skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it's a one-party state, that does not make allowances for eavesdropping, which is what Google would be guilty of if they're recording your phone calls.

The one-party and two-party rules ONLY applies to active participants in the call. The laws are meant to protect callers and receivers of calls from eavesdropping. There is a presumption especially in one-party states that if you're a participant in a call or conversation you have a god-given right to record it for later review.

The FBI can't do it, the NSA can't do it, the CIA can't do it, the phone companies can't do it, you better believe freaking Google can't do it.

(slightly on-topic and valuable all the same, there are several excellent free apps to record all your calls on smartphones. This is the single greatest feature of a smartphone.)
Sort of off topic but maybe not: I'm in Chengdu right now, my first trip to China since 2010. I had previously just been to Beijing among Chinese cities (lots of time camping in Xizang backcountry otherwise). Chengdu is so tranquil, orderly and clean compared to the Beijing of my memory. People don't yell or spit, traffic lights are obeyed and drivers slow for pedestrians, the city is quite nice. Is this just the difference between the megacities and the smaller cities, or has Chinese urban culture matured a bit?
>Bitcoin has done nothing but waste energy and computational resources in order to reallocate money between nerds and the unfortunate normies that've been duped into thinking it'll make them rich quickly. That's not something we should be celebrating.

This thread is about a fund that was created because of bitcoin earnings. So I'm sorry but your rude and tasteless comment does not hold water.
We're already in the situation where the only solution for a Gmail account being permanently hosed by some automated system is knowing someone at Google or having a million twitter followers.
After updating to 18.04, local DNS no longer works on this machine. It worked before. It seems that the systemd "stub" resolver isn't failing over to the LAN DNS server specified by DHCP. resolve.conf is just a single reference to systemd-resolved. It seems systemd-resolved knows about the LAN DNS server:

$ systemd-resolve --status | head -4
Global
DNS Servers: 192.168.88.1
<ISP IP 1>
<ISP IP 2>

It's not using it though:

$ nslookup laser
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53

** server can't find laser: SERVFAIL

$ nslookup laser 192.168.88.1
Server: 192.168.88.1
Address: 192.168.88.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: laser
Address: 192.168.88.5

Not clear to me whether this is a problem with systemd or with ubuntu integration of systemd. Glancing at /var/log/syslog, it seems systemd-resolved is restarting every four minutes, which seems unnecessary.
Yes, just like every consumer computer at this point. But we're working on that. ;)
I'm suggesting that autocomplete of words and autocomplete of short phrases aren't substantively different, yes. Especially given that a lot of mobile keyboards already essentially do this.

I can type "I" and then my phone's keyboard will suggest "be there at" as the phrase completion it does this a single word at a time, but in practice it does let me complete a phrase. If I don't want to say that, I'm capable of not using the autocomplete suggestions. There's no substantive difference with Smart Compose except that I don't have to confirm between every word, so its slightly more efficient.

I'm not sure what you think smart compose is doing, but "writing sentences for you" isn't it.[1] So no, I think you're either misunderstanding what this is, or perhaps you're being disingenuous by describing it as something that writes sentences for you.

[1]: Granted given the Duplex demo and other work in the NLP space, I expect that in certain contexts a tool that given an instruction like "set up a meeting with John this week" that schedules it over emails (like x.ai[2], which has been around for quite some time) is totally possible, but Smart Compose isn't it.

[2]: https://x.ai/
While $120B is generated in revenue by independent merchants selling online, only 20K vendors on Amazon generate >$1M per year. Less than 2% of their merchants!!! There's not enough margin in for any business with less than $1M in revenue to build a real business (ie: hire people, spend money to market and scale). This is HUGE!
Exactly. He is fine with seeing if ideas or people will float or sink; it's his modus operandi.

Plus, Trump is a master at walking stuff back and saving face with his party and base. Net neutrality comes back? Well it's Trump net neutrality now, way better than broken Obama net neutrality. Obama job numbers fake, Trump job numbers great. Trump economy(which has basically not deviated from the Obama economy trajectory) doing great, Obama economy was broken. Etc, etc. All that matters is if it floats, and he can brand it Trump.
> Pilots or train conductors, for example, can work longer shifts than the eight hours stipulated under Chinese law.

I can't think of anyone who I'd less want to be working excessive hours than pilots.
Devuan and Mint do a decent job shipping gnome 2 style environments by default.

As far as I know, Gnome 2 is the last example of a Linux desktop environment that underwent professional usability testing (on regular people and power users) before shipping.

Personally, these days, I prefer minimalist WM’s and CLI administration tools for stuff like WiFi, but all the newer heavy DE’s I’ve tried have obvious (to me) usability regressions vs gnome 2.

It is funny how little usability testing is done on desktop environments these days (I also wonder if Microsoft bothered with Win 8, or if apple is with iOS these days cough podcasts cough).
Features like database rewind aren’t something that would be bound to your core app structure either. While you could structure business process’s around it, it’s more of a shit hits the fan restore scenario, not a daily or weekly action.

Replicating it on a different platform could also be fine with a combination of logical and physical backups.
Wow. Although I’m not seeing much empathy expressed by the Chrome developers posting in the thread, I hope they realize they made a colossal mistake here, which could have been avoided if they’d been more thoughtful about this change and considered the impact.
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You know, I'm totally cool with that.

Given the ten-ish years I've been using AWS everything has gotten progressively cheaper and more feature rich. I see no signs of that stopping.

I'll happily take on the risk of that theoretical future wherein for some reason I need to unwind from AWS, and in turn continue to save countless hours of my and my engineers' time not spent tackling solved problems, and focusing on our core business instead.
We use dedicated accounts for our conf room PCs. You invite the room to the meeting, join from that PC. Works well and avoids the problem you mention. People don’t use personal accounts on conference room pc. Also using that program to ‘freeze’ known good config of pc and reboot nightly helps ensure it’s always working the next day regardless of what people mess up during the day.
This is news to exactly nobody who ever read the manufacturer specs of the sensors used in devices that detect alcohol for law enforcement.

They're running industrial process control sensors at the limits of their range and in widely changing environment. It should come as no surprise that they're hard to calibrate accurately and likewise deliver variable results in a lot of cases

In a factory environment equipment doesn't get calibrated in a 70deg car and used in 20deg winter air to measure 90deg human breath. In law enforcement that's exactly what happens.

Ankle bracelets are even worse.

The fact of the matter is that most hardware/software solutions sold to law enforcement are only a small step above the scam bomb-detectors that got sold to the Iraq government (Google it if you're unfamiliar with the story).

If NASA were writing the calibration code, the results weren't being interpreted by laymen and their interpretation wasn't being used to destroy lives I'd feel differently.
Exactly what I was thinking about too.

The episode even talked about how the increase acidification is really good for growing kelp.
Over half of sellers on Amazon do the entire shipping process themselves. Imagine wrapping up all your products Amazon branding before sending it in the mail. Humiliating.

They already take their cut, can they at least they have the decency to let your brand/business be seen.

Reminds me a a chapter title from the book "THE FOUR: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google"

"Alexa, how do we kill brands?"

Scary.
Add to that "crappy search" and "scrolling back through history results in long delays during which the entire display is blanked".
Oh come on... using the term Micro$oft ?

It hasn't been 1997 for at least 10 years.
We looked at the votes and they seem legit, even though they're statistically unlikely. But we'd appreciate it if you emailed instead of posting in the thread.
Teams does something much better than SfB. It keeps IMs in sync between clients and devices. If I reply to an IM on my phone in SfB it stays on my phone. There's no way to get that conversation history onto my desktop client. Teams acts like you would expect and all clients get all the history.
I never said nothing is wrong. I said that compared to every point in time before now it is fundamentally much better, especially for people who were invisible or oppressed due to sex, race or disability. Because it is so improved calling it broken is meaningless, because it has always been broken.

Working your life away for a substandard living is not a new thing. Not by a mile. It's the norm for history. Someone is always getting exploited. The 40 hour work week was a right that we fought for. The fact that we even have treatments and preventions for illnesses (and get new ones every day, that hep C cure for example) means we are improving, and ensuring people have access is a problem many people are invested in fixing (millenials are big supporters of universal healthcare, it will be a thing one day).

I do think I'm lucky though. I was the first person in my family to grow up middle class. I never had to rely on food banks or welfare, I didn't have to spend all my free time caring for my siblings while my parents worked. My mom had to do those things growing up, but she escaped it because she earned a scholarship to a state university and could get by with that and a part time job. Society is the one who built that college and gave her that chance, even when her family would not or could not. I am thankful for that, because at least I now have the knowledge and opportunity to fix things that do need fixing. And there are plenty. But I don't think for a second that I would have had more opportunity to do that if I had been born at any point in time before.
This new Chrome "feature" mutes audio from many browser games and interactive audiovisual websites, offering no indication that audio is muted, and no way for the user to restore the audio.

By trying to silence autoplaying video ads, they have thrown the baby out with the bathwater (except for certain specially whitelisted domains, like youtube).
That sounds horrible. There's no way to get real productive output for 7 straight hours. I've always been considered a very productive programmer by coworkers, but it's very rare for me to be at the keyboard banging out code for 7 hours a day (even back when I only had individual contributor tasks).

A huge chunk of my time is spent at the white board.
As others have already commented, I don't trust them to add it back in.

And it would fit their design philosophy to permanently remove it, which has been moving away from the concept of files as a whole. Instead, you're supposed to launch the app that does what you're trying to do and then open the file that you want to edit through that.

Another feature removal that has shown this direction, is the removal of the option to create an empty file from the context menu in the file manager.

Again, instead open the app that creates the type of file that you want and then create the new file in there.
How did:

> I don’t require an apology

Get turned into:

> [...] this demand for apology nonsense [...]
Oh, agreed, it is nearly useless.
From a US perspective, quality ranged from fantastic to awful to non-existent depending on who started a call. If you learned who had the best hosting, then always had them start it, you would be fine.

I gather my experience is not an outlier, which is probably why they switched.
Hrm, that's strange and I haven't heard that being a widespread issue; thousands of customers have updated without issue. I'd open a support case so someone can get that sorted out for you.
You can both take something seriously, and also deliberately decide that the reactions were not sufficient to invoke a change of direction. Being serious about evaluating a customer response doesn't mean you cater to that response.
If a simple typo was enough to trigger the honor-killing, it's disingenuous to look for anyone to blame but the murderer himself.

If a German doctor texts someone "Ich verabreiche Schmerzmittel an meine Patienten nur in Massen" (I only apply painkillers to my patients en masse) because the phone doesn't support the sharp S (which would have changed the meaning from "a very large amount" to the opposite) and the recipient kills him out of concern that he's intentionally overdosing his patients, you wouldn't try to excuse the murderer by blaming the technology for that act of reckless and misdirected vigilantism, would you?

Humans make mistakes. Software makes mistakes. If you decide to murder someone based on a single sentence in writing, that's all on you.
AFAIK It uses the MySQL frontend with a heavily modified InnoDB engine that writes to their shared-disk storage.
They just stopped paying attention to Skype and renamed Lync/Office Communications Server/Live Communications Server to “Skype for Business”. They are distinct things that suck in their own unique ways for their own unique reasons.

Lync was a garbage product, and renaming it didn’t magically fix it. Almost a decade into its inclusion in Office 365, it still doesn’t integrate with AD the same way as the rest of Office. The whole product saddles the customer with a bizarre application architecture that pushes complexity on the customer. (Pop a beer and check out the networking requirements sometime! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/office-365-urls-and... )

Both Microsoft and Google fubar this function because these text/voice/meeting products really exist because the vendors see them as a lever to control their enterprise customers. Offering a function, coherent communications platform is a secondary or teritary consideration.
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True.

However, the rest of the time was spent with military duty (feudal levy), preparing/preserving food, collecting firewood, takig care of livestock and general homesteading like repairing your mudbrick house.
:) I don't think that's pedantic, it's a really good point to bring up.

On the web side of things, the W3C often describes their role as being partially descriptive.

From their doc on the Web of Things[0]: "The Web of Things is descriptive, not prescriptive, and so is generally designed to support the security models and mechanisms of the systems it describes, not introduce new ones... while we provide examples and recommendations based on the best available practices in the industry, this document contains informative statements only."

This is exactly for the reason you mention - if browsers collectively decide to go in a different direction, what the W3C says doesn't matter. The web standard is what the browsers do.

However, two things to keep in mind:

Even where browsers are concerned, there is still an API and a canonical version of "correct" for each browser. What we're trying to do is get those APIs to be compatible and consistent with each other.

Many people believe that language even on an individual level doesn't directly map to an actual reality; in web standards that would be like the browsers themselves not having their own consistent API.

But assume those people are wrong for a sec. Let's assume that language is just a standardization problem between different communities and individuals. Well, the W3C should teach us that even in the realm of computing, standardization is really stinking hard.

So even in that scenario, we have to ask whether standardization becomes easier or harder when every single individual in a community has the ability to change norms or introduce more language. We can't even get 3-4 browser manufacturers to agree on a single API, now imagine if every single hair salon owner could increase divergence whenever they wanted just by answering phone calls differently.

[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-security/
I’m okay with you being cool with it because where there’s chaos, there’s money to be made. People will eventually move out of AWS (no lead lasts forever), as the cycle goes, and someone will get paid to orchestrate that.

I encourage my competitors to marry themselves to a vendor’s proprietary stack.

Source: 18 years in tech. Have done my share of unwinding from vendors
You might forget you even have that feature enabled, until you need a login code sent to your email.
Yes it is. What good are all those comforts of modern city life if you never have time to enjoy them?
Not paying people to take care of themselves is a conspiracy? Is paying people to take care of themselves, somehow the natural state of the world?
IBM Employees Can't Use Removable Storage Anymore
Really, eating octopus should be considered like eating a dog or a dolphin. Those things are scary smart!
Ask HN: What makes you happy in life?
It could be anything. I'm curious to hear about new ways to become or remain happy :)
There are mild benefits to having one value that represents both a size and an address. So you're passing around a pair of things that go together instead of just using convention.

But the real benefit is in providing it as a "vocabulary type". Once C++ code starts using string_view everywhere, you don't need to massage your char sequences this way and that [1] to pass it from the top of your application all the way down into the low-level libraries the application relies on. And you don't incur the overhead (both in lines of code and in copies) of all that massaging.

[1] Maybe your request handler has to convert from char* and size to a string to call your business logic, then your string has to convert from a string to a char pointer and and int length to call saveName. saveName might actually use std::copy under the hood to put the data into a chunk of memory, so it turns the pointer and length into two pointers.
It is to move our technology stack forwards. Container Linux and Tectonic have technology which the RH container stack has lacked (e.g. Ignition, Operator-based host upgrades). At the same time, there's tech in Atomic/Openshift which hasn't been available in the CoreOS stack, like rpm-ostree and S2I. We're really trying to do a "best of both" with the new projects.

Of course, you may disagree with what's "best". You know where to reach me (Josh Berkus) if you want to send backchannel feedback.
My S76 laptop that I use for work has been solid in terms of functionality and reliability. I can't complain about those things. The overall build quality of the laptop is terrible. The touchpad is terrible and has poor fit and finish. The keyboard is terrible. The display is pretty decent, no complaints there. Thing is this machine cost around $1600, which is not cheap and puts it in a category where flaws like these are not acceptable. I like literally everything else about the company, and would want to support them on my next purchase, but they need to produce higher quality products at the price point.
Why One Road in the US Uses Metric
In mice, though. It's an open question to what extent rodent results apply to humans. This result should open doors to future research, but by itself should be taken with the appropriate grain of salt.
I can see how it can be annoying to have to scroll to see everything. That said, I also find the page somewhat pretty.

I suspect preconceptions of the language going into the page make a big difference.

Which is not to criticize the Rust page. It is also nice, just different.

I will offer that proclaiming that Millenials are Killing Common Lisp is probably more effective at alienating potential users than a redesigned home page. :(
> Many adjuncts often have no real guarantee they'll have a job the following semester/year. They are the first to get axed when there are budget problems.

So pretty much like every job I've ever had in the private sector.
Eating grass provides better nutrition for the cattle, and the meat ends up with more nutrition such as omega 3s.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease...

In a feed lot, cattle are fed a diet that practically requires antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to slaughter.
You should be rewarded since your productivity on assigned tasks will theoretically be significantly higher than your coworkers who are prioritizing e-mail and being constantly interrupted.

If those coworkers are able to achieve the same level of productivity while also prioritizing and addressing active issues, then they are arguably more valuable and don't they deserve the larger bonus?
Why is everybody hating skype? It's great!

- It's almost as fast as SMTP for messages (pulling every 30 minutes or so).

- If someone calls you, it never rings on the device you're currently using, allowing you play with that other device you had totally forgotten about.

- It does it's best to distract you from what you want to do (communicate), by teasing you with social features you hate.

- It's user interface is awesome. Trivial things becomes real challenges - like finding the button for screen-sharing. (I have spent weeks trying to figure out how to upload a profile picture - and I go to sleep every evening knowing how delightful I will feel when I finally find that easter egg!

Seriously - Skype was great. But unfortunately, everything Microsoft touches turns into dirt. That's just how it is.
> Microsoft has refocused the online calling service on the corporate market

It's also patently incorrect. Skype for Business (formerly Lync) is a completely different product and protocol than Skype - it is one of the few implementations of SIMPLE[1] (plus proprietary extensions), where Skype proper is completely proprietary.

> This is absolutely not the bulk of the problem

Agreed, I'm not sure if it is because SIMPLE (which is anything but) was used or because it is coded poorly, but Skype for Business is unusable. Teams supposedly uses the same infrastructure, which is why we still use G2M for conference calls.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6914
Bailouts are different from operating mainly on grants.

The US doesn’t really have a similar culture of perpetual cash injection, often in the form of low-interest loans.
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I does not require internet. You can make a wallet without, although it wont be very useful without moving btc into it which will require internet or some peer to peer network with the blockchain on it.
I can't recommend highly enough that everyone at least turn on the audible sound when their assistants are listening. At a minimum you should know the kinds of things that end up triggering the device. There's a really wide area of detection and it's interesting to see where that is.

I would also recommending changing your default word at a minimum. Then again, I might also recommend ditching the device entirely but I happen to have one in my kitchen that I like OK sometimes.