skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be a more friendly way of rate-limiting expensive DB queries. An interstitial that says "too many queries, try again in 10 seconds" is far more annoying than a loading bar.
It's already happening. I'm getting robo calls from some police donation fund that will slow down and restart speaking if you interrupt them (took me a few moments to realize it was a recording).
I love technology. But I don't like what I see anymore. It's scary now. We are heading towards a dystopian future. My smartphone is now a black box in control of my life. I think I will just install a minimal Linux distribution and forget about these big corporations like Google, Apple and so.
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If you can't tell if your AI friend is real, are they not a real friend? They might not be human, but they will still be your friend, no?
> Ironically they may add that at some point, and Duplex just calls on my behalf without me even knowing.

Yup, good observation; seems highly likely, save for the 'without even knowing' bit... I would imagine you'd 'request to book' and an async Duplex operation would run in the background and send you a notification of the outcome / possibilities.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, you're correct and it's stated in the article that if you unlock with a passcode after 7 days the USB port begins to respond again.

Apple isn't going to design a feature that bricks a device after 7 days. It really simple:

1) No unlock for 7 days = USB turned off.

2) Unlock phone any time after 7 days (lets imagine unlocking at 12 days) and USB turns on.

3) Charging remains active at all times.

Simple.
This will, surprisingly, make my life easier. Awesome.
"essentially become conscious as something else in the same way that you found yourself in your current body."

There is no "you" in this scenario.
> What if the person was simply serving those files for himself over the internet

There are a couple of reasons to believe that this is not the case.

First, there were thousands of them. Someone having thousands of books is not unreasonable, of course, but both the breadth and depth of this collection is such that it is extremely unlikely it is someone's personal library.

Second, the PDFs aren't the actual books. They are just short blurbs describing the book and containing download deep links into bookfreenow.com. A couple examples [1] [2]. Clicking to create an account so you can start downloading redirects through some ad companies (and possibly some shady affiliate marketing companies), eventually reaching some download site (I think) that tells you no free slots are available and asks you to make an account.

(The bookfreenow.com pages for each book all seem to be the same template with just the book info substituted. Even the comments on the each page are from the same people, at the same times, and say the exact same things except they have the correct book title on each page. They aren't even trying to make it look like the comments are legit).

[1] http://bookfreenow.com/downloads/the-lm3900-a-new-current-di...

[2] http://bookfreenow.com/downloads/essential-orthopaedics-by-j...
It'd be trivial to detect if they transmit high-frequency noise over the line, and then fallback to DTMF tones.
You might be able to get away with writing a provisional on your own (the key is to be as broad as possible) but I wouldn't try to do a full utility application without a lawyer.
Well aren't the majority of what rabid pro life considers abortions taking some pills and having a bad morning or in some loonies cases putting on a condom?
Except Interac e-transfer is a debit, not a credit. Therefore if someone wants to pay by credit card, Interac option is not available.
I don't eat out very often any more, and I really don't miss it. I get better food at home, for less money, and counting travel time, it's probably faster too.
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Side note:

How is this blog design by Google considered "good"? Between the dropdown from the top when you scroll and the stickied footer, about a 1/3 of the page is easily readable (shoved into about 500px).

I'm not a designer. But this stuff is bad. How is this greenlit at Google?
Currently I'm working on a similar project. Building a GAN (generative adversarial network) for voice is a lot of work and testing, you need a big dataset for labeled voices. Wavenet currently support English[0]. Also you need a neural NLP model for this language.

[0]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices
Only slightly related bit does anyone have a good current take on how to get going on using RDF for something of value? I recently got interested through a colleague showing off his pet rdf setup, but the more I read the more I am just confused with the platora of dead/abandoned and renamed projects, different standards and tons of different shorter versions like this one. It really feels like everything on the topic is written both by and for people who have been active in the space continually since 2005, so for someone new it’s difficult to see where to start and what to avoid.
You have written "bad" comments and google, facebook, or twitter notified amazon and requested your account to be deleted

Think if tou was using amazon home key product

Dont ever let these liar companies to your life
sounds cool, I would be interested in a blog post. databases for highly constrained systems sounds interesting.
Science is fundamentally empirical, it serves no purpose to say "with extremely high likelyhood" behind every statement, its implicit in any scientific context.

The only thing this encourages is crap like creationism and flat earth theory because there is no way science is ACTUALLY SURE.
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So this is "crypto" meaning "crypto-currency", not meaning cryptography or cryptology.
Is it illegal for my secretary or father to make an appointment for me?
> If Google wants to lobby to get rid of bail bonds, more power to them. But focusing on bail bondsmen

Is exactly what lobbying to get rid of bail bonds is, but not what Google is doing.

Perhaps you meant “money bail”, not just “bail bonds”. But they are doing exactly that. Refusing to take money generated by that system and crediting people working to eliminate the system for that, directing media attention to the issue and established reform advocates, is a way of doing that.

> banning private businesses from “gouging” people by selling water at market rates feels good but actually hurts people

Yes, which is why it would be bad if Google, as you suggest, lobbied against bail bonds. But no one is banning bail bondsmen from selling their product, Google just isn't taking paid ads from the industry.
Listen to the audio examples. The person at the restaurant misheard the bot and repeated incorrect information back to it and it handled it in stride.
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I dual boot on my work and home computers (Windows 10, Linux). I use a lot of txt files as todo list, reminders, quick notes, etc. This are good news for me.
It's not restricted to emails, I've seen mobile push notifications from the app (which were enabled b/c of shipping notifications) asking me to respond. Tapping the notification brought me directly to the question.
I'm sure this is the main reason for the garbage answers, since it's as much work to answer as responding to a text.
Nice to see someone actually starting a Go powered XMPP server. I hope their breath is long enough to bring it to a competitive state.
It's perfectly appropriate when both systems are intended to enhance safety. It does not matter how the internals work, just that the system enhances the safety of your solution. It could be a webcam beaming images back to a bunch of Mechanical Turk operators and it wouldn't matter as long as it was proven to work.

It's not like Software of Unknown Provenance where it's running in the same execution environment and you don't have any control. This was a completely separate system with independent sensors that was marketed to stop the car in the exact situation the car failed to stop in. Disabling it was foolhardy.
That's not the problem.

The problem is that you want people to switch and then will change the terms later.

Literally a bait + switch. If you're going to offer it for free, then make some guarantees as to what the free level will contain for the future.
Maybe Google just doesn't want to profit directly from the problem?
I could write emails faster if, when composing an email, the "New Message" box did not cover up the email that I am reading and wanting to respond to. There used to be a function to tear off the "New Message" box, but I guess that was too confusing for people? Now I have to open another browser window if I want to look at an email and compose one at the same time.

I'd love to know if there is a good work around or trick to have the compose window open up in a separate window.
I like the idea of timeline along with factcheck. Given that the media is divided along partisan lines, 360 degree view of news might reduce the opinion divide among people, hopefully!
Why do you need a law like that when the person can vote with their wallet?
I'm jumping in to say that I agree with you. Our industry quite literally invented tools to make physical offices obsolete. Speaking as a tech person, it strikes me as hypocritical at best and self sabotaging at worse to maintain this interest in physical space as a marker of success.

But, then the marketing/sales part of my experience chimes in and I think of all the various times in my career that having physical space added to my credibility. I think of the sectors (government tech and financial tech instantly come to mind) where decisions makers are heavily moved by AAA office space. And, I think of how many times I've seen spending an obscene amount on rent actually convert into paying customers.

My inner developer is saying "right on" but my inner marketer/sales type is thinking of all these times when physical space has a positive ROI from a sales/marketing point of view.
Marketing is a dirty word to technoligsts. It implies the product needs manipulation to gain adoption... growth hacking strategies have been used by direct response marketers for over 100 years... while it originally was about piggybacking off an existing network of users and merged into data driven lean startupy tactics and eventually spread to all types of marketing...its intent was always the same...to give a new cool word to technologists so they dont have to feel dirty about doing marketing...

The truth is, everything that touches a prospect or customer is marketing. Treating your employees well is marketing. Your product is marketing. You are marketing...everything that impacts a decision to buy, even indirectly, is marketing...

It never was a dirty word...but as a marketer, I consider growth hacking to be a dirty word nowadays :(
Should use LetsEncrypt to add HTTPS.
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In three days (where possible). Equifax would have said it was not possible. The benefit of GDPR is that you could request that they delete any data they have on you. I also believe they wouldn't be able to collect this personal information in the first place since you don't have a business relationship with them.
That's now how this works, that's not how any of this works. If you have ever been cold called by Google I would go change your passwords and the like.
I missed that. Can someone link to that moment?
Ya, ever since products began being listed together in a single listing I've lost a lot of trust in the reviews. For example, when looking at dog beds I found listings where the reviews talked about different shapes, sizes, materials, colors, and manufacturers. Back when I first started using prime it was great because I could find good products quickly, while trusting the reviews and prices. In recent years I've drastically cut my purchasing from Amazon, because it takes much more time and effort to find high quality, authentic items with reasonable prices. I've been considering cancelling prime
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I also find shoe numbering bizarre. How could such a numbering system survive to this day? Why not use goddamn centimeters?

(Fortunately, e-stores selling shoes were bitten enough by the ridiculousness of that problem that they ended up providing scales translating shoe numbers to centimeters.)

Ultimately, the best workaround I've seen was the one the father of my SO used - he would measure the foot of his child, then cut a wooden stick to appropriate length, and go with that stick to the shoes store.
I am not sure what all this is supposed to enable us as customers or users to do. What I can see is a bunch of ways to avoid human contact including no longer calling people like a real human or not even choosing my own words in an email. But from the perspective of someone who dealt with Google's awful customer service, maybe they could use this in that regard to actually have a voice on the phone even if it isn't human.
Automation is a great thing until you see the human cost. At some point Google is going to have to use its vast capacities to not give people more time, instead give them more opportunities. For e.g. the DeepMind paper showing how to save energy - that was cool.
It's already happening, most people I know rarely, if ever, answer calls from unknown phone numbers.
$50 is a pretty amazing price point for something as flexible as a smartphone. However, you can get a perfectly usable used 5S for close to that range. Spend $15-40 extra and you can outfit it with new glass, screen, and battery, and it will feel like new, and probably perform at least as well as a brand new $50 Android.

You can get a free developer account that lets you develop and run your own programs since a couple of years.

I don’t know what you’re getting on about with ASICS, but I guess you may just need to accept being in a niche market segment.
Sounds like we are pretty similar. I just never saw the benefit as an employee or a manager. I really hate meetings that are unproductive, and weekly 1-on-1s always felt that way.
Thanks for the help :)
The vulnerability that GrayKey exploits isn't known: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/03/05/apple...
You see the same problem with Google Guide questions these days -- in the last year or so the number of "I don't know" answers I see has risen tremendously. (Some respondents are even hostile, recently someone asked whether a nearby pub allowed pets and the answerer went on a tirade about animals in public spaces...)
I've heard arguments going both ways. That the internet and connectivity is going to dramatically slow language drift as well as accelerate it. I think the real answer is that we are rapidly changing how we talk but to a homogenous standard.

I really wonder how global language will change over the next century. I would really like to know if English continues to borrow from other languages or all these dictionaries are going to stop that.
At KubeCon Austin in December there was a lot of conversation about it. Some want portability, some want expressiveness, everyone agrees that current ingress isn't expressive enough.

In practice, everyone adds custom annotations one way or another (whether it's NGINX ingress, or Ambassador, or KongIngress). So at some level, the notion of Kube ingress is a moot point, since everyone has forked it :-).
Doesn't have to be "enterprise". Anyone can pay $5/mo for GSuite (https://gsuite.google.com), which includes gmail and a ton of other tools. Furthermore, it's on your own domain rather than @gmail.com, which is not only better (you truly own the email address), it's also a hell of a lot more professional and makes it easier to migrate to other services if you wish to.

To put it bluntly, if anyone here is complaining and has an @gmail.com address, email me and I'll be happy to help you buy your own domain and create MX records to either gsuite or fastmail. But I just can't hear the empty negativity anymore from consumers who say "no! bad google!", yet, by using the free product, keep making their emails available for the AI models and keep signaling to Google that an advertising business model works better than a paid-per-user one.
>The socialist solution is some kind of collectively-funded watchdog organization that provides useful review information.

That's more like the liberal social democrat solution.

The Socialist solution is to abolish exchange based production of goods so there's no longer an incentive to lie to increase sales of poor quality products.
wait, so according to that, old words that are still written in old manuscripts/stones down which but we don't remember the meaning of, simply because they weren't used for too long, would not be words? I tend to disagree...
I've been using JS in Google Sheets, so this is a welcome addition. Honestly, assuming you're already a software engineer, JS functions basically enable you to be a wizard in Excel. Haven't even been at it that long and I've already managed to impress some of my friends in finance with what I was doing in Sheets.

This is a huge game-changer and it also introduces the opportunity for enterprising (pun?) software developers to be a lot more valuable to a business by moving core business logic out of VBA into git-managed JS and making it versioned, highly reusable, etc. Going a bit further, I see an avenue to offload heavy compute to servers and create a usable link between Excel and e.g. Cassandra/Spark/HDFS.

You have to appreciate just how fundamental Excel is to businesses to see the size of the opportunity Microsoft just gifted to developers.
I just hope it never gets one of the 9 out of 10 humans who don't repeat back important information to prevent miscommunication...
And then the salon and the restaurant start using Duplex as well, and all phone conversations become Google talking to Google.

How bout: "Hey Duplex, call this support number and get a top level human manager on the line please."

Then we get a HN article: "Duplex is fighting Alexa!"
Yes, but such a system would incentivise the mass acquisition of storage media, pumping up prices, increasong production and having huge environmental consequences.

Proof of storage is just another ecological disaster in the making and I sincerely hope it never takes off.
Not saying I agree with the parent but it's not like Google is going to call it quits here and not try to improve the tech to use in more situations.
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The examples they give are quite impressive but I always want to hear some examples of failures as well with these types of technology. They mention that the system is self monitoring and will try to detect a situation it can't handle and redirect to a human operator but I think some examples of situations it can't handle or where it gets things wrong would be very useful in understanding its real world robustness.
Or depending on the particulars of your situation and the neighbour, you can instead turn that experience into a date :).
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I'm not exactly sure if it's for scam or some problem on Amazon side.

I was looking for gaming mousepad for a known brand and item was sold by Amazon. Majority of the reviews (mainly 3 stars or less ones) were mentioning as sensitivity of the mouse is not good or one of the mouse button got broken quiet fast.

I don't think a well known brand would do this trick but apparently there is a problem and Amazon should fix it.
IIRC the pattern still arises even if you generate pseudo-primes randomly.
I loved reading this. When I was that age, I used to ask so many questions to my father and I was lucky that he was always happy to not just answer, but explain everything. If he didn't do that, I may not have followed the path to where I am today.
Seriously. Instead of a single, clean restaurant reservation HTTP POST API, the future is two neural nets modulating and demodulating the request to and from inexact and potentially ambiguous English audio.
In my online banking account I type in a name, the IBAN, the amount and optionally a description. That's it.
If you are building a system that mimics human speech you need to teach it to be imperfect and use common parlance. Otherwise you will fall into the uncanny valley. If you listen to the conversation again there are several points where they lose immersion. For example no one would say 12 pm, they would say 'noon' instead. Google has clearly done some impressive work here, and I'm now a bit more confident/scared that they will be able to successfully fool me in the next few years.
> What I can see is a bunch of ways to avoid human contact including no longer calling people like a real human or not even choosing my own words in an email.

Auto-complete is hardly "avoiding human contact", is it?

Regardless, these features are all optional - if you feel as though you're avoiding human interaction by using auto-complete, why not just... not use it?
I recently told my donut shop that their strawberry cream cheese filled pastry was too cheap at $2. I go there occasionally, and it was such a strange mix of emotions when I dropped in and ordered my favorite and heard "$2.25" - yes, get the money, but no, not _my_ money!
I'm not hugely into the whole transhumanism thing and I think that people who seriously consider living forever are deluding themselves, but I did get a magnet implanted into my finger once.

It was fun being able to pick up things like screws and small parts, and it was cool being able to feel when a laptop was about to slow down as the fans and sometimes hard drive spun up.

But I have to be honest, it was also stressful in a weird and latent way that I have trouble describing.

For one thing, my body can deal with a lot of problems, often without any sharp alerts that it is doing so. I accidentally cut myself? No problem, it'll be fine in a day or two. Whanged my elbow on a corner and bruised it? Not a problem. But if I slam the magnet in a drawer, that could easily require a trip to the ER and maybe even a lost or damaged finger. My body didn't care about its inert coating, but I doubt the immune system would appreciate a large disc made of neodymium, boron, and nickel.

Even if that weren't the case, I'm not sure if I could have stopped being aware of it. It was very solid, and its presence was almost insistent. Other attempts at taking advantage of haptics and neuroplasticity, like wearing garments with sensors and vibe motors all day and night, didn't give me the same sort of apprehension.

I never ran into any problems or pain with the implant, but when I eventually got it removed after a few years, I still felt enormous relief. The tech told me that the new ones are basically slivers which were much lower-profile, but it'd probably still lose its magnetism over time and they also said that they wouldn't have felt comfortable trying to remove one that they couldn't easily find.

That's just mildly interacting with what I guess you could call the "application layer" of my body. And people are seriously discussing things like cryogenics and brain uploading? I could be pessimistic, but it seems unlikely for this generation. Better to just keep striving for the benefit of those that follow, don't you think?
patrec said that

> you can sometimes ameliorate it with guards

which is exactly what you did, so I don't think you're disagreeing here :)
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