engineers much more quickly. Back when I was there, they leaked SDEs like a sieve.
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I know it's a silly grudge to hold, but I still avoid Spotify just because the Free tier was so awful when I first tried it. I suppose it's the classic debate of time-limited demo versus feature-limited demo -- the former works much better for me.
Little Ceasars has started replacing humans with robots at least 5 years ago :)

https://youtu.be/c0BzHdQhG9U
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These services are also quite successful among bars to alert them to "problem customers". Very fast growing market, unfortunately.
The maximum validity for a cert was recently changed to two years.
Thank I never get to geek out on Jazz anymore. I moved to a different city and never got to crack into the scene that is here.

To me Monk = craziest and most intellectually stimulating harmonies of all time. No one has ever played his music and fooled you into thinking it was by Thelonious.
If stopping doesn't fix things, you're not using enough of it. Time for networked emergency brakes on all trains!
”The premise of your argument is that without vendor cooperation, end-users are helpless to mitigate the impact of security flaws.”

I know everyone in my family is ignorant of this “disclosed” security flaw and is powerless to mitigate the vulnerabilities disclosed on their own. Even if they did know to “turn off their computer” as someone said, are they supposed to wait until someone calls them to tell them a patch is ready?

Disclosing a vulnerability for profit at the expense of everyone else is a shitty thing to do. Would giving AMD a few days to fix it have hurt as many people as giving them one day?
I've heard of this and have been eagerly anticipating some results. I'd like to see it trained to do something unique, uploaded, and that some behavior arise in the uploaded version. I'm not totally against consciousness arising from sufficient complexity, but I've yet to see it proven.

And then there are the normal people walking around with almost NO brain...

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-medical-mystery-of-a-man...
>What goes into these people's minds? Can someone shed some light?

Maybe I can shed _some_ light.

I worked for one of the big music streaming services for a while.

>limited valuable real estate on a mobile device.

Maximizing data density on a screen is absolutely not a goal on any 'large audience' app.

Yes, an app with tons of data crammed on a screen would make some folks happy in the HN/geeky communities (I am not sure that's true actually, but that's something that I often see power users asking for).

That's not who these apps are targeting though.

The design of these apps is often a mix between opinionated choices (basically what is trendy right now in the design circles) and what works in user testing.

Turns out, most of our users are ABSOLUTELY lost when they have to interact with a mobile app.

Music streaming services have way too many features :

albums
playlists
radios
some kind of AI powered automatically created track lists (all services give this a different name, but they all have pretty much the same feature)
lyrics,
podcasts

On top of that, there is a ton of data for every single track :
title
album
artist
composer !!!! (classical music treatment is usually awful in any streaming app) .
has lyrics ?
is downloaded on your device ?

The player adds another layer of complexity :
current track
queue
random mode
repeat mode

Here is the dirty little secret of the music streaming industry : how to present all this in a way that allows random users (not geeks) to efficiently interact with the app : nobody knows how to do that :/ .

There is just way too many information to cram on a screen.

To pile on that, usual development cycles are focused on releasing new features, either to keep up with the competition or because that's how PMs demonstrate that they are 'improving' the app.

It is orthogonal to actually improving the user experience and we can see cycles of several years where the UI becomes more and more bloated with random stuff until designers are able to push a redesign with half of the features.

And soon we start cramming features again until the end of this new cycle.
The weird part is why you think you existed 10 minutes and why you think you will exist in 10minutes.
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My exposure to Lua is limited around writing Hammerspoon scripts. Lua is nice but I really wanted to write those scripts in a Lispy language, maybe something Clojurescque. Has anyone done Hammerspoon either in Urn or Fennel? Which one should I try? Would that even work?
What did you expect from a browser made by an advertisement company?
> is an imperfect source of information, one which most college students are still forbidden from citing in their papers.

Is that honestly the measure of how perfect a source of information is?
The Mythical Man Month doesn't mean "don't ever hire". It just means "hiring is not a short term silver bullet," and I have a feeling Amazon is thinking about the long term. (Bezos talks a lot about how he's currently planning 3 years out.)
Why are there so many people excited to do this? Don't they realize it'll be a copy/digital clone of them? Even if they could upload a digital representation of a person's brain without the person dying, it would still be a copy.

This isn't immortality, this is a company killing you then promising to create a clone of you with your memories at a later time.
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