skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the "low-fi", more robotic one uses an offline TTS engine for when there is no connectivity. When connectivity is good, it will switch to better, cloud-based one.
Technically it's a container not a VM. So using this is about sandboxing it from the OS.
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Yep. Same reason I told my parents not to get the iPhone X. Don't want to keep explaining gestures over the phone. They understand the home button.
Exactly. Drives me crazy when people compare to a single alogrithm chip. It is not.
Is it possible the frustration is not because the voice on the other end of the line isn't human, but instead because past attempts at automated phone interaction sucked?
Mindfulness may have been over-hyped
I think this is great. I bought a chromebook flip a couple of years ago, with the intention of putting Linux on it---only to find that the hardware is depressingly bad and the ARM processor makes the Linux experience terrible (had to install Arch, never did manage to make basic things like the JVM work right, eventually gave up on it). Since then, I've been very skeptical of the notion of buying chromebooks as cheap and lightweight mobile working tools.

But I will buy a pixelbook in an instant if I can get a fully functional, no bullshit with having to install custom kernels or new firmware or god only knows what and what will happen to the hardware and what just won't work despite The Internet insisting it does, insisting! Oh Lordy. A Linux environment available on decent hardware, without having to MacGyver it together with bubble gum and safety pins? Where things like power management actually work? What other options are there, really, for that? Purism? Dell XPS13! All of those are actually more expensive than the Pixelbook. (Though the Dell thing does look pretty sweet.) Hell, I may go order one now.
I've been doing this for 3-4 years. Most of the apps are what he recommends

A couple of other recommendations:

Try using amazon app store as they have some commercial apps and don't use google

KeepPassDroid - and use syncthing to sync
Skype (on amazon)

The two that I have problems with are uber which use to allow you to use their web interface and google maps replacement. I ended up with a burner phone after a while...
There was a viral post on HN back in the day that demoed how the web would look like with seamless page loads instead of JavaScript. The consensus then was that the blank page and spinning gifs were good UI for showing that your click has led to a major change, while seamless JS communicated a minor action to the users
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> Let's do a quick game. If you had all the money in the world, would you still do your job? Probably not.

Just one data point but I absolutely would.
Yes, I am 100% sure.
While I probably wouldn't do my job, I do believe I would do something similar for an open source project.
And also improve the acoustics of the room from which you are calling, put some foam on the walls, etc...
It’s exactly as exploitable as a standard password reset flow, except that if you reset someone’s password, they’ll probably notice their current password not working anymore.
> as long as you meet a pretty low bar for decent parenting ... the impact of your parenting on your kids' lives is minimal at best

That's assuming an upbringing in regular society, though, yes? I'm curious whether there'd be much larger effect-sizes on these interventions for children who are brought up in isolation, knowing only their families (e.g. this girl: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/invisible-girl/).

If that's true—if there is a larger effect-size—then it suggests that "the real problem" isn't so much that nothing works, as that your society has a much larger effect in shaping you (toward the mean, usually) than your parents could ever have; and that, perhaps, part of the plan for raising children well should be to immigrate to a country with the sort of culture that you would want to rub off on them. Or, at least, emigrate away from your own country—to anywhere else—if you severely disagree with your culture's beliefs, because your kids are likely to pick up some of those beliefs no matter what you do.

And if a larger effect-size isn't there, then it would suggest everything about people is a lot more genetically determined than we think, and that you should translate any impulse you have to raise kids to be a certain way, into an impulse to select mates with good genes (and maybe to adopt if your own genes won't produce the kids you want.)
> The problem is w2 employees (i.e. most of the workforce) get their taxes taken out of their paychecks automatically

That's not a requirement, though. You can opt to have no taxes withheld and just pay what you owe in April. Of course, if you then don't pay your taxes, the IRS will find you.
On this price range, are there any advantages of using a Chromebook rather than purchasing an old refurbished business laptop such as x230?

They seem to be going for the same price range.
There's a great Black Mirror episode in here somewhere. Imagine five years from now, this tech and Google's Smart Reply (https://blog.google/products/gmail/save-time-with-smart-repl...) have evolved to the point where they can basically write entire email responses or have whole conversations without your input. You could develop elaborate friendships where both parties are just having their AIs converse and aren't truly aware of each other. What would the social implications of that be?

Then a couple years later, the AIs learn how to do business strategy, real-world problem solving, programming, etc and start doing more of our jobs for us. A virus goes around that directs AIs to steal our identities and drain our bank accounts and become autonomous, digital versions of us. The humans have to stage an uprising and use a massive EMP to take back the earth, but destroying all electronics in the process and starting another dark age.

I know that's not how AI really works (it's highly specialized and limited), but I'd definitely watch that movie!
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Yes, why cant people just see the creative side of working in a stone quary. One is engaged in the free arts (as long as its mono-cubistic sculptures), with fresh air, lots of company of similar minded people.

There are also tons of diverse activitys - like ghospel singing, rocks'n roll, accidents, motivational whippings. One can even be promoted to one of the upper rows.

Its fantastic.
Consider the weakest link in the chain.

Almost every website in the world currently allows you to reset your password via email, and there's rarely ever a way to opt out and disable that.

You can't lose something if you've never had it in the first place.
> Citizenry will do what they always have: accept the narrative ...that they've been indoctrinated to accept without questioning.

And as the most established institution in society, that's precisely why the government should not indoctrinate narratives, directly or indirectly.

The right solution to bad free speech is more speech, not less.
The law and philosophy around automated, unsolicited robocalls is related to telemarketing. It's telemarketing practice that people became so frustrated with that the Do Not Call List was enacted.

This, in contrast, is automated deal-making, targeting phone calls at businesses that want to close a deal. The context is entirely different.
I think it's unethical for a robocaller to incorporate things like "ums" and "ahs" intentionally to deceive people into thinking they're talking to a human. At least, it's disrespectful.
Largely via Android Auto, I've had mixed experiences with Google Maps recommendations in the past.

What I really want it to do is look at my calendar, and if I have something scheduled soon with a location attached, suggest providing navigation to that. This has worked sometimes, but it's completely not reliable as it sometimes simply doesn't do it.

What I really don't want it to do is blindly suggest navigating to locations I've previously been to. The last couple times I went to the dentist (something I do approximately twice a year) it's asked if I want to navigate there every day for the following week.

The only thing I've found (mostly) reliable about it is if I get in my car at the end of the day, the navigation suggestion is 'home', and in the morning, it's 'work'.
Hey magdadc,

I founded a company competing with Google Maps on another level (map tiles & other geoservices), and I think it's super important to have competition in the mapping space (just look at how much it costs if you want to use Google's data anywhere!).

Your site looks super polished. Keep up the good work!

One thing I don't particularly like is having to sign in to see a map of things nearby. I'd love a main view that shows me just the map with interesting places marked as pins. (E.g., "Places Near Me" takes me to a signup page, which immediately turns me off.)

Best of luck!
That gives a whole new meaning to "genesis block".
Link to the actual paper - http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/365285/h...

Also note it’s a study within regions in Europe. The WHO isn’t suggesting that Japanese people or any other random country suddenly stops eating their food and takes up a Mediterranean diet or a Nordic diet.
Survival.
Ask HN: Would you pay for an ad free Facebook account?
Would you? Maybe free services financed by by products (like ads) are not so cool...
> Eggs - full with cholesterol and choline, illegal to advertise them as healthy or safe in the US

This pdf from the USDA says "Eggs are among the most nutritious foods on earth and can be part of a healthy diet". True, the pdf then goes on in great detail about the potential health hazards:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/5235aa20-fee1-4e5b...

The American Egg Board pretty much states they are wonderful for your health: https://www.eggnutritioncenter.org/egg-nutrition-basics
> Eggs fit into the healthy dietary patterns recommended by public health organizations.
> The high-quality protein in an egg is essential for building and maintaining lean body mass

Essential, hm.
As a part of society, you receive a lot.

Food, water, shelter, security, all sorts of services and conveniences... all of them requiring time from different people and the sacrifice of countless plants, animals and the environment.

What keeps me going is working hard to make those sacrifices count.
... agreed, only it doesn't boggle my mind as much as the fact that human beings get employed full-time to sit near a phone and do this entirely-automatable task every day.
It doesn't matter that the combined time was equal. What mattered was that both operations completed before the next character was printed. The carriage return and the line feed could happen in parallel, but I'm pretty sure that carriage return could take longer than line feed, at least in the worst case when the carriage was near the end of the line. So if you did the line feed first, the next character could print while the carriage was still returning.

We always played it safe anyway, by punching CR LF RUBOUT at the end of each line on a paper tape. The RUBOUT added a bit more delay before the next character was printed, so you could feel sure that it would print at the correct position.
Portage can work with binary packages just fine:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide

ChromeOS/ChromiumOS uses portage for its build system, to produce a signed, read-only image that the OS can boot from. CoreOS uses the same tooling FWIW:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/build

This is why you can’t just install random packages onto the parent OS. Any additional software needs to run in some overlay filesystem or sandbox.
Did you see the IO keynote where they played the recorded call? And said other calls are being recorded?
Do you have another preferred source? I've actually been quite pleased with my spot checking of Snopes support or refutation on various claims. It may not be truth incarnate, but it seems to do a pretty good job of surfacing a set of verifiable facts when it can.
I'm a Debian user, but RedHat has had Yum (Apt-equivalent) for probably a decade now.
Yes. I'm perfectly willing to be discerning on who I do business with.
Thanks for the suggestion.

I bought a Xiaomi Mi Band 2 direct from China when it first came out. Circa $20 for a fitness band with a heart rate monitor. (Well, plus shipping.)

But then they DRM-ed the interface, and the third party app I wanted to use first didn't work with it, then didn't work without the official Mi app in place and active. And I started worrying more about data collection and the China connection.

If you don't mind a couple of questions. And no worries if no response.

Any thoughts on this with respect to their phones? I just imagine that if the Chinese government wants to be all up in their firmware and apps/customizations, they will be.

Also, how's the camera, specifically? Do you think it matches the Nexus 5x's? I've read too many reviews of these Chinese models to remember specific ones, but I do recall that camera performance frequently lags somewhat. (On the other hand, the Huawei P20 / P20 Pro's camera performance is lust-worthy.)
If you have access to a local who's tastes (and temperament and budget) are calibrated to your own, it's a good strategy. If you are in a place for a while and want the most out of it, researching on blogs etc is absolutely the right thing to do. But if you are passing by and looking for a place to have lunch, that's not feasible. Heck, even finding a local who routinely eats out in the local area (in a great many places, people will eat at home most of the time) can be a challenge - in touristic areas, the great majority of people will be other tourists or trying to sell you something. Google Maps, on the other hand, can instantly tell you if the brasserie on the main square is a tourist trap or decent, or if there is a small independent café with great salads on a side street five minutes from you. That's the problem Google Maps is solving.
Being able to do things that I believe in.

I haven't seen many others mention this, most focus on basic sustenance, passion or luxurious life.

For me, the part of life worth living is that I get to do things that advance my personal values, which, while related to coding, are not necessarily any of those. As someone else suggested, having all the money in the world wouldn't make me change jobs.

I feel this question can be rephrased as "what is the meaning of life?". Is coding a mean to reach it? I'm sure that pursuing the meaning will keep anyone going.
For this to work at all there is at least transitory recording of voice on the call, but it's not necessarily all that different than what had to happen when a computer is part of the community in channel of a call, which is common now with IP telephony. If they aren't doing more and retaining recordings made without consent, I think it quite unlikely this falls afoul of the recording consent laws.

If they do record more than transitorily without the other party’s consent in those jurisdictions, that’s illegal but it's also fairly simple to address.
I'd argue it's significantly more ethical. There's a world of difference between telemarketing and closing a deal with a business that has an express interest in closing a deal because they want your money.
I went to the city the other day and it was surreal to see the amount of people glued to their phones and this is just 2018. I can't imagine when we will have sleek and compact AR glasses available.
Yes - I primarily used spaCy [0] to handle all the NLP related tasks (tokenization, etc) as well as empath [1]. The Stanford Parser was only used for constituency parsing as spaCy doesn't handle that. The different feature sets were then derived from all that data.

[0]: https://spacy.io
[1]: https://github.com/Ejhfast/empath-client
The other good thing about this is that the Pixelbook is a 3:2 screen, so finally there's a laptop with a proper display resolution that can run Linux nicely.

There's a good community of folks over at https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/ who have been tinkering with this for quite some time.
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> Brahmagupta was a worshipper of Shiva who lived in Rajasthan. He fits in perfectly well with Indianness both modern and ancient.

What does it matter who they worshiped, unless we want to buy into Hindu nationalism? What about all the vast number of other religions in modern India? What about the secular foundation of modern India?
I don't really understand your complaint. "What about going outside or spending time with your family and people you love?" - that is exactly how they pitch this initiative. They want you to feel that their technology is going to allow you to do exactly that.

> offering people to waste their time tracking their own habits on Android comes off as rather patronizing.

I agree it is pretty weird to offer a product that is so good that users are literally addicted to it, and then offering tools to help users limit that addiction. You might imagine it would be pretty stupid for a a slot machine designer to include prompts every 30 minutes asking you to stop playing.

However, the difference is that a person when prompted to stop watching YouTube might decide to spend their time and money building a website on Google's cloud platform, or even realise they need to buy that thing they just saw an advert for and hence the prompts might actually help Google's profits, not hurt them.
Ah okay. It seems we fundamentally disagree about my point #2 because of a meaningful difference in semantics. You use "I care about X" as a statement about the externally-visible operations of the speaker. A nurse cares for patients even if she is tired, achey, and annoyed. If you will, "caring" is a property of a one-person system's public API.

I use "I care about X" to be a statement about the internal state. "I care" is a description of emotions and motivations. So which meaning is correct?

Well... its semantics, so no "correct" in the same way that there is a correct measurement of the gravitational constant of earth at sea level above average-density crust. I like to say "All models are wrong; some models are useful", and the purpose of words is to communicate. So which definition is more useful? I assert that it depends on your time horizon and your ability to convey relevant insights.

In a short time horizon where OP doesn't know what this guy's problem is, your definition is more useful for deciding how OP should act. OP has little way to open a heart-to-heart conversation where the cofounder can open up with his worries or commit to starting on a path to change his habits. OP probably doesn't have time to wait for the cofounder to change his habits unless they sit down and rigorously design those habits and the communication protocols to reinforce them -- something I've only seen from my wife and I. In a short time horizon, OP has to deal with his or her cofounder as-is.

So why am I still blathering on?

Because reading "he doesn't care" struck a nerve. I've been "the dev (or student) who 'cares' about his work but not enough to overcome procrastination" for multiple chunks of time from 2004 into early 2017. What changed wasn't my level of concern for productivity but instead several types of growth:

- Getting access to tools that allowed me to block distractions.

- Developing good habits of diet, exercise, and especially sleep (and escaping from a uni culture which said "sleep is for the weak")

- Learning skills of breaking down projects, insisting on understanding the 'why' of projects, asking well-structured questions, and planning out steps to execute.

- And 14 months ago, learning what discipline even actually was and how to build that muscle.

This growth all happened over the course of a decade of trying to debug myself which included 4 PIPs and 3 firings, so quite a long time horizon and empirically a longer time horizon than anyone but my wife could reasonably have had the patience for. If you had told me during this time that I did not care about my work, I would have been internally seething with anger, but not even known how to counterargue. So just so you know, concluding that about someone can be rather inflammatory to them.

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By the way, thank you for answering me. Writing that all out was really useful for me. If you'll humour me again, I'm curious: What are some ways to tell that you don't love another person? What is love? When I've asked about this sort of thing before, I've just gotten the response " Baby don't hurt me; Don't hurt me--no more ", which is unhelpful.
The interesting thing is this change was almost without a doubt done by some random developer at Microsoft rather than an institutional luminary for certain, and yet here we judge the change based on the institution rather than who may have produced it.
The head wouldn't start moving until it got the CR, and if the LF comes after it would have 2/10 of a second to traverse the page. If the LF comes first it would only have 1/10 of a second.
I have no idea if the asset you want exists.

I think the best thing you can do is keep in mind that you are raising future adults. That detail seems to frequently be overlooked. I found it a very valuable metric by which to measure my parenting decisions.

Best.
I don't particularly care about the release cycle, but somehow they manage to add small features every iteration that attract me. Those sound pretty compelling.

The Treble project is pretty darn exciting too, if only I had such a phone.
I don't want personalized news, I use Google News for the exact opposite reason. I want to see semi-random headlines from a variety of source to increase my exposure to stories I might not have seen otherwise.
There's a difference between trying to influence how your kids turn out (for some value of “turn out”), and approaching your parenting in a way that facilitates the ease of your ongoing personal relationship with them. Your choices and actions as a parent may not be able to make them smarter than they are naturally inclined, but you can make your own relationship with them better or worse based on your choices.

But yeah, not worrying overmuch about the outcomes does allow parents to enjoy the ride and help their kids feel the love, attention, and structure that facilitates them growing into themselves.
I have qc20's and they are mostly effective against droning, repetitious noises (think airplane noise). If the chitchat is far enough away, quieter, and random enough (think coffeeshop/library) it helps a lot. If it's a couple of co-workers sitting 6 feet away, it's not going to help enough unless you listen loud enough to damage your hearing. That's my experience, but I already got tinnitus from trying to drown out coworkers and have to keep music very low these days.
Actually, no it isn't End-Of-File.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dos-character-26-is-not-special.html

And SUB was ASCII's equivalent of U+FFFD.
To be honest if the manufacturer is misleading you that you have to do secondary research then why go to the event at all. I agree they should have done their due dilligence but at this time since no one values the written word nearly everyone is just taking some press release and cut and pasting it.

On the other hand I have seen products being launched at Google I/O and being non existant for months. Tensorflow lite took months to come out. Why would you do this? Real artists ship and I don't get why you would announce something and have an indefinite launch date? By the time tensorflow lite came out Apple had coreml out for months and was somewhat usable.