skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google shared they removed personal information from the calls like the names of the locations.

They already have the TTS aspect out in beta. It uses something called WaveNet.

Here this might help.

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

and

"Introducing Cloud Text-to-Speech powered by DeepMind WaveNet technology"

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...

Testing will start on the rest later this summer.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natur...

On the link some more examples of calls. Pretty cool stuff. Really just shows how far ahead Google is in the AI space at every layer of the stack.

The TTS at scale required the TPUs. Doing 16k cycles through a DNN in real-time is a really intensive compute task but then to offer at a competitive price to using the old way needs custom silicon.
Yes, but security is also the only reason users would accept losing access to certain websites - and then only grudgingly!

Tell a regular browser user they will lose access to their favorite website forever because JavaScript developers prefer writing "flatten" to "flat".
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Surprised it hasnt been mentioned yet, but just in case there is a HN reader who hasn’t read the lead article by Drum - it’s good.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
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Yep, that’s what makes it so cool and useful.

But if one of those services is Google Analytics, for example, then you probably want to use it with all visitors, which is excruciatingly expensive if you get hardly any traffic at all.
In Civ 2 at least, if you switched to another wonder you'd keep -all- your production so you could just shrug and switch to another wonder without losing anything. It's only if you switched to a normal building or a unit that you'd lose 50% of the production.
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The small things and the details matter though when it comes to implementing the big ideas Tesla and Space X has. I'd guess they're relying on hundreds, if not thousands of products that you might call totally pointless (on their own) to achieve their end goal. It's definitely the right thing to think big imo but the work needs to get done.
omg... this. I just spent 4 days at Disney. My 3 year old picked the most opportune times to need a poo. Like when we got to the front of a queue (after queuing for 4 minutes) and were just about to board he suddenly had the urgent need to go, or when we were sitting down for a meal.

And he's a SLOW pooper. He sits there for like 15 minutes and after a few splashes I'm like "are you done?" and he says no, nothing happening for five minutes so I ask again, nope still not done, five minutes later and still nothing at which point I'm like "right kid, it's time to shit or get off the pot already". In the meantime, I'm standing in a cramped cubicle waiting for him to finish so I can wipe his arse and make sure his hands are clean. FML.
The word 'populism' just seems to be used as a derogatory slur these days, for any party opposite to the person making the argument.

Webster defines it as:

populism - the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
+1, might add this TED Talk by the author of "Gut"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNMQ_w7hXTA
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Jesus christ, these cookie warnings are getting out of control. I'm not in EU, stop blocking half of my screen with them!
They had years to prepare for that. I don't feel comfortable with them not being ready. Time to move to Pocket.
Apple is a big company and forces you to use Apple Maps with Carplay. There is just no excuse for Apple Maps to continue to be so far behind. Been an Apple fan before it was cool to be an Apple fan but I can be realistic.

Here is a great link that breaks it down compared to Google Maps. When did Apple decide the goal no longer is to be the best?

Do not even get me started on Siri. I find this defense of Apple baffling? Why is it acceptable to do a poor job at a product?

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
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Can someone Kindly recommend good resources (book, youtube, MOOC, certification course) to learn full depth of following - AWS, Azure, GCE, Kubernetes, Docker, and related ecosystem?

Also, all books that I see are about usage only. Are there books detailing the underlying technology for virtual machines and containers? Thanks in advance.
If you have a legal or business presence in the EU, you will be affected, because that puts you inside the EU jurisdiction.

If only this were true. Under the GDPR, an EU resident sending their info to me anywhere else in the world apparently constitutes me doing business in the EU in their eyes. That’s their claim of global jurisdiction.

Fortunately, they can’t actually enforce this, so I’ll be ignoring it, just like I would for Saudi Arabian anti-blasphemy laws.
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That is an excuse. Plus read the privacy agreement and Apple has full access to your data. Here is their privacy agreement for your reference for the US.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Heck they can collect who you associate with. I quote from the document.

"When you share your content with family and friends using Apple products, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in Apple services or forums, Apple may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. "

Historically been a big Apple hardware user but have to admit less and less. Most being replaced by Google hardware. Do carry both a Pixel 2 XL and a iPhone now as just could wait no longer for Apple to fix their products.

Replaced my Mac with a Pixel Book also for example. As well as our AirPort Extremes with Google WiFi.

I find it baffling that it is now acceptable to have poor products. The Apple that I loved for so many years NEVER settled for being good enough.
2. I can't speak for other animals, but I can speak for myself: there's no way I would prefer to be locked up in a cage or a farm (where I will be killed and eaten, probably way before my natural lifespan) than to be free to live a natural life and be killed by predators.
To me java.util.Optional is a crutch; an afterthought. I think it would never come to exist if nullability was done right to begin with. Native approach feels cleaner... to me, of course. For starters - in the context of the quoted code example - what sense does it make to have to allocate a new object (via Optional.ofNullable) every single time parseAndInc calculation is performed?? Wrapper types always involve overhead... perfectly avoidable with a language-level, as opposed to library-level, implementation
I mean they can only track what I choose to share with them. They don't have some magic wand that breaks HTTPS.
They created another $250 million worth just one week ago.

https://omniexplorer.info/address/3MbYQMMmSkC3AgWkj9FMo5LsPT...
Node has something similar: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v10.x/docs/api/v8.html
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Synthwave.
For now most apps are pretty simple, but with better conversation skills (comprehension, keeping context, etc), developers might write some pretty advanced ones. And if one platform has infrastructure that can offload that and convert it into simple APIs, I can see it being a stronger lock-in than smartphone apps.
You're forgetting that Diesels are still making up a huge amount of VW group profit. Of course the scandal wasn't worth it, but it also wasn't necessary. Rather the decision to save on AdBlue was not worth it, not the Diesel technology itself.

I mean it's kind of like asking GM if it was worth it to not update their ignitions after they found out they were faulty and killed a few people (and got off easy because US company ;)). It's not a problem with ignition switch technology itself, but just this case of bad management decisions.

You can invest 4bn in EV technology, that would be smart, but those 4bn have to be made somewhere. In this case you can make this with Diesels and reinvest in EV. This is not some SV startup that will just waste its investors cash reserves until it goes broke.
Thanks for the response,

I might have explained wrong, I have 2 years work experience. So, I will not apply for Junior positions.
QE is announced and done by central banks. It’s their job to do that. I don’t see how that is arbitrary.
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This reminds me of the early EJBs which were really complicated and most people who used them didn't really need them.
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Alternatively one side opting out and using Fiat instead?

Oh...
Which ISPs was that with?

I’ve never actually had a landline on fiber ever. It was always just standard Ethernet on top of which I run whatever I want (SIP client or WiFi calling).

How was that “landline” working? Do they give you a little converter that turns Ethernet into a standard phone jack (and converts it to SIP internally), or is there some other non-IP based signaling for that voice traffic?
IMHO it's because of the frameworks you're using. They limit your imagination instead of helping.
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I might have explained wrong, I have 2 years work experience. So, I will not apply for Junior positions.
I'm happy to be blocked from products that aren't compliant. There will usually be other alternatives. This is better than unknowingly using something that could cause me problems later.

I don't even take it as an aggressive negative, unless it is explicitly expressed as such. You can just be honest and say "I can't accept your custom at this time because X, and we have other priorities that would make addressing X to everyone's satisfaction a problem for the foreseeable future".
> If hash capacity were traded on a perfectly competitive market, then it would always make sense to rent 51% of the capacity at market rates

"Renting 51%" (of any global market) and "at market rates" are mutually exclusive.

> There is no equilibrium point for transaction fees where this attack becomes uneconomical.

The counterforce against doublespending is not transaction fee but cost of ownership of mining equipment.

Some other arguments against your conclusion:

- As mentioned nearby, for big transactions you want to wait longer than 6 confirmations.

- Also, as recipient you might want to distribute huge payments into smaller ones distributed over time.

- It's in the interest of mining capacity lenders to make sure you don't get 51% because it renders their equipment worthless in case you are successful.

- As you correctly stated, low prices will lead to lower hash rates (and higher prices to higher rates). This means actually that bitcoin will be more stable (it's harder to obtain 51%) if prices rise. There's an equilibrium on that side as well! That is, if double spending is what you're worried about.
For the same reason that being able to write val rather than var matters. With perfect discipline you can write pure functional code in any language, but [...]

Strongly agree with you there. This is one of the main gripes I've got with many languages. People just have a "well don't do it" attitude and refuse to see the benefit in the possibility of forbidding mutation. A very important point here is the realization that while the part about discipline might be true, it isn't just your discipline the whole codebase might hinge on, either.

This is the exact reason why making it easy to do the right thing is a very important part of API design; simply by making hacks more laborious than the sane thing to do, you effectively prevent them most of the time.
>>> Tesla should have cut electricity to the equipment he was working on, but refused to because the company didn’t want to temporarily stop production.

>Umm, WTF? That's insane at mains-level voltages.

At mains-level (240V and below), working on live systems is fairly commonly done. I've taken 120VAC hits dozens of times and 240VAC a few times. It's not comfortable (and has an outside chance to be fatal, but extremely^2 rarely is) and I try to disconnect power prior to working on something, but sometimes that's not possible (such as troubleshooting power supply components or other PCB work that needs to be done hot).

The most uncomfortable I've been at work was supervising (as a customer) a UPS commissioning and testing when the contracted electricians were making the 480V/3 connections on live circuits to cutover to the new feeds. To us, we didn't need the load carried live; the servers and other equipment was on only to provide a representative load for commissioning testing and phase balancing.

Electricians didn't want to wait for us to shut everything down to take the last step (even though they were no doubt making time-and-a-half on a Saturday afternoon), so they decided to cutover live-live. They acted like they did it all the time. Seemed insane to me, but that's still a modest voltage and from subsequent inquiry, this is apparently very common.

Agreed that actual high-voltage systems are different from mains-level, of course.
What is the closest "Black Mirror" episode to Google Home?

White Christmas with Cookie?
>And the scary syntax is all in the Rust world.

There's something like necessary complexity you can't easily abstract away. I find Rust does a fine job at cleaning up syntax. I'm not a fan of snake_case. Other than that I can't think of anything that's more difficult than the underlying concept in Rust. And it's still close to C (braces and functions) and ML syntax (type after colon and variable name, let bindings) in many ways.

Especially compared with a similarly complex language like C++. Now that is scary syntax, if you're not used to it from 20 years of using C++ and developing Stockholm Syndrome.
> 1. benchmarks have zero information value

Statements without any proof is more valuable than "benchmarks with zero information value"?

> what I mean is that compiled templates are usually much faster than doing vdom diffing

If they are usually much faster, why it is so hard to make them perform faster than vdom libraries in this benchmark? Or maybe any other benchmark, please just show me something that I can measure.
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> When I first complained about how autopilot was being marketed here on HN, I was down voted and told I don't know what autopilot means.

Had the exact same experience "any commercial airline pilot knows autopilot doesn't do everything for you !!!one" (which isn't even true, Cat-IIIc ILS autopilots are basically the equivalent of the car being able to do everything outside of leaving your garage and fully automated flight from takeoff to landing included was a thing in 1947: https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1947/1947%20-%2...).

One could consider it a difference in what people are talking about: Tesla's tech roughly matches plane autopilot capabilities but not experience, because plane autopilot capabilities are nowhere near sufficient for unassisted autonomous driving (autopilots are assisted by automated ground-control systems amongst others).
An empty racetrack that is perfectly mapped out in advance, at that.

Plane autopilot just automates the control inputs/outputs that are needed to follow a predefined flight plan. For anything beyond cruising or following pre-programmed flight patterns like holding loops, it needs guidance from systems on the ground that have no other purpose than telling the plane exactly where the runway is and how to descend to it. There’s not a single system involved that uses vision-based methods and/or any form of object detection. Even the most advanced plane autopilot will not be able to land the plane if the airport systems are down.

So in a way, the level of autonomy that Tesla’s autopilot provides is not that far from plane autopilot. That’s clearly not how Tesla PR sells it though.
The issue is Apple Maps is still far behind Google Maps. It is far behind Waze. It is not close and the gap grows.

I am old and been an Apple fan for a very long time. So I just do not get when it became acceptable at Apple to have poor products? They use to strive to provide the best and most importantly the best user experience.

If I can say take me to X and my mapping takes me to X that is the ideal user experience. Versus with Apple I say take me to X and it wants to take me to Y which is 300 miles away!

Saying take me to X and it tells me that it will be closed before I get there is a far better user experience.

And please do not tell me it is because of no access to data. Read their privacy agreement.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

For some odd reason it is now acceptable and even defended for Apple to provide poor products.

Now if they do self driving vehicles and they kill people are we going to say well it is good enough? Or say well that is because they do not have data?

Here is a great site that lays out how Apple Maps is NOT closing the gap but instead the gap is growing. Why on earth does this not bother Apple?

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
Mr. Bachman, with all due respect, I would argue that the majority of people proclaiming they don't care about the price are bluffing. Perhaps even bluffing themselves. Bitcoin's price increase has far outpaced its adoption or disruption of the financial system.
Yes, you need breaks, that means that even if you're a stay-at-home parent it's important to send your baby/kid to daycare a couple of days a week.

It's good for you so you can have a life other than just being a parent, and it's good for your kid because he/she can learn to socialize early and interact with someone else than you.

But I understand it's not always easy to find affordable daycare depending where you live.
Still, I think that kind of salary in Spain is for high profile senior positions in most cases.
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I believe you can use a modem over G711... I know for sure you can send faxes over it (I’ve done it) despite it being VoIP.
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If human life is sacrificed unnecessarily in your quest to save humanity, then what is the point?

Or put another way, let's not lose our humanity while saving humanity.
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Yes totally. I go on my phone too sometimes when they play but try to make it a point to look up and check periodically to ensure either they're not in trouble or irritating someone else. The problem is these things can happen in an instance. They are definitely exhausting and getting the balance right is hard. I was talking more about someone who's disappeared for a half hour sitting faraway or there is a kid going crazy (had one attacking others with a stick) and none of us even know where/who the parent is. That sounds more like the sort of thing the article is talking about, if your kid is wishing the phone wasn't invented you're probably on it too long.
> effectively years

Not quite. LITERALLY years. Two of them. A bit more if they were keeping an eye on the matter while the regulation was being drafted (though I doubt very many were, I know I wasn't).
> Because it's there I will type stuff in the "Search" box in Finder, expecting to filter on the filename of the current folder--instead it it searches "This Mac"

http://osxdaily.com/2013/03/12/change-finder-search-to-look-...
They do.

They get revenue from inbound calls received from other carriers. It’s peanuts per-call but when you add up all the spam calls together in a year it’s still a hefty bag of cash.
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Apple use to stand for providing the best user experience. I am old and been a fan of Apple for a long time.

For some reason it is now acceptable to provide a bad user experience and Apple Maps is a perfect example compared to Waze or Google Maps. But the gap is increasing.

It is the same with Siri. So will it be acceptable if an Apple self driving cars kills people?

I just do not get the excuses for Apple? Why have they moved from what they use to stand for?
Thanks. That makes the previous post even less convincing :) Over 1 in 100 is not vanishingly remote, and that's just on the top 500k sites (who knows how representative that sample is of the whole web).
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Ask HN: What do you log in your logging system? What information you get from it
I would like to know what should a logging system log, what it shouldn't log.

Is your team logging frontend, backend, database, OS logs? errors, warnings, event?
> when it's still level 3 autonomy at best

It's most definitely an SAE2 system, not remotely SAE3. An SAE3 requires that the human driver will respond to a request to intervene in all cases where the automation system figures it's going to fail.

Tesla's is not close to guaranteeing the driver will be forewarned of an issue (at all let alone in time to intervene), the driver must be aware of their surrounding and ready to override the automation system for safe operations, the system will not guarantee safety.
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I use AWK daily; it’s my workhorse programming language and automation tool. Small, fast, no dependencies and portable.

Extremely powerful programming language for big data processing and data driven programming, I often use it to generate shell scripts based on some arbitrary data. With no memory management and providng hash arrays, AWK is an absolute delight to program in. Using it with the functional programming paradigm makes it even more powerful. It blows my mind that Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan managed to design something so versatile and yet so small and fast. I’ve also been using it to replace Python scripts with a ratio of Python:AWK being anywhere from 3:1 to 10:1 as far as lines of code needed to get the same tasks done.
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I used to admire what Musk did at Tesla; I even put the $1k down for a Model 3 reservation on the first day over two years ago.

Since then I've lost my faith in his honesty. He's been consistently and intentionally misrepresenting what Tesla can deliver and when.

Worse, he is taking a page from Donald Trump's playbook. Faced with negative media coverage, Musk is now attacking the media and wants to build a bubble of alternative truth controlled by himself.

Rather than fix Tesla's communications, he wants to build some kind of website where "the public can rate the core truth of any article" and shame individual journalists:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464

Can he be so naïve that he expects an Internet public to arrive at a consensus on complex issues? Of course not, he hasn't been in a coma for the past twenty years. His proposed "Muskopedia" would just end up controlled by online partisans devoted to embellishing his takes.

(Reminds me that I should probably take my $1k out. The Model 3 ship date for Europe is still a year away.)
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Central banks are in the business of market manipulation via interest rates, and money supply. This is to control growth and inflation so that business cycles are smoothed out to a degree.
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