skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I appreciate the concept of learning things like "common next steps" to make a device more usable, going by the history of devices like Google Home or the Google Assistant, I also wonder how much of this is going to depend on "give us all your usage history" settings and simply stop working with those settings disabled. The Google Assistant is already unusable without a pile of search history settings enabled; what will "smart" next actions and similar require?
And then one day instead of those bots talking through natural language we can have them talking to each other by modulating and demodulating the sounds to create ones and zeros. Maybe even call them MO-DEM bots. And then one day we can make those modems faster and faster, and have those bots communicate using a standard protocol ;)
Is it unethical for me to make a reservation using a completely deadpan, monotone voice?
They plan to support it on "additional keys", whatever that means:

https://twitter.com/Yubico/status/993923882829529088
I remember him complaining when the maintainer of some GNU project (emacs maybe?) was stepping aside to focus on starting a family. Stallman was writing about how being the maintainer of emacs is more important than having children, so this guy was making the wrong move.

If that's his belief, that's fine – I personally don't plan on having children, so I suppose I could empathize with his view – but he came across as a total ass. It seemed inconceivable to him that other people have different priorities in life than he does.
This very typical google. V100 comes out, they don't deploy it in their cloud immediately. Then they launch their tpu cloud. Spend 2 months touting cost/speed in benchmarks. Then a week before io they make v100 available in gce, nearly six months after aws. Then at io they announce tpu3. This is supposed to be nvidia's most captive customer, and now looks like going to be their biggest problem. Would love to see google spend with them and how its changed since they ramped tpu2.
This is neat. I'm looking forward to the day where two phone AIs get stuck in some amusing conversation loop.

I wonder if this sort of technology will result in some sort of arms race / singularity where everyone, businesses and consumers alike, ends up needing to use phone AIs to stay sane.
FWIW, Apollo astronauts used "over" and "out" independently (never in conjunction) which is still the protocol for maritime radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_word
I'd like to see you put your data where your mouth is.
I think the biggest thing you can do is to find a project that really interests you.

After I started my first job, I had a long period where I no longer had any motivation to code. What snapped me out of it was starting a project that I found interesting and challenging (related to data compression, if I remember correctly). For me, at least, solving a difficult technical problem is what keeps me going.
If it's actually home use you can buy the Quadro gv100 for 8999 on the nvidia store: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/quadro-sto...
I think op is saying he/she experiences the same thing on current-gen hardware.

I'm on an iPhone X and just tested and the keyboard shows up immediately when I activate the search field.
I've wanted this too after my wagon's struts went out. Not highway safe.
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And optimized sw for those TPUs
people who try to sell on the marketplace without knowledge of the opaque rules that govern it will tend to get weeded out.

This person did understand the rules, and followed them quite carefully.

Also, are you sure that automated support isn't being used in some departments? Human reps are a huge cost, and considering Amazon is investing so heavily in AI/ML, it would seem that its own customer communication channels would be a natural place to apply the tech.
Does Google ever use Indian or white people in their advertisements?
Amount of compute power wasted for an AI bot to AI bot voice conversation to make a reservations somewhere boggles my mind.
You mentioned that you've been programming for over three years. In that time, have you ever completed and launched something?

It doesn't have to be a startup, though that's one possibility. Rather, it just has to be something where you can go from idea to reality and hopefully get a few users along the way.

I hated programming when I was in CS, then I discovered products and realized that I love solving problems. Code is a tool for me to solve problems.
Because thats what people did on serial terminals, which preceeded CP/M which preceeded Windows.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7812142/how-to-toggle-cr...
It's not the same kind of progress; they're mostly playing catch up.
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This is off-side. This is akin to a cigarette dealer being proud of the grotesqueries on the side of the cartons that warn you of their side-effects. Culture is in shambles and recovery from the magnificent impact of the Internet will need more than widgets, doo-dads, and yet more Google products.

I feel a sort of embarrassment on account of this marketing angle. The concept of digital wellbeing is a paradox. Yuck.
2 reasons. 1) they’ve only acknowledged doing this on iPhone 6 and later. 2) it’s slow as shit on my brand spanking new iPhone X as well. A slower phone def doesn’t help, but it’s not the primary issue here.
I read your post and you rose valid points.

I think one problem though is that RDF is a solution searching for a problem to solve. It's clear it was designed from some abstract space instead to be a solution evolving from real use cases. And that's why most people have a hard time understand it, and even more putting it in practice.

For example, even basic RDF concepts such as a resource are hard to grasp. You have an IRI, great, but should it be dereferenceable? If yes, what it expected to be returned: a document in various formats or more RDF triples? If not (URN case), what to do with it? All these problematics are not addressed in the spec itself but must be understood before even starting to implement a hello world.

There is interesting projects such as DBpedia. Another problem of RDF is social and pertains to its advocates: trying to impose the technology everywhere without taking in account the audience needs nor the limitations of the technology itself is not going to work great. See the suggestions made during this workshop to improve the technology: https://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/ In 9 years (half of its live), nothing was addressed.
I don't think that juries decide what's true and what's not. They decide whether the evidence presented to them is sufficient to show that an event or events happened. My understanding is that even in defamation suits they are mostly trying to prove that person A said thing X about person C and then prove that person C was harmed because of it.

However, I am honestly not sure if it's just American first amendment indoctrination that makes me think that is significantly different than deciding what is true and what isn't.
I’m the creator of Parcel. This post is not accurate. Ryan does not represent webpack and there are no hard feelings between the teams. Please delete this post. Thanks! :)
Did they improve the stories for recovery ("I lost my device") and revocation ("my device has been stolen")? As far as I knew you had to buy 2 devices to have a chance of recovery, and Fido 1 explicitly said "revocation is something that needs to be resolved by each website that authenticates users", which is just asking for trouble.

I would love to have a hardware (or even phone-based) alternative to passwords, with no third-party and better privacy, but I feel like this solution only handles the happy path.

For an example of a happy-path-only system that makes me nervous, look at Google Authenticator. Recovery is made with backup codes, but they are also "resolved by each website" (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/167563/where-to...), which often means no support at all. Not to mention having to create a new backup after creating a new account. I still use Google Authenticator myself, but I dread the day I lose my phone.

If the protocol doesn't handle recovery/authentication, the fallback is a trusted third party (e.g. email) or legal identity (e.g. scanned passport). Aside from being a huge hassle and creating a weak point, it weakens the user's privacy.
After being in the industry for around 10 years, my view has now expanded beyond just the projects im working on and into what I am contributing to the company. I am less motivated by 'programming' and more motivated by how it affects the business goals which in turn affects my livelihood and that of my colleagues.
Yes, it's not my research - a colleagues. He has some big vats of oil. It's a sureal experience to see servers just being oil-boarded (can i say that? :) ) and coming out ok!
Definitely not my job to spill beans on performance of a just-announced thing but details will definitely come.

I also hope to see a lot of public clarity over this stuff. "More powerful" is incredibly vague and could literally mean just consumes more power. $/time to train models that other chipsets can will be a thing I advocate for transparency with.
It was never a bug. For \r\n you had WordPad, for more you had Word.
In the SDK, it looks like they're calling them Slices.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/slice/Sl...
Paradoxically there are many people who are conditioned to believe the random blog over the newspaper. People have been told to "think for themselves" and "do their own research", and so when they stumble on a conspiracy-minded blog, it feels like a more authentic voice than mainstream media.

I don't know what the solution is. It's impossible and unreasonable to expect individual bloggers to hold the same standard as newspapers traditionally did. Maybe social networks could do something to educate readers?
Hence the:

> (since that's probably filtered anyway)

Phone lines are optimized for frequencies humans can hear, though I'm guessing you could get enough bandwidth out of the edges to convince the other side you're a machine without bothering a human too much.
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Very interesting, thanks. Does the map show lane information? I don't know how accurate that is outside of the US. Or maybe in this case it's overestimating the impact of live traffic data for that red light. Sometimes it feels to me as if, over time, it learns from routes that it suggests and I repeatedly avoid, but that might have been just a coincidence and it might have learned that from aggregate data, not just mine.

To reiterate, though: at least until a few years ago, according to PMs involved, Google Maps was tuned to keep directions shorter and simpler to read, describe (if you're a passenger) or even remember.
From the tone deaf product org that brought you google glass and whatever wave was, comes a solution that does not so much pretend to be human for you as it does simply dispense with the need for you pretend you possessed any humanity whatsoever at all.

Next, google Snap! A robot that snaps its fingers at service people to get their attention...
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I can imagine this being an extension to robots.txt - i.e. do I mind my business being robo-called, or would I rather send an API call to <x>. This is an interesting point in AI technology.
It is slightly less secure than that as the password reset form has a notification mechanism built into it in that the next time you login you realise that you need to reset the password back to what you control, where the magic link does not have such a mechanism to let you know that a compromise has taken place. It is slight, and requires you to be paying attention.
Somewhere Putin is laughing historically. This is all so easy for him
No need to touch SSH itself, PAM is a thing (unless you're on OpenBSD). Here's an example of pam-u2f with OpenSSH:

https://aprilmacdonald.com/two-factor-ssh-authentication-wit...

I actually use a Yubikey for SSH in a different way: with gpg-agent. E.g. https://blog.habets.se/2013/02/GPG-and-SSH-with-Yubikey-NEO....
Nate Silver = election expert

Me = not an expert on elections

Yet, at almost every turn along the path of the 2016 election, I was far more accurate than Nate Silver.

Is Nate Silver's expert opinion still more valuable than mine? Is expert opinion valuable even if it is right no more often than coin flipping?
Why sad? Would you prefer we all learn how to use a feather and ink? or perhaps chiseling stuff into rocks?
> A disgruntled spouse swiping your phone and running up to a awarded hotel room to hook it up to a trusted macbook protected by your secret "1234" password isn't exactly Jason Bourne territory.

Think about that from the perspective of a security threat model: what are the odds that your disgruntled spouse has access to your computer and knows your laptop password, but doesn't know your phone password? This is an extremely hard problem to solve since they have all kinds of sensitive information and access.

> I actually have a hard time seeing how this is: "aimed squarely at police". If you're picket up at a demonstration or traffic stop - is it really that common that they won't get to your phone in 7 days? They're only allowed to hold you for 48 hours or so anyway?

What they're allowed to do and what they actually do are not necessarily the same. This prevents the case where, say, they've seized phones but haven't legally compelled the users to unlock them since it means that if an exploit is discovered in the future it won't be usable against any devices which were stolen/seized more than a week earlier.

It would also make it hard to do something like seize a bunch of protesters phones and then attempt to obtain the keys from each person's trusted home computer which would take more time to do at any significant scale.

It's not a huge game changer but it adds a layer of hardening against certain attacks. Given the limited downside, that seems like a good thing.
Ah. This would make more sense and clear up some of my confusion. So far as I know, Android doesn't have this dubious feature. You have to manually give permission every time. So this change is essentially setting a time limit for anyone to recover your keys.
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I had five or so Nexus devices over the years, ending with my Nexus 5X bootlooping 18 months into owning it. I picked up a Xiaomi Mi A1 and I could not be happier—it is part of the "Android One" initiative so it runs AOSP, gets security updates every month, and only cost $300. Great build quality too.
A course called Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive, available through Great Courses Plus.

A less scientific approach is a reference book called The Pocket Parent.
Hey dsr,

I'll take a look via Firefox on desktop a bit later as everything seems fine through the mobile browser.

Not sure what you're referring to regarding the contact form though?
In a Borat-level transformation, a local artist appears to have set a Guinness World Record just to screw with the local media. It's magical.
Hmm, or maybe its because you can run the synthesis on a much powerful computer? Certainly very impressive..
> And it wasn't like society was significantly more aggressive than it is now.

Yes it was. Much, Much, Much more.

Murder and violence, domestic violence. Society 40 years ago was radically different than it is now, and most of the 20th C. was a very violent time.
They have no valid credentials other than having been on the Internet a long time and having an interest in researching urban legends as laymen. One of the founders, David Mikkelson, couldn't answer questions about fact-checking due to legal issues[1].

If you really want to play the "HN says the names of logical fallacies" game, then I'll do you one better and say that challenging me to refute every single line item is an appeal to authority and we should just trust them because everyone says we should. There's no reason to believe them any more than there's a reason to believe much of anything published on somebody's personal website.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...
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If you had square blocks and arrange them, having a prime number of blocks means that you can't arrange them in a rectangle. So I would think (as a non-mathematician) that it shouldn't be surprising that the "corners" would appear when doing this.

Or rather the non-corners.
GitHub has ~800 employees, almost 70% is remote
Google PEO and stop handling it yourselves.
that is not true being that extreme.

as per GDPR 6(1) grounds for processing can be (b) performance of contract, (c) compliance with legal obligations (d) vital interests of data subject - which can all cover logging ip addresses and user agents for network security reasons (for a short amount of time) to protect the user, which log files are often used for. (IANAL)
I think you are seriously abusing "describe this in glyphs/ligatures". In particular, there is a reason "a picture is worth a thousand words." :)

Some things are simply more easily done outside of the standard glyphs we use for words. I don't expect this will ever change. And I shudder at all of the complexity added to our glyph systems to support efforts at making "one true language" that can do everything.
> Also, my analogies act to highlight the morality of what companies are doing, which you are evidently disturbed by.

You're basing your arguments on your own private morals. Your argument is essentially "this is wrong, because I think it is wrong".

Do you think we should pass a law forcing every online community to not have content guidelines?

If no, leave your morals out of it.

> I suspect you just find those actions desirable because they are (for now) aimed at your ideological opponents.

Wrong, but funny that you're trying to discuss my reasons, and not my arguments.
Back in the day, one of the reasons people didn't like gay men was because they might molest their children. Eventually people realized that not all gays are child molesters, and now that association is gone. But the same misjudgment still exists, only it's been concentrated on an even narrower minority - peadophiles. I would expect the vast majority have never molested a child because it's such a difficult, risky, and cruel thing to do. Your immediate association of attraction to children with abuse of children is common but also a bigoted stereotype. We hardly know anything about peadophiles because the only ones who are known are the criminals. Nobody else can admit to such a preference without being persecuted. I think these are people who are still in need of legal protection but they haven't managed to achieve something like a gay rights movement to persuade people to stop hating them.
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I'd love to see actual usage statistics because I don't think this is true based on my own observations.
I myself avoid most apps since they're packed with analytics libraries but the common user seems to prefer actual apps on mobile.
It's a request my team frequently gets even when our website is fully optimized for mobile usage.
Passwordless login is generally as secure as most password reset strategies. (I.e. simply email password to an email address without doing further identity checks such as checking last remembered password or asking security questions)

It doesn't really matter if an advanced technique like you described is used, or if the email account itself is compromised, the security considerations are the same.

The one advantage that password reset emails have over magic link logins is they can provide users a clue that their account has been compromised when the old password doesn't work. (Though in practice, how many users will just reset their password and move on with no further investigation?)

In additional to single-use time-limited tokens, there are two additional measures that address this type of attack:

Providing details on the previous magic link that was used (date, time, IP address and maybe user-agent details) in the email with the magic link provides the ability to detect people who have gained access by requesting a link then deleting/blocking the email so that you don't see it.

Limiting the token to being used by the same IP address that requested the token prevents people from watching for a legitimate magic-link request and then hijacking that link for their own access.

With those two measures in place, I don't think there is any security downside to switching to passwordless logins.

I would note that if you employ both password and passwordless logins, this increases your attack surface and decreases the chances that intrusion will be noticed. (I.e. if the target uses a password to login, the can request magic links and then delete them and the target may never see this activity since they don't request their own emails. Conversely, if the target uses magic-links to login, the attacker can reset the password and the user may not ever notice). As such, it may make sense to limit users to a single login method (or always display a page showing last magic-link login and last password reset when logging in)
> whistleblowing

Keep in mind, I’m not suggesting that the source would need to be named; I’m only suggesting that the data from the source would need to be able to be independently recollected from the same source.

In the example of a whistleblower, that would mean that the journalist would need to ensure that there was some secure anonymous route by which other journalists could get in contact with the same whistleblower to independently verify their story.

You wouldn't have done your job, as a journalist, until you had provided a reproducible way for someone else to come along and re-do your investigation without you, ending up with all the same facts, if not the same beliefs.

> Who gets to decide whether that particular conclusion is or not supported by the facts?

My proposal would be to separate journalism from editorial or opinionated conclusions. "The news" itself would only contain objectively-verifiable facts, without opinions; and then it would be the job of magazines, talk-shows, etc. to “interpret” the news, in much the same way the current news media itself currently interprets things like scientific papers.

In other words, “news” intended for the public would be trimmed down to the most boring and dry possible version of itself—like a cross between a wire service and a police scanner. Anything that wasn’t such, couldn’t legally be called “news”, nor could it suggest by its formatting that it is news. There would be a separation between "news" and "opinion" in about the same way there is an FDA-managed separation between "food" and "drugs"; and there would be public-awareness campaigns to make it clear that this division exists, and that any fact found in "opinion" sources that you haven't independently heard from a "news" source is suspect at best and more likely an active psy-op.

But, again, the state wouldn't be responsible for declaring who can or cannot publish (just like the FDA isn't responsible for saying who can or cannot manufacture drugs; and the SEC isn't responsible for saying who can or cannot sell equity.) The only job of this hypothetical MiniTruth would be to say—according to a very objective, independently calculable bar, determined by Congress—whether what a given party is publishing can legally be called "news" or not; and to punish parties that do call their publications "news" if they have not met the requirements to do so.

(Of course, there's no such thing as an unbiased source. The curated set of facts that end up put together into a news article is itself an editorial choice. But we already have a news media that generates every possible combination of such facts, so that bias, at least, sort of "evens out.")
Even if distracted and using cell phones during sex, conception may still happen.