skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why so few people seem to understand that Amazon's key feature is as a payment processing facilitator. People don't shop at Amazon because they have the best deals or have the best logistics or whatever. They shop at Amazon because they can generally find almost anything on there and have it on its way within seconds. People use Amazon because they don't have to think about it. They don't have to get out their credit card or even think about credit/debit cards. It's so damn simple I really don't see how anyone else is really going to compete. The absolute number one reason I don't go to Amazon competitors to buy things is having to deal with payment processing (from a customer standpoint). The only time I don't use Amazon is that rare occasion when Amazon (or one of their "partners") doesn't have what I want.
People have been talking for a while about the SEC moving towards some sort of regulation/legislation of ICOs. I believe the following paragraph in their announcement is telling (emphasis mine):

“Investors are entitled to nothing less than complete truth and candor from companies and their executives,” said Steven Peikin, Co-Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. “The charges against Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani make clear that there is no exemption from the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws simply because a company is __ non-public, development-stage, or the subject of exuberant media attention __.”
If you don't have any problems with it, then no, but the Series 3 is both much faster/less janky and has much better battery life.
My impression of Siri is that it was effectively R&D early on by the team that made it. To propose that Apple would purchase a company, and then expect an R&D product to support their level of scale without serious infrastructure changes, is a bit absurd.
> Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God, which there isn't. I'm an atheist.
The biz guys are smart enough not to write down evidence of their crimes.
Reminds me of "WHAT IS THE CHANCE OF AN EARTHQUAKE?" by David Freedman. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/611.pdf. A fun read if you're into stats.
Oh wow, TIL. I thought they had bought it from HP.
The bridge is currently VERY slow though. Like 10x slower than doing it in JS, sometimes worse.
Swiss Cities Top Europe Survey for Traces of Cocaine
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> "It’s not Swiss watch precision," said Gerhardt Meurer, an astronomer from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in a press release. "But regardless of whether a galaxy is very big or very small, if you could sit on the extreme edge of its disk as it spins, it would take you about a billion years to go all the way round."
The purchase of shoes which reduces expected medical expenses associated with improper footwear may well be "something that puts money in your pocket", provided the expected savings outweigh the marginal opportunity cost of the shoes.

A durable good which you own in order to make yourself more productive is known as a capital good. Shoes, clothes, and shelter qualify, to the extent that having these things increases productivity. Food would not qualify, since it a consumable and not a durable good. The purchase of capital goods, for the purpose of increasing productivity, is investment.
well, see i’m kind of the same.... i use it as a triage device for what to ignore, rather than having to deal with everything by pulling out the phone
The things you listed are my primary uses of Google Assistant, but here's some others. What time is it in [location]? What's the temperature outside? Change the temperature inside (nest). Turn off all the lights.

Really the only thing you can't do with Siri that I'm aware of is home automation. But I could be wrong about that.
Not Mint. It kept asking for my bank passwords every single month.
Dear customer, we may betray you in some of these 600 ways. This is just the "worst case" scenario. You are very unlikely to hit any significant fraction of these posibilities for any single given Transaction.
At least we hope so.
When you buy from Walmart you buy from whoever outbid the competition for that shelf space this month not Walmart. When you buy from Amazon you buy from whoever is offering products in that space right now.
The HN comment by “throwaway20180315” is dead and now invisible, though we should consider that personal stories like this reveal an important truth about the way that startups self destruct.

The most common euphemism about failed startups is that they suffered “team dysfunction“. That is a bloodless phrase. What does team dysfunction actually look like? Are we talking about two founders having a polite disagreement or are we talking about two people screaming at each other, people who hate each other?

In some sense, it is a public service to discuss this honestly. People have emotions and emotions are messy. Therefore, startups are often messy.

It’s possible that startup culture would be stronger and healthier if we discussed this more honestly.
I mean, again, this is not a branch of cryptography I take especially seriously, but I'd assume that if you were defining any kind of new cipher, you'd want to avoid constructions that were known to have fatal flaws embedded in them.

Either way, I brought it up because the author brings this up in their paper, but doesn't seem to fully address the literature of the attack he's trying to defend again (I may have missed something, though).
I worry if this reporter will now end up in jail. Does that happen?
> (Besides, I'm also somewhat uneasy with accepting that the computing lingua franca will forever be proprietary to Intel, covered by innumerable patents, and backwards compatible to 1978.)

Well, x86_64 is actually AMD's creation not Intel's. But replace x86_64 with ARM on mobile and it's the same thing - a portable IR/instruction set does not result in a portable application.

> Process isolation does not protect against kernel attacks or attacks against whatever IPC mechanism you use to call out to the privileged broker process.

Neither does webasm, other than by just not having any features currently. But that's obviously not a viable long-term strategy, certainly not for anything standalone-ish.

> You can verify memory safety of the compiled code, which is a useful and important property.

My native code is perfectly memory safe as well, enforced in hardware even. Has been that way for decades.

Of course that's not what anyone actually means by a "memory safe" language, but as soon as you go plop malloc/free on top of a single webasm allocation you're back to all the same memory-unsafeness of C despite the "memory safe" claims of webasm anyway. A memory safe IR is meaningless outside of the context of being embedded in another process. Aka, when used in a web browser. Or I guess as a massively overcomplicated replacement for Lua.

But the point is verifying the resulting webasm doesn't mean your code was correct, it means your code plus current toolchain selection happened to result in verified code. Whether or not that was the result of a fluke or well defined behavior is not something webasm has any impact on.
Can you outline the draw for people?
Siri can do home automation with HomeKit and it actually works really well. The disadvantage here is that HomeKit has less supported accessories because, as I understand it, it's less open/requires certification of the accessory.

That said, for engineers in the crowd I know that I and others get around it by making a HomeKit RPi adapter for things that don't support it...
So now - what is Stage 3; once everyone has a railroad - then what?

Then it's a long time after the initial Industrial Revolution, and you're in a fantastic world where it's commonplace for ordinary people to own a steel machine which can travel as fast as a train at "high speed."
Can you prove whether you guessed or knew something only an insider would have known?
Indeed, I've had to be fanatic in using all of the various tools to limit notifications.
How about: Everyone owns a car?
What Does Any Part of the Brain Do?
Yes, the older and wiser generations NEVER fell for scams before, and the SEC were twiddling their thumbs until bitcoin came out.
Google's voice recognition is excellent. I trust Assistant to help me throughout my day with a number of things now:

- Cooking & laundry timers

- Reminders (remind me to do X when I get home)

- Directions (Take me to the nearest X, take me home, etc)

- Checking hours of business (what time does X close today)

- Initiating phone calls (Call X)

- Checking weather (is it going to snow today? How cold is it right now?)

- Conversions (what's X ounces to ml)

- Quick stock checks (what's X stock price)

- Playing music around the house (play X on the kitchen speakers)

Additionally, I've found myself using Android's voice recording capabilities to dictate text all the time. It's just so much faster than typing or swiping.

I haven't an iPhone for a few years, so I can't compare with what Siri is capable of today.
Typed arrays are available in JS, originally for webgl support, and enhanced (I think?) for web assembly.
>and the most indispensable construct for those applications is GOTO.

That's what I like about Lisp: It isn't opinionated. There's no weenie saying "GOTOs are harmful so we delete them from our language", or "OOP sucks so our language won't have any OOP facilities", or "mutable data is bad so there's no mutable data here", etc.

Quite the opposite, Lisp gives you everything. Want OOP? Here's a deluxe OOP system. Want to do GOTOs? Ok, here you are.
Team dysfunction seems to be a part of it. The 'head' guy for Siri, Dag Kittlaus left Apple to start Viv Labs in about a year since Siri was released. Their assistant Viv, looked pretty okay[1], and was since acquired by Samsung[2].

I feel if he had stayed on, Siri would have been better.

Samsung seems to be trying pretty hard to get people to use it[3]. It's relatively new so I'm interested to see where it goes, especially since it has the lowest market share.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI07aeZqeco

[2]: https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/samsung-paid-around-215-m...

[3]: https://youtu.be/zlesUiYkp_4?t=55s
Personally I find having navigation directions on my wrist very useful, especially when bicycling/walking
Actually I forgot a 4th usage, I also use Siri to switch my living room hue starter kit to my « cinema » scene from my sofa (all 5% red light).

For all other scenes I usually use the physical hue dimmer button because I’m standing.
I'm not a lawyer, but I expect that would depend on if you were aware of non-public information that could affect that decision.
All of those Siri can do. Anything else?
I've had my Citizen watch for 20 years. Works fine.
The SEC has rules for what constitutes legal and illegal insider trading: https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html

Generally though, the rules don't disallow average employees from guessing about the future stock price. It becomes illegal insider trading if somehow you had obtained material non-public information to make the decision.
Matt Levine at Bloomberg says she never sold any shares and was paid a fairly modest salary for her role.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/theranos-...
That's the apparent paradox in the galaxy rotation curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
In the Loma Prieta earthquake some of my co-workers exited building while dodging ceramic tiles coming falling off the roof. Then gathered under the power lines on the far side of the parking lot. Being a modern wood and steel framed building it was better to stay inside.

Also heard stories in the SF financial district of large glass windows popping out and falling into the street below.

Best time to sort out what to do is before the earthquake.
I also thought "I never want to be this guy!"
Possibly naive question from a non-physicist... does this not follow from relativity as a natural a consequence of the effect gravity/mass has on spacetime?

By that I mean that the edges of galaxies experience a "reference" spacetime (e.g. constant period), while the interiors experience a stretched out version spacetime (i.e. inverse time dilation and length constriction)?
Typo on my part, the discussion is about the CIO.
I haven't seen Carlo Rovelli's books mentioned. Especially 'Seven brief lessons on physics'.
It's almost as if the cryptocurrency markets are completely irrational and have magnitudes less value in them than their market caps claim to, and on top of this are pumped up even further by scammers printing fake money (Tether) to bolster the prices. Almost...

That said, I don't think the price dives have anything at all to do with advertising, and more to do with the fact that the bubble is slowly deflating.
Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585430
That's not how the Constitution works. There's a history of statutes that restrict judicial review over rulemaking. Statutes can say that to clarify the intent of Congress in delegating authority to the executive. To the extent that it's reasonable for them to delegate without review --- where "reasonable" means "the courts agree --- SCOTUS has upheld them.

A law that actually foreclosed on a Constitutional power of an Article III court would simply be held unconstitutional.

This "controversy" strikes me as similar to the routine controversies of Presidential executive orders "making new laws", which, of course, they cannot in general do, but people think they can because it sounds like they can.
Thanks, I'll use this for my new personal site :)
I want to be able to trade kitties with people without Kitty Bank of America having to manage and facilitate the transaction, for one.
In a simulation, the beings running it have so much power that there is probably nothing we could do to stop that. (Although if whatever the simulation is running on has connections to outside, it is theoretically possible we could exploit some bug from within the simulation to make changes outside that make their memory wipe not work...but this is probably extremely unlikely. It requires us to discover a bug and understand its implications and exploit it before the operators figure out they need to do a reset and wipe).

But this reminds me of another memory wipe situation I've wondered about. One of the common things in many tales of alien encounters is the aliens messing with the memories of those who interact with them.

Unlike with simulation operators, who are essentially gods to us with omniscience and omnipotence and completely unconstrained by any laws of science or logic that we know, aliens would presumably be constrained. They would not be omniscient and omnipotent--just more advanced than us.

So with aliens we would have hope of combating their memory wiping, or at least detecting it.

For example, if you often drive at night in isolated areas where you might be particularly vulnerable to alien abduction, you could keep some innocuous physical item in your car, such as a book with a bookmark in it, or a Rubik's cube, or a cassette tape of a band you hate. Pick an item that you can put in a certain state that is alterable, and have a standard state you keep it in. The bookmark is always on page 100, the Rubik's cube is always solved, the tape is always rewound.

If you ever see anything strange that even suggests "UFO", you alter the item. Move the bookmark to page 110. Add a couple twists to the cube. Start playing the cassette.

If you remain aware of the possible UFO until it goes away or you figure out what mundane thing it is you are seeing, you fix the item.

If, however, you either remember that you saw something but don't remember what happened, or you don't remember anything weird but find you have lost time, you can check the item and if it is out of its normal state you know that you thought you saw a UFO and now you don't remember it.

The idea here is that the stories of aliens usually include something making much of our technology fail so that we can't record them, and they also probably know enough about to us to recognize when someone who sees them writes a note on paper and so deal with that. But unless they have a way to read minds or extract and interpret memories, they probably won't recognize that, say, starting to listen to music is actually a form of note taking, and so won't know they need to rewind the cassette before they let you go with your memories wiped.

So...anyone of you actually do anything like that?
After reading about the timeframe, I now think this might be a reason they are blocking ads starting in June, if something is bad, why not stop now, instead of at the start of a new quarter. (when these ads may have likely scammed people for a few more months)
The Wikimedia Foundation statement about the recent YouTube announcement
There is simply no traffic on the wire other than what you actually allow. The telemetry doesn't bypass Windows firewall.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
Wait, what? Why does my bank need to talk to (share information with) PayPal?
It depends, I was really bad at math but today I work as Full stack developer. I would say my level of SD is at 7 out of 10. In my day to day I do not use any math, In 15 years of software development no one has asked me math related question in interviews. However once I was put on a project to created very advance level 3d UI dashboard which require lots of geometry and math related logic. I defiantly struggled a lot and ended up giving the project to someone else. Even though there are many great tools for 3d development, I can imagine math being very useful when you are dealing with such projects.
No, it's just bad. It's the stupidest thing ever. ICOs are so incredibly stupid that it's mind boggling.

"Hey, give us $50,000 and we'll give you a token that will hopefully be worth 10x once we dupe a bunch of other suckers like you! If you're really, really lucky we'll build something marginally useful and might even use that token you bought to power it! Now you can use your $50,000 in tokens to power a decentralized photo sharing app that you could have gotten for free by just using google drive! Woww!"
Camel / needle verse?
Git and its documentation are a prime example of what languagelog calls "Nerdview": http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=276

people with any kind of technical knowledge of a domain tend
to get hopelessly (and unwittingly) stuck in a frame of
reference that relates to their view of the issue, and
their trade's technical parlance, not that of the ordinary
humans with whom they so signally fail to engage.
That's a great question and I had to think a lot about how to answer it. I think there are 2 aspects to consider whether something is worth learning: relevance to your current skills, and use of the knowledge.

We insist, especially when hiring, that programmers know something about the internal design of other software that they use, but don't develop, on a day-to-day basis. Any programmer, depending on programming specialty, that doesn't have some idea about design of their operating system, networking stack, databases, or hardware would flunk out interview processes (and probably rightly so). The reason we insist on this specialized knowledge is because most of the time these things work fine, but when they don't the good software engineer proves their worth by being able to dig deeper.

Version control software is used just as frequently as any of this other software. But somehow there seems to be this feeling that it's not worth learning about and should just be a black box (I think package managers are treated similarly). Understanding git internals and design is a valuable software engineering lesson in and of itself.

The other aspect is having knowledge of Photoshop file formats is of limited utility unless you're an Adobe employee or Gimp developer (I don't know if the spec is open or not). Photoshop itself is closed-source and not so extensible or scriptable as an open-source command-line tool.

That's not true for git - knowing git internals reaps productivity benefits in your other work too. Treating it as a black box robs you of the knowledge to do some really cool stuff.

Broadly speaking this applies to any other software tool used by programmers - the more you know of its internal details, the more proficient you'll be in its use.

So in both respects (practical and from a learning standpoint) I think knowledge of git internals for a git-using programmer is a desirable thing.
The examples you're citing are all cases of abuses that occurred due to lack of competition, so I am completely lost as to what you're trying to argue here.

I just have a very simple point to make about pharma marketing costs. It was not my argument that there aren't abusive pharma companies; clearly, there are.
Somewhat, though even before the introduction of electric ferries the new models replacing the older ones have had an emphasis on vehicle units over passenger comforts.

Where as an older ferry near me used to offer a panorama view of the fjord during crossing, and ample space non-vehicle passengers, the new one barely have room for two people to meet while going to and from the toilets, never mind ordering some food and sitting down to enjoy it.
> If software can simplify bookkeeping and make the profession obsolete

The GP's point isn't that software can simplify bookkeeping but that bookkeeping itself is not simple.

Any company (especially startups) that gets to scale eventually outgrows Quickbooks. You don't see any F500 or any large scale startup ($100M+ in revenue) using QB because it simply isn't built for those type of needs. But there are swaths of bookkeepers who understand how it works and how to migrate their profession to NetSuite/SAP/Intacct/etc.

QB is the bookkeeping equivalent of Excel. It does it's job well and power users benefit massively from it. Pitch and Bench are competitive, but the aren't great fits for someone who will eventually need more professional finance or uses a tax accountant that is more efficient with their tool of choice.
What is the frustration ? Is is related to language or your understanding of the ecosystem and platform ? I absolutely love c#, use it everyday.
Siri misunderstands me so frequently, I've learned to not use it for most of the above things.
I thought Apple required HomeKit devices to go through a certification process that includes an audit of device security controls (things like secret management, crypto, default passwords, etc) — and very few of these low-cost IoT devices worry about security.

Apple won’t certify them, but there’s not yet a mass market for secure IoT devices (which would necessarily cost more due to the extra engineering required). It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem.
> Is there any proof that actual people use and value Google and Amazon assistant more than Siri?

I found at least one measurement report: As of July 2017 Verto Analytics showed Siri on top[1] with 41.4M unique users per month (but falling), and Alexa with only 2.6M (but rising fast).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/siri-usage-and-engagement-...
I fooled them, I type my PIN in reverse, I suggest you all follow my lead...;)
>Unfortunately, however, doing basic I/O, networking (this is around 2006) and testing was too complicated for me

It is trivial today. Many good libraries for networking, web servers, JSON, serialization, etc, etc. Many excellent Common Lisp implementations as well, some of them being very fast.

>any pointers on the best way to learn/start?

Read Practical Common Lisp, install "Portacle" (the Portable Common Lisp Environment) and be happy!
Applying the law extra hard to people who are disliked by you/the general public really isn't in the spirit of our justice system.

What happened to Martin is an injustice, and I'm saddened and disturbed by the people who celebrate it just because it was an injustice done against a "bad guy".