skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, we could make the same complaint in regards to the web - it's largely all plain-text on a line, as opposed to some form of compiled bytecode (I know, it's coming).

What we lose in using human speech for precision we make up in it being pretty much universal. Talk about an adaptable interface. You can phone the restaurant and do anything from reserving a table to ordering takeout to informing them that their cat is on fire.
Also, given that

1. these are regular padlocks;

2. Alice and Bob already have a secure communications channel along which information, but not objects, can flow (the Internet);

...then the puzzle has a "cheese" solution: just communicate the metrics of the key along your secure channel, and have your counterparty reproduce the key using them! Padlock keys are essentially number sequences :)
iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days
> Kurzweil and his followers believe this turning point will be reached around the year 2030, when biotechnology will enable a union between humans and genuinely intelligent computers and AI systems.

"2030". They are deluded. We're not even close to that sort of understanding. We're not even vaguely close to "genuinely intelligent computers and AI systems" let alone the rest of it.
It's not as cynical as that.

Microsoft provide the right tools at the right point in the business lifecycle.

Have you ever been in a company where That Spreadsheet is rebuilt "properly" at great expense by "people who know what they are doing" and then, the first time the business wants a change it takes more than an afternoon and everyone goes back to the spreadsheet again?

Some (most?) people aren't programmers and have no choice. Microsoft lets them be the masters of their own destiny.
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It doesn't really matter whether you give credence to IQ testing or not.

Oh yes, it does. It points the finger at whose policies are to blame for the reversal of improving fortunes for certain communities in the US.

If you do: It's clear that african americans have been marginalized, seeing as the results are separate from ethnicity as proven by the earlier study.

If you study immigrant and ethnically/culturally separate communities all around the world and all across history, two clear patterns show through. 1) Often a minority group's leaders keep their group culturally isolated to keep their local power. 2) Economic success of a minority group is linked to the degree of assimilation and integration into economic and cultural life of the surrounding culture.

The pattern across history is often that groups marginalize themselves.

It's against the narrative of the right as their platform is behind almost all of the marginalization of african americans.

Many african americans would disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EM_-QjAh8k
> I think that people who seriously consider living forever are deluding themselves

Deluding themselves as far as the viability, or as far as whether it would be a good thing? I have serious doubts that it will happen in my lifetime, but I am definitely sad about that. I'd much prefer to have the option to live forever.
I'm sorry but I disagree. What I see here is a massive multibillion dollar company undergoing a tremendous technological transformation in front of our eyes.

Machine Learning is being embedded into most of their products to make those products increasingly capable and useful that is not easy for other companies to replicate.

Those products are becoming personal and learn about you to the point that they will know more about you than you... I realize that this can lead to a scary future, but lots of useful things do.

These capabilities might look underwhelming but they are simply mind blowing given type of problems being solved.

More importantly, this technology and infrastructure are being put in the hands of developers outside of Google, so more fascinating things are yet to come.
And claw at your own eyes to make sure you are not in a VR :)
Serious question here - legally, what's the difference between a google-bot calling my place of business and a robocall, which is illegal in the US and California?
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A functional launchpad has to survive a launch. It needs tons of concrete, a proper heavy retractable tower, durable cables, water systems, and will be built with a lot of other support structures around it.

Instead of a hundred million dollars making a really nice launch pad, you can make a $1M gantry on a small foundation and some barebones tanks.
When the majority of written communications are composed from a few selected branches, the potential storage and transmission savings are huge!
How does a human detect a fake bad review?

The problem here is not replacing humans with algorithms, it's with replacing trusted humans with arbitrary humans (and not even checking whether one human is pretending to be many humans). This is the same problem with online forums and comment sections. We need a way to build a web of trust, so I can tap my network for reviews, but have a way to blacklist the shills who pop up.
No, that's not how this works. Firing is for behavior, and an org can decide on its own what standards it wants to set on proof, evidence, etc. of that behavior, and this is completely independent of whether that behavior is legal as well as the outcome of any prosecution for that behavior. There are legal remedies for "injustices" such as being expelled from a school, being excluded from an organization, being fired from a job, being libeled/slandered or defamed, and so on. This is the way society works and has always worked for thousands of years. The idea that this is "passing sentence without a tribunal" is bunk, these people are not serving sentences, society is choosing how it wants to interact with these individuals, just as it does in countless of other examples.
There is Tigase (http://tigase.net) written in Java with public instances tigase.im/sure.im
I'm comparing the lowest models that meet my needs. Why should I have to pretend there's not cheaper, less powerful handsets that can fulfill my needs just to make Apple look better?

(Granted, my strict needs could be met with one of TI's sub-$0.50 microcontrollers and a seven-segment display since they're "make phone calls" and "generate two-factor authentication codes")
The article disagrees:

> Today, we’re excited to announce that we have fixed this issue!
Glad to see greater adoption of Yubikeys, however there is still a long way to go. Speaking from experience writing a u2f_auth client library, browser support is still nascent and hacky. Edge, safari, and AWS would need to adopt it before I would truly consider it mainstream.

If anyone is considering adopting Yubikeys in their organization using a language that is not supported by one of their client libraries my email is in my profile and I would glad to help out to the best of my ability.
OS-level cursor spinners like the mac pinwheel have lost credibility, because they don't reliably indicate whether the system is temporarily unresponsive or needs to be restarted. Modern multitasking OSes have a wide range of situations in which they can become mostly unresponsive without actually crashing.

Spinners on the application or UI element level are more credible, but generally worse than a progress bar. They're still very useful as a comfort indicator for short delays.

Progress bars have very low credibility on Windows, because users have learned that they're basically useless as an indicator of wait time. A progress bar might get stuck at 7%, then suddenly rush to 100%; conversely, it might get stuck at 95% but never finish. The bar offers no real indication of the actual level of progress; in most cases, this could be greatly improved with a bit of educated guesswork.

A completely fictitious progress bar can be extremely credible, because it's totally predictable - if you need to create a 10 second delay, then it's easy to make the bar progress linearly from 0% to 100% in that time. Users learn very quickly that your progress bar tells the truth about how long they'll be waiting, even though it's lying about the reason for the wait.
BuzzFeed and HuffPost are on par with The Daily Wire and Breitbart News -- blatant propaganda ad nauseum.
Is it a bug that opening an excel spreadsheet in notepad gives something unreadable? Linux line endings are a type of file that notepad was never designed for.
The obvious flaw in a time-based lockout is that it needs a trusted measurement of the current time.

If law enforcement wants to bypass this, the obvious approach would be to just remove the battery (to remove power from any internal RTC chip) and put the device in a Faraday cage (to block external time signals like GPS and the cell network). Then the shutdown clock would literally stop ticking until they turn it on again.
Legal wonks:

I know biometric identification isn't afforded the same protection by law on the basis that biometrics are public (e.g. fingerprints are left everywhere), but what about physical keys? FIDO2 is entirely analogous to a physical key, and it's not exactly public the way biomtrics are.

I'd still prefer a password for that added 5th amendment layer of protection, but I'm looking for what legal minds think about this right now.
The real limitation isn't "seven days", as that's not that annoying: it is that you can have at most three such apps. But frankly, that still doesn't provide much "protection" from bad apps. All it is doing is prevent all of the apps on your phone from being pirated (capping that at three), which bounds the damage from adding this feature.
On Android no such pairing system exists (except for USB debugging), you have to explicitly allow it every time you want to mount the device and no device shows up whatsoever, the USB data connection is disabled until after you pick a choice other than charging. You must unlock the phone and explicitly enabled the connection, I'd argue that's still better than the iOS implementation where an authentication interface is still available for 7 days even when locked.
It opens in incognito/private browsing for me just fine
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Meanwhile, we are still coding throughout the very same interface as 40 years ago: a keyboard.
This is what I want for family members: the end to passwords and the end to using Facebook (or even Google for that matter) to authenticate logins. I continue to lament the end of Mozilla Persona.
GDPR is a bit extreme. This isn't an observation on the goodness of it, simply that it requires extreme measures (relative to the status quo) for compliance.
Those images were generated using this website: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/10/popula...
Oh it is. I've listed more quirks here, from the testsuite I've written for all libc's.

https://rurban.github.io/safeclib/doc/safec-3.3/d1/dae/md_do...
The most common case for needing an external editor on Windows Server is default Notepad not supporting non-CRLF line endings. Unfortunately licensing would not allow transplanting the insider Notepad.exe to Windows Server, preventing the need for installing external software on the OS.
"Passwordless" single factor done by storing your password on the key isn't passwordless. You have a password. U2F replaces the password with a "bearer" authentication token - it's two-factor auth without the password, instead of a password-manager based approach.

The actual announcement in this blog post is Azure AD and Windows 10 integration, not anything new by Yubico.
So my biggest question here is: Is this Azure only? Each announcement about it seems to indicate that I might not be able to use this key with my local account PC.

Specifically, I have one use case computer where I have no screen, and getting through Windows login without it can be troublesome. I'd love to use this key to unlock it instead, but it's an offline machine.

I had this plan with Yubikey for Windows Hello, which has been out a while, and I bought a Yubikey, and discovered it could only unlock my Windows machine if it was locked (not logged out), which defeated the purpose entirely.
Yup potentially. The jury is still out on which will win, or whether both have their place!
I can hardly believe that people cannot control themselves to the point that adding features to disable the mobile use is a sell point.
How would the bot fair worse than a normal human in that situation?
You don't need a web service for that. The data is free, search for "SRTM" and download the continents you need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Radar_Topography_Missi...
I agree this can be a problem. I think the best vaccine against people going too far that direction though is honesty and a deeply understood sense of how we know what we think we know and how we can separate crazy-talk from legitimate possibilities. I guess, what I mean is that it's never to early to talk about epistemology, the scientific method, falsifiability, and the things that guide us down that sometimes narrow path.
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> I'd expect to tell it to book a 6pm table for 2 and wind up with an 8pm table for 10.

That's a win, consider: It's the right restaurant, on the right date and 10 is larger than 2 so there'll be room enough. Ok, you have to wait two hours but given that this tiny place is normally so busy you have to book in advance what you lost in time waiting you will more than make up by the fact that you'll be the only people there expecting service.
You're comparing different generations of technologies.
I think we're a lot closer to figuring out how to eliminate biological mortality (or at least greatly reduce it) than we are to any of this AI or brain-upload stuff.

After all, there's animals and other organisms out there that are effectively immortal (like the naked mole rat). I believe it won't be too long before we figure out how to eliminate aging in humans, perhaps requiring regular treatments of some sort, which isn't all that different from getting regular teeth cleanings (without which many of us would not have all our teeth).
I want to use this to fight spam calls.
They still need to have an available exploit. Now, they don’t have weeks or months to find one.
I assume that Apple is seeing some traction in their latest push to be the consumer privacy company and are putting more wood behind that arrow.
This one is a slippery slope and I don't know which side I fall on. On one hand, this badly restricts free speech. On the other hand, sometimes the act of simply hosting content can create unintended victims.

I was in a similar situation when I published a magazine. We had a fellow come in and offer us big bucks for a full page ad. Unfortunately, the full page ad had some nazi imagery. My partner and I were personally offended by the imagery, but we knew we couldn't only dress ourselves in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when it was convenient for us, or we would lose credibility.

In the end, we chose not to take the (business changing) sum of money because we knew that we couldn't possibly survive the backlash we would face from publishing it. It sucked because we were in publishing and no publisher wants to say no to any ad revenue because how do you ever offer any sort of editorial/sales separation again?

The sad thing is that, as individuals we agreed that we couldn't turn down the ad without losing credibility. But, we had a fiduciary duty to protect our corporation from a massive backlash, including the real possibility of vandalism (cyber or otherwise) or a massive exodus of paying clients.

If we were regulated as a utility, we wouldn't have had to make the decision. But, we also wouldn't have been able to publish 95% of the stuff we published and never would have reached a scale where we had to make those kinds of decisions.
Android blatantly copies the iPhone X navigation gestures
source: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/98588500154278297...
Can you please explain why Joy is simple to a non-programmer ? because all i see is verbose language, and i know some programming.
"(through some ridiculous miracle)" -> best part of your comment :-D
This change will eliminate most of my need for Notepad++.

It feels a bit wrong that it supports old MacOS CR though. Isn't that thoroughly obsolete, and encouraging its use only going to prolong its death, making it harder for everyone else to have to keep supporting it?
You're right the related articles stickied at the bottom is super-distracting, it draws the eye, and has to be dealt with before you can continue reading. It's an interruption plain an simple - not as bad as a layered modal - but it still introduces an element of work to the reading experience.

The really frustrating thing is it's for related articles and it's shown first thing on the page. How about giving me a god damn minute to read the article I clicked on before prompting me to read something else. Related articles are fine. But how about putting them at the bottom of the page? I guess this is an interface a team of geniuses creates when they optimize for engagement instead of content.

This is definitely an anti-pattern.
Who Shapes the Open Web? Interactive Tool Explores W3C Working Groups
Unfortunately, the keyboards we had 30-40 years ago were far superior to almost all the ones we have today. They've been getting steadily worse and worse, and have reached a new low now with the ultra-thin-key, ultra-low-travel, flat-top "island" keyboards that laptops all have today.
Bullshit apologism. Shareholders should lose their shirts, for the same reason Enron shareholders did. [Equifax did not commit fraud, but my point is that when a company through incompetence or malice damages 100s of millions of Americans...yeah, they should be dissolved from existence.]

Data breaches are only preventable when you have an inhumanly good security team. This is mot even possible for your average non-technically-inclined business leader.

Why don’t I have any say in all my financial transactions and “passwords” being sent to and vacuumed up by tech ologically incompetent, undeniably unethical bureau-corps?

It’s what I found so refreshing about Monero and other cruptocurrencies when I still used them (took a break from the scene). No one can steal your identity or your money withhout you yourself making a mistake.
Can someone from the research community comment on how this compares to the state of the art in open research?
Do Scots count as native English speakers? What about the Irish? English has a very large number of accents and dialects that all count as 'English', but typically speech recognition software only works one variety.
This is why I've taken to watching a lot of TV in languages I'm interested in. Challenges with such:

1. A program I'm actually interested in and with which I can engage. And access to same.

2. Differences between: Spoken and written language. Dialect versus "standard usage".

3. Passive as opposed to active participation. (Also, I seem to have forgotten my original point 3.)

Even when I'm not entirely certain, what I've gained through this gives me a starting point in having an idea of what the/a proper idiom may be, which I can then take to the Web if I need further research/verification.

I wish I'd had access to such resources when I was learning my first languages. Instead, I was largely limited to the classroom and the professor for such exposure. (In most of the U.S., and with other than Spanish and perhaps family and friends, foreign languages are -- were, certainly, a generation ago -- "far away".)

And music. I happened across some that I enjoyed. If nothing else, this helped give me more sense of the sound of the language.
Apple is being very Apple about it. They seem to have tried something that didn't work out or missed its market window so now they're trying something else which we'll only hear about if it succeeds and works really well.

Unless they partner with BMW and make the equivalent of the Motorola ROKR phone, I suppose...
Sounds like ether or one of the many projects built on it (golem?).
If you roll back your driver to an older version of GeForce Experience - one that doesn't require the nvidia account - wouldn't that let you pull down just driver updates?

eg as long as you don't update the GeForce Experience program, you should be ok?
Microsoft really goes the extra mile when it comes to backward compatibility. "Just in case you depend on Notepad being broken, we added a setting for you!"
On a related note to Amazon taking automation too far, I've noted that they seem to have some serious problems with categorizing products. For weeks and weeks now, in my recommendations are "Men's watches" [1] which are almost always comprised mostly of SSDs and flash drives. The flash drive in question's product page lists it as the "#1 best seller in Men's Watches" and my guess is that SSDs are close enough to a flash drive to also get pulled into the mix. It's frustrating to see large companies with offices full of developers making such public mistakes and then pushing broken technology further.

1: https://i.imgur.com/Sp7Yd5s.png
Crazy! Looks similar to Upcall.com where they have real people calling for you.
I've been developing a strongly-typed Ruby library for generating JSON-LD that might be interesting or useful: https://github.com/public-law/schema-dot-org
Google Assistant's Real World Demo – Booking a Haircut on the Phone
Kinda impressed it launched on multiple manufacturers and devices, this is something Google's been unable to accomplish for the past nine years. I assume this is a Project Treble perk.
While true, but the UI for these is pretty bad afaik.

There is value in improving the UI for less experienced devs / non technical users.

Might be worth exploring other markets?
Ad companies that specialize in re-targeting are going to have an absolute blast with this!
No new hardware this year? The rest was quite impressive.
At last, putting the power of annoying robot phone trees in the hands of the consumer, to be directed at businesses.

For that reason alone, I'm excited. ;)

(Note: In fairness, the conversation demos are actually really slick and much better than a phone tree. I'll be interested to see how well it works in practice.)
"It looks like you're writing an email! Would you like help?"
Would you go back to those days?

In my twenties when I left the military I lost the ability to pay back my debts. It took me some 9 years to decide to clean up my credit. Living without a credit score is absolutely possible right now.