skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder where the training data comes from? Is it from my account only, my organization account, or...?

If I type “Sure, the password is” will it auto suggest some passwords from other people’s previously sent emails?
> The system also sounds more natural thanks to the incorporation of speech disfluencies (e.g. “hmm”s and “uh”s). These are added when combining widely differing sound units in the concatenative TTS or adding synthetic waits, which allows the system to signal in a natural way that it is still processing. (This is what people often do when they are gathering their thoughts.) In user studies, we found that conversations using these disfluencies sound more familiar and natural.

This part stuck out to me during the Google I/O demo, as an intentional deficiency is an interesting design decision.
Google doesn't like hard wins anymore, they haven't in a long time. If it isn't easy then it's not worth doing for them. Sometimes even when it is easy, they kill the product off within two years.
> If every use of the term social justice warrior is immediately offensive then I won't use it again.

It's not offensive at all.

> I phrased it in such a way to specifically avoid a statement of attack by calling it my personal feeling and further more I did not direct that description at any person but in response to the written article.

Ah, I see. you meant it as a compliment! In that case, good on you! It is a wonderful thing when someone stands up to injustice, and I'm glad you see that in the author of this article.
Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains (2012)
The argument that the user isn’t the customer needs to die please!

It’s a overly simplified statement and misleads any serious conversation on the related topics!

Thank you
> What would be a good replacement for the bail system?

I think the non-profit system might deserve some exploration. I posted above about a TED talk I watched recently on the subject and their numbers look quite interesting. It'd be great to see it replicated elsewhere.
Why A.I. And Cryptocurrency Are Making One Type of Computer Chip Scarce
What's the difference between this and auto complete? I think there is a bit of overreacting here.
> How is that self centered?

"I find it to be too much work, and I derive no value from it, so we shouldn't do it."
Holy moly what's this obsession with teaching pre-schoolers school stuff? When do kids just play anymore? I swear in another year or so a startup will start up that teaches unborn babies calculus while they're still in the womb.

The insanity is saddening. Happily my son who is 6 is oblivious to math but brilliant at Lego, incredible at drawing, and astoundingly proficient at laughing. When he eats ice cream he uses his whole face. Love it, love him, and I wish sometimes he never has to grow up.
> the annual real return on gold since Jesus's time would be about 0.2%/annum

How many businesses from Jesus's time are still here today?

The gold that was around 2000 years ago is still here.
Yeah that's pretty glaring. Even when the map is centered over Brazil, it's still super wide. Is Brazil really that wide, or is this just another super-imperfect projection that wildly distorts the real shape of land?
Banal pleasantries cost nothing (less than nothing with this new feature), and at worst are ignored and at best make the receiver feel better about you and the important text that follows.
Meanwhile:

requests blocked

on this page

168 or 96%
whether the banker knows you from church as a good C̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶ person

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Edit: I kinda regret responding to this now because I'm thinking its trolling.

Knowing someone personally to be reliable in repaying debt is a valid strategy. It is basically the human lender's internal approximation of creditworthiness and it's how most one-on-one personal lending works. Also, it definitely does not exclude more rigorous methods based on verified info and using a known algorithm to weigh creditworthiness.

Edit 2:

Is it a bad thing that getting a loan requires you to go to church? Yeah, kind of.

Yup. Troll.
I absolutely agree.

When you remove government actors from industry, except where absolutely needed (e.g., preventing monopoly) this becomes the default modus operandi.
Humans may click on ads, though I hear that is automated, too.
Ask HN: Imgur or 9gag which of them has the best UI?
I think stripe accepts credit cards. Credit cards charge a percentage.
They don't even need to be expensive. I have no clue why these aren't more common, but keep a cheap set of gunsmithing screwdriver bits around. Never seen them in a hardware store, but they are far superior to regular flathead bits with a chisel shape. Or just regrind all your screwdrivers when you buy them, which also makes it really easy to identify which flathead screwdrivers are reserved for hammering/prybar duty.
Order elements using personalized machine learning recommendations in JavaScript
This is correct. It's more of a UX problem by Amazon to non-tech users. Amazon phrases it like "martincmartin asked you, bluetidepro, blah blah blah." and a lot of times the non-tech user will literally reply back with "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" and then Amazon still records that response as an answer to the question. I wish their system was smart enough to recognize these replies like this that I often see and just ignore them.
VU#631579 – Hardware debug exception may result in unexpected behavior
The call with Chinese restaurant was simply jaw dropping. Sundar says that it was real and I have no grounds not to believe him.

This is as close of a demo of technology passing the Turing test as I have ever seen. Sure, it's not a fully free form conversation on any subject, but incredibly impressive nevertheless.

Oh yes, and the voice synthesis is just simply amazing. I don't think I'd be able to tell that I was talking to a bot either.

So far, it's been the most impressive Google I/O keynote that I've ever seen and it's not over yet.
Definitely true in my experience, which is funny because it renders the whole point of the RBL entirely moot. It’s certainly not a sustainable solution.
Because the bail bondsman is not going to sell your debt to the collection and forget about it. He is going to salvage the bail money by catching you and bringing you to the court.
Lol. This is exactly like the plot of the book Avogadro Corp. where a Google-like company creates an email-composing system which then leads directly to the singularity as the program pursues it's own agenda.
This is about custom functions in cells, not macros.
Of course they haven't tried it. Some thought leader told them PE was dead (or smelled funny), so they were able to write it off and go ahead with what they wanted to do anyway.
Yes, why not just disable IP logging?
Interesting perspective, but a) I think it mainly draws its word choice from your own past messages anyway, and b) wouldn't an integrated translate button be more useful to this purpose?
> (2) If there is an internal hardware clock that isn't synced to real time, just count relative to that clock.

This is known as a montonic clock and it’s been built in to most hardware for exactly this reason. Mach, Linux, etc. have encouraged use for anything where things like leap seconds or time changes aren’t desirable.
> The all-new Google News provides you a variety of diverse perspectives on any given topic to help you get the in-depth, balanced picture

Proceeds to show stories by: CNN, ABC, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vox, and Politico. Yeah, really diverse perspectives. Its not as if they all hold nearly the same point of view on any issue.
Still watching it but I second your sentiment. To be honest after the conferences in the past three, four years I did not have the highest expectations in the first place, but so far that was - again - amazingly underwhelming.

As you said, Google should announce game changers and not getting woos for an application that reorients a scanned sheet of paper.
Haha! Postgres is pretty awesome.

What kinds of use-cases would one NOT use Postgres for when starting?
Android Things 1.0 Released
From "Echopraxia"

>"You think this matters"... [Valerie the transhuman]

>"You think so, too," Moore [baseline human] began. "Or-"

>"-you wouldn't have reacted," he and Valerie finished in sync.

>He tried again: "Were they under formal con...," they chorused. He trailed off, an acknowledgement of futility. The [transhuman] even matched his ellipsis without missing a beat.
Prolog + Datalog? Prolog should even parse JSON without 3rd party libs with minimal fuss using just its integrated parser construction facilities (eg. the `op` built-in predicate).

Prolog won't come with reasoners for the description logic profiles supported by OWL 2 (EL, RL), but can be used to implement such reasoners if needed.
Using Custom Jekyll Plugins on GitHub Pages
I'm not sure how that helps with the problem we're talking about. The value proposition of something like TiddlyWiki is that your site is just a file. For local use you don't even need a webserver.

Making Node or similar a prerequisite kills that value proposition stone dead, never mind piling on things like S3 as backends.
In the Amazon seller world, there are companies dedicated to dealing with Amazon and navigating through all the different warnings, suspension emails, and plan of actions.

For example, I'm currently dealing with a counterfeit policy warning for a product I've never sold or heard of... If I can't figure out the right words to respond to this email, I will have to fork up $100-200 to a consulting company so I don't put my Amazon account and business at risk of suspension- just so I can learn how to tell Amazon they made a mistake.
> This comment was document of its time, several decades ago. Software has history. Everything humans do has history.

So, should we never change documentation once it's written? When the technical details change, should the documentation become inaccurate because it's a record of the time? When the political and linguistic context changes and makes a joke cause confusion rather than laughs should we continue including it in new versions?

No, of course not. We should fix it. History is indeed important, that's why version control was invented. Access to the old versions isn't going anywhere.
This is basically autocorrect on the level of phrases. If that's true, this will have an enormously homogenizing effect on the way we speak (spell check alone has caused an actual shrinkage of the English lexicon [1]).

I wrote extensively about this for Mondo 2000: (http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/01/17/pink-lexical-goop-dark-s...)

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00313#references
In the case where the person on the other end isn't a native english speaker, (the calling a restaurant clip) why doesn't Google figure out what language they speak and speak it to them?
When Google "refused to do business" with China, they doubtless knew that users would instead use a VPN and access some other national version of Google.

From the same vein that "we're not Google's customers", neither are those Chinese users using a VPN. By leaving China, they're cut off from Chinese businesses who could pay to advertise.
In my experience anything keyboard related is not a good solution for “grandma”. What I’ve seen work best is voice to text. My dad composes all of his messages with voice, as the alternative is first finding his reading glasses, then pecking out keys with only his index fingers at a rate of about half a key a second.

Sure he could abbreviate and autocomplete his way through a sentence... but then I’m not talking to my dad anymore; instead I’m talking to some k’th mean of human interaction.
Enslave billions. The dead don't feel; that's reserved for those who are alive.
This is why I am deeply skeptical of Apple's supposed security. As long as the company forfeits data to the Chinese government then there is no real data protection on their devices.

I need that to change, or where I see Apple's products heading is not going to be what I'm hoping. What I'm hoping: Apple devices become the computer. Totally secure. The only one that can access the information on it is myself with no exceptions. This device (watch, phone, glasses whatever) would carry every possible detail about myself and my life on it, making it the perfect form of digital identification. Accepted at hospitals, accepted as a drivers license, accepted at banks, accepted as a log in for websites. It doesn't need to provide identification if I don't want it to. But if I do, then there is a mathematical certainty that I am who I am claiming to be, and no one can claim otherwise.
Crackpots and philistines with money.

Here's a metaphysical puzzle for you. If we are just meat machines, as no doubt these transhumanists believe, and there is no teleology in nature, then how does one discern what is augmentation? Without teleology, such judgments are impossible in principle. The transhumanist might retort "Well, I think this and this is better". To that I respond: "Lo! Who speaks? Who be this I? Are you not but a machine? Are your preferences not as replaceable as anything else in that pile of parts only incidentally moving together? Replace those preferences to prefer no such transhumanist quackery."

There is zero intellectual sophistication in transhumanism, even less sophistication than there is in the bankrupt lick of a metaphysics it rests on.
What's the issue/reason you see with Google Assistant calling to make a reservation for a business? Why do you need to avoid it?
And then we get into the joy of JIS screwdrivers. Good god, the amount of stripped fasteners on japanese motorcycles caused by that slight angle change is ludicrous, and they're nearly impossible to tell apart by looking at them. The only reliable way to know is prior experience/national origin.
Innovative tools showcased at Microsoft Build conference
And how does Google withdrawing bail bonds ads fit into that value system?

Edit: The point isn't whether you can refactor to a better system. The point was the lack of a coherent model for what local changes would make it better or worse, and why.
Thanks for clarifying. It wasn't clear enough to me that the first paragraph was all just a setup for the last sentence.
Yes. On a smaller scale, iOS predictive text is helping me learn a new language. Unexpected suggestions become new things to learn about.
AWS Lambda triggered automatically via AWSlack! What an amazing integration and open-source!
> Is it a bad idea to pursue a PhD in machine learning considering the current massive amounts of media hype surrounding AI?

If you don't mind waiting another twenty years for the next cycle of the AI
hype once this one dies off, it might be a sensible idea.
If you'd like to read up on Google's voice synthesis system do read up on wavenet: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio... from deepmind.
Yes. But let's extend that evolution -- if an AI can pretty much write a solid email, don't we basically become like a safety driver in a self-driving car? Not alluring.
Well, the article isn't just about that, but also about modern discourse style and mediums that prevents hard topics from being constructively discussed.
> Or, you could make your device supervised via MDM or Apple Device Configurator, ...

I haven't looked into this so I apologize if it's an easily answered question but... is this (MDM/ADC) something an individual can do for their own devices? I know it can be done at the organizational level for, e.g., employer-owned devices, but how hard is this for Joe Blow to set up for, say, his kids' iPads and iPhones?
Prior to 1930, pretty much every western currency was backed by gold (and sometimes silver).
Is it a bad thing that getting a loan requires you to go to church? Yeah, kind of.

Edit: Now I don't know what I'm responding to. You agree that someone's history in repaying debts is legit to use as an indicator. You agree in augmenting the lending decisions with algorithms. That's what credit reporting is!

And yet somehow that's a defense of your conclusion that "therefore it should be more based on whether your social circles include the people with money" (which no one would scream bloody murder about for being anti-minority)? I'm lost.
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Yet another reason to avoid Gmail.
I'm a paying Fastmail user. I switched over after they (EDIT: Gmail) started announcing compatibility-breaking features. Processing my emails to suggest content is one of a litany of reasons that I'm glad to have switched my email to Fastmail.

In this particular case, I think people are (probably rightly) concerned about how the machine learning models here are used to suggest content. I would guess that most of the people who are unconcerned with the Android keyboard's privacy model either haven't thought too much about it, or have come to accept it in small increments.
Declassified CIA psychic warfare documents
It totally depends on what you are doing. You need to take in account if using an ontology will solve any problem at hand. Also you may have an ontological system not build in RDF. At least in what I'm doing, RDF is creating more problems than it solves. Finally there is all the political layer that may go against publishing your data in an open and (web) accessible format and then you need another solution anyway.
There's no dignity in lingering after it's time to move on.

Certainly most people wish that they could relive their childhood, do things differently, treasure how carefree it is to be a child, without the responsibilities of adulthood. But that is not what childhood is: the ignorance of what is to come is what gives childhood its essential character. Life, likewise, derives its character from its immutability: our inability to experience more than one Everett branch. That immutability is what gives our decisions meaning: they are truly final.

Immortalism is, I think, an obstinate rejection of life's finitude. The immortalist would like to live ten trillion lifetimes, sampling all varieties of conscious experience. But this is not compatible with a single continuous lifespan. To properly experience all that reality has to offer, the immortal would have to "start over" countless times, erasing their memory and transferring their consciousness into every variety of body, human and non-human. What distinguishes this process from death as we know it?

In other words: maybe you already are the Immortal.
I had the exact same problem with a Japan-bought Kindle Oasis used in the US. My Oasis got stolen right before I left for the airport, wanted one while on my trip so ordered one in Japan. I got the exact same run around trying to get special offers removed: US support says to ask JP support because it was bought there, then JP support says to ask US support because it's registered there. There was an additional problem that 3G only works in Japan for those Kindles.

I ended up sending an email to jeff@ asking for an exchange of the Kindle to a US one. Ended up getting a one-time credit for the cost of a new Kindle with 3G.
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See the movie Gattaca. It doesn't deal with different species, but is has "valid" (genetically improved humans) and "invalid" (normal humans).
Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
Those of you complaining about this have obviously never had to deal with the unintelligible gibberish that can sometimes be spewed out by desperate customer support staff on tight deadlines. If this can even begin to help them write sentences that are readable and understandable then I'm all for it.
Here is something funny. Google's Japanese Input on Android does English dictionary lookup when you're in romaji mode. And, here is the kicker: you have to use exact spelling, or no dice.
I love tech, but it's kind of scary, I think we are heading towards a dystopian future.
We're accustomed to associating the word "ice" with temperatures less than 273 K, the freezing point of water at 1 bar. It takes even lower temperatures for ammonia or methane to solidify. But it's definitely not freezing deep within a planet, the temperatures are thousands of kelvins! However, the pressures are from thousands up to millions of bars, which is plenty enough to keep pretty much anything solid even at those temperatures.

The allotrope of solid water we're familiar with is called ice I_h (Roman numeral "I" followed by subscript "h" for "hexagonal"). It has the interesting and vital property of being less dense than liquid water and thus you cannot get ice I_h by compressing water. But there are many other, more exotic phases of ice, most of which are denser than liquid water and can thus form under extreme pressures. Indeed, in a sense they're not that exotic after all, seeing that almost all the water in the Solar System is in the form of high-pressure ices!
> I never understood why Russia’s coast land north of China isn’t more populated?

Because of its harsh climate? It's why mongolia, yukon, scandinavia, etc are sparsely populated.

> The surrounding areas are so hugely populated and it’s a coast.

No it's not. The two chinese provinces ( heilongjang and inner mongolia ) bordering RFE are two of the least populated chinese provinces. And north korea has a small population compared to south korea.

Even before the russian stole the territory from the chinese, koreans, japanese, siberians, etc, that region was never heavily populated because of the harsh climate.

One of the reasons why russia was able to take the land was because it was inhospitable and sparsely populated.

The real question is why it's so heavily populated right now? Why are there millions of russians on the other side of siberia when russia proper is thousands of miles away. The answer is that the tsars and then stalin forcibly moved millions of russians to the region. At one point, the russians wanted to "deport" all their jews to this region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast