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>Don’t blame the email

I blame the unspoken expectations that come with email. Email is, in my experience, a political problem rather than a productivity bug.

Requests for support on active bugs comes through email. Your manager will request features, or ask questions about your code and status, through email. Coworkers on different teams collaborate through email.

To not answer these emails immediately probably would not lead to readily apparent punishment, nor would my manager say “he insisted” I respond that quickly, but other coworkers who prioritize these active issues, are ultimately more visible, promote faster, and get bigger bonuses.

By choosing not to play the email game, in many cases, you won’t be punished, but you won’t be rewarded either.
You compare it to slack, of all things?
taking restaurant reservations from a computer and getting infected by syphilis are definitely the same thing

> If someone doesn't want to talk to you (or your bot), why not just leave them alone? It's not their job to be your guinea pig.

it is their job to take reservations over the phone
It makes me think of old text based adventure games where you type in "open door" or "draw gun". All these complex "A.I." based voice assistants still break down to the vocabulary problem. They try to solve the general case by not giving humans/customers the language spec.

There is probably more than just an AI that does speech to text and then a second phase interpreter. I suspect there is some AI in the first layer of Siri/OKGoogle/Alexa that uses context clues to narrow down what you're asking, but who knows for sure. It's a big black box.

Eventually it's like the 90s again where you type "Get ye flask" and you get a box saying, "You cannot get ye flask" and you're left playing Peasants Quest asking, "Why in the world can I not 'get ye flask?!'"
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There probably isn't a lot of fear with using RDS. They just do management for you, it isn't any fundamentally different technology that would cause heartache during a migration. Just stay away from Aurora if you care about this.

SQS: There's AWS MQ, which is based on ActiveMQ and supports AMQP. If you're going with a more CNCF-focused stack and want to use NATS, I'm not aware of any hosted options.
Ha, it's because no one at Google pictured themselves as the one on the other end of the phone taking the orders.

Because phoning in for restaurant reservations is only the beginning. Ask yourself now - in a few years, will you be one of the people giving orders to a digital assistant, or one of the (many more) receiving them?

"The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed."
I agree completely with your assessment. I used to gripe about SfB, but Teams is hilariously bad. Off the top of my head:

-200MB minimum memory usage whether you use the desktop app or in a browser. Usually much more

-Animated GIFs animate FOREVER with no way to turn them off, except by turning them off for everyone in your entire organization

-Attachments fail constantly

-Randomly takes over your SfB chats/calls

-Can't have more than 19 people in a chat channel at once

-Bots only work in the unintuitive, threaded "Teams" part that no one seems to grok, not the chat part that everyone actually uses

However I do like the ability to add random onenotes etc to channels, and to be fair it has been getting better, albeit slowly
>>Google publicly announce they're illegally recording calls in a two-party consent state

Why wouldn't they just run these tests in a one-party consent jurisdiction? From a quick google only 12 states are two-party. Nothing about the demo indicated to me it was done in California.
They still haven't fixed the coil whine? I've heard complaints about that since the first Dell XPS. Their forums were filled with them. Most reviews mentioned it. They used to even do motherboard replacements to fix it. Youd think their number one priority for their next-model power supply would be to eliminate that. No other manufacturer seems to have this issue.
Thanks for the pointer. Looks like the docs are scattered: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13107743/documentation-f...
Research team aims to measure micron-sized beams at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center
For the uninitiated: linking from HN to JWZ's blog has a slightly different effect than what you expect.
That's an interesting viewpoint, but I'm not sure margin of error matters, does it?

Ie, if 0.08 is the limit with a margin of error of 0.01, and you allow people to be in the margin of error, doesn't the limit simply become 0.09?

What if 0.08 was decided as the limit with a margin of error from 0.07?

At the end of the day, don't we always have hard limits? Whether the hard limit is before or after the margin of error seems to be a moot point in this discussion. And deciding that margin of error is a different discussion entirely, one mainly involved with the individual BAC testing units, effectiveness of BAC, etc.

edit: I feel like the down voter(s) are missing the point of my post. I was replying to someone in context of them saying that you cannot set a hard limit on which something is illegal. That is just silly. If a speed limit is 30mph with a margin of error of 2mph, than 33mph is over the speed limit. That is a hard limit you can absolutely set.
Makes me wonder how sperm motility correlates with offspring IQ.

And could an improved selection for higher sperm motility (e.g. by giving sperm some extra challenge before they reach the ovum), lead to higher IQ or some other beneficial trait?
How is peer-to-Internet--peer worse connectivity than peer-to-DC-to-peer for UDP streaming?

The peers aren't moving themselves to the DC to sit on their calls.
Most people exercise, most people don't play - there is a difference. Watch kids play, they are still exercising but having fun. Pick up a playful form of exercise. Mountain biking, skateboarding, BMX etc... Do it just to have fun, you will see a difference - more energy.
Well, I try new things all the time. For example, sometimes it finds an artist or song whose name contains the genre I was trying to play. I could approach 100% with "hey google, play" when something is paused (but not "hey google, stop" when it's playing, because of the ambient noise of whatever is playing making the wake word fail).
Maybe he works for an astroturfing company and he’s doing research...
> Should AI software that’s smart enough to trick humans be forced to disclose itself?

Yes, of course. I would even say it should be legal fraud not to, with severe consequences.
This is not good, the info density for the screen area is too low. This could have been one maybe two screens worth. Is this the credits to Friends? Am I consuming Lisp Content while chillin in my penthouse on my 20k couch using a gold plated IPad X Tablet?

Millennials are Killing Common Lisp.

one page, https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/
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> Doesn't vote != won't vote.

It actually does mean that most of the time. The most reliable predictor of whether or not someone will vote is whether or not they voted in past elections.
> on mice

And the article automatically relates it to humans, when absolutely no study has been done. Correlation to causation.
No it shouldn't identify itself unless asked.. That would defeat the purpose.
Dropbox badly needs to deliver today
There are ways to mitigate unintended side effects. Start with a small small number of farms, AB test with no seaweed, small amounts of seaweed, medium amounts of seaweed, large amounts of seaweed, also AB test on which Farmers know which sample they are getting, iterate next year on results with larger number of Farmers. Buy insurance to compensate Farmers if the seaweed kills them. Discover why they died. Iterate with solution (if possible) or cancel (if seaweed always results in eventual death). Continue to keep large population of seaweed free cattle to mitigate possibly of extinction via unexpected long term consequences of seaweed.
jwz.org links are banned at HackerNews. Please remove.
I actually switched to Fedora when Ubuntu Unity came out (after being a long time Ubuntu user of many years).

Gnome was a major reason for my switch. I didn't have time for unity (just like I gave up on KDE for the same reason).

Gnome is solid and looks beautiful these days.
I completely disagree with your line of thought. Automation is something that do make lives easier, and just because your personal experience tells you something, it doesn't mean that it will be the same for everyone. Like many others stated before, this is marvelous for the social awkward and the deficient, while also bringing a personal assistant for people with tight schedules or unable to make such calls for various reasons. Also, keep in mind that this kind of feature will most likely be present in your average Android smartphone, so basically everyone with access to one will be able to use it.
Skype for Android is unbelievably bad. I uninstalled it after the following:

- a spam bot texts me asking to connect - which, whatever.

- my locked phone wakes up from sleep and /launches into Skype/ to show me this exciting information

- it literally could be solved by a notification

- it is not configurable in settings

I can understand the "bypass lock screen" behavior for an incoming phone call, but this is such an unbelievably bad interaction even for contacts you do know, nevermind contacts you don't.

Skype engineers - and I know you're reading this - show this to your PMs.
Yes, I meant subjective. :\ I don't believe it's possible to define reckless driving objectively. Does crossing across a double-yellow line constitute reckless driving? What if you're doing it to avoid a deer? Or a pothole? Or at very low speed? What if you do it at the speed limit and there's no obstruction and there is heavy traffic, but a child in your car is choking and you're look back at them to make sure they're okay?

There are too many things that could be considered reckless and even more things that could be extenuating. The penalty for reckless driving could certainly be higher, though, since it's defined as willful or wanton disregard.

The DUI law you cited already covers prescription drugs, by the way. "Is under the influence of any other substance that has impaired the person's ability to operate a motor vehicle;"
100% yes.

I used to use skype with all my family. the MS bought it and quality noticeably dropped after redirecting all calls through their servers instead of p2p.

we moved to other services and except for my cousin no one uses it anymore in our family.

Move it back to p2p, improve call quality, and I'll recommend it again.
And if you hold the conversation in private, the more powerful status quo will always have more resources to quash the discussion if they don't come off so well. Which is also, I think, a big plus to lots of SSC readers.
> I sometimes wonder why Lisp has not been more popular in the technology industry.

Larry Wall said that a language should make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible. I think the problem is that Lisp doesn't make the easy things easy.

Before you tar and feather me, hear me out. There are two different ways in which Lisp doesn't make the easy things easy.

First, syntax. "But it's easy! In fact, it's the easiest!" you reply. But for the vast majority of programmers, Lisp syntax is not easy. You could argue that they just need to be trained. But the syntax is different enough that they are reluctant to try.

Second, installation and package management. This is part of what is now expected to be easy. If Lisp doesn't have an install and package management that is as easy as, say, Perl, that's a problem that will turn people off to Lisp.
I was far more concerned about the application of AI to healthcare. Did they not think about the possible abuse from telling hospitals or insurance companies which of their patients are very likely to need urgent care within the next week?
"What can I ask Google Assistant" also works. But I assume what you really mean is something out of band. Google Assistant actually does finish with a recommendation to see more in the app.
> I suspect most carbon that passes through a cow is exhaled as carbon dioxide.

That would mean that the cow gets higher nutritional value and can needs less food.
If induced demand in housing was actually a thing, silicon valley wouldn't be overpriced because everybody would pack up and move to Indianapolis, Dallas, or Houston, where housing is plentiful and nobody is stopping more from being built.

The reason prices keep going up when you build more has nothing to do with inducing demand. The demand was already there and already growing, for a million reasons you have no control over. Prices keep going up because you're not building enough. And if you refuse to accommodate or allow growth, you're gonna get displacement. The reason San Francisco has become a displacement nightmare is exactly because of the stupid induced demand myth, that somehow by not accommodating new arrivals that they'll just stop coming. San Francisco's problems are only the fault of people like you who refuse to accept economic reality.
> but I could have just installed a Windows VM, used VNC, shared the VNC session and gotten the same thing

I'm pretty sure there would be a noticeable(couple of seconds) lag between both incoming & outgoing audio to the VM making smooth flowing conversation near to impossible.
"Back in the old days, insmod and modprobe were synchronous"

No, back in the old days, CONFIG_MODULES was scary and new and the Veterans would have been demanding it be removed because "I want a working unix environment" and if they buy a new hardware device obviously they would install a C compiler and rebuild the operating system kernel to support the new device properly.

Now get off my lawn.
It's actually a perfect example of correlation to causation. The title could easily have been "fathers perpetually kept in cramped quarters produce dumb babies".
My Grandma escaped from the Nazis. Her opsec is better than mine.
A recent survey of iPhone X users backs up the notion that people aren't happy with it

https://techpinions.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Sh...
Can it also be used for SSH logins without much bending of the concepts?

And does it allow extensions, e.g. secure login through a smartwatch + NFC, and similar ideas?
your superfluous is my essential.

one thing is to start small, the other one to remove for the sake of removing
> It seems wilfully destructive to remove something that is depended on by so many without making sure there's a replacement in place first.

Could cut straight to the GNOME logo after that sentence. This is sort of what they do, yeah.
And they do have their niche with that, which is big enterprise-y, centrally administered systems.

If the user doesn't need to administer things themselves, then not exposing ways of administration in the GUI means less ways for the user to hurt themselves. Or rather to do something not so smart and then need tech support to fix it. Can't accidently hide your panel, if you actually cannot hide your panel at all.

I have no problem with one of the many desktop environments specializing in that, but the Linux desktop is mainly controlled by companies who then develop and set GNOME as default on their distros, which are also used by people who do need to administer their PC.

Ubuntu and Fedora have GNOME as default. Debian, too, which doesn't really have an opinion, but it's what they've always used and it's stable. Arch and Gentoo don't have an opinion at all, for obvious reasons.

openSUSE is still holding against, but SUSE uses GNOME in SLED, too, and has been spreading a sort of "We like all desktop environments in *SUSE-land"-mentality, which makes me feel like they're wanting to swap out KDE here, too, at some point.

But yeah, if you haven't yet, do yourself and the Linux desktop a favor and give KDE a fair try. Or pretty much anything else than GNOME.

I'm not saying it's impossible for you to like GNOME better, but there's so many desktop environments out there that are developed from users for users, which are actually objectively better than GNOME in so many categories. Even the most lightweight of desktop environments like LXDE/LXQt often have more features than GNOME.

And KDE is what you get when you take this feature per resource usage ratio of these lightweight environments and then multiply it by the resources that a modern system can easily provide. If you ever wanted to have all of the features and options that a desktop OS could have, KDE comes far too close to that. It's the flagship experience for power users (not the type that only ever wants to see a terminal).
I can imagine a lot of cases in the future where this goes awry and is abused, probably not directly by Google Duplex, but by homemade versions.

I think there should be a kind of non-jarring way for AIs to identify themselves - maybe playing three quick tones before the AI speaks - to identify that it isn't a human on the other hand and therefore shouldn't be able to say, order thousands of dollars of food. This is quick, unobtrusive, easy for an AI to do, and easy for an AI to detect.
IMO the success of services like Grubhub/Seamless and Opentable show that people really don't want to pick up the phone and call someone if they don't have to.
My experience with it was the switch to centralize significantly dropped quality and reliability, and my family ditched it alltogether about 6 months after.
I know a handful at Boeing (inc. family) and they're pretty representative of the American male population for their ages (meaning some healthy, some less healthy, with more in the latter than the former categories).

By the way, I'm talking literal rocket engineers in the sense that they work on ICBMs and counter systems as contractors for the US Government.
I don't bother taping over stuff. If you think about it, there are probably 10+ microphones in your room (Samsung TVs, phones, laptops, tablets, etc.)

I run 3rd party roms, Linux on all my dev/tv machines, disable Cortana on my gaming laptop, and hope there isn't something listening in all that trusted, untrusted and oss code I'm running.

I told my roommate I'd move out if he ever got an Alexa or Google home device. I do want to run Jarvis, or one of the OSS alternatives. Many of them send your data to Google/Amazon as well if you enable using their Speech-to-Text services, but they also have options for using local OSS decoders as well (and typically enable those by default).

Our phones are so powerful today there is no reason to send your speech to the cloud (someone else's computer). It should just be done locally; and tech should be improved so accuracy is improved locally without needing the larger datasets that Google/Amazon/Apple use.

More devs need to use the OSS assistance instead, and maybe that will push other engineers to no go the easy route and opt to protect their privacy instead.
You're saying the same thing as the comment you replied to. It didn't fail because it didn't work, it failed because people had unease about other people using it.
It's unbelievably respectful as an agreement between a profit focused business and their workers. It should be emulated.
The real problem is that Alexa and Siri increase your attack surface area to include every speaker in your home--including any cheapo Bluetooth or internet-connected speakers that could get hacked to produce these human-inaudible sounds.

(To be fair, I recall this specific point coming up in an HR thread about Alexa being able to open your door for Amazon deliveries, but I thought it was worth reiterating here.)
> With Linux, I have to check what the three identical guided partition options mean, check what a network mirror is, work out which server packages I need, work out what GRUB is.

While it is nice that you want to learn, you do not have to know any of that.
Boot, select disk, username+password, click next a few times, done.

And the (or create a local) part for windows is very non-obvious: https://superuser.com/questions/904673/can-i-install-windows...
ISPs serve more than just downtown urban areas.
yes, all popular forums (Baidu, Weibo, Zhihu etc) are moderated.
But to be honest, I feel like you misunderstood of the whole "monitored by government" situation in china. It's true that we can't discuss about certain history event or some sensetive policy (people still do that using code language or whatever). But I assure you no one is having fear discussing it, as long as you are not deliberately spreading those negative things in a large scale.
"Don’t bullshit. You don’t need a perfect business plan to get funded. If your business plan was perfect, everyone would throw money at you. Talk through what you know, share what you don’t know, and explain how you will work towards plugging the gap. Coming up with a vague answer on why your business has perfect defensibility (when it doesn’t) will just make you look like a clown."

I think it comes down to seeing the multiple paths towards scale, and not just as silo'ed options or all-in bets.

I've often found the overexuberance of other CEOs I've worked under a bit offputting -- up and to the right, and that whole shtick while brushing over the knowledge gaps and ultimately leaving VCs to fill it in themselves.

But this is a CPG after all, and not a software company so the aspirational path to scale is probably more linear and over a longer time scale than a company burning cash to bring a product to market.
Unless you can perfectly predict which calls are robocalls, assistant will end up talking to real people. If people know they're talking to a robot, there's a good chance they'll be annoyed.
Widgets on the phone work great because the launcher is where I end up every time I press the power key. Widgets on the desktop are useless because the desktop is always obscured by things I'm actively working on, and the only time I will see a widget is when I'm not using my computer for anything at all.
I'm sure it's possible to work 150 days a year now if you are okay with that standard of living.
That wouldn't change anything unless you require those tiny cheap appliances to be retained and used by the home buyer. You can't reduce all energy consumption with insulation and shade trees...
If a farmer were going to defraud the carbon tax system, what would they do with the seaweed they paid for?
Dog-folding

Microsoft Origami Club to the rescue!
But you wouldn't know to type xyzzy.
Why your startup has to do DevOps from day one
I just use Google Hangout. Microsoft Skype has become bloated adware.
> you're being fairly pretentious as if you're too busy to pick up the phone

I don't think this is a good argument. The same idea, applied to other domains, sounds outlandish:
- you're too busy to drive to the store to buy something [using Amazon]
- you're too busy to pick up a pen and write a letter [using email]
- you're too busy to pick up the phone [using SMS]

The progress of technology is literally about removing friction from tasks which previously took longer amounts of time, and (except at the beginning, maybe?) this is rarely interpreted as pretentiousness.

Of the non-technical people that I've spoken to about Duplex (only 4, admittedly), they were universally excited by the demo.

As far as the proliferation of scammers, I think you're absolutely correct. I think it's plausible that human callers will incorporate challenge-response questions to check for things like this ("Who is Batman's sidekick?", "If I were unfairly comparing two fruits, what would they be?", etc).

Then again, who's to say that Google will make their tech available outside the company? The accuracy of the demos probably largely stems from the massive dataset that Google has amassed, which won't be available to scammers.
Ditto. Iodine and Magnesium have eliminated my asthma and had other positive effects - no sugar crashes two hours after eating for example.
This is a very western view of China. I'm sure many Chinese millennials would disagree with you on their prospects within China.