skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoom is much better than Hangouts because it is allowed to use UDP where Hangouts uses the browser and uses TCP which means that Zoom can continue quicker with slow packages or just discard them where Hangout has to get all the packages.
Because PC's were maybe only 60% of the actual software development market and there were a lot of us hackers whose "parochial" needs involved getting stuff to work across both platforms. Were you actually there?

I mean, Notepad is a silly thing, sure. But the crazy spec incompatibilities between MSVC and the C9x and C++03 standards were a huge source of grief for me personally. And the mess caused by Microsoft's "Java" implementation was straight up evil.
Windows 10 still has plenty of "optional features". Two ways of viewing these - Settings/Apps/Manage Optional Features (For instance, if you want to install openSSH, this is where you'd do it). Also, Control Panel/Programs and Features/Turn Windows Features On or Off. This is where you'd install the telnet client, container support, Hyper-V, tftp, etc.
there's a podcast of those, called "seminars about long term thinking" that is amazing.
Seems to not be rendering correctly, then. I although I see "Nouméa" in the return trip, it renders as going directly from Auckland to Gladstone.
‘I saved them because I’m a superhero’ 4YO donates bone marrow to baby brothers
Same here; lot of battery life too under Ubuntu/i3.
Sure, would you mind explaining what you did?
So I’m not the only one who thinks McDonalds coke is foul. Coke is supposed to be fizzy, and burn a bit going down. I don’t know what the hell McDonalds does. The only thing I can drink there is unsweetened ice tea.
it is NOT about law enforcement.

Law enforcement could get this before 1 week (NSA) or force the company to add a backdoor (FBI)

This is more likely about reducing the market for stolen phones.
Eshell as a main shell
>> By "solve end-to-end problems" I only mean that we show how to do the whole process from beginning to end (...)

Then why not write just that? What is the point of using language that implies you can teach people how to solve a very hard problem that nobody knows how to solve yet?

I find it extremely disreputable to claim to be able to accomplish feats that go far beyond the limits of current technology. That is the tactic of charlatans and snake oil salesmen, not of scientists and technologists.
CF.lumen can do this on rooted devices. I have it set up to apply a gradually-increasing f.lux-like effect as the day turns to night, and then switch to a red-channel-only color mode past midnight.
Lol, but if you think about it, what stops businesses from doing this today?

It's the lack of a universal API.

If a barber shop wants to make it possible for a 3rd party app to book appointments then they have to release some API. But that's not the end of it. The 3rd party app has to first discover their Api, someone has to understand it and write code to use it, and then deploy that code.

This is a problem today because there is no universal Api that all services can use

With Duplex, verbals speech becomes a universal Api that every service can parse and communicate to each other wtih. Also, the discoverability is taken care of by using publicly cataloged phone numbers on services like Google Maps, Yelp, etc
The true irony is that Duplex uses "um" and "uhh" to sound more human... Gizmodo nicely displays the need for programmed language errors
So much this.

Frankly, the more I use a ChromeBook myself, the less I want to use another mainstream OS for day-to-day computing. I don't game or do much photo / video editing so I go weeks at the time on the ChromeBook without reaching for something else. It's nice having a computer that I genuinely don't need to think about.

Next step is ditching my work-provided Windows laptop for a ChromeBook...
IMHO the whole amd64 was poorly designed. A misguided attempt at "cleaning up" the architecture by removing features that actually turn out to be quite useful and in active use, so much that they had to put some of those features back in later revisions (with feature bits, creating further mess):

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=25

https://github.com/dynamorio/dynamorio/issues/181

Especially in the case of LAHF/SAHF, it's not like they reused the opcode for something else --- since amd64 processors must be able to execute 16 and 32-bit code, the circuitry required to execute those instructions is there and perfectly functional; they just inexplicably become invalid in 64-bit mode. AMD could've made it far more seamless and compatible; instead they seemingly ripped stuff out without much consideration of what could be depending on it, hence the strange invalidation of certain instructions and the absurd semi-presence of segmentation.

For example, they could've made segmentation disappear completely (and certainly break more applications...) in 64-bit mode, reassigning all the opcodes related to their usage, etc.; or they could've fit 64-bit segments into the existing segmentation model, but the current "segmentation half-working" state is just bizarre.
Europe's New Data Privacy Rules Will Make Facebook and Google More Powerful
I've not thought of that, but it's something I'd be willing to try.

Our contract does not define how things will be resolved in a conflict. Basically we end up deadlocked and nothing happens until one capitulates. This has resulted in absurd scenarios that I would be too embarrassed to admit.

If we manage to survive this crisis I there is a lot of work to do in order to fix things. There is a lot of built up damage.
Isn't this why MOVSS interrupt shadowing exists?
You are joking, but it's not funny in the future. :S
Forget fake reviews... I'm encountering alarming level of fake products on Amazon. If you are buying batteries, water filters, razor blades, power cords, sun glasses etc then you are likely buying fake products pushed from China with same branding as the real thing. These items are usually even marked as "Prime" and "shipped by Amazon" and many qualifying for same day free shipping for prime members. So naive customers would go on to trust this and have no clue they are getting fake products made in China but warehoused and shipped by Amazon's awesome logistic system. For lot of high margin recurring items, fake producers are minting mountain of money these days.
Pretty off topic but I've always wondered if AI could help reduce static/interference in live radio streams
My experience as a parent and in talking to other parents says yes, it eludes most anyone I ever talk to about it.

Also the 33 point on the post tell me at least 33 more people found it interesting than did not.
Not a collab resource but the best resource I know of: Between Parent and Child - H. G. Ginott
Be aware that for a number of cultures "burnt offerings" were more like "roast offerings". They often eat the cooked meat. This is one of the ways that the priests got food.
With the 9 cell I get easily 15 hours while developing. Not sure which Chromebooks you are talking about. But I prefer the x220 over the 230. Haven't tried the 240 which is now starting to get cheap second hand here.
Well you would think your employees using a different service tells you more about your product than them. What a lost opportunity to learn.
I love the cognitive dissonance here. The same people attacking google for monitoring/storing private information and manipulating users are celebrating google for monitoring/storing private information and manipulating users.

They don't want "daddy google" but yet they want "daddy google" to tell them how much youtube to watch, what to search, when to go to bed, etc.

When google starts talking in a paternalistic manner, I worry. And my skeptical side just sees this as google's ploy to justify monitoring people. "Hey, we keep your private information and monitor you for your benefit.". Yeah right.
As crazy as it seems at first glance, a double Duplex system would be a really beneficial result.

What stops businesses from setting up Apis from scheduling services today? It's the lack of a universal API.

If a barber shop wants to make it possible for a 3rd party app to book appointments then they have to release some API. But that's not the end of it. The 3rd party app has to first discover their Api, someone has to understand it and write code to use it, and then deploy that code.

I'll repeat for emphasis: This is mainly a problem today because there is no universal Api that all services can use

With Duplex, verbals speech becomes a universal Api that every service can parse and communicate to each other with. Also, the discoverability is taken care of by using publicly cataloged phone numbers on services like Google Maps, Yelp, etc
Everyone's doing it, so it's OK?
To clarify, Firefox for Android has full extension support, so you can install NoScript, uBlock, and what have you just as you would on a desktop browser.
The best way to think of this may be that Mark and the executives at FB are like a VC firm funding a new skunkworks project in a high-risk, high-reward category. Let's say there is a 10% chance that blockchain ends up being incredibly relevant to the future of social networks. It would make sense for FB to make what amounts to a seed investment in the space, knowing that it could very likely not amount to anything.
Don't think you deserve the downvotes though you do come off snarky =D

But I always reply the same way to people who preach mindfulness and meditation to me.

I've independently studied the stoics, the east etc etc for years. And always made my time for "vita contemplativa" which doesn't necessarily mean sitting down trying to escape thought.

I am generally much more grounded than anyone even telling me to do it.

Highly recommend these two scholarly volumes about Eastern philosophy -> https://www.amazon.com/History-Chinese-Philosophy-Vol-Philos...

Can't find the matching references, but he speaks of meditation actually beginning as a walking ritual. There is also a chapter on the Taoist's who found mindfulness through being drunk aha

Edit: Also obligatory Nietzche quote -> "Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world"
This is part one of five. Here are the other 4:

Superconducting Optoelectronic Neurons II: Receiver Circuits: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02599

Superconducting Optoelectronic Neurons III: Synaptic Plasticity: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01937

Superconducting Optoelectronic Neurons IV: Transmitter Circuits: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01941

Superconducting Optoelectronic Neurons V: Networks and Scaling: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01942

It's so ambitious and so questionable at the same time. I'd classify it as hard science fiction, like a really good Orion's Arm entry, if the authors weren't from NIST.

Final two discussion paragraphs from paper V:

While it may be difficult to build systems larger than 10 billion neurons in the near term, such a system is not physically limited. Like the brain, such limits will be incurred due to the velocity of signal propagation. From Fig. 6(c) we know that networks as large as data centers can sustain coherent oscillations at 1 MHz. Such a facility would house 10^8 300 mm wafers if they were stacked 100 deep. This would result in 100 trillion neurons per data center across modules interconnected with another power law distribution.

Networks need not oscillate at 1 MHz, and if they supported system-wide activity at 1 kHz—faster than any oscillation of the human brain—the neuronal pool could occupy a significant fraction of the earth’s surface and employ quintillions of neurons. We do not wish to cover earth in such devices, but asteroids provide ample, uncontroversial real estate. The materials for this hardware are abundant on M-type and S-type asteroids [76–80]. It appears possible for an asteroid belt to form the nodes and light to form the edges of a solar-system scale intelligent network. Asteroids can be separated by billions of meters, so light-speed communication delays may be several seconds or longer. For cognitive systems oscillating up to 20 MHz, such delays would cause individual modules to operate as separate cognitive systems, much like a society of humans.

Apart from the breathtaking scale of speculation -- which one could admittedly also find to good effect in older papers about e.g. nuclear power -- there is a more concrete question. What's the all-in energy cost-per-operation vs. conventional hardware, CMOS devices operating above room temperature? Operating at liquid helium temperatures dramatically shrinks the on-chip power demand, and then the cryocooler dramatically re-inflates it. Lab scale production of liquid helium takes ~570 watts of wall-plug power to produce 1 watt of cooling near 4.2 K [1]. At the wall plug, cryogenic cooling systems included, how does this design compare to existing hardware on power and speed for neural network training or inference? AFAICT, the authors do not attempt to estimate such a figure of merit.

[1] Basics of low-temperature refrigeration: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1974048/files/arXiv:1501.07392.pd...
This is fraud and against Amazon Seller TOS. Reporting is really appreciated by all honest sellers :)
The Age of Reasonabilism
I doubt there's an exact definition, but to me "show" can mean that it will bring up an entirely new view (some existing UI element), whereas "surface" means it will be inserted into the context already being discussed.

That is, "surface" means the data is brought to you in your current context, whereas "view" means you are taking to a new context that includes the data.

In this discussion, they are saying that when you search for "lyft" in on-device google search, it will incorporate Lyft info into the search results, as opposed to giving you an option to launch the Lyft app.

So when they say "we will surface this data" they mean we will show it, not that we will allow the normal software to show it like normal.
the notifications aspect of this mimics a lot of the functionality of my Ultimate Alerts app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.org.imsono...

been out for 7 years! :)
Just don't use them. Unlike in iOS, you can replace all those apps with other apps that you prefer. No rooting or jailbreaking required. If you don't like Google Assistant, you can use Alexa or Cortana or something entirely different. If you don't like Siri on iOS, tough luck.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17328758/amazon-alexa-defa...
What serious consulting company in the amazon seller space charges less than 1k to do anything? I have yet to find any, and reinstatement handling usually starts at 2-2500, sometimes more for the ones run by lawyers or high-level former amazonians
some would construe this as a gesture of more faith -- not less. it's generally wiser to put the best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest products. sometimes, they are one and the same, but often they diverge.

the roadmap and strategy for messenger are defined. marcus oversaw a bunch of experiments, and it seems like the results are in and the experiments over. what you need now is someone who can execute the messenger strategy.

bitcoin, however, remains undefined. it could be a blue ocean of opportunity and reshape the world; it could also be a wasteland and memorialized as digital tulips. the last thing zuckerberg wants is fb degenerating into ballmer-era microsoft or fiorina-era hp, ignoring tomorrow's dollars for today's dimes.

someone like marcus could retire and do whatever, so if he's staying, it's likely because he both likes it and sees the opportunity. what's more impressive is zuckerberg convincing marcus to stick around.
>> I wouldn't call this model a solution for natural language translation, nor would anyone else.

Well, the passage I quote, by fast.ai, does exactly that.
Location tracking requires specific permission from the user, not as part of installation. I think you're a bit out of date.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/deve...
The Bay Area is so expensive divorced parents can't afford to live separately
The exact spelling for Japanese is a lot more reasonable, though. In English there are lots of spellings for the same pronunciation. In Japanese there is only one spelling for each pronunciation. If you get it wrong, then you are writing a different word and there is very little you can do in the general case.

Of course the problem with romaji is our habit of spelling things wrong :-) To highlight the irony, "romaji" in Japanese is ローマ字 (literally roman (Roma) characters (Ji)). The ロ is "ro", the マ is "ma" and the 字 is "ji". But there is one character left! ー extends the "o" sound for the "ro" for one extra "beat" (Japanese is a rhythmical language). I don't even know the correct transliteration for this other than "rōmaji". For Wāpuro rōmaji I think I would enter "roumaji", but I think this is not actually correct romanisation.

Even to this day I mispronounce that word because of stupid romaji :-)
Transcendental meditation is probably the trance like one you have in mind, and that's very different from the far more established Buddhist practice of "mindfulness" which is traditionally practiced via meditation. Transcendental meditation is just repeating a nonsense phrase over and over. Both practices typically have you sit still for 15 minutes, but that's where the similarities end.

Mindfulness practice encompasses cultivating awareness of internal states, so the HALT thing can be seen as a limited form of that. The meditation aspect is typically used more to practice non-reactivity, body awareness, and to understand the temporary nature of things. For example, in one practice you sit still and make a mental note of all the sounds you hear. You hear them start and end, consider the qualities of the sound (loud, rhythmic, high pitch, etc) and you notice your reaction to them (do you get startled when the ice maker goes off? Are the sounds of birds calming?). You allow yourself to welcome new sounds into your perception, and try not to linger or dwell on old ones when they're gone. Obviously it's not directly practical to most things, but the idea is that you learn to feel alright with the temporary nature of things, pleasant or unpleasant, and can then apply that to your own emotions or other external situations.
Political freedom alone won't solve tainted milk in China. People don't have the time or energy to audit every food product they purchase, establishing minimum standards to prevent death or injury from harmful food is one of the least costly ways to deal with the root issue.
Backdoor in ssh-decorator PyPI package
Automating Myself Out of Static IP Paywalls
It's not just about the user. There's no open, universally agreed upon booking system API...except for human voice.

This is creating a natural-language based booking API that any system or business can tap into
Fastmail also.
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8hvzja/backdoor_in_...
Well it is probably a good reason not to describe it as a fad that will be gone in twenty years, as the GP did.

Though of course there have always been ephemeral fads surrounding Buddhism, which have come and gone. Employer-provided mindfulness consulting is likely one of them.
This is pretty subjective, but I spend a lot more time typing than using the touchpad and while the MBPs touchpad may be nicer, I think the MacBook keyboards can't hold a candle to ThinkPad keyboards. I'm happy to trade a worse touchpad for that any day.
And the only flaw is it cuts off in the middle of messages if you try to type "daily driver"?
yup. which is why "testfile1" was not in the result of the original experiment:

$ ls | grep "echo ${data}"
testfile10
testfile2
...
75% Chrome traffic is now over HTTPS
Similar to lens flares in (first person) video games.
Hmm. Maybe a good step would be not implementing policies which make people worse off:

Google Bans Bail Bond Ads, Invites Regulation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17020444
You can use other identity providers for Azure AD. Shibboleth is supported, F5 and Ping are certified, there are others. If you use a different LDAP system than AD you can also sync your identities to Azure AD. OpenLDAP or one of the commercial vendors. It might be a little more elbow grease, but it works.
> The whole thing feels stuck a decade ago.

Says the macOS user... did you even get a newer version of bash yet? I heard even Debian stable has a newer bash version than macOS.
All of those apps exist in AOSP and have many open source equivalents not developed by Google. The platform that those apps run on is just as open now as it was in the G1 days.
Also, in the WeChat model, everyone is tied to WeChat and can't go around it.

This voice based model can be integrated into any existing system. It already has the network effect going for it and it's not tied to the fate of any one company
I've spent a lot of time trying to come up with a business case for this problem. Something like : 'For $x I will call your bank/real estate agent/local council/supplier and sort out $problem. If I don't solve it, you don't pay'. Somewhere between a lawyer and a PA.

But I couldn't get around the privacy implications - I'd need all your passwords, birth dates etc and would need to either certify myself as your agent, or pretend to be you.

Edit: dizzystar and other below actually do just this thing for dealing with Amazon
can we access network / tun/tap stuff?
You have to write a dll. It's not that big of a deal. That being said, I doubt there's much benefit to it when everything is said and done. (From a windows client perspective.)
I would agree with you in principle, but this is just another one of those spam sites that flood the search results with useless crap when you're looking for bookz; there's no copyright infringement here, just spam. They're easily distinguished from "real" PDFs of books because the text clearly doesn't make any sense.

Thus, in a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" sort of way, I'm thankful for the OP for removing another fake ebook site from the Internet.
All of it. The article is about the Android platform, not about any Google services or apps.
> preferred payment provider

This was not about a payment provider. It was about their employer. If you can't promote your own product then Marcus was right - go find something else to do
>I can't tell you how excited I am about this announcement.

You are excited that google is going to continue to monitor and spy on their users?

> Edit: I should add that while my hope is that ultimately Google's 'wellbeing' algorithm will align with my own internal one

Why should everyone adhere to your "wellbeing"?

> For example, I have a cronjob on my laptop that shuts it down every day at midnight.

Are you incapable of just going to sleep? Do you really need a cronjob to shutdown your laptop? Why do you assume that your lack of self control projects to everyone else?

Instead of looking to google or tech companies, why don't you develop self-control? Do you leave your TV on and then complain that broadcasters aren't coming to your home and turning it off for you? People like you scare me because you have a tyrannical mindset. The "everyone must be like me or they should all be forced to be like me" mindset.
Facebook introduces built-in NLP for Pages