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I haven't seen any backlash about AI being used to detect diseases better/sooner.

The fact that we see a backlash about something that treats humans as an API, and don't see a backlash about something that helps all humans, seems like there is no prevailing innovation-phobic attitude. No?

The industrial robots taking jobs thing is at least pragmatic to discuss - we could just accept the capitalistic inevitability of it, or we could talk about ways to move the human workforce on to other tasks.
There's a gulf between "it's possible to block spammers" and "spammers are blocked". Look at YouTube and Hangouts, for example.
The way I understand it, double-cruxing is a technique to be used (probably multiple times) during the debate, and isn't the entire debate itself. It kind of reminds me of "divide and conquer" strategies.
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I can understand this rationale technically, when I was using skype (at work) ~8years ago we would have some real problems and a lot of it was attributed to "SuperNodes" if you dug deep down far enough. Chat and group chats at the time, though, were very reasonable

Whether that improved quality or not, I wouldn't know, I haven't used skype in quite some time.
To answer your question without complaining too much about SF I’d say that people are either new to SF (haven’t experienced the real deal described by everyone here), or holding onto something that used to be a dream a few years back, like a great position at a hot startup waiting for it to go public or a 1 bd apartment bought at $700k a few years back versus +$1 million today. Really not about the city by the Bay anymore.. So, as you may guess the attitude in 2018 here is extremely materialistic, which sounds weird when you think about hippies right? :) either my home equity or my stocks.

People who want to become entrepreneurs these days would rather stop by to create some connections and operate from a remote location. Last but not least, tourists on a weekend trip to SF from all around the World. They want to see the bridge and jump on a boat to Alcatraz
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HN actually had some of the most horror:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022963

Which is heartening IMO. People who deal with computers all day should be the ones most skeptical of technology.
My impression is Google's lawyers are not dumb enough to let Google publicly announce they're illegally recording calls in a two-party consent state: Presumably their demos were recorded with permission or staged.

But I was definitely curious how they could operate Duplex without running afoul of existing laws. It's possible Google believes they are not "recording" the call when they send audio to and from their AI.

They may be transcribing calls to text, which arguably isn't "call recording", it is just writing down verbatim what was said in the call. They likely have enough voice data from other sources, like Google Assistant on people's phones and Google Home that they can avoid recording calls explicitly.
It's amazing what a positive impact bitcoin and crypto has had on the world. And it only has just begun. I feel like we're standing on the precipice of a truly new, better age. Once the dinosaurs like Bill Gates of Micro$oft move on who knows what we'll see.
> “It was the biggest asset in the space at the time with the most recognized brand,” says Lori Wright (...) Focusing on corporations was a reasonable strategy...

The value of the Skype brand was with the consumer market! Microsoft doesn't need a new strong brand (other than its own) to go after corporations...??!?
One of the advantages of Google hosting this (as opposed to, say, this technology being an "out in the wild" agglomeration of voice synthesis and machine learning open-source solutions bailing-wired together) is that there's one central authority that can be held accountable.

You're not going to see the described scenario because there's nothing in it for Google, they have full control over both the Google Assistant ecosystem and the set of technologies powering this machine-learning interaction, and they can gate-keep it as much as they want to.

That having been said... If one company can do it, we're only N years out from the tech becoming available "in the wild" as a bailing-wired selection of open-source tools (probably in a Docker image somewhere ;) ).
Correlation implied as causation.

Here is another correlation into causation article linking cardiovascular fitness to IQ[0]

Another way to look at it can be from the per-capita relation of economic class to fitness[1]. It is entirely possible that, because people higher up the economic ladder are more likely to be fit, and because they are more likely to receive better prenatal care, generally have better nutrition, and give their children more educational opportunities, that the actual cause may be economic status.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/quilted-science/2009...

[1] https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/06/10/the-correla...
I think hacker news suffers from being too close to tech to really get a normal person's perspective. These advances are technologically marvelous, sure, but they are ethically bankrupt. At best, they make human interaction worse, and at worst, they enable robocallers and standardize thought. Tech optimism has become toxic because SV fails to realize how each cool new feature can be bastardized and abused.
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No, it's not. That money goes to the government and society as a whole otherwise, which you would owe - and if you didn't pay you'd eventually end up in jail.

Paying your taxes to not end up in jail isn't generosity. Paying taxes is being part of a system that you've benefit from.

If you gave more money to charity than is owed in taxes - and that was yours that you reasonably and fairly earned - then you could argue there's generosity involved.

You're correct in saying that without more confirmed information, we can't know how much or if any generosity occurred. I did however say "likely no generosity" - which is different from saying a firm statement of "no generosity here" - so my statement isn't impossible.
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Consider Small Ball in baseball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_ball_(baseball)
I believe you can download the older version "skype classic" from somewhere. It keeps nagging me twice to update , but no i won't do that again.
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16962564
They used to do this. Now, WebRTC supports it in a standardized way, which has created a long list of competing services. :-)
KDE is kinda okay now, but I just can't forget the nuclear clusterfuck called kde 4 back in the day.

I kinda tolerate gnome 3 (despite its marvellously obvious flaws) for now and if I find it way too annoying, I'll rip it out and use fluxbox or smg similarly low level wm.
Sadly, many general consumers would believe in this fantasy risk 100%.
"Google is still debating how to unleash it, and how human to make the technology, several employees said during the conference."

They haven't decided in how to make a product out fo this. This was just a tech demo of what could be possible.
Somehow it is WORSE than Microsoft Office communicator we used to use at my company.
It was poorly-functioning, but all the alternatives were far worse. Just the fact that Skype would always connect despite double-NAT and broken UDP and god knows what seemed magic at the time.

Now Skype has gotten even worse (their "Snapchat" UI is completely unusable), and the alternatives have gotten better.
Here's a link to a bit of a plot gallery: https://cibotech.github.io/evilplot/plot-catalog.html
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In ancient cultures it was considered normal to leave a baby to die if you didn't want to raise it. Should we bring that back too?
You can't donate money in place of paying taxes; for a toy model let's say this person spent $10 to buy bitcoin long ago, now it's worth $140,000,010, he wants to completely exit his exposure to bitcoin. If he converts it to cash now it he has to pay taxes on $140m of capital appreciation. Let's say he donates $55m worth of bitcoin to charities. If he wants to convert the remaining $85m worth of bitcoin to cash, he still has to pay taxes on that. Hence by making a donation, he reduces the amount of cash he ends up having. So how is there "no generosity"? Can you construct a scenario where someone ends up with more cash by making a donation?
> the call quality is horrendous and dropping calls in the middle of the meeting is quite common.

And yet, it's better than everything else I've tried. My team uses slack screen share every day and nearly every day we need to switch to skype for other team members to see the screen share.
IO is a developer conference, the whole critique about unveiling it before they know everything about how to market the product, or before it's complete, is tone deaf.
We'll update the headline to the current title, then, which is also in the URL.
Not only are they ethically bankrupt, it feels like the sole goal is to eliminate all human interaction and more importantly solve problems that do not exist.

Ex. I do not mind making a 60 second phone call to make a reservation vs. 30 seconds of figuring out how to tell Google what to do.

In this case Google is solving problems for rich socially awkward nerds. Not the majority of people.
Finally! I have a design concept that I wanted to propose but never got around it which would be very similar or even the complement, but without all the security details that I do not know how to do and that this API is strong on: https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/qj4g3rz8/

The browser could store several data points for each field so you can choose from a dropdown OR different user profiles so you can switch from "Francisco the freelancer" to "Francisco the open source guy" in the drop of a beat. Or per window to do both at the same time if that's your thing.

But anyway, this new Web Authentication API is really, really awesome to remove passwords forever. Now we need the last one, which would be closer to my design concept to even remove the manually adding all those fields: Web Identity API.
I think you mean subjective, not objective? I do think reckless driving laws need to be modified, also. Here's an example, from Mississippi [1]:

> Any person who drives any vehicle in such a manner as to indicate either a wilful or a wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving. Reckless driving shall be considered a greater offense than careless driving.

> Every person convicted of reckless driving shall be punished upon a first conviction by a fine of not less than Five Dollars ($ 5.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($ 100.00), and on a second or subsequent conviction he may be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days or by a fine of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($ 500.00), or by both.

The way it's defined does seem a bit subjective. I'm sure this can be addressed, but at least in this example, it's not immediately clear to me how it can be improved. I would probably get some ideas by looking at other states. The penalties, however, could absolutely be increased. In comparison, the punishment for a first offense DUI [2]:

> (a) First offense DUI.

> (i) Upon conviction of any person for the first offense of violating subsection (1) of this section where chemical tests under Section 63-11-5 were given, or where chemical test results are not available, the person shall be fined not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($ 250.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($ 1,000.00), or imprisoned for not more than forty-eight (48) hours in jail, or both; the court shall order the person to attend and complete an alcohol safety education program as provided in Section 63-11-32 within six (6) months of sentencing. The court may substitute attendance at a victim impact panel instead of forty-eight (48) hours in jail.

> (ii) Suspension of commercial driving privileges is governed by Section 63-1-216.

> (iii) A qualifying first offense may be nonadjudicated by the court under subsection (14) of this section. The holder of a commercial driver's license or a commercial learning permit at the time of the offense is ineligible for nonadjudication.

> (iv) Eligibility for an interlock-restricted license is governed by Section 63-11-31 and suspension of regular driving privileges is governed by Section 63-11-23.

The penalties are much more, though the end result of the illegal act itself are the same. The only difference is that you drank a couple beers instead of taking your prescription medications. I picked Mississippi simply because I live here currently, but it's similar with all the states I've looked at.

[1] https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/2013/title-63/chapt...
[2] https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/2017/title-63/chapt...
It won't be annoying, because the other person is going to want to have an AI screen their phone calls and the two systems can just figure out the most likely time the humans want to hang out and then get them to confirm.

Employing an AI to be your personal assistant is at least as moral as employing a human to be your personal assistant. Perhaps more, given the very limited lifespan humans have.
I can definitely see how that could be annoying, especially if the system killed a transaction mid-conversation with "Oh, I apologize; I found a better offer elsewhere. Goodbye."

So, y'know, they should probably not do that. ;)
I wonder what happens if you execute multiple POP SS instructions. In fact, you could set up a 64K v86 mode segment containing only copies of the POP SS instruction. jmp far into it. When IP reaches the last instruction it wraps around and starts again. Will it ever be interrupted by anything? If the stack usage bothers it, just do MOV SS,AX
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They use it internally. It’s equally shitty, but it makes enough money no one cares.
You wrote all that nonsense and all you did was reinforce your own idiocy.
Skype for Business is actually being deprecated and replaced with Microsoft Teams[0].

Microsoft Teams is impressive that it actually manages to have a worse desktop client than Skype for Business, and the web site is barely any better. If people on O365 haven't used it, they should since Microsoft will force it on you sooner or later.

It is like Microsoft wanted to clone a bunch of popular services (e.g. Slack) and just mashed them all together without a care in the world, and to top it off had to make a bad UWP desktop application that needed touch support so they cut 90% of common features to fit in enough voidspace into the UI for touch.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/faq-journey
If it is indeed true that you are primarily a Java dev who has never used Lisp, I am impressed by how well you managed to ask a question in an area where you must have very little familiarity.
More accurately: the manager isn't, strictly speaking, being "distracted" - the meetings and other such "interruptions" are a core part of their job.

This was something I never properly appreciated before becoming a consultant. As you become more and more responsible for managerial tasks - direction, product / technical vision, coordination, scheduling / estimates, recruiting / hiring / onboarding, "selling" the product internally / externally, developing robust processes around common tasks, etc. - you need to appreciate that communication is, properly wielded, an incredible time-saver.

Some of my most productive days have been ones where I didn't touch a line of code; instead, I helped clearly define the problem at hand, or helped onboard a fantastic new hire. These are the sorts of days that save you somewhere between weeks and years of time, depending on the importance of the problems / decisions involved.

Conversely, I find many engineers are limited in their careers by a blind focus on "productivity" - forgetting that it's often not about superhuman individual effort, but rather about sustained, intelligent, and proactive team effort. (Not to mention that "seat time", "working hours", etc. slowly become proxy metrics for "productivity", thus ensuring burnout, mistakes, and wasted effort.)
Deaf and mute are good counter examples. I know that Google quoted 60% who don't have websites but that figure should only ever get smaller. Such an impersonal interaction works perfectly through the web.

I'm not a fan of calling people either (I've put off finding a local doctor for a year because I don't want to go through the awkwardness) but starting a relationship with an important client using a not quiet real 'assistant' would start off the relationship in the wrong foot. Certainly if someone calls me using this I'll think that they can't even be bothered to speak to me personally and so I'm not worth their time.
In most cases sure. But, there will always be corner cases, places where solar panels don't make economic sense.
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Amazon is the new IBM. Knock yourself out and jump into the AWS ecosystem. In a few years down the line, you'll understand that you've lost the leverage you had to potentially take your public cloud business somewhere else when you have so many dependencies on Amazon tech. Basic principles from my view: don't adopt anything but standard EC2/S3 services and create diversity not only in your teams but in your infrastructure policies.
I find the CADT development model is surprisingly good at explaining most software engineering trainwrecks these days: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
GOOG-411 likely gave Google a large datasource for voice training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
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" mice whose fathers grew in environmentally enriched cage have better LTP". That's basically what the study says, and they attribute it to epigenetic effects through some miRNA. The effect lasted for 1 generation.

How can someone take that, put an image of a human baby and start talking about "smart babies" and "fathers who exercise" is beyond me.
> It's good to know that Aurora will try. It's not like it needs to be reliable or anything.

"Reliable" isn't a binary concept. There's no service that is 100% reliable.

Having a solution that works 99.99% of the time (which is "only" four nines) is probably good enough that people are willing to use it as a last-resort. (From what it seems, it's included for free, so it's not like this costs you anything anyway - at worst, you end up where you would be if they hadn't released this).
I've seen a lot of bizarre app pivots in my day, but the VoIP-to-Snapchat clone pivot is by far the strangest. There is no planet on which it makes sense.

We also switched to Discord, which is kind of crazy if you think of it. An app for gamers working better for work than a Microsoft VoIP app.
You could look it up in the Land Registry in the UK if you wanted to, although it's often fairly easy to guess roughly when a house was built here from the style.
Right, you'd be out that $1 because the government is getting it -as it goes to the tax collector, and then it is distributed to all of society, or well, how that government currently allocates spending/resources.

It's not a matter of trying to beat the system, donating to a charity is an opportunity afforded by governments (not sure all of them do) to allow the individual an opportunity for the money to go to a specific cause instead of to society in general - which is why charities are regulated and have rules, albeit perhaps not regulated well enough.

Edit to add after you added to your comment:

Perhaps I better needed to separate (and improve) my understanding of taxes - and the distaste for how profits are realized in incentivized crypto-assets.

Thanks for engaging.
More importantly, how little do you value your time to allow yourself to care for something like this? Better go answer some e-mails instead...
> Not sure I'm looking forward to a continual game of "guess when it's a robot".

Something that already happens on dating services, for example. And makes one cynical.
I think bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies are little more than ponzi schemes, but that's kind of irrelevant here. Someone got lucky with their gamble on the coins, and they have generously donated lots of money from their winnings to worthwhile causes. They aren't doing it for fame or recognition, since they have stayed anonymous.

It doesn't matter whether or not you think this donor deserved the money in the first place. As long as the money wasn't stolen, then it simply came from other bitcoin investors/gamblers. It is their loss, and the charities' gain.
I disagree. To me email and IM are in he category of "time wasters". Well thought out emails are good. But short one-liners without much thought are more likely to be time wasters. And then the volume of corporate emails not tied directly to work are also time wasters. The time we waste to get a clean inbox should be counted.

I mean, both do have their uses. IM can be great for live debugging. But most IM's do not fall into that category.
This is a good time to mention ghetto-skype [1] which makes it semi-usable again. https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype
I have very mixed feelings about Google Assistant due to that. Being able to automate calling the hair salon seems like a thing from the dreams. Calling people is hard and painful. On the other side, letting your life be managed by an always online assistant connected to the biggest advertisement company harvesting every bits of information about you seems even scarier. I'll probably try to live as before, preparing for a phone call for a few days until finaly gathering the needed courage :P
To me, the hidden crux of this whole issue is "can this system be as effective to deal with as a human who is good at their job?"

If that condition is met or exceeded, none of this voice stuff will matter. People won't care if the system discloses it's nature, or sounds creepy, if their airline reservation change (or whatever) goes abnormally well.

If that condition is not met, which IMO it won't be in the near future, then we're just adding attempted manipulation and potential for abuse on top of an already bad UX.
> CSS user stylesheets for UX

Isn’t this, quite literally, what Gnome Shell Extensions are?

https://extensions.gnome.org/
You'd think, right?

I wouldn't hold my breath, though. My car insurance was set at about $900/year by my insurer for 5 or 6 years. In that time, they never once lowered the price, even though I had one or two tickets expire, had a perfect driving record during that time, and my car lost about half its value due to aging.

Only when I finally decided to get a new quote from my credit union - about $400 for the year (less than half I'd been paying for years) - did my current insurer offer to reduce to the close to that price which is what I would have been paying had I been a new customer with my current record.

In other words, corporations will find a way to extract the maximum possible from everyone.
Every model will be different, but the important thing is that the boundaries represent the frequencies within which the signal will stay above a particular threshold of amplitude. A good spec sheet will tell you that threshold, and I've seen things like -3, -6, or -10 dB. It will still pass audio outside of the range but at an undisclosed attenuation.
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