skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else think it's weird that this article is talking about scammy practices on Amazon by linking to scammy examples with the reporter's unique Amazon affiliate id?
This is happening everywhere. We're being made more and more homogeneous. The same applies to other aspects of our life, e.g. music, films etc. The general rule is what is popular is safer, so it's being promoted more. In this case what is less popular is not even given a chance to surface - no matter if it's popular radio or YouTube recommendations.
That looks like a nice page! As feedback: it lacks any kind of meta-information in human-readable form about what it is. The best I found was

<meta property="og:description" content="Mondo 2000 The original magazine of cyberculture returns. Watch out for your overcoats!" />

Which was actually more helpful than the twitter or facebook bio texts :P
This is just the first step, it will get worst.
As a practical matter, the government doesn't have the resources to launch a manhunt for everyone who gets arrested in a bar fight. The bail bondsman, however, typically will have your collateral, etc.
On the day it comes to you that living a longer, healthier life is something you'd like to do, that an extra year or ten of good health (or hell, why not more?) would be just peachy keen, think of the transhumanists - because you just became one. You saw a limit in the human condition, thought about what life would be like with that limit removed, and liked it.

Welcome to the party!

Transhumanism, make no mistake, is just a fancy name for common sense. Change for the better is good, right? Common sense. It's what we humans do in our scattered finer moments - we work to change things for the better. It's common sense to fetch in the harvest on wheels rather than on foot, and it's common sense to repair the biomolecular damage of Alzheimer's before the mind begins to rot. It's common sense to build perfect immune systems from nanomedical robots, and it's common sense to develop the technologies of regenerative medicine to their logical end.

It takes work, but what is work compared to a world of suffering? Choosing not to attain these goals makes about as much sense as standing out in the rain to spite yourself.

New technology cannot set slaves free, remove poverty brought of corruption, make the willfully blind see, or the unhappy bring themselves to good cheer of their own free will ... but it can remove the limits placed upon us by evolution, and it will one day give us all much, much more time in health and life to work on our other, very human issues. You can't rid the world of poverty when you're sick, decrepit and aged to death. The limits to our lives that we cannot negotiate away by talk and travel are the most confining, don't you agree?

Transhumanism, common sense with a slick name, is really simple humanism - which is also really no more than a name for common sense. It is only humanist to work to give people the choice to live without suffering, and without death. To live, for without life, there is nothing.
Brazil and China economic alliance
What will this mean for the future?
We seem to have talked past each other. I have no issue with credit reports per-se. Rather, I believe that they systemically mis-categorize bad behavior as good and underreport good behavior that is non-traditional.

Also, I have no idea what you are talking about with Church things. I never mentioned Church or basing lending on social ties.
Yes. I would like customized timeouts. 7 days is too long.
What about paired hardware? Imagine buying an iPhone and pairing it with your charger and they share keys. Any other charger used would immediately wipe the phone. There could be settings to tweak this.

Open the phone, plug charger directly to battery.
Looks good, but put some work on the marketing side.
Kansas City is using predictive analytics to combat social ills
Things were actually going well until A.Q. Khan happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan#Proliferatio...
"I apologize for such an algorithmically-generated letter letter - I didn't have time to write a non-algorithmically-generated one."

― Mark Twain's Gmail
It's not a new thing. A famous tax preparation software introduced a "compute" screen that took a few seconds to make people more comfortable with the results even if the computation itself is instantaneous.
Ask HN: How to check if my Hacker News account is banned?
Can't decide whether this is amazing or scary.
At the very least, there should be an requirement to identify when challenged.

"Are you a bot?" "Yes, I am Google Duplex v1.2. This call is being recorded; you can see our privacy policy and terms of service at http://google.com/duplex."
I'm more concerned that you seem to declare the importance of preserving the minimum guarantee but seem to be willing to not provide even that: that is, while protecting the right of those who do not wish to be associated with particular content the right to not be compelled to relay it, and the right not to associate with it's originator is the minimum those people are entitled to under freedom of speech, press, and association, you seem willing to abandon that.

What would you think if a major hotel chain decided to refuse to allow groups of black people to hold meetings at their facilities?

To give one side of this more than the minimum they are entitled to, you need to give the other side less.

This conceit that giving some people a platform is giving other people less is one of the worst half-lies which goes around nowadays. This would be like saying that a hotel chain that let black people hold meetings there was somehow diminishing the hotel for white people.

WWII certainly was, because both sides did that.

There is a stark difference of degree. German soldiers went out of their way to be captured by the side that valued human rights. Soviet soldiers killed German soldiers.

and murdered people, including democratically elected leadership, abroad for the same association?

It's true that both sides of the cold war, and even WWII had bad actors on both sides. But then to make a false equivalence of both sides is simply the height of intellectual dishonesty. There is no honest comparison between the Soviet and Western sides where the Soviets come out the human rights winners. There is no honest comparison between the Axis and Allies sides where the west doesn't come out the clear human rights winners. There is also no honest way to decouple Postmodernist, Marxist, and far left socialist thinking from totalitarianism and the degradation of individual human rights.

Both sides have bad actors, just as there are Far Left activist bad actors in the US today. Only one side says it's okay to trample on individual human rights. It's only one side where the common people can hope to hold the leadership to account for their rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKj6lZPrFkc
I'm actually not opposed to this feature in gmail. For code, it already exists, and it's terrible. "Hey, don't you want to catch this error?" Then people catch an error without actually doing anything about the error condition, causing another error to occur later, harder to diagnose.

In code, this sort of thing makes it easy to write programs that are skimmed, not read, with lots of tiny cracks for bugs to hide in.
Now Selenium 100 mcg 100 tabs Tomar
>If I get any impression someone is writing me messages with this feature, I'll filter them into my trash. I want to speak to people, not Google.

This seems like an extreme overreaction and quite antisocial.
Actually any company provides accounts should have a time-frame where reason of closure or disablement should be given to the account holder. That is where the laws need to change.
Oh, nice!

Yeah, I understood the intention behind that statement. Great work with the course!

While you're here, what do you think about using temporal convolution for sequence tasks? I've read a few articles, this particular one by my professor comes to mind now [0], which say CNNs could work extremely well for the tasks traditionally done with RNNs. A recent paper by the people at Google Brain [1] mentioned that their CNN with attention network beats traditional RNN approaches. More surprising is that the network is 130+ layers deep, and yet trains faster than RNNs. Do you think we can potentially switch most machine translation tasks to CNNs?

[0]: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fall-of-rnn-lstm-2d1594c7...
[1]: https://twitter.com/lmthang/status/989261575482560513
Activists protest outside Google HQ over anti-abortion search results
Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up!
Without coercion / oppression / bad stuff happening, few men would be able to afford it.
If by Merchant Account you are referring to the financial account that holds funds owed to merchants, I agree. There are regulations that cover this, but they arn't as strict as those regulating consumer banking. I'm not quite sure what a reinforced regulatory framework for this space would look like, though- the devil is always in the details.
I don't know if I'd call it a "deficiency" - if we interpret "disfluency" in a literal sense as "not flowing" without negative connotation, then the interruptions (hmm, uh, okay) are actually communicating useful information to the other party. I might even say that omitting those interruptions (and replacing them with, say, dead silence) might be poor communication.
Nice to see a page load without a whole pile of cruft. Maybe the GDPR will be more effective than AMP at speeding up the web ;)
Dope name
If you write a word your spellchecker doesn't like, and you accede to the spellchecker, then it's not actually a word. Not to you. An utterance is only a word if you believe it in it and are confident enough to defend it against the opinion of a dumb machine.

So this alleged culling of the lexicon by the spellchecker is largely a shakeout of non-words.

Firefox's edit widget is underlining "spellchecker" in red, but I'm hitting [reply] anyway. I don't think it needs a hyphen that badly.
I use the graph and a table under technique.

Saddly most graph libraries seem to love json data formats, which aren't logically table oriented... though if you used the json data and javascript to load the table and create the graph...
> If you’ve grown up in a neighbourhood, raised your own kids in that neighbourhood, spent time in and on the neighbourhood, don’t you deserve some respect?

Absolutely! You completely deserve respect! Of course, every human being deserves some effing respect.

What "respect" means in terms of public policy is sometimes a complex question. I think the person you're responding to is using it in a legalistic sense, where "disrespect" could probably be replaced with "abrogating" or "breaching". Your usage seems a tad bit different.
> If you ban them after the 1st or 2nd request, you will be safe.

Sadly, it is too easy to get a new IP address now. I think as part of our security mindset, we should consider it trivial to scan for several hundred vulnerabilities using relatively unique IP addresses.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't ban traffic as it's required under several compliance programs and it is another form of demonstrated diligence. But, unfortunately, banning individual IP addresses only works against the absolute lowest hanging fruit of the criminal world.
Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts
I agree, but the social pressure not to use it would be immense. Imagine the awkward moments where we start confronting people who call us and asking them if they're real.
Because Tim Cook strongly cares about privacy. Furthermore, privacy can be a competitive advantage. It’s an extremely smart move to double down on protecting users given what we’ve seen from the Facebook-types.
No one means to be rude. Rudeness is the byproduct of a lack of self awareness and concern for social mores. Gp (and others in this ridiculous subthread) are trying to give you pointers that will improve the quality of your interactions with this community, which is ironic given the comments that sparked this discussion.
Seafile accepted Bitcoins, not sure if they still do. https://bravenewcoin.com/news/seafile-accepts-bitcoin-after-...
This is going to be awesome/terrible for social engineering attacks. We'll be training millions of people to to trust phone calls from "Google". But are you talking to Google-calling-on-behalf-of-your-boss, or Google-calling-on-behalf-of-some-phisher? Or better yet, some custom system that pretends to be Google over the phone? Who knows!
I've not read the book quoted in the article, To Be a Machine, yet but another fascinating book on this subject is Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. I highly recommend it!
This is a pretty common pattern. Lots of websites also have "establishing secure connection" interstitials for the same reason.
I wonder how many of the projects showcased over googlemapsmania.blogspot.com are just going to close the door.
> as an intentional deficiency is an interesting design decision.

well, in semantics/pragmatics these discourse particles are often not deficiencies at all. They are signals with practical semantic purpose. "hmms" and "uhs" can signal attentiveness, turn-taking (turn holding, turn yielding, etc), agreement - just to name a few.

For any machine system to be able to pass as human, it will have to be able to control these nuances or people will pick up on something being wrong, though they might not be able to articulate precisely what.
Well it could masquerade as a pair of EarPods and get access to the audio output yeah. But it still wouldn't get access to the iOS sync & backup/restore service (because normal EarPods have no reason to access that).
Speeding Up Binary Search Trees with Crazy Good Chocolate Pop Tarts (2012) [pdf]
That's why we never had to do anything to address rampant fraud, cutting food with dangerous materials, straight up lying about what you're selling, con artists, snake oil salesmen, or irresponsible management of hazardous waste, right?
moving prank calls to a new level
Ums and other filler words are not as bad as they are made out to be among the public speaking crowd: https://www.eab.com/daily-briefing/2016/07/29/um-filler-word...
https://thatssoft.com/crazytalk-animator/
That isn't materially different than what currently exists, which is basically that your memories last your lifetime, you "die" and essentially become conscious as something else in the same way that you found yourself in your current body.
This reminds me of some of Isaac Asimov's short stories in which the Three Laws are used to force robots to identify themselves.
Yes relying on the cheap 5-10$ pos mic built into a lap top wont work you need a proper soundcard and better microphones and turn off the auto level/compression on skype.

Doing it more seriously you might even want to use a separate older machine as a skype drone (ie only runs skype) and feed your audio out from your main machines sound card into that.

I had an initial phone call with a firm and it was obvious that they where clustered round a mac laptop - inaudible and very low quality sound.
I have a standing bet that Kurzweil will die in my lifetime before he will be able to upload himself to a synthetic body with a friend of mine.
A step in the right direction, but I'd like to see this interval reduced (12 hours? 1 hour?) or brought down completely (I should have the option to require an unlock before any connection is established). There's no reasonable use case where I would want to make a connection while not wanting to unlock the phone.
So, you want to put that much power into Apple's hands? How do you expect them to remain on your side in that case?
Love this. Thanks will share it :)
They’re right. I guess Apple upped the base price $50.
Then it's not a shiny new IP; it's a tarnished used IP that hasn't been refurbished.
Again, that is your interpretation. And you could interpret it to mean pretty much whatever you wanted, including preemptively killing someone who could pose a threat in the future.

No, of course not. Preemptive violence simply makes one a violent criminal. Merely possessing the capability does not. The people who do hold to that interpretation are Antifa and the crowd that incites people to violence. In the US and the industrialized west, that would be the Far Left.
Crypto’s Big Lie
Behind the Scenes: How Sisun Lee Raised $8M
The technology promises "wealth and leisure for all". The capital owners promise "it'll trickle down". Technical utopianists need to start tempering their optimism with the realities of human nature and design systems accordingly.
I'm concerned that a lack of understanding and fear will limit the benefits we get from technology. I don't think that calling for regulation and making this illegal is the appropriate next step.

They explicitly say:

> We want to be clear about the intent of the call so businesses understand the context.

You note:

> laws against what they're doing needs to be passed.

What makes you say that robots making phone calls should be illegal? This seems an odd position to have. Do you also believe that it should be illegal for robots to clean floors? Or for your machine learning spam filter to process and filter your emails?

If I sound a little frustrated, I am. I'm scared that the future where technology allows us to do more with less will be blunted due to calls for making robot tasks illegal. I'd love if you'd help me understand what makes you take your position - I'm sure it's logical, and it's just a matter of me being able to understand your perspective. Can you help me understand?
English is my second language, but ever since becoming somewhat proficient in it, I thought verbing and nouning are features of English (contrast with e.g. Polish, where while a possible and formally recognized transformation, it's still very much frowned upon).
People are more willing get on board with bots acting like people than the other way around.

The speech disfluencies used by Duplex in the salon and restaurant interactions are perfect examples of why natural speech sounds natural. It's the cadence as well as the timing.
All this sort of sounds like topic maps, though they never gained much of
attention and very few people know of or remember them, and beside Java
there are virtually no libraries or tooling for them.
The best time to start using your own domain for email was 10 years ago. The second best time is today.
Get your own domain, set up an email forwarder on it that points to your Gmail, and start shifting your contacts and accounts over to it. Then if down the road, you decide you want to switch, most of the work will already be done. I spent about 18 months on Gmail using my own domain before I switched to FastMail, and it made the transition much less painful.
Yep, and the 10 second "deal" compilations for travel packages really happen in a fraction of a second. They just purposefully delay the results to make it seem like they are doing a lot of processing in finding all the possible deals and showing you the best ones.
The intel haul Mossad released was interesting in that it fills out the details of the background to the treaty itself, but as the data is about activities up to 2003 it just doesn't impact verification of current activities.

Most of appears to have been known in the intelligence community, this was just publication of it. Here is a podcast with some experts discussing the release and having a general good time with all the nerdy details: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1205128/netanyahu-an...
> And how does Google withdrawing bail bonds ads fit into that value system?

It has little direct effect but draws attention to the issue.

And to the groups Google worked with.

One of which is also a prime backer of the active CA legislation to begin adopting the alternative model in CA.
Personally, it seems that during the past few years, Google has become so bloated and inefficient that innovation has slowed to a crawl.

It's to the point that they are now essentially just like Microsoft during the Steve Ballmer days. They need a visionary leader that can lead and inspire the hundreds of smart people they have.

Not to mention the fact how everyone always jokes about how long a product will last after being announced before they kill it off. Their strategy seems to be scattershot, rather than having a sense of direction. I'm curious to see how their internal roadmap looks like.
Just wait until a Google Duplex caller "on behalf of a client" calls to schedule a reservation at a restaurant using Google Duplex to answer the phones.
"David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. [SPOILER: ELOPe is essentially Smart Compose in Gmail] But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.

David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they are being manipulated by an A.I. who is redirecting corporate funds, reassigning personnel and arming itself in pursuit of its own agenda."

"Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears" (3 part book series)

https://smile.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Ap... (Book one)
I'm glad you found them useful! The code which made all the metro extracts was embedded as a Chef recipe, although I'm sure you could just extract the bits which do stuff from the Chef wrappers: https://github.com/mapzen/chef-metroextractor
You spelled it wrong
Ok, but, if my buying choices are going to promote one company over another - I think I’ll choose to promote the one I’m the customer of.
Is it possible for IPv4 to not recycle IPs?

Is IPv6 big enough to not recycle IPs in the modern high-churn deployment world? (It's probably big enough to give every human (or payment card holding customer) a few million blocks of IPs that they can personally control, and recycle IPs within each accountable block that)
To add a third, I have a problem with my personal emails being used as a corpus of text to train these models.

Maybe they're using only my emails to train a model for me, and turning that feature off disables them doing so. Maybe they're using everyone's email to train a generic model.

Of course, they've been (machine) reading your emails to provide ads since forever, so in that sense maybe this isn't really that new. That said, many people habituated to email reading for ads back when Google's brand image was riding higher.
It's not, but there's a flexibility/security tradeoff there. If data isn't tightly bound to an app and just exists in files that any app can read and write from, you get confused-deputy attacks where a malicious app can construct a document that's interpreted in a different way by the original program and can then do something nefarious.

This was behind a lot of the MS Word & Excel worms & viruses that made the desktop such a hazardous place in the early 2000s that the web took off. People realized that they could embed VB code or even just formulas in .doc & .xsl files, and the mere act of opening the document (something which was supposed to be safe) would infect all your other files, and let attackers do things like read all your confidential documents and e-mail them to the attacker. Even without scripting languages, you can get surprisingly simple & damaging attacks like rewriting URLs of prominent sites within documents to go to an attacker-controlled domain that looks like the original (using Unicode lookalike characters) and then phishes their login.