skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish they were giving away for free. Really wish they would just discount the Max a little. Have one but want a second.

Echo was out 2 years longer and Google already passed as they are just a lot smarter and easier to use. It is that Google AI is just superior in every layer of the stack.

Can't wait for Duplex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08

Once Google leads in an area they do not give it up. Something I just love about Google is they never rest and will just keep innovating.

The new voices are incredible. You can not tell the difference between the machine and a human any longer.

We started with the Echo but then purchased a Google Home and more Google Homes. Looks like made the right decision on which to standardize on.
I had exactly same idea just about the lights but am too lazy to even try to implement it. Plus sensors require power and that requires cables and that's way too much bother.

Low tech alternative solution from my friends? Get LEDs. Never turn off the lights. This way the room you are going to will always be lit.
Did you read the article you posted?

It makes the point that it is in fact possible to influence the market with pennies on the dollar.

Remember that market cap is meaningless while no matter how USDT were created(backed or not) those represent at least some fiat inflows.

My personal opinion: Tether initially had some USD backing maybe not 100%. Now, I'd be surprised if Tether has backing in excess of 10%.

That is still enough to control Tether if you have issuing authority and can limit redemptions for fiat.

In fact Bitfinex/Tether has done exactly that. You would be hard pressed to redeem Tether for dollars.
If only they gave a way to find the text-only page from the non-text-only link.

Right now the cookie consent form reeks of passive-agressive design.
The next frontier in workplace wellness: financial health
Citus 7.4: Move fast and reduce technical debt
> Let's not conflate human worth with value to society. I hope we can all agree that all human lives are of equal worth.

Reminds me of this passage from Sapeins:

"a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold contradictory beliefs and be riven by incompatible values. It’s such an essential feature of any culture that it even has a name: cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is often considered a failure of the human psyche. In fact, it is a vital asset. Had people been unable to hold contradictory beliefs and values, it would probably have been impossible to establish and maintain any human culture."
Just as a point of clarity on that, SQL Server only allows one encapsulating transaction per session. You can have begins and so on within a stored procedure, but really that is little more than a "just in case" defense (e.g. just in case the caller didn't already do this), as you can only commit or rollback the outer transaction.

If you want to have atomic transactions within a transaction you have to do hacks like make a distributed call back to yourself, in that new session creating another transaction.

It's an element of SQL Server that confuses people to this day.
Apart from the other issues, one of the big things is that it is so easy to spoof phone numbers. This has resulted in swatting, telemarketing, robo calls, people pretending to call from the IRS, among other badness.

Email also used to have this problem, until the DKIM. Once email servers started using DKIM, it became a lot easier to filter out spam and to exclude the bad actors.

Maybe we should require some type of cryptographic verification on who originated the call, and have that be visible. It would definitely make my life a whole lot easier if I saw that a number that called me originated with ATT Wireless vs "VOIP Warehouse".

Having a DKIM equivalent for phone calls would do a lot to tackle these type of abuses.
I am also a developer,living in countless universes, each enveloped in its own shell, compelled by the wheel of time, like particles of dust blowing about in the sky, and I don't understand what's wrong with you.
Perhaps do some google research before jumping to conclusions?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wichita-officer-who-kil...
> Do not fire unless fired upon is common rule of engagement for military operating under much more adverse conditions.

No, there are different ROEs depending on the situation. "Don't fire unless fired upon" applies to a checkpoint or other defensive situation.

If you're doing a cordon and search, which is very roughly equivalent to what SWAT does, you shoot if you see weapons.

The process to clear a room is a team (typically of four) stacks against the door, breaches the door, and then the goal is to get into the room and eliminate targets in your assigned sector.

You absolutely would fire preemptively because when you're going into a room there's just no time to wait, and you're relying on speed and ferocity to overcome the fact that you just dived into a room.

Now, all that said, that's also why you want to do that sort of thing as little as possible.

Source: US Army doctrine and training as combat arms. Thankfully never had to do one myself...
My solution to this is to realize that this is exactly why modern broadcast sports even exist; as a means to make money. All of the rivalries, drama, and theatre around it exists to reinforce the idea that you must watch to see who wins the Big Shiny this season. This ruins the fun of watching skilled humans competing in a game for me; they might as well have Slurpee straws as sticks, Oscar Meyer hotdogs as skates, bat around a Coke bottle into a Doritos net while skying over a giant Chipotle burrito with 14 different LED screens showing various logos. We’re not far off from this right now; big sports is an assault of advertising on the senses, and people PAY to go, clamor for “access” to watch it on TV, put up with hostile “blackout” policies, and buy tons of memorabilia. If we could get that many people to care about something that actually mattered, the world would be a better place. I really hope that my generation ends up killing this brand of professional sports.
Is this something you have to actively set up or does it come enabled by default?
So it'd be okay for the cops to shoot you if I made such a call to your address?
The solution is probably fixing the education system and this mess of a society we've built.
> This equals the kinetic energy of myself walking at a brisk pace, or basically something that won't kill purely from blunt force impact.

This is an analogy that cannot completely map to cycling.

A fall at any speed from a bike is literally a potentially crippling or deadly scenario.
I was in the Dominican Republic recently and went to a major supermarket, where I saw both a cold and heated foods section full of great tasting, healthy food, individually packaged. I ate like that for the whole week I was there, and it only cost me a few bucks at checkout.

In Brazil, one can easily get "marmitas" (aka "quentinhas") delivered for cheap, which are ready-made meals.

Now I'm in the EU and have been seeing low-cost, healthy, packaged meals in many supermarkets. Seems to have caught on. When I look at two basic options now, I see chicken breasts for 3.50 euro or a ready-made meal for 2-3 euro. Even though the chicken would be enough for two meals, I'm often pulled in by the easier, one-meal option.
Jogger: Simple async job queue written in Go
Wikipedia down: No working replica DB server
Absolutely sure.

For instance. This is the latest episode of The Flash. No login required. It's usually available the next morning

http://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/
Communication between Flutter and native modules
I cannot read the article unless I turn on Reader View in Firefox. The text is almost white.
> should also be in trouble

Should be charged with a murder. 25-life.
POST requests should require secondary verification from the user. GET requests are probably fine to execute.

Some POST requests may only need to let you know that they did it, such as adding a calendar reminder on to YOUR calendar. It should ask if it wants to send a calendar invite to someone else's calendar.
It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. It's an enormous effort on their part, and for the users with all the API changes.

But Dan's "Beyond React 16" demo simply was not compelling at all for me. With the focus on latency but no mention of bandwidth, it's really hard to understand the full impact on mobile devices. With TCP, throughput decreases as latency increases. Queue up too many requests, and the UI will get more disconnected, not less. Anyone that has had to work on an image gallery knows this all too well. Then you have SSR, and promises from render() that potentially swallow errors... lots of unknowns here.

If all these efforts turn into a wash, or at best a subtle improvement at a cost of relearning React... people are going to be asking if it was worth it.
You can say "composed of", or you can say "comprises" -- "comprised of" is always wrong.
It seems Netflix uses an undisclosed season-by-season ranking to determine which shows are continued and which canceled.

In many cases, I only watch shows that have positive reviews (e.g. IMDB) after 2 seasons or more. I don't know what percentage of Netflix subscribers are like me, but I do wonder if the percentage is high enough that many good shows will get canceled not because they will not be watched in the future but because they hadn't yet gained a following.
There’s also the difference of OTT services showing less ads, letting you watch what you want when you want, and having much more variety than a single channel. It’s not a valid comparison.
I said I wouldn't debate, but I do want to clear up a grave misunderstanding.

>"your politics"

There you go again completely conflating wildly disparate political movements.

I'm primarily AnCom, not pro-authoritarian dictatorship ala Stalin. There's a pretty big difference, and calling an AnCom (or even just a run-of-the-mill socialist) a stalinist is a grave insult.

Unless you make up for that in a very big fashion, we're completely done here.
Rather than first building up a huge pile of logs and then counting them, move the count to the location that generates the logs or the location that stores them. Easily done, no need for algorithms or special case solutions, just a simple set and count. Added bonus, the “task” is axiomatically done when the month ends no difficulties or special considerations needed there.
> It is not the society, but market/economics of today that value intelligence more than anything else, mainly because it is directly correlated with economic output

Unfortunately, I think this is spot on.

Sadly, In the US at least, people are worth to society what they are worth in $$$.
StumbleUpon was first, why Reddit won? Can you tell me examples of what good decisions Reddit founders made?
Why People Don’t Do What They Say and What to Do About It
One example:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3019/fs20163019.pdf
Wouldn't that require you to ban all visible religious garb to be effective? But I don't think they ban nuns' habits or priest uniforms or even hijabs, so ...?
If you don't have a written contract, and everything was verbal - you don't have a chance whatsoever to sue and come out victorious.

It sounds like unless you can pressure the individuals involved, a judge will be a sore disappointment. Feel free to talk to a lawyer, but no lawyer will take this case unless you pay them upfront and they will likely tell you that you are going to lose this and its not worth your time/money.
This is local copyright law in Sweden but its very likely similar to the US since its all based on common international agreements.

Here you are allowed to show owned copyright material to family and close friends[0]. Schools are not allowed show bought copyrighted meterial to students, a bar can not play bought songs to customers, and indeed a company can not play bought music to employees. Its goes even beyond this in that the same goes to play public radio in speakers, and its demanded that companies pay "public performance royalties" if they do. Its general known that restaurants and stores really do pay this cost, through large companies with many employees has been reluctant. Schools are also so cash striped that teachers often openly claim that they could not do their job if they had to stay within the legal constraint of copyright.

During the direct connect ages, some groups claimed that they were within the legal line because they stayed small enough to be within the "family and close friends" exception, through I doubt any such group actually succeeded in that defense.

[0]close friends are undefined in law but usually agreed as less than 5 people.
for i in in *.png ; do
pngtopnm $i | cjpeg > ${i#.png}.jpeg
done
> On another note, Groovy is another great and fast language that runs on the JVM and works very well in the scripting space

But the same versioning issue exists for Apache Groovy (2 or 3 ?) that exists for Perl (5 or 6 ?). The Groovy PMC seem to be handling the issue, though, by slowing down the development of Groovy 3 to a crawl so it won't ever ship.

Oh, and calling Groovy "fast" is a bit of a stretch. It hardly matters anyway because scripting for classes written in Java doesn't need "fast".
Author here - happy to answer any questions people have. This has been a life-saver of a script for folks who run blogs or other image-heavy pages.
Building the Next Generation of Personalized Themed Playlists
I'm amazed by your mental-gymnastics of trying to shift blame to someone else.

At worst it is 50/50 between the scumbag caller and the unprofessional SWAT officer. I still think that blame should go to the scumbag person because it wasn't his first SWAT "prank". IMO he should be charged for murder 25-life.
Over-qualification definitely makes a difference. An employer will be reluctant to hire someone that's likely to snag a higher-paying job in a few weeks.
He was also, of course, standing completely in the open, while a bunch of cops were in perfect cover a distance away. He couldn't hit anything even if he had a gun.
That's the real problem.
Anyone have thoughts on how the public will feel about this kind of tech being applied to the streets of the U.S.? We seem to be so libertarian, yet it seems like other countries (and even law enforcement currently in the US) have been implementing it with little concern of public opinion and/or public outcry.
OK. That's not the situation here.
Utah does look blank, but wasn't there a tornado in SLC a few years ago?
What's with all the anti-law enforcement? They thought they were dealing with a highly dangerous situation and individual. It's pretty easy to say they should of handled it better as I sit here in the top floor of my corporate office sipping La Croix but let's not forget that the caller was intentionally putting others in dangerous situations.
The fact that BuckleScript/ReasonML doesn't look like it's intended to be used outside of the Node ecosystem really kills it for me. Js_of_ocaml has been a better experience.
> GDPR could have safeguarded data by demanding more transparency

That would be a toothless regulation. It would just cause businesses to add more crap to their privacy policies, which nobody reads anyway, and doesn't impact user behavior.

> It's not obvious why they are requiring apps to provide the same service for free 'without detriment'

So that users can opt-out of having unnecessary data collected. You should only be collecting the data needed to run the service. If your business collapses when users opt-out, your business model was nothing but data harvesting to begin with, and probably doesn't deserve to exist.

> That destroys a number of business models

A number of exploitative business models that harm society and democracy. Works for me!

> Why not just allow they give an option to not give their data if they are willing to pay?

You can do that now. Stop collecting data that isn't necessary to run your service, and charge people money.
Isn't the fine of violation 20mil Euro or 4% annual rev, whichever is higher? That could put any side projects (or even small startups) out of business, no?
I was thinking of this today: enter stasis and set a trigger to emerge only once one’s wealth has compounded to place them within the vaunted ”top 1%” or leave one in cryosleep indefinitely.
Holy, crap; it's even worse in StreetView than it is in the aerial photo: https://goo.gl/maps/PRkZercuMJ62
No offence taken, I'll take mine over some of the other stories out there. I've got plenty of time to drum something else up, I'll try not to specifically plan anything though.
American society increasingly mistakes business worth for human worth.
I agree and think it is clever marketing. They may not have permission to email their users promoting their new service, but telling your users that "your data is being moved" is a requirement isn't it? Now that in theory it is in the hands of a new service.
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> Hint: It does.

So, if I configure NAT, that prevents inbound connections?

Or are you saying that it implies a firewall that won't filter a single packet, i.e., a firewall that is functionally equivalent to no firewall at all, but that you insist on calling a firewall because it makes you "win the argument" while not contributing anything useful to the discussion?

Yeah, and next I'll be selling cars with an air bag that isn't hooked up. I guarantee you, your head will be processed by an air bag module when you have an accident. So, who are you to claim that my cars don't have an airbag!
> Kids will be kids

Both persons are over 18 years old.
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For reasons I don't understand, they didn't test the driver.
> NOBODY should be allowed to defend themselves with a gun

Why?
The officer (read: most officers) needed better training and probably deserves some type of discipline for negligence, but not criminal charges.
To TACIXAT,

I tried to find your contact info in your about page http://dailyprog.org/~tacixat/about.html

I wanted to point out what I believe is a typo in your about page:

> I really like piracy

I am guessing that what you intended to say is:

"I really like privacy"

;-)

By the way, I am working on a solution to the social media problem that you described. Please let me know if you would like me to contact you when I am ready to launch. Also, feel free to email me at dustfinger[@]nauci[dot]org

Cheers!
You win :)
Google was making commercial use of copyright material without the correct permissions. That's a pretty clear infringement, and the rights holder can sue for losses.

> you are free to add a copyrighted song to a family vacation slideshow only intended/accessible to your family offline.

I'd question whether you can in fact do this. Obviously the rights holders aren't going to sue, but even so the law probably doesn't allow this. (It doesn't in the UK, even if we ignore the format-shifting).
The fact that these people KNOW it's called "SWAT"ting means they know that a SWAT team is going to go to the house with guns. The people that called it in are more guilty than the police.
Yes it sucks that we don't train police better, but they should definitely make the punishment so severe that it helps reduce future SWATTING calls.
What’s Facebook’s Strategy for Stopping False News?
There is, in fact a reason we can't replicate that today, and it's not for lack of trying. We don't have neither the full understanding of the human machine nor the technology to replicate it. As an example, muscles are well-understood, but we haven't been able to make artificial muscles with energy efficiency in the same ballpark. The human brain is much less understood.

I'm not saying it won't be possible at some future date after some hypothetical breakthroughs, but we are far from it presently.
Also works for vehicles. Hydraulic hybrids capture 3x more of the braking energy.

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

There's a retrofit for garbage trucks that pays for itself in 2 years, or you can buy them new.

http://www.govtech.com/transportation/Hybrid-Garbage-Miami-D...
The 6 Month Bug
http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt

> The second advisor, a software developer, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. [...] "A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years."
Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others.

eg: A beautiful person will have much more options in dating, while an ugly person will not, or have no options at all. I know, it is unfair, but there is a clear case that humans have different worth in a society, and it depends on their abilities.
A top scorer (aka Ronaldo, Messi, or Zlatan) in soccer, will have much higher worth in the market then a mediocre one. Their output is directly measurable, and yes, they have much much different value and they are worth more than an average player. Their presence in a team creates more ticket sales and more viewership into the sport. So, they are clearly worth more to that sport at least. If you think sports are valuable at all to a society, then they are probably worth more to the society as well. If you think sports are useless, then they are probably noise. But it seems that our society values sports and performance.

As I said, IQ is not the only one. Beauty, physical strength, height, prowess, performance in arts, acting ability, creativity are other ones. Yes, a sub-average IQ person, that happens to be a great athlete will do well. So, a person with high IQ, but sub-average athletic ability, or beauty.

The author mentions that it is 'unfair' that companies select their candidates by their IQ, while it is clear case that companies are simply acting on their self interest (IQ is highly co-related to output in today's information age).

And, while I agree we should do more to improve early childhood education, and honestly start at even pre-natal care, to make sure that we do whatever we can to raise IQ.

But I don't agree with his recommendation to resist automation at any cost, and not to value IQ at all. History has shown that societies that did resist progress, the average person suffered for it, (feudal Japan, Russia, or China in the 19th century, are examples where centuries of backwards economic values, and resisting to automation resulted in much poorer societies overall).
> It frustrates me that this level of negligence could set self driving tech, something that will save countless lives, back. This was the Chernobyl moment for self driving tech. It's safer than alternatives, but now this is all people are associating it with.

If it can not be done securely at scale, it better be set back, especially on public roads.

I am deeply skeptical of how safe and realistic self-driving vehicles are. Even with such less amount of cars dubbed autonomous on the roads, we've seen up until now a great multitude of fatal accidents or near misses already.

This putting internet and AI in everything reminds me of a recent Vsauce video I saw which shows radium chocolate bars and underwear: a new fascinating thing that in future will probably prove more harmful than it is useful, because of how we overestimate it's practical utility.
... comcast also is an ISP.
> It is the case that even very good driverless cars of the future will cause fatalities now and then. Even if they're safer than human drivers.

And that is why I am so mad at Uber. They are compromising the public trust in autonomous cars with their reckless release policy. And thereby potentially endangering even more lives, as we have to convince the public of the advantages of this technology.
And when Elmer Fudd decides to commit a crime with his hunting rifle, what should the police do about it?
Thanks again for the great script - I particularly love how it's not dependent on any framework so can work everywhere. And the perf improvement numbers don't lie. Awesome.
Will Kubernetes collapse under the weight of its complexity?