skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so very disappointed by google home. It feels like they left this project behind. It's infuriating how dumb this machine is, and how many times I have to repeat "ok google, hey google" for my old google home device that was working way better at the beginning. Google assistant on android also seems to work much better.
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Fwiw, she is criticizing someone advocating this policy if you read the article.

EDIT: I should mention I do not necessarily endorse her views with respect to 9/11.
Interestingly enough in the 18th century Benjamin Franklin wrote tons of fake news stories https://www.hudson.org/research/13133-benjamin-franklin-and-...
This has been one of the most consistent themes since the first prototypes we tried. It is particularly helpful for non-native speakers, but the large majority of native speakers find it helpful too.
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I suppose after the thing in North Korea didn’t end in war, Trump decided to test his luck elsewhere.
Come on dude, this is totally wrong.

Dividends are expressed in per share basis but that's not actually how it works, a set amount of money is set for dividends.

Share buybacks increase your % ownership of a company (if you're a shareholder), directly increasing the intrinsic value of your shares
Right now using an in-house app to make edits to emails initially built in dream weaver.

So, html email template (no unlined css) > merge word content in dreamweaver > upload to custom web app > app uses premailer to in-line the specified css > make changes to the content via ckeditor (which messes up the html in many cases) > export in pardot-ready format.

The app versions the content changes and allows comments as well easy email tests. We do 20+ revisions per campaign so that’s a necessity.

This was built 5 years ago and still works but getting inadequate for the complexity of responsive emails.

I’ve looked at this: https://beefree.io/ but it does not allow the creation of custom content modules. So looking into building a new version of our own, again.

It’s a pain but nothing compared to debugging email markup.
Forgive my ignorance, but could you explain what "touch" protection is please?
First look at Uber's flying taxi models
I'm not sure I want my map to be giving me recommendations. I'm definitely not certain I want my map to be able to give me better recommendations because of how much data that company has on me.

I guess all the more reason to continue using Apple Maps.
I'd expect you to be able to give Duplex the range of dates and times where you're available (or let it get the info from your Google Calendar).
So this needs a new yubikey? I can have passwordless login on linux right now with my old yubikey.
Google are good at choosing names... http://www.elsman.com/mlkit/
And, because they don't spend money they don't have, they spend less. But less spending means shrinkage in the economy (or so I'm told), but means poor people are less poor. And it means that rich people are less rich (that interest that poor people pay doesn't go to other poor people). Today I realized that credit card companies are the root of all evil. Save us, Bitcoin!
> In the short/immediate term, it should probably be illegal to conduct a robocall without explicit opt-in of the destination caller

Existing robocall law (including the National Do Not Call registry in the US) is focused around telemarketing. This isn't a telemarketing system; it's an automated assistant. I don't see the utility of applying the existing law to the new use case, as the goals are different (people at home don't want to be interrupted to be advertised at; businesses do want to negotiate business transactions).

> Furthermore, if a robocall is permitted to be made to an unsolicited destination, a robocaller must clearly identify itself, presumably starting a declaration that it is a bot/automated agent from a given company on behalf of another company or individual.

Why? If I have an assistant who makes an unsolicited call to a destination, they don't need to formally state they're acting on my behalf. What about automating the assistant's job makes it special?

I agree with you on the third point (I'm assuming Google has its bases covered there, because unilaterally recording a conversation is old and settled law).
"Don't believe everything you see on TV." Somehow got lost on the internet.
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Would it be a better page if it added footnotes to all adjectives "* For some definition of easy|some-adjective." :P

All joking aside, it's just a click bait title - that's how these things go. Try it out yourself and blog about your experiences with it!
"...with a wingspan of over 150ft, the Boeing 314 was (and remains) one of the largest aircraft ever to take to the sky"

"Remains" is stretching the point. The original 747 (1975) was 195ft wingspan. Modern 787s are also around 195ft. The 767-200 (1981) is comparable at 156ft.

By weight, the 314 was small by modern standards: 84000 lbs MTOW, less than a 737-200 at 128000 lbs MTOW.
This looks awesome. Though, I'm disappointed the face tracking has pretty limited landmarks and no positional tracking, I'm sure they'll improve the models in the future. https://firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit/face-detection-conce...
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Now we have another nuclear threat to deal with again.
Hey Doreen, thanks for your input. By "service" you mean some of the popular middlemen mentioned in this thread? All the best for your endeavor!
Always interesting to see GDPR spurring actual changes. On an unrelated note though, is it just me or is the font on that page HUGE? It doesn't seem to resize either, I zoomed out to 30% and it's still giant.
The term only became popular after Trump's win [1], not while it was happening, which is forever (I once read in a real paper newspaper about an amputee who had donkey's legs attached in place of his own). This suggests people don't like it because they went looking for something to blame for his winning. It's entirely a partisan political concern, not a fundamental one.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
It’s hard to arrive at a consensus of what constitutes good parenting. For example, my sister wants her kids to be doctors, and so all activities and goals are oriented toward that. I prefer my kids choose a career path that brings personal happiness and freedom of time. As such, my methods and KPIs are different. Parenting is sort of one of those things that can easily degrade into a constant stream of fomo.
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It's not productive to tell those who disagree with you to grow up. There are serious consequences from having unlimited freedom of speech and you are not encouraging serious discussion about solutions to them by belittling people.

I think it's also worth considering the effect that the internet has on the flow of information in society. Our current situation is not the same as it is when the first amendment was written. I'm not saying we should get rid of it and institute a Ministry of Truth, but we shouldn't assume that the people who wrote it were infallible and any differences between today's society and society 300 years ago don't matter.
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We simply get information on what stuff to buy from websites that work and ignore those that are broken.

My mobile browsing experience has been immensely better since I installed Brave and set it to block everything by default, including js.

When I'm presented with a blank page (not very often) I evaluate in a split second whether the several seconds needed to reload the site with js enabled are worth its content.

90% of the times the answer is no, so I click Back and then try the next search engine result for the same query. 10% of the time I really want to see or use that particular website, so I enable js for it on Brave's panel and wait for it to reload.

Summary: 1 additional click and 1 additional reload (to be only paid once) on websites I care about. ∞ less nuisance on everything else.
Google is winning with TPU's. Most other competitors even with great machine learning talent would not be able to match the speed that Google does things with because of the TPU's.
I think we should give some serious thought as to why. I think it has to do with the speed with which we can absolutely specify aggregations and connections from among a large number of choices. We simply haven't come up with an interface that beats a keyboard, text displays, and programming languages, combined with the programmer's brain.
>I very very rarely hear a fact touted by the left OR right that is just outright incorrect.

The right absolutely makes up stories:

https://www.snopes.com/tag/breitbart/

https://www.snopes.com/tag/fox-news/

Lots and lots of false statements here.
Maybe she's hoping that Bitcoin improves before she needs to change the core of their system and value proposition, which would cost a lot of time and money? Who knows?
The other side of this is that people used 96 dpi (or lower) monitors for decades and they managed to get work done.
Charities and political organizations are excluded unfortunately from robocall regulation. Google, though, is not.

If I were to start receiving Duplex calls, and could detect it, I would report each one to the FTC.
People also used to do duels over insults and this was considered OK.

We should bring that back. Get triggered demand a duel :)

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Hi, thanks for offering to answer questions. Did you consider the language homogenisation question and if so, how did you answer it?
So in this case, arent the two factors a) physical possession of desktop/laptop and b) the Yubikey ? How likely is it you'll lose both if you keep your keyring with you?
Alice and Bob aren't just A and B. A and B are members of the category of "things"
Alice and Bob are members of the category of "communicating entities", and are also familiar names for human. Humans communicate, so choosing Alice and Bob makes an analogy that helps the learner remember that A and B are the communicating entities, not messages, or the encryption key, or anything else.

They are illustrative examples that help with visualization and connecting the theory to an interesting use-case, which taps into most humans' natural preference visualization, socialization, and relevance. They aren't patronizing, they are humanizing.

Do you also feel that speaking in English is a "patronizing" way to communicate, since everything you say could be expressed in mathematical symbols?
Her views on the Douma gas attack and the Skripal poisoning (she takes the Kremlin line on both), are also well outside the political mainstream.

As a UK citizen, the implication that Britain was involved in poisoning its own citizens is not unlike how many Americans feel about '9/11 was a false flag'.
We've been through this with music/movies. If there is no legal avenue people will pirate.
Or Alexa answers the phone and refuses to speak to it.
I don't think it was ridiculous to begin with (neither was "terrorism") but it's ridiculous now.

I would define "fake news" as news published by people who know what they're publishing is false. My feeling is that either there were more of those kinds of articles floating around this past election or they were more visible.

You might just call it clickbait, but "fake news" didn't seem like an inapt descriptor until it started being applied to everything someone disagrees with.
Does that give your public IP or just your local NAT'd LAN address?
The people losing their marbles over this being some kind of Turing Test passing distopian stuff are missing the point at how limited this domain is.

People who answer phones to take bookings perform an extremely limited set of questions and responses, that’s why they can even be replaced by dumb voice response systems in many cases.

In these cases, the human being answering the phone is themselves acting like a bot following a repetitive script.

Duplex seems trained against this corpus. The end game would be for the business to run something like duplex on the other side, and you’d have duplex talking to duplex.

Most people working in hair salons or restaurants are very busy with customers and don’t want to handle these calls, so I think the reverse of this duplex system, a more natural voice booking system for small businesses would help the immensely free up their workers to focus on customers.
Imagine the multi-dimensional cross-checked ML driven future of credit reporting. You go in to apply for a home loan... "We see here that you missed a payment on your car loan in January, yet we also see from your trending posts that during that month you spent an estimated $408.34 on non-essential expenses during the same period based on your mapped locations. I'm afraid we cannot offer you anything at this time."
> both Google and Facebook seems to prefer ad revenue over payments.

This is exactly the kind of conspiracy-theory mindset I was talking about in my upthread comment. What reason could they have for preferring ads, given the extra risks (esp legislative) and PR issues associated with it?

As I said, Google (I can't personally speak to Facebook) has put effort behind getting micropayments off the ground in a couple different formats, but there're substantial hurdles and substantial pushback on the part of publishers. The fact that they're not jeopardizing existing revenue by forcing pubs to do things they don't want to doesn't mean that they prefer advertising revenue per se.
So... theoretically I could operate an AI call center that would serve most languages? Well, as a first measure, anyway.
police departments go to a judge more often

I can't see how that is a bad thing overall.
A disgruntled spouse swiping your phone and running up to a awarded hotel room to hook it up to a trusted macbook protected by your secret "1234" password isn't exactly Jason Bourne territory. I suppose they might know your phone passcode as well - all I'm saying is that a phone in general use will have been unlocked the passed few days, and is likely in proximity to a trusted device.

Now, we don't know how the greylock stuff works (afaik) - so maybe this will harden phones against imaging with such tools. And maybe not.

I actually have a hard time seeing how this is: "aimed squarely at police". If you're picket up at a demonstration or traffic stop - is it really that common that they won't get to your phone in 7 days? They're only allowed to hold you for 48 hours or so anyway?

Don't get me wrong 7 is better than forever - but I'd like to see it made available as a user setting; eg never / 30 seconds etc.

As for this not being available on Android; my impression was that given an encrypted, locked, Android phone with pin/pw lock and debugging disabled - you'd need to unlock before being able to access phone data via USB?

Now if debugging is activated, I believe a "trusted computer" (anyone who holds the keys) can gain access even if the screen is locked?
Thanks for answering in so much detail - I think the last two points make a compelling case for not disabling the system, even in the true black box case, and the first two are very compelling in the real world, even if they don't apply to the thought experiment of an actual black box. You've broadly changed my mind on this issue :)
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I think “bug” used to be slang shorthand for the more professional term “defect”, and under that definition the Notepad change would accurately be described as a new feature.

But the word bug has been coopted by the masses to have the wider meaning of “doesn’t meet user expectations”.
Google maps has the most pleasant and human sounding voice approach I’ve encountered in any such system.

All other gps guidance voices sound incredibly crude and mechanical in comparison.
Sure, but you’re implying something super weird, namely that there’s a global maximum of engagement at the “text and CSS” extreme end of the spectrum, but as soon as you add any multimedia at all, even a single img tag, there’s a discontinuous drop and then the metrics improve the more and more you add even more multimedia.
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None, as you have correctly noticed.

When are we as a society going to say enough is enough and take power back from these evil entities?

[Yes, I do consider them to be evil]
Happens to 95% of Packt books.
> I guess all the more reason to continue using Apple Maps.

It is unfortunate that OpenStreetMap doesn't have the resources to create mapping apps at parity with Google Maps. I just want a map app. Not a recommendation app. Not FourSquare. Just comprehensive maps, routing, and possibly traffic data. OSM, please take my money for this!

The only way for us to receive long term value from digital tooling is through participation, resource contribution, and stewardship of organizations that can protect these projects (Similar to how Signal received a very large cash contribution for ongoing support, or how OSM and other renowned open source projects have official organizations formed, elected governance, etc).
That's a more complex idea that requires a more complex model. For example, Alice and Bob change to mailboxes, and Alice can have multiple mailboxes and mail stuff to herself.
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That's a hypothesis, but not one with enough support to be considered true.
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Since the restaurant in this situation is clearly using a digital booking system already why would Google (or whatever service inherits this kind of bot call) not just check on the popular booking sites before placing the call?
Give your credit card number to one of them and it will be even more fun.
Sure but I have no expertise on how to take those files and turn them into a tiles that correspond with the same basemap image tiles. Also ideally the service would incorporate more than just SRTM, including for example the USGS high res DEM where available.
Late in the sense that they out of convenience over security circumvented device protection. I'm not even entirely sure for whom they prioritzed convenience.
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I think Google creating reincarnation of MSFT's clippy - solution looking for problem.

These "intelligent" hints of what someone think I likely want to express - quickly becoming a distracting nuisance.

Hopefully it'll be optional feature.
> CDN toggle

Hmm, what would this do exactly?
For those I assume licensing data from commercial providers. For Germany geocoding for example Mapbox uses government data, not OpenStreetMap (found out reading a github issue when another user asked why an OSM change wasn't reflected).

https://www.mapillary.com/imagery is using image recognition for traffic signs and lists Mapbox as a user.
Either that, or it will train people to stop trusting a phone call as some sort of authentication. The whole social engineering problem is that when somebody gets a phone call, they trust that the person at the other end is who they say they are. Which can be a false assumption. When the robots start calling, maybe people will finally stop making that assumption automatically.
How would you script "script a bot" - i think you're underestimating the effort. You'd have better luck trying to attack by mass booking manually.
Has it been complex to sell your skills because of your previous employee? Did you just cold e-mail your previous contacts that you got while working or did they approach you?
Ideally this would have to have access to your calendar or be given a time range of options.
If the main impediment to dining at a restaurant was having to reserve a table, I think that would be a real possibility. But the main impediments are usually cost, complexity in getting to the restaurant, unfamiliarity with how good the food and service are, agreeing with the rest of the party about the timing, etc.. The actual booking of a table is a minor stepping stone on the road from the thought to the actual execution of the plan.
I wonder who’s have the last laugh on this.
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Mmm. Is it the end of the cartographic value of Google Maps? I mean, I want an accurate, up to date and objective map. I don't want recommendations, except when I ask for them.
The reality changes. Fast. You won't be able to trust photos, audio recordings, or videos. You will be able to trust digital signature. To have any opinion whether information about somebody else is real you will need a working web of trust. It's gonna be a great thing and I can't wait for it. It's going to change news, politics and in general the world we live in. It's going to be bigger than the Internet but way more polarizing and controversial. IMHO

One issue though, unless we hurry up and make this WoT decentralized and with open protocols, well, we will get it from FB and the likes.
They are effectively like words in a foreign language.
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When people talk about AI taking over, they really need to consider this route. Social engineering most of the world simultaneously. It doesn't have to build armies of robots when we'll tear everything down for it.
> So yeah, I'd consider it a bug if it didn't support what has been the standard line ending format since the 60's.

The standard line ending format in the '60s, which was the height of the mainframe era, would probably have been the newline character in IBM's EBCIDC encoding, which differs from the value used for ASCII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline). Unix didn't really start taking off until around the early '80s IIRC.

Windows properly supported the newline format for its platform of lineage (CP/M + DOS) which also didn't start taking off until the early '80s. Not sure that Unix has any real claim to precedence here.
I was quite fond of the Weekly World News, particularly their article on how there was a gate to Hell in North Dakota and the Governor sending a tactical team to try to kill the devil.
I was happy to open the comments and see everyone writing approximately what I was thinking.

Almost made me feel there would be no point writing something similar myself.
Best parenting practise - ignore most advice from people you don’t know. It tends to be totally subjective, contradictory, and faddish.

Give your kids loads of love, in whatever way feels right to you and your family.
In order for it to work you have to have it plugged in and touch it. Prevents a virus from talking to it unless it prompts you to touch it somehow.
Avi Ovadya among others has talked about a coming infopocalypse in which fake anything can be generated. Combined with data troves from Facebook or wherever they can simulate actual people to completely steal identities on a large scale and create a society disrupting mass hysteria to start a war or a mass panic.

IMHO, to fix this everything needs two factor authentication generated by a biometric scan in person at a government office. Yes you could use a blockchain for it too.
I don't have details on this, but I can't imagine it'd be less personalized for your off-the-beaten-path stuff than it is now, where we get the same as everyone else.