skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a climatologist but as I understand it when looking at the climate over the long scale there are cycles as the climate changes that are predictable by natural processes (including effects of the Earths orbit and co2 changes). Then from the 19th century the climate has been moving off the known path as understood by these cycles. The difference has been attributed to humans. The worry is that when you put the cyclic natural of climate change together with the human caused climate change then what you may end up with is a climate which is not conducive to food productive for the human population.
Great idea! How about offering physical media for DJs that want to use a turn table?
The single largest app used across all smart speakers is Spotify, so it's not surprising that the lack of third-party streaming service support hampers HomePod.
I did the maths, and a large American Hot is 1500 calories. Two meals, perhaps.

A few doors down at Harran, you can get a large lamb shish kebab in a box, with rice, salad, bread, chilli sauce, and cacik, for £6.50. And the salad and bread are both really good!
Looks like overall share is a little different. Amazon 69, Google 25 as of Jan.

https://www.voicebot.ai/2018/01/10/amazon-alexa-smart-speake...
yeah, per 'site' moderation has still a massive influence over this. /r/askhistorian is very strict about answers, anything that deviates from sourced and on topic will be removed. You can read anything there and have clear concise deep answers even years after.

this is something I liked a lot about reddit, there's no micromanagement, it's very organic and free. I'm not always for senseless freedom but in this case I found it to yield interesting things.
I'm all for replacing our elected officials with small shell scripts. We're automating everything else, why not government?

I could fill out a questionnaire answering hundreds of questions to use as a reference on how I might vote. That data could then be used for voting on subsequent laws.

Why have a representative government when the human doesn't actually represent you. A small algorithm would be a much better representation of you.
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Trouble breathing? You’re probably wearing the seatbelt wrong. It goes across the chest, not around one’s neck. If one is that delicate that the light touch of a chest belt causes difficulty breathing, then one might ought to drive oneself to a hospital post haste.
Irrelevant. Once they start a new one, how will buyers know they're not a cop?
Yes, that is a good approach. Remember that making money is about buying your freedom to survive. You can do so without being a millionaire.
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Taxpayers already funds at least a third of drug research [1][2]. Plus the fundamental science research that makes more advanced drugs possible comes out of public universities.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/who-funds-biomedical-research-266...

[2] https://other98.com/taxpayers-fund-pharma-research-developme...
Which is weird, as that is not factored in the purchase price when buying the product when developed.
>To get to A2 you need a real tutor

No you don't.
I'm French, I dropped out of school at 16 and picked up English later in life without using any formal method of learning. I started by memorizing enough vocabulary to read simpler English, after which I began reading popular fiction and watched movies with subtitles (in English) until it clicked. My understanding of the language is more based on intuition (sheer memorization of exposure to it through cultural mediums) than on memorizing the grammar rules book. The brain makes the connections as to what seems correct or not based on patterns. I don't think my skills are good enough to write literature but surely communication isn't a problem.

Duolingo didn't exist at the time, but I believe it would have helped me learn faster considering the way it introduces languages is quite similar to how I started learning and it does so in a more interactive, fun manner.
On the other hand plenty of people that really should have theirs taken away don't get theirs taken away, like old people with clear mental issues or people with bad eye sight that affect their ability to see people crossing roads etc.
Assuming death rates from driving are the only death rates affected. There are unintended consequences worth studying.
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The article includes market share and revenue share for Sonos One, which HomePod is higher in both.
And CS:GO matchmaking... /s
Curious. Do missile systems also lose track of their position midway through a flight like our phones? Are the receivers radically better than the ones in our phones? What happens if a missile loses its coordinates because of a bad signal? Does it just continue and keep track of its position based on the last known position or does it abort? If it cannot lock on to a GPS signal at the start of its flight, does it fail to take off?
Just understanding the intel instruction set is basicallly impossible for a mere mortal. How thick is that reference manual now?
Is there a subwoofer that pairs with the HomePod? I can't find one. If not, that would make it a 2.0 system, which is a whole different thing. Also, it looks like stereo pairing is some ways off.
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My look on this is that "meh" and "who cares" stem from inertia and apathy which can lead to depression caused by overwhelm, not the other way around.
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> Depending on how well they can productize long-term (miniature receivers embedded in laptops, tablets etc.)

Does SpaceX even have to do that? Can't they just open source all the designs and let anyone with an account use their network? Leave the construction, sale and support for receivers up 3rd parties.
Definitely not geosynchronous. It is a Quasi-Zenith Satellite System as per your link.

A lovely animation of three satellites: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Qzss-01-...
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How about just enforcing the speed limit? Speed humps on a road designed for 30 often require slowing to 10. Clearly you have never driven or worked in an ambulance or in emergency services.
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I wonder if he's trying to distract people from other news that makes him look bad.

Can anyone think of any news or investigations he'd want to distract people from?

If this attack doesn't work, he may start a war, which is guaranteed to distract.
> During the HomePod’s first 10 weeks of sales, it eked out 10 percent of the smart speaker market, compared with 73 percent for Amazon’s Echo devices and 14 percent for the Google Home, according to Slice Intelligence.

Time and again, Apple has shown that they just don't really care about market share metrics. Apple cares about making money, and it is very good at it. It's self-evident that an expensive device that works only with iPhones isn't going to command the market device of a $50 device that works across many different services. What is the ASP of those other devices? How much revenue is Amazon / Google making per user?

> Apple had an opportunity to put the HomePod at the center of a new ecosystem of smart home and other gadgets that aren’t glued to the iPhone. But the small, wireless speaker is not that product. Though the HomePod delivers market-leading audio quality, consumers have discovered it’s heavily dependent on the iPhone and is limited as a digital assistant.

Apple clearly hasn't chosen that strategy, otherwise, by definition, the device wouldn't be limited to iPhone and Apple Music. Amazon and Google's strategies make sense because Amazon is invested in getting you buying more stuff, and Google wants your data to train its model.

Apple doesn't actually have that much other stuff to hook you into - it has HomeKit-enabled devices, but it is the other manufacturers that make money from those, not Apple.

And how many people actually have a Nest anyway? If a HomePod becomes a thin client for expensive HomeKit gear, it becomes less, not more useful. It's a profitable smart speaker product for audiophiles, and it doesn't _try_ to be anything else.
Essentially planned obolescence applied to health. Rather unsettling.
Correct me if I’m wrong but if SpaceX ends up in such a monopoly position there wouldn’t be much stopping another company from launching their own global satellite internet service. Even though SpaceX owns the delivery mechanism they couldn’t legally deny other companies wanting to use it at a fair price. If they do they would be sued immediately.
Yeah I hoped for something like that too :(
True. I went for a Spotify Connect enabled receiver with quality speakers. If see no need for Siri.
From a _capitalism_ point of view.
We've been using Ember at Intercom for over 4 years to build our main app.

We continue to be super productive with Ember, our customers love our product, our code base has never been healthier and Ember's careful upgrade path and approach to deprecations means that we don't spend much energy or time thinking about non-product related technical challenges.

We've grown from 10 to 150 engineers in that time and Ember's strong conventions has helped us continue our tradition of enabling new engineers shipping to production on their first day and shipping a feature to production in their first week.

Ember is not fading away for us, it's enabling us to focus on continuously shipping better and better features to our customers.
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I didn't use it, but I remember it was really popular in Brazil.
>>Industrial society is about producing garbage for the masses to consume.

As the saying goes, one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. So don’t be so judgmental. :)
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I'm torn on this.

Targeted advertising should allow me to stop seeing ads for things I would never buy- I'm not a parent, so why do I need to see ads for diapers? And since so many services I use depend on ads to make money, showing targeted ads should mean that they can show fewer ads to me to make the same amount of money.

But on the other hand, they aren't showing less ads. They're showing more. There isn't sufficient competition in most markets using advertising to make a competitive advantage for "we show fewer ads". There's so much money in targeted ads that showing more is worth the lost customers from some people getting sick of it all. Worse, we're being trained to be used to it.
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"Creating a public institution with no pressure to make profit is a disaster waiting to happen." Do you really think that we should ask the army to be profit oriented? What about the coast guard, Justice, Child protection service? Imagine all of this public institution comming to your house and start the conversation with "You have a nice family, it would be a shame if ..."

To expect results or effects is not the same as making profits.
I don't think that detracts any from the initial point. Step one is still to initially only award licenses to competent drivers. That more can be done is (I suspect) a perpetual truth.
> The pharma industry should be working hard on planning its own obsolescence.

In an ideal word. But as you show in your mismatch "serving shareholder value" is prohibitive to this. So having then as (blue chip) for profit bizes is making sure they will NOT ever be planning they own obsolescence.

> The same dynamic is at work in the food industry, which is responsible for the obesity epidemics.

...and high amount of pesticide residues, and destruction of the ecosystems, and heavy pollution on surface waters, and extreme disdain for animal wellbeing, and... (cries)

> Capitalism as it is practiced right now has catastrophic flaws. We need to change the rules of the game, yes, and not necessarily seek profit and growth at all costs.

To my understanding it should never be the economic model
"to govern all markets", but AN economic model allowed in some markets while carefully bounded by rules and ensuring (1) best outcomes for we the people and (2) a leveled playing field.
Could it be a chance of political corruption even if all source code and data are open?
ah, sorry! I've not been here for years actually, I always remember people posting tech/startup positions, but fair enough - I wont do it again.
Thankfully Apple recently hired a person who helped built the Assistant in Google to work on Siri and other initiatives.
What exactly about my statement was a non-existent argument?

The title is "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?" A non-sustainable business model cannot sustain a business by definition, therefore there is no money in it.
Looking at contrieved legal texts, which is a better comparison with code than poetry, I don't agree. I don't even agree that there would be the english language.

Legalese uses a ton of latin ididoms, arcane rights and philosophies. This is comparable to the cruft of C or C++ standards. For a microkernel of some thousand LOC you shouldn't need a multi-paradigm language.

seL4 did it in Haskel, which is a step in the right direction. Then it was ported to a provably safe subset of C.
Any set up of Homepods isn't a 2.0/2.1 system. That's a new paradigm of speaker arrays and software based signal processing in order to eliminate the sweet spot associated with any stereo setup.
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Or the costs push companies or of business and less jobs exist.
I bought the first iPhone a couple of months after release, which was in August or September 2007. The first jailbreak allowing your own software to be run on one was the reason I got one. I and everyone I showed it to were blown away by what was doable with it with custom software. The CLI-only hacked SDK was pretty hard to set up and use, but it was still better than what was available for other phones.

Used it jailbroken into 2011, when I finally replaced it with an iPhone 4, which in its turn ran jailbroken until 2014. That was when I got an iPhone 6, which I'm still on and I haven't jailbroken it, because Apple more or less caught up in stock iOS with the more important jailbreak hacks around that time. It seems like iPhone 6 will be phone I'll use for the longest time, because it's still fast enough and works fine.
As a voter and taxpayer, then I demand an end to this service. The last time I received an actual piece of valid mail was probably years ago. The USPS has become an ad-delivery network subsidized by my tax dollars. Perhaps charging bulk-mailers full price could end the problem of junk mail or create financial solvency. Why should junk mail literally nobody wants be subsidized? For official notices, the government could contract with a commercial carrier for far less than paying billions to operate a fleet of trucks that mostly carry junk.
I am sorry, but what part of my comment are you responding to?
> consumers have discovered it’s heavily dependent on the iPhone and is limited as a digital assistant

Wouldn't this be based on Apple's privacy policy and lack of ability to do AI well with the data only available on a single device?

https://www.barrons.com/articles/is-apple-falling-behind-in-...
Ah thank you. I guess I spend more time listening to the Music app than looking at it.
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> (France, Italy, Britain) probably don't use rear facing seats as much

In the UK rear facing is a legal requirement up to 15 months - I think that's being extended to older kids soon. We used rear facing until about 3.5 for our eldest. At that point we got her a new forward facing one and gave that one to our youngest.

Two child seats basically means no one can fit in the middle unless you have an extra wide car. Some of the compact but bigger cars seem to be incredibly popular with parents around here.

I can't say we ever had an argument about front versus rear facing - that was just the direction the seat was in. They didn't even know there was another option! I can see how it might be difficult if you tried to change a seat a kid was already used to though. That said, pretty much everyone here uses ISOFIX bases with the extension bars so maybe we do have more room (as per the article). I'd recommend them either was as being able to clip the seats in and out is fantastic if you have a sleeping baby.
Well, one things is that FSS(FSB) doesn't have jurisdiction over a foreign company. In fact, such data can only be retrieved via a court order.

I don't know who you are friends with, but you people are strange.

While all normal people are buying proxies and setting up VPN right now.
> Then it goes on to say, that Sweden does use rear-facing seats as though that somehow proves that there is a statistical significance

The studies you are referring to (the retracted and the non conclusive one) are two studies based on past data on real road. They did compare existing numbers and yes, there was no statistical significance due to the reduced sample (according to the article, I didn't check personnaly ;-) ).

If the article had stopped there on that part, you would be correct. But there was more. You missed the part about the sled test study (There is a direct link to the study in the article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217519/)

And that study is statistically significant for all but one type of injury:

> The best RF restraints (RF EURO) clearly outperformed the best FF restraints (FF EURO) when comparing injury measures. There were statistically significant differences at all injury measures except chest 3ms clip
It should be illegal to advertise in any way that shows any evidence of manipulative or misleading intent. That includes essentially 100% of the "tricks of the trade" and the entire contribution of psychology to advertising. Pure information should still be permitted. And with that limitation, targeting in a way that doesn't show manipulative intent is likely harmless.
I think Kaggle is the way to go.

Their competitions are great, people are very open about their solutions and methods so you can learn a ton.

That being said, this is a right recommendation in my opinion for the engineering part of ML. You probably won't do much research there - it's mostly about implementing and testing pipelines, different hacks etc.
It's all multinational these days. Only 4/10 of the big players are in the US https://www.tharawat-magazine.com/facts/10-largest-pharmaceu... and that's quite logic if you remember that the European market is pretty much harmonized and twice as populated as the US.
i guess they should review that but not as a financial concern. 30m of 5bn loss is just 0.5%. at such small percentage it doesn’t seem like it is the low hanging fruit wrt finance.
Do you have numbers on these people causing a lot more than the average of accidents? Taking away driving licenses for old people is a big thing to do, especially if there is no need for it.
OTOH, academia is supposed to be this type of meritocratic, results-driven ideal, and look where we are there. I suppose this a consequence of the measure that we use to "judge results". Do we start assigning healthcare R&D companies an "impact factor"? I know the journal impact factor is a bad example since it is criticized for being gameable, but I'm just using it to convey what I mean.
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I'm surprised to see no mention of Open Table in the article or here in the comments.

It sounds from the comments that Slice is creating an intermediary where none existed before, by providing a service (acquire g and processing online orders) that's hard for any single restaurant to build at small scale. So when the first few restaurants sign up, it's incremental revenue for them. Over time, though, as every pizza place uses Slice, it's no longer a competitive advantage but expected.

I imagine that, at the early stages, those restaurants that adopt the model win at the expense of laggards. Over time the gains probably accrue to the middle man, with some gains going to consumers (who have a wider range of places to order from) and some losses to the restaurants (who end up competing with the whole extended neighbourhood, and giving margin to Slice for both incremental customers, and customers who would have bought direct before this whole thing started).
Also: "first 10 weeks of sales, it eked out 10 percent of the smart speaker market"

If you worked at a company and released a product that took 10% of the market within 10 weeks of launching you would be celebrating.
Which part of my comment is "Anti-vaccine"?
Luckily for us they're probably not competent enough to enforce it.
If it was marketed to repair shops and such, would you think it's "sleazy"? What if he released it as a way to jailbreak? Data recovery is the other use which comes to mind.

Quite frankly, I think it's a relief to see a few "cracks in the wall" --- that not everyone working for Apple agrees completely with their authoritarian view of security.
They are profitable on the bigger scale of a national economy. Sadly no one give a damn about that these days. In Germany we have the studies Betriebswirtschaft (business) and Volkswirtschaft (national economy) and the latter is loosing vital ground in politics.

It gets worse if you look to the UK where a of lot public services are handed to companies, for example the merger of all social benefits Universal Credit is run by companies and in a manner that can only be called unprofessional and anti-social.
Other manufacturers are pulling out since there's no new chips for the watches being developed, so it's getting much harder for them to compete with Apple and Samsung, the only companies able to produce their own chips for those.
I agree, but to live up to that system those that are no longer competent should have it taken away. As far as I know(I don't drive) there is no need to ever re-take the theory test which has been revised a number of times since many people took their license in the first place or pass any kind of medical to have it renewed.
What part of my comment are you responding to?
Blockchains aren't useful for storing large amounts of data, so this probably won't happen. Blockchain as a distributed database + IPFS maybe.
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But we are not just talking about replacing humans entirely. How much can more advanced robot-tools speed up the process? Like the human operator talks to the customer, makes some gestures in AR to signal where to cut while improved robots / tools take care of lengthy / tedious work.

I totally see this happening and requiring much less human labor. And as with most automation, it will be a gradual process and not a one step replacement.
Short term bump in the road for Amazon. They will not need USPS in the long run anyway:

- Build out own network (AMZL, Amazon Flex)

- Buy UPS/Fedex/etc

- Drone delivery

It is unfortunate that AMZN is taking the fall for whatever this executive order is actually trying to accomplish.
yes, you might ask your democratically elected representative about that...