skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title makes it sound like a dull statistical correlation was found in some sociology report, but they did some actual measuring. From the report summary:

> We show that this effect is mediated through sperm RNA and especially miRs 212/132. In conclusion, our study reports intergenerational inheritance of an acquired cognitive benefit and points to specific miRs as candidates mechanistically involved in this type of transmission.

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)304...
Britain fights with EU for access to new sat-nav system it helped build
For disabling Siri, the toggles are in Settings under "Siri and Search" - the long hold was a major annoyance to me as well.
I deleted it and reverted to an older pre-electron version. The one-page HTML user interface is painful to use. I just want to make cheap phone calls, not join a social network. Socialism sucks.
I would also have said its a "professionalism" thing - and the use of coping strategies is term of art for those working with neurodiversity.
But isn't Lisp almost as zombie-like as Perl or COBOL? (4GL I'll probably give you...)
I would also say that the tech industry desperately needs a better understanding of what constitutes the professional practitioner skill set, and how to teach and measure it.

Many or most of the individual contributing practitioners I've encountered in my varied career across companies big (Microsoft, Google) and small (startups early and mid-stage) consist of individual contributors who either fall up into management or otherwise happily and unwittingly peak out in their skill set.

The typical "high-quality" Senior Engineer is "smart and get things done" (Junior) plus a little bit of experiential knowledge peppered in with cold hard years on the resume.

But there's a craft and skill set to this work that takes (1) a very focussed (presently, self-) training effort and value system and (2) takes years to master, but where the payoff is enormous (i.e, where the 10x/Nx productivity gain is found.)

That last statement is theory only inasmuch as it challenged by those that don't want to believe that they're far from (the, or their) peak; I know it to be true.

As a hint to what that skill set is, it's fairly simple to talk about descriptively...the end result being building systems from composable, contract-based abstractions of course respecting and knowing the current available tools and how to wield them. The problem is able-to-describe and able-to-do are miles apart; it takes many, many years of conscious, directed effort to perfect the craft. The few people I encounter that have that ability had to care about it and muscle through it on their own. We need something closer to an organized pedagogy and training and measurement around this particular skillset to produce much more of it in the industry.

The problem is that any given business rightly has no interest in the kind of long-term investment required. And, at large, academia for many reasons doesn't have the practitioner context/focus/awareness to deliver the skill set, either.

There's a hole to fill here somewhere...
First off, all look pretty promising to me. I just tested them. Actually I am pretty sure that none of them supports encryption right now? Quaternion doesn't yet.

I cannot test Fractal and Nheko, because both have problems with my self signed server cert:

- Fractal: I don't get any meaningful error message nor is there a verbose mode. They probably use rust debug builds for that?

- Nheko at least tells me that the "ssl handshake failed", no chance to accept it manually tho and no precise error message.
Looks cool. I use netlify's form capture a lot but I've always thought there should be a host-agnostic solution for 'fire and forget forms'
Seems like it would be an absolute SEO nightmare! :)
How can you pitch what your plan to scale is when your company is only 7 months old?
Tesla: Why Betting Against Toyota Was a Bad Idea
Shifting the responsibility to stay safe from complex attacks to the user will never work for a tech company, even one with the resources available to Google. If Google Assistant is a reliable way of scamming grandmas it will fail because there'll be constant negative news about it in the press.
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no problem, CC-BY-SA.
> if consumers make the choice to use Duplex, growth means adapting to their needs, not the recipients

How does that differ from just basic economics of being where the customer is?

Restaurants installed phones to be reachable.

Restaurants contract with web service providers to be present on the web.

Restaurants locate near available parking or buy additional land to convert into parking spaces so customers who do not walk or use mass transit can patronize them.

Restaurants get involved with systems like OpenTable or their own online booking solution to be maximally reachable to their potential customers.

If anything, this system has the advantage that restaurants have to change almost nothing about their process to be involved with it, relative to the years of previous technological changes they've adapted to.
This is the correct approach.

If you have OCD about answering your email, inbox zero, etc, it's your own fault.
I was recently looking for a PC-to-PC only text chat program to use between my computer and my wife's. We text using iMessage otherwise. Part of the requirement was to be able to see when the other person was online/away. The latest Skype is terrible, along with basically every other Windows10 chat program available today. I can't tell if companies are trying to hide when their contacts are online/offline in order to encourage constant engagement with the app or if it's just a broken design.

I just needed a simple program that just worked, like AIM & MSN were. We ended up settling on an old standby, Trillian. It's one of the few that works as I'd expect one to. I don't use it on my phone but it syncs a lot better between devices too.
"right now, today" and "that specific file"

Code designed to be used once has a habit of sticking around.
Most people don't exercise because no one is paying them to exercise.
If a government wants healthy people, they should pay up $100 per hour to just exercise.

I think this is the conspiracy of rich people to make poor people fat so that they get sick and rich people sell medicines, fast food, and garcinia combogia, gym membership (which is just another name for drugs like cocaine, meth etc.... but licensed and regulated)
As someone who could be interested in teaching part-time, how much is the workload (in hours per week) one needs to spend when teaching an undergrad/grad course?

Would a good 4-year university accept an adjunct who holds a Master's degree from a top-10 CS program, but not a PhD, to teach an upper-level course (that does correspond to the person's area of specialty)?

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Added: Thank you for all the ideas and esp detailed explanation from tom_b. It sounds like more work than I can allocate time for in the near term. Perhaps in the future.

I thought up an alternative: Join/organize meetups and occasionally give talks or participate in panel discussions about recent/latest research sounds like more fun and less work than teaching in a formal setting. (Posted here in case someone would like to make use of the idea.)
Rural Kansan here. There are rural communities that aren't dying. Locally, there are a lot of non-farm small businesses. Also, minor nitpick, you don't have to go to the expense and work of switching to organic to go chemical free. Also, it's difficult to find a market for organic. Not a lot of foodies around here.
what are some alternative that one can use for rds postgresql and sqs?
So like the supposed STEM shortage? Is there really a lack of qualified candidates? Or is there simply a lack of applicants because the pay is too low or the requirements are too stringent?
They could only do the interrupt disabling behaviour if the next instruction is in the whitelist, but not otherwise.

EDIT: Although I guess it's almost certain to be an error anyway if it's not a whitelisted instruction.
You beat me. I want assistant to deal with robocalls and phone trees for me. I don't want assistant to annoy people.
This. You could spend days setting up port forwarding and tunneling for some game, but you could always be sure Skype will find some loophole and just work out of the box.
You get more then a basic install, like in Arch you had to search then read the wiki then install packages from AUR(not a safe repo of scripts) to get good looking fonts. So in Ubuntu fonts just work on some other distros you need to do extra work to get better looking fonts, get flash, get codecs, get proprietary drivers. There is a very good reason Ubuntu got popular and it is not because the installer look good.
I believe this has been explicitly confirmed, but I can't find a source at the moment.
There are plenty of fat rich people.
Not only WhatsApp, but mainly WhatsApp. Telegram has a small, devout userbase and the gaming community has largely migrated to Discord.
We tried widgets on the desktop: both macOS and Windows had them in previous versions, announced to great fanfare. Nobody used them and they were quietly removed.

Same thing with notification centers: another thing that both Mac and Windows added assuming it would be just as vital on the desktop as it was on phones. AFAICT they see very little use; I can't remember the last time I opened the notification center on either the Macs or PCs I use.

Not that new developments on the desktop aren't welcome, but widgets aren't it. Not every innovation that works on mobile can or should be brought to the desktop.
So wouldn't the study just need to compare athelete's children with a rocket scientist's children?
No it isn't actually true. Roughly 80% of Chinese people are happy with the direction the country is going vs 40% in the USA.

Most people don't care about censorship and the ones that do can get around it. From their point of view, it is no different to the NSA or the cameras in the UK (way more than China).

Most Chinese people I know own a house (more like a shack) BUT it is out in the countryside. They want to move to the city where apartments are more expensive and there are more opportunities.

They look at their parent's life and their life is a lot better. The ones that have enough money (not all of them) generally move to another country since they can afford it. The ones without money don't care.

The pollution is bad but at the same time China is putting more money into green energy than any other country. Every bus in the cities are being sent to the country or scrapped and replaced with electric busses (more than every other country combined).

As far as the debt goes it is something they worry about. At the same time, it is lower than the USA debt. The housing bubble is also an issue but they are building millions of apartments unlike other cities in the world.

Basically, the working class is currently better off but they have the same problem that the USA has right now. Lots of students graduating from universities without enough high paying jobs to match.

Technology scales really well so you don't need a lot of workers. You need a lot of low paid works ... same as in other countries.
The article references the 996 hours and the title of the article is about UNPAID overtime. If it truly is unpaid, I would walk away in a heartbeat as well. Unless it’s office work, getting tired in a warehouse would mean higher chances of injury and death.

Would you in the US be informed that you are getting paid $20/hr but it stops at 8 hours? There is a reason that the US has laws about the minimum that people can get paid on a salary.
Anirudh you are located in HSR right ?
But this is what websites are perfect for. Perhaps some of the best places are the ones that don't have an online presence but I don't know of many.

From the other way I can see the sense, but the ones that are terrible don't get any better by having a cheaper option. It'll just mean they'll have a terribly programmed assistant instead of an Indian call centre where they've been given bad instructions.
>Let me launch the program I need and get the F out of my way.

That is a philosophy DEs should have, but (if you'd like suggestions) which XFCE most cleanly follows.
They also said the words "cock up"

They're very likely in the UK.

They are very likely getting underpaid for dev work, unless they're a contractor. Our salaries are definitely lower here than in the states.
Haha, it's wonderful when people speak for me so confidently, because it's the only time in my life I get to justifiably completely negate what is being said to me.

So once again: yup, I would. Pissy, shit covered insane people. Whatever.

I hope you remember before trying again that people exist that clean up blood and shit for a living and are unfazed by it. There's also the homeless outreach teams that have already "seen it all."

For the record, I do already ride the bus and Bart when it's the convenient option, and I've already had to deal with all the shit those above are claiming are impossible to handle.
U.S. 'net neutrality' rules will end on June 11 -FCC
Robert N. Hall, 96, Whose Inventions Are Everywhere, Is Dead
This is a story about a generous person - crypto currencies themselves are little more than Ponzi schemes
This article is about a study done on mice. Having not read the underlying study, and it not being my field, I can't speak to how well the article articulates the study's findings, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss it with the "correlation does not imply causation" argument.
Ask it “What can I ask you?” and it will show a big list of capabilities and phrases to trigger them.
Most people don't exercise because they can't be bothered to. They think that they need energy before they can exercise, when it works exactly the other way around.
I'd imagine the level of personal touch that matters varies from industry to industry. I don't know a restaurant much cares if the reservation is made via the reservation holder, their human assistant, or their robot assistant as long as the customer shows up on time, pays, doesn't wreck the place, and leaves a nice tip.
Mail servers should be required to queue emails for 12h before distributing them. Mail is not IM. Maybe I should write an RFC... Or use mixmaster as my SMTP server
You can't live in an index fund, so you'll be putting substantially less away after paying rent on a house equivalent to the one GP purchased.
Movies visualized as character networks
> Remember that the crime involves having a blood/breath alcohol level WHILE DRIVING.

Yep. This. I was on jury duty last year for a case involving this exact scenario. The defense lawyer was able to successfully argue the case "to a reasonable doubt" based on this basis.
I think it's very interesting that the only positive defense of Duplex that I'm seeing, is about using it for accessibility purposes.

And you know what? It's a really really good point, Duplex could help a lot of people get things done. You know what else? There are already services like that, and they always announce themselves. Making that cheaper and more automated, so it can benefit more people, seems like a fantastic idea. No need to turn humans answering phones into an API to do something good in the world.

I used to do phone support for an ISP in the 90s and I would get calls quite often from someone who would announce that they were interfacing between me and a text based system for a deaf customer. If a robot did the same thing, I think everyone would be fine with that.
It's not free, look at "estimated 10$/month".
So a simple media command fails 1 in 5 times? This is the best SV can do with a incredibly well-studied technology (voice recognition)?
This is absurd. By your own admission you have no evidence that even 0.08 is unsafe (impairment is established by definition and not observation in your link) and yet you expect me to prove a negative and show that 0.07 is safe. 0.00 isn’t even safe. People have accidents while driving sober all the time.

The reality is that you are deferring to the law when you assume that 0.08 is proven unsafe. And that’s a pretty reasonable assumption. 0.08 was supposed to be established as the level at which essentially everyone demonstrates some level of impairment (whether that’s actually true, I don’t know). But you have no evidence that 0.07 is unsafe. You lack scientific evidence and you also lack the ability to defer to the law. So your belief is arbitrary.

You’re essentially saying that .08 is definitely unsafe because the law says so, so 0.07 must be unsafe, too, because it’s close. But this is unreasonable. If the law defines safety then defer to the law. Otherwise the law could be .07 and you’d be making this argument about .06. And so on.
I am also using Tachyons together with Mithril. I can’t recommend it enough.
Sure, and I'm sure you will find ardent supporters of North Korea regime, Hitler Germany, and Mao's regime.

It's not a uniquely Western trend to want freedom, voting rights, and justice. It's also not uniquely Western to see the regime party members get super rich and get angry.
An interesting note (maybe a 2016 tag is appropriate?):

> Yet for all the widespread familiarity of what Dr. Hall wrought as a remarkably inventive physicist, his death, at 96, on Nov. 7, 2016, gained little notice. An announcement paid for by his family appeared in two upstate New York newspapers — The Times Union of Albany and The Daily Gazette of Schenectady — and General Electric, in a company publication, published a remembrance a month later. But otherwise the news of Dr. Hall’s death did not travel very far.
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for me it kills all desire to have a voice assistant. I am already in the camp of taping over the camera's in my computers now will I need to worry about the microphone or what comes from the speakers?

so the question is, shouldn't they be able to detect the wavelength of what they are processing to weed out some of the more obvious tricks? with voice recognition could it also not be limited to a voice it is trained to know?
Most of the rocket scientists I know also exercise
As someone who has used both, the problem with Siri is when it works it's great, but it will fail on the exact same command the next time you try it. Consistency is key in these things working.
Every 64-bit OS can guarantee SSE2 support, because it's baked into the x86-64 spec. Every single 64-bit Linux build can and does use SSE2 (unless someone explicitly turned that off for no reason). If there are performance differences, it's not due to chip support and crippled builds for compatibility.
They don't want good teachers, they want teachers who are famous and popular in the US academic community. That was GP's whole point.
also a rush of reviews could mean that there was a downsizing
That is not my experience with Skype for business before at one company we used Lync at that worked perfectly, then we moved to Skype and the problems began, from people not able to share their screens, bad sound quality, people getting dropped from the calls, etc. it was painful to use. At another company sending messages was a gamble, sometimes they were delivered and a lot of times just a "failed to send", so we had to resort to communicating by email, some coworkers created a slack channel and then in lest than a month the entire company was there.
Is main page created with Powerpoint? /learn/ is good (better than nothing or than ancient PDFs) but no real documentation yet.
They have all the youtube data plus millions of calls they could buy from call-centers to train if that's not enough, I doubt they need to resort to record calls.
My list is a widget on my phone's home screen - unavoidable.
The assistant call recording actually mentions that it is making the appointment "for a client", so the first part is already covered.
I don't think that's actually your phone doing the call.
In the big picture, these projects are really about attention-grabbing, not necessarily researching products. They are supposed to create mixed, intense emotions, questions, dialog, and above all sublime awe. The function of this work is to control the dialog, to communicate that this organization is the nexus of the future to bring in money to survive and expand.

Many famous academic programs and large companies do this. After generating the anxiety, the lab pairs it with intimate access to the research labs in the form of sponsorship, partnering and other ways of reciprocating.

Essentially, the labs establish themselves as the alpha dog in the system. You may be afraid of what's coming, but at least you can look to them to understand it. It all breaks down when you start to realize the same people creating the stress are the ones you offer to relieve it, not by slaying it, but by cutting you in on the deal.

And it's always difficult to interpret because the tech itself is 1st class, so the artisan class is awed and jealous, so they want to be part of it. Meanwhile, most of those critical of technology sound like complete wankers who want us all playing homemade instruments around a campfire eating raw seaweed. And Chris and Sal Average Family is still cheering for U.S. space dominance as conditioned by the space program since its inception, so they're rooting for technological progress in the form of narcotizing Narcissism (as described by McLuhan).

Sorry if I'm a downer, but I have been part of this system in the past and now I'm on in the edge in and out of it and I study lots of philosophy and media theory. This is how this system survives.
So that would imply that people who actually must exercise for their job (construction workers) would have smarter children, on average? And how would that be measured if the child gets stuck in a poorly performing school and no real academic challenges?
> Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.

I can understand how people could be creeped out, but ethically lost? Is "ethics" now just a buzzword?

Personally I wouldn't mind getting a call from Google. Google's voice is absurdly pleasant and friendly, which is likely a completely different experience to what someone on the receiving end of "cancel my Comcast" typically experiences.
How do you know an idea is ready to be pitched to investors? Does the Atrium Scale boot camp help with solidifying a problem need and the solution for it
> I only wish that every new feature didn't inevitably come with the caveat that it's only for the MySQL flavour of Aurora.

Not only MySQL, but only MySQL version 5.6, which was released in 2013 and superceded by 5.7 in 2015. Aurora finally released support for 5.7 in February this year after years of development, but all new features so far have been stuck on the 5.6 branch which hasn't been very reassuring.
What you're thinking of as "blocking spammers" I'm thinking of as "preventing DDOS."

It's much easier to determine if there's too much traffic hitting a node or leaving a node than to determine if the traffic is "good" or "bad." I haven't seen anyone describe a way the system can generate "bad" traffic yet (that doesn't just degenerate into dumb games you could play without Duplex involved, like booking a reservation with your own phone and then just not showing up); generating too much traffic is a far more easily solved problem.

But on the topic of discerning whether the traffic is "good" or "bad:" this is actually a circumstance where the mass of data Google has access to that seems to so frighten people works to the advantage of the business-owner. Identifying bad users of the system could be done, for example, by collating data on reservations with geolocation data gleaned from maps to note there's a pattern of a particular user booking reservations they never use. Google can then just deny them access to the service to preserve the service's reputation.