skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to defend Apple. But one doesn't have to be genius to find out that iPhone 6 would be more prone to bending than iPhone 5 (2x times thicker). The internal document doesn't proof anything. It's just numbers.
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And all of the networks offer most of their content free on the web a week after it airs without signing in, in the case of CW, within a day.

If you add the corresponding channels to Plex, you can watch them without commercials. Plex channels scrape the content from the official web channels in real time so while the networks may not like it, to the websites it looks just like you are viewing it on the web so it wouldn't be considered "piracy"
So what's the story with that phone in your pocket? ;)

you have one, right?
Amen. You speak for me too.
https://github.com/gimite/google-drive-ruby

https://codingislove.com/google-sheets-database/
That's an interesting point. In California and some other states, having a device actively recording any conversation without consent from everyone involved is illegal, much less sharing it.
This is a very recent dupe [1] of a thread 3 hours older, with 180+ upvotes and 180+ comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17144160
I had no idea it was written by him until now. I see it on HN usually once a year and every time it brings a smile to my face.

Elegant, simple and meaningful.
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Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada seem like the place to be
They definitely seem to be referring to the Uber self-driving system. The sentence "At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision (see figure 2)." has this footnote attached to it: "In Uber’s self-driving system, an emergency brake maneuver refers to a deceleration greater than 6.5 meters per second squared (m/s^2)".
Well Reason is really Ocaml, which has a much better type system than Elm (functors, open variants, a class system) , powerful meta programming (the react extension is just syntactic sugar around that) and is now backed by at least three large corporations (Facebook, Bloomberg and JaneStreet). It has a proven track record of handling large sophisticated projects and is not restricted to the web front end niche because it compiles to native code aswell. So you are able to write both the server and client code in the same language. The fact that reason has a dsl for react is just one of the killer arguments.
If you are cleaver you can use the wifi signals as a radar and find people/objects even when they don't have a wifi device on them.

I'm pretty sure all current technology only works with the have a wifi decide on your person. It is significantly easier to do this and for the most part good enough.
70 + 35 + 12 = 120/ month that's much cheaper than cable + internet. A 1 GB connection is also overkill for just about anyone.
You may be interested in https://mycroft.ai/
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"Pretty cheap" is still likely an order of magnitude or more than actual standby, and using a small ring buffer to identify a pre-established wake word is similarly going to be cheap compared to actually streaming audio to disk.

If you actually care, this would be pretty trivial to verify using an oscilloscope to observe the energy draw from the battery while different things are said around your device.
Mainly it gives people an opportunity to get Apple's ticker wrong (AAPL is correct, APPL is very commonly misused).
Good thing they've been frugal and have been cutting spending in order to be prepared for the next big one /s
Which competitors will be excluded by the increase in HTTPS? Which companies exactly are relying on the connections being unencrypted, and how are they able to monitor them?

And if Google's competitors are spying on HTTP rather than using tracking scripts, why does seemingly every page I visit load tracking scripts from a bunch of companies?
> There's a lot wrong with that when society--us--have the duty and obligation, which we do, to help when that Deliveroo driver gets doored and can't pay a medical bill because the job is comedically penurious.

Which is why Britain has the NHS.

To me, the entire point of a robust welfare state is that you don't need to regulate employment nearly as strictly, because then you aren't as reliant on employers for life necessities. And that's a net positive, because regulation is far less effective than entitlements.
> If you’ve ever done significant mileage in a car with an emergency braking system you probably have experienced seemingly random braking events. The systems favor false positives over false negatives.

This is not my experience with VW's 2016-model-year system.

Soemtimes it stops a second or two before I would've. I haven't had any false positives, though.
False equivalency in action.

That's sneaky. It's a meta-false-equivalency! You are trying to conflate equivalency in principle with equivalency in degree. Somehow, just a little violence and mayhem -- using authoritarian force to gain compliance -- is better because it is less. By that logic, a little rape better than a lot of it! Nice principle! In fairness, you probably just talked yourself into that, and didn't realize. You see, principles like human rights matter, and not adhering to them brings you into these contradictions.

Then, if you've ever conflated a normal run of the mill social democrat or a socialist or liberal democrat or centrist with a stalinist -- particularly without sufficient evidence -- or even if you've ever held your tongue while others representing right wingers have done so -- you are a hypocrite.

Fact: Many of those are equivalent in terms of being collectivist. The evidence is in on collectivist governments. (Which include Nazism and Fascism, by the way.) Stalinism is only the extreme endpoint. So people who do violence, do violence. Those who do not, do not. People who violate human rights are people who violate human rights. People who abet those violations, abet those violations. There is no contradiction there. The only equivalency is between those who would do violence to impose their political will on others who only seek to exercise their human rights to free speech. It's a moral equivalency on principle, as opposed to your intellectually bankrupt non-equivalency on quantity.

For the record, I save the terms "fascist" and "Nazi" for actual fascists, including the ones trying to be cute about it

Do you correct and speak out against your fellow Antifa who mess that up? Not doing so is basically like standing by while someone racially bashes someone. (An experience that I know first hand, by the way: being racially bashed while others stand around.) Lumping people into groups, when it hides the truth and short-circuits logic is disgusting to me. Standing by, complicit, when people smear others in your name is just as bad.

Black Bloc beats up fascists and yes, cause petty vandalism.

You absolutely cannot draw equivalency between them. They are in completely different leagues.

Then by your own words, you are alright with just a little bit of immorality, violation of human rights, and authoritarian use of force, just because you see fit to do it. A little bit of what fascists do -- beating people up and intimidating them for their view of "justice" -- is alright, because it's not as bad, being less in quantity than Nazis. Thanks for clearing that up.

Any movement that depends on the other side being worse to justify itself has failed to justify itself on principles. Such a movement is morally and intellectually bankrupt.
Indeed, but it ups the ante. It requires someone creating a spoof expend more work rather than just training a NN to fabricate a video.

I think everyone knows this, security just makes things harder, and that might be enough.
I think that there are two contrary trends.

Large companies that substantially profit from personal data are testing the boundaries of GDPR. They've got competent legal advice and know that a blatant effort would earn the wrath of the regulators, so they're being subtle about it. They're creatively interpreting grey areas. They're using complex and confusing opt-outs justified by spurious technical issues. They're carefully planning a strategy that will allow them to drag out the enforcement process and gain as much ground as possible, while maintaining the pretence that they're making a good-faith effort to comply. They'd rather avoid a heavy fine, but they're not afraid of butting heads with the regulators.

A lot of small companies without in-house counsel are going a bit crazy. Maybe they've spoken to a data protection consultant who has fed them a bunch of FUD, maybe they've just read a few articles in the press, but they haven't really scrutinised the text of the GDPR or spoken to a regulatory authority. They don't understand what their obligations are under the GDPR or the overarching principles of data protection, but they're doing something. Sometimes that thing is completely overzealous, sometimes it's totally inadequate. I've seen a lot of misguided efforts by SMEs to indemnify themselves against GDPR, akin to the "no copyright intended" statements you see in YouTube descriptions. Many of these companies had been completely ignoring the old Data Protection Directive, so they've got a lot of catching up to do.
Google let me listen to my own queries following, "okay, google." Mostly they were reasonable, but sometimes it heard "okay google" in what sounded to me like regular driving noise. It's a good reminder that even though we've trained computers to recognize sounds and images, we didn't train them to listen & see the way that we do. The mistakes that these algorithms make need not be anything like the mistakes that a person would make.
Such site should be illegal. I find it extraordinary that government lets private company record such sensitive information.
I know ARM processors shouldn't be subject to the recent vulnerabilities, or not as much as Intel and AMD, but I'm surprised that the article doesn't address that point. A decent CPU not vulnerable to Spectre, Meltdown and friends should be able to sell well only because of that.
Please assume good faith, as the site guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What I am saying, is that I think the increase in convenience is largely perceived.
I think this will be a commercial product, Esperanto Technologies is looking to build commercial chips.
NPR has decided that you either agree to let them do whatever they want with your data, or you're only allowed to see a ridiculously bare-bones plain-text version of the site lacking any functionality beyond links.

Ten minutes later I've got a user style set up and I'm quite happy with the plain version. But it's still a petty response from the organisation and shows that they don't feel they need to spend any time at all trying to help users control their own data.

https://choice.npr.org
Great trilogy that explores, among many things, hibernation. Highly recommend too.
You can't clap with a baby in your arms?
I got an Echo Dot a month ago, because there was a special offer on Amazon for the Philips Hue system, and it included one free. After reading this and having a discussion with my girlfriend last night about how she needs a backup of something, but we don't have a DVD writer at home (she's not tech savvy and thinks people still back-up stuff on DVDs), and now, the second day my Amazon daily offers is filled with portable DVD writers, it starts to creep me out and the first thing that I want to do when I go home is to unplug it. I know it can be a crazy coincidence and I was never the kind of guy that believed this Facebook is listening to you, but still, what if they actually just listen for some keywords?
This reminded me of a physics theory in which all electrons are actually the same electron, going back and forth in time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
Right, or "the current source code says not to do that, but some discrepant, previous, buggy build of the machine code made it into the product you actually bought."
>I've told my roommate I'm moving out if he ever buys an Alex/Google/Apple assistant device.

You would also need to leave if they have a smartphone of any kind...
I think optionality is a key difference. In Dickens' day, every job was a factory job and they all sucked. I'm pretty sure Deliveroo riders have other min wage options if they disagree with how Deliveroo wants to run it's business. Not to say that I fully agree with Deliveroo's choices if they are represented correctly, but I do agree with their ability to make those choices
But this is Amazon. I guess things have changed for the worse on the customer service front though. This happened not too long ago (2-3 years) - probably around the time they posted a net profit

In terms of the big picture, this was dumb PR wise and this story should have never happened. For less than a $1000, Amazon could have stopped the story if the PR dept were more in sync with customer service
I disagree. To be listening at all times is the very definition of a tap, don’t you think?

And people know this. It’s not like they are being misled. It’s a conscious exchange of privacy for convinence. It’s just that, in my mind, you are getting very little for what you’re giving.
That's a very interesting and plausible hypothesis.

One wonders whether the prolonged slump might lead to some sort of bursting of outfits like Tether/Bitfinex. It seems like a downward spiral of people selling BTC and Bitfinex doing the dance you described, and a bigger hole being created.
The “no pedestrian zone” is part of a complex set of causes and effects.

Since it’s a no pedestrian zone, it has a higher speed limit posted

A higher speed limit causes a linear reduction in detection time, a sensor that detects a pedestrian 2 second away at 20mph will detects a pedestrian 1 second away at 40mph

Braking distance and impact energy are both quadratic and that’s part of how/why speed limits are defined

There are a lot of engineering issues that will arise from the need to cope with people violating limits and restrictions around autonomous vehicles.

I’m not defending uber here btw, they definitely jumped the gun deploying the system as described, just thinking out loud. There are decades of crashes that went into the driving code and road regulations, which humans kinda understand by relating to road design and getting cues from the environment that ais will need to learn
> Features are not better than reliable security.

Well, yes and no. Bugs, security, reliability, etc are all important things to consider, but they can't be the only focus. Security doesn't matter if the thing you are creating has no features; it would be the same as if it didn't exist at all.

Instead, we must manage risk; the risk of bugs, the risk of security vulnerabilities, etc. Nothing we do is risk free. Even walking across the bathroom floor has SOME risk; we might slip and fall. Does that mean we should just stay in bed all day to avoid any risk?

No, we measure risk by factoring the chance of the bad thing happening and the consequence of the bad thing happening. We then determine how much effort we should spend on that risk, since there are infinite risks and only a finite amount of effort we can expend.

If the consequence of a risk is death, then we should absolutely put a lot of effort into minimizing that risk. If the consequence of a risk is that a private conversation is sent to a contact, we should definitely put a lot of effort into minimizing that risk, but probably not quite as much as you would into something that has the consequence of death.

Even when the risk is death, however, we don't put infinite effort into avoiding it. We choose to cross the street, even when we know there is a risk of death when we do it. We drive cars that have chances of mechanical failures that could cause our death, but we don't bring the car to the shop every day to check for failures.

Things are not so black and white as to say "security is always the most important thing"
These type of sites often write nonsense. I prefer to look at the actual text of the regulations.
This breaks the HN guidelines by taking the thread on a generic flamebait tangent (anti-immigration politics in the US). Such paths lead reliably to generic flamewars, the thing we need most to avoid on this site, so please don't take them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's the thing, though. On a global level, poverty is measured by a threshold of whether or not you can sleep through the night without getting bitten by malaria-infested mosqitoes. Gig workers in Western countries aren't anywhere near the left-hand side of the tail. Most of these distributive justice arguments have a nationalistic bent where the global poor don't matter at all.
I'm just thankful that the response is more satisfying than the typical, "nope, couldn't have happened, can't reproduce".
This video felt nothing more than a commercial company taking advantage of the "open-source hardware" and "RISC-V" flags to promote their proprietary IP solution.
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The sensors observed the pedestrian 6 seconds before impact! That's more than enough time to come to a complete stop.

That's enough time to play a bell that alerts the driver and for the driver to manually react, press the brakes, and come to a complete stop.

And this was a pretty easily preventable scenario (which just makes it more tragic of course). Software is nowhere near ready to drive cars on real roads.
This makes me happy.

I've tried a half dozen of the meal kit providers and Home Chef is hands down the highest quality in terms of ingredients and also providing recipes that are fancy enough that you don't say "I could have just made this myself" like everyone says about Blue Apron. I order irregularly but my experience with Home Chef has been incredible.

I'm probably one of the few on HN who's tried Kroger's existing meal kits that have been piloted in a few stores around Cincinnati. They definitely target a different audience than the online meal kits, but being able to pick one up at the grocery store on a whim vs committing to buy + cook 3 kits in 1 week has been a game changer for me. I hope that they bring the Home Chef kits in store. Plus it's got to save a ton not having to ship the kits and not requiring the ice packs.
> there is more proof that Tether has the funding to back up the USDT than proof that Tether does not have the funds

There is no way Bitfinex has $2.2 billion in bank accounts. If a bank handles U.S. dollars, they are under U.S. jurisdiction. Bitfinex cannot show who own Tether; that makes beneficial ownership tracing, rules surrounding which became stronger twelve days ago, impossible.

Had they picked any other currency, the claim could have been plausible. But $2.2 billion in anonymously digital U.S. dollars? (Physical cash, too, might have been plausible.) Not likely.
Does this mean the problem is more complicated and nuanced than we had originally assumed so that they are constantly going to struggle to program it to even barely match the performance of a human being?

I'm still disappointed that the system has to use underlying maps to know where lanes are and what the speed limits are in them. What happens when the map is less than 100% perfect?
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This is actually a pretty interesting question about threat models. A lot of "it can listen" fears are inconsistent with "I carry a smartphone", but I do think there's a meaningful distinction. My expectation isn't secrecy, but it is privacy.

I carry a smartphone, but I keep voice-command activation turned off. I'm sure it could be activated remotely, but I expect that would require a targeted effort. I assume that Google isn't constantly recording everything in the vicinity of all Android phones - the news would probably get out, and honestly I'd see the battery impact pretty quickly.

As the saying goes, "Quantity has a quality all its own". My basic objection is to systems that are likely to store/upload all available data, with the attendant risks of leakage or commercialization I object to. Anything I say around my phone is potentially forfeit, but I don't think everything is.
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No I'm not, I work on home automation for a living. I am saying the value and added convenience is largely perception and it doesn't. I raised my first kid pre-echo and my second post echo. I think for the most part, raising a kid is easier than we thing, and we are surprised at how well we are doing and attribute that to things around us, much like our old superstitious ancestors.
> Boy are they going to be disappointed when all the immigrants are gone and they still can't make a living.

The people in power who use immigrants as a distraction have no intention of actually getting rid of the immigrants. They know they need them around for blaming.
I started looking at F# because of .NET Core, and I'm really liking it. I currently use Giraffe in a project, but I'll be switching it to Saturn soon (which uses Giraffe under the hood). And I've identified a potential use case for using Fable on some already written server-side code. Ionide is great, Neptune (F# debugger for VSCode) works well, and they both are maintained by the same person as Saturn.

Rider also works pretty well with F#, which is nice if you prefer the JetBrains IDEs.
> I'm just wondering why you draw the line at "Alex/Google/Apple assistant device"

There’s a big difference between:

- Devices which are by design always actively listening and sending real-time audio to computers you can’t control or even really trust, with unknown security properties, and consumer-appliance security life-cycles/support

- Devices that can be configured to do that, but which you have some control over (phones, laptops, etc.) and generally won’t, without some form of consent (even if via a dark pattern, e.g. LinkedIn on Android).
> There's often a numerus clausus in universities, limiting the number of doctors that enter the field.

The number of doctors that enter the field is limited not by the number of people who graduate with medical degrees, but by the number of residency positions available for training. Every year, we graduate more medical students than we have residency slots available, and that's not including foreign graduates who do their medical studies abroad but want to practice in the US. There is no artificial limit for residency slots; the limit is the amount of funding available.

Most of these are heavily subsidized by the government. Hospitals are free to create their own positions in addition, if they can fund them themselves. Very few do, because residency programs actually lose money on margin.
Netflix 4K is "up to 7GB per hour", so likely 5-7GB on average. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87
> Every piece of the pie picked up by the 0.1 percent, in relative terms, had to come from the people below.

Economics is not a zero-sum game.
This is Apple's modus operandi. The same thing happened with the early 2011 MBPros, which GPUs kept failing systematically, even after costly repairs.

It took a class action lawsuit for them to start refunding repairs and provide an actual solution, but by then it was far too late.
It's not ideal but you can share a house with a bunch of people through rent-sharing websites for £200-400 depending on the zone. I personally used that for a short stay while searching for something decent closer to zone 1 to share with my friends, and saved some money at the same time. It definitely wasn't as awful as I was expecting.
They clearly matter not only in viewership but also in the whole stars vs thumbs up system.