skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked the Wired one, since she did what I would have wanted to do:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-duplex-gets-a-second-debu...

I then asked whether there were any allergies in the group. "OK, so, 7:30," the bot said. "No, I can fit you in at 7:45," I said. The bot was confused. "7:30," it said again. I also asked whether they would need a high chair for any small children. Another voice eventually interjected, and completed the reservation.

I hung up the phone feeling somewhat triumphant; my stint in college as a host at a brew house had paid off, and I had asked a series of questions that a bot, even a good one, couldn’t answer. It was a win for humans. “In that case, the operator that completed the call—that wasn't a human, right?” I asked Nygaard. No, she said. That was a human who took over the call. I was stunned; in the end, I was still a human who couldn’t differentiate between a voice powered by silicon and one born of flesh and blood.
Facebook and Twitter meet with conservative leaders who say tech is biased
Looks like there are a few but not many on eBay [1]. I wonder if one can still activate the legacy AppleCare (non +) on newer models purchased after they discontinued it.

[1]: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=applecare+pla...
Actually, no. Plenty of SSL/HTTPS servers run non-open sourced software. Plenty of open source foundations have closed decision making processes. Being open source is neither necessary nor sufficient to being trustworthy.
We changed the URL from https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44628869. Both articles are worth reading but the current one has more juicy detail.
What kinds of mistakes would someone who fits this description make?
How’s the Linux battery management for laptops? This and driver compatibility are usually my biggest concern. I remember 2/3 windows laptops I used were having trouble sleeping/waking up when lids were shut
A deeper understanding of pure mathematics? That's like asking what benefits Michelangelo's works had for humanity.
Was a band playing? That might have been the live entertainment tax. As a Vegas resident I thank you for helping to pave my roads. /s

https://tax.nv.gov/FAQs/Live_Entertainment_Tax___FAQ%E2%80%9...
This is exactly how I feel about my 2016 MacBook Pro
I might not have been clear; GP's (GGGP's?) question was rhetorical; their point was to make a point, not to actually suggest a course of action that they preferred.
From my time with prepaid on T-mobile, most of these fees are imposed on post-paid connections.

I am seriously considering AT&T prepaid to avoid these gimmick fees. for 2 lines 50/mo plan i'll end up paying 70 - https://www.att.com/prepaid/plans.html
Article states that social credit scores are kept for foreign firms:

"[...] the violation was also recorded on the social credit system’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System."
Consider it's brothers, the 3-digit X and T models, which, especially in form of premature leasing returns, have excellent price for the value. And due to the stagnation with CPU power, all from Haswell should be well within usable.
"User replaceable" is kind of a stretch given the amount of disassembly/reassembly required to change the battery. I don't think it can be considered user replaceable is if requires something 90%+ of users aren't comfortable doing vs phones where the battery pops in and out.
I'll Never Use Squarespace Again
Top iOS Trends to Decide the Future of App Development
Time Capsule is interesting, it's been consistent since its release in 2008 and has worked flawlessly for me. Compare that to Windows backup which changes to a new incompatible product with every new version of Windows and is so riddled with flaws its unusable.
I don’t see why they can’t have Air for customers that want thinness and Pro for customers that want portable workstations. Is there a reason, other than “marketing”?
WxPython 4.0.3 Released
The Future of Chatbots
Death of the American dream was a decent doc about this subject. All of this has been engineered into place over a long period of time.
Well we've been thrown out of the Worldcup as Group Last, but we've at least got him to come up with a solution to one of the worlds most visible customerfacing problems in consumer electronics. I'd consider this a bottomline win for Germany.
I'm not completely clear from the phrasing — Was the entire warranty repair free or only the things listed in the third sentence (free extras after paying for the repair)?
Connection was $1600 or so. 100 mbps is about $35/month.
These are not exactly convincing examples especially when near identical examples of these stories are found other cultures where they are accepted as pure myth.

Most oral epics and stories were never intended to accurately transmit facts about the past. The idea of history as based on facts is a very recent idea and it is one of the reasons we have so many problems with the written records from ancient historians. They had no problem making up entire stores and conversations that never happened as long as it furthered the purpose of their writing.

The purpose of these oral traditions is not to transmit facts, but to explain to the next generation what is important to their culture and/or entertain.
UN: Report on extreme poverty and human rights in the United State [pdf]
No _need_ to reboot. Restarting the Xorg/Wayland server, maybe. You might be able to fool it into thinking you just hot-plugged the GPU, at least as far as the screen layout is concerned.

Remember: the only reason you need to reboot linux is to get a new kernel, or because the kernel FUBAR'd and corrupted data.
All the explanation you need in two graphs:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=ki8y

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=ki8A

Cost of education over real median household income, and house price index over real median household income. Education is more than twice as expensive as the start of the century, and houses are almost twice as expensive as the start of the century.
See, I've always used both and I just don't understand this whole "I have to spend a day on Windows making X work". I haven't experienced this in at least a decade. Windows 10 "just works" with every device and software I've thrown at it.
What Is the Next Wave of SaaS Development
The rebuttal;
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2018-6-23-the-pover...
I swear by the 3500 wireless mouse. It's perfect (for me). And for fear that Microsoft will discontinue them some day, I've got a half dozen extra in my closet, picked up at some Fry's sale.

That said, I would never have guessed the classic IntelliMouse wasn't around - they still seem to be everywhere.
Shorten your Git commands
The haunting surrealism of Victor Brauner
Consider asking for a new Battery next gift-giving holiday (Christmas?). If it's not that much, it's likely worth it unless it'd be of no use.
Just tried it. Looks much better then mastodon.social Experience is a bit strange. When I toot something, it does not appear in the timeline nor does my statuses count go up. Both only happen when I reload the page.
I thought about a similar solution about a year ago, but mine involved embedding small spring loaded pins into the front, back and sides of phone that would pop up when the phone was dropped.
I agree that Linux doesn't it cut it for audio, but that situation seems to be improving - I was surprised to see Bitwig, Renoise & Pianoteq all have Linux versions, and the JUCE SDK that many VST plugins use also supports Linux.

And with macOS deprecating OpenGL, which many VST plugins currently rely on for their interface, I'm concerned about the future of music on the Mac & how long I'll be able to use those older VSTs.
There's a similar terminal for macOS and iOS called cathode. iOS version even uses accelerometer to mimic screen wavering when moved.

The mac version was using a lot of CPU cycles, so I stopped using it, but it's worth checking.
Who cares if you’re qualified tbqh. If the pay is sufficient and/or you like the team, take it, if not pass. There’s unlikely to be other benefits beyond those. And nothing these companies are doing is that tough that it requires super intelligence anyway.
Why do sites have to hijack my scrolling wheel? Seriously who thinks that's a good idea?
I had an issue where I got a pink screen of death every time i woke my windows 10 laptop up from sleep. I believe it was a driver bug. It finally got fixed with the Spring Creators Update, so now I can sleep my computer again!

(side note/separate complaint, windows 10 tries to update one driver repeatedly, every time I check. I wish there were some way to disable that update.)
Mandatory labels can improve attitudes toward genetically engineered food
How to Create a Facebook Group
Halcyon and Pinafore are both just front-ends for existing mastodon accounts (like brutaldon).

Pleroma is a different technology, but federates the same. As is Misskey; depending on what you're looking for in features either of those might do it more for you (or the glitchsoc fork of mastodon). (and theming is a thing, of course, regardless)

It's been posted here before, but http://fediverse.party/ is a nice little overview of the federated social web (over ActivityPub, I believe); https://the-federation.info/ is broader. Both have some small issues but are nice starting places.
Windows Command-Line: The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line
> some sharp points about how workers are expected to “deny their biology” and “how little American businesses and legislators care about care,”

These are two wonderful, succinct statements that perfectly describe the American experience.
Weight is not the same as thinness. The X1 Carbon is substantially lighter than the MacBook Pro, but with a much better keyboard and much more repairable.
Most likely a "concession fee." Lively discussion here: https://vitalvegas.com/beware-the-deceptive-cnf-charge-at-be...
I work in India, where my we service ATM's for a nationalised bank. While these run on XP, we are advised to install all security updates. I read in the thread somewhere that they use satellite network so windows updates cannot be sent. That is incorrect. Most of them are connected via LAN and most are updated remotely. RBI recently passed a regulation to upgrade the OS by 2019. I guess windows 7 would be used.
I just skimmed through it so maybe I'm missing something, but it also appears to be incomplete. It even says "the completion of the rigorous derivation of the above results will be presented in a companion paper". He brings up equation 1.6 but I don't see a rigorous handling of its asymptotics, nor any precise statement of what the growth rate of zeta on or near the critical line is expected to be. The conclusions section also says about as much. I hope it works out and we will see the conclusion, but I'd really like to see some precise growth rates so we can at least compare it to known bounds and example.
Oh damn, I've waited too long now
Hidden methods and data in JavaScript
The Elite Commando War Assault Shooting Battle
Stock Debian Stretch on my Lenovo works very well. Battery time estimation is dead on, suspend is very low power (days). You can set the lid shut behavior through the gnome admin tools.

Check it out!
No issues on my X250, everything worked out of the box with Fedora.

Battery life under Linux compared to Windows 10 seems slightly better - I guess it’s because I’m using MATE, so it’s a less resource hungry DE.
> Obviously it doesn't make sense to add all the positive integers (the series doesn't converge), but if you squint and ignore this, and just do the arithmetic a certain way, you get -1/12.

I'm not a pure-maths type person but in my experience, if you get one answer by following simple, well understood maths (like "the sum of two positive integers is a positive integer") and another answer by "squinting and ignoring it", this doesn't mean the simple answer is wrong, it means you did something else wrong (like the hidden divide-by-zero present in your typical "proof that 1 = 2"). Paradoxes point to an error in the formulation of the question.
They are good graphs, but I think explanation is better given by graphs of where wage growth has gone. I don't have it handy, but I recall a very nice graph that showed nearly all wage growth since the mid 70's has gone to the top 10%
Decent roads, horrible schools: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/education/2018/01/17/nevadas-...
The ownership class declared a shadow war on the New Deal and has won the long game.
I switched from Windows to Linux on my work Dell and battery life is the same.

I go to standby on lid closed and shutdown at the end of the day. Bootup to login takes 20 seconds so I don't bother with hibernate.
No almost all are windows xp. Atleast the bank where I work.
Incorrect. Having owned both the previous, 5-pound version and the current, 3-pound version, the difference is night and day.
For example, it could be the case than in a given country, a news article in which the son of a prominent CEO does something socially embarrassing relative to that culture (perhaps he didn't get into a top university and instead attends a community college) which causes enough public outcry that he resigns. Is it right for Twitter, Facebook, etc. to push up comments and reactions, via machine learning algorithms or whatever, that bias more towards western (read: American) values about what is considered social outrage?

Conversely, what if ideas about corruption are treated differently in different countries. If it is the case that it is socially expected/accepted to pay officials for certain services, is it right for a western tech company to promote comments/content that show dissent and value western values over the local ones?
IBM Toolkit for Swift on Z/OS
Because they’re in the standard library, and convenient. I would never use a third-party package just for some syntactic sugar.
I've been curious to see if could get a laptop to be a dual boot linux and hackintosh

https://www.modmy.com/how-dual-boot-macos-and-linux-hackinto...
I am not sure I'd like my phone to do this in my pocket while riding a roller coaster.
Uh, seriously? Moving cursors around? Some of us use computers for things other than games, child.
So in the video linked to in the first paragraph: anon says "while the rest of you... still use shitty Perl and have no hair". Lulz indeed.

<sigh>
I live in the Pacific Northwest.
They seem to get the things done professionally and effectively.
I'm shocked! I just assume hostility and act accordingly. Ublock origin and tampermonkey scripts at anyone who bypasses it. Cookie autodelete to remove tracking cookies every 3 seconds. Canvasblocker against fingerprinting.

Honestly this is how the internet makes money and I can't even be mad. Asking Facebook to respect privacy is like asking a drugdealer to find legal employment. Just don't do drugs!
Blockchain Project Focused on Autonomous Vehicles Raises $18M in Coin Offering
> becomes "I think that I am a single agent, therefor I am such"

No, it's "Most of the time I act as a single agent, therefore my perception of myself as a single agent is not an illusion, but a simplified model". It doesn't matter how many neurons are voted, if I'm doing what I was thinking I'm going to do. Experiments can poke at edge-cases where self-model is incorrect, but that's expected.

In a case of a brain, my self-model also runs on brain's neurons and is a part of what brain is doing. It makes it even less illusionary, than an internal model of the world.
I am at a loss for words that you honestly believe some people didn't think or assume it was logged.
It works on Linux, but some bugs aren't fixed for a long time and the project looks stalled. They also should have renamed the binary to crt.
I switched my wife first because she wanted Verizon's network and at that point you had to buy a new device from Comcast. After a couple of months, I ended up buying a used phone compatible with Xfinity Mobile and have been very happy with it.

We took our phones with us to Mexico and roamed for a week for about $9 over the usual bill. That was almost entirely Google Maps, with a little "Find Friends", but it was so much nicer than swapping SIM cards.

I was in the process of setting up BackBlaze and ARQ to back up everything at home offsite when Comcast implemented their 1TB/month limit. That was not pleasant. And every year Comcast makes me do the "we're doubling your price for internet unless you threaten to leave" every year and having the cell phones with them makes it harder to move. It's another $10/month per line if you don't have service with Comcast.

So I'm not thrilled about having more eggs in their basket but the service has been really reliable. My wife wanted Verizon because she travels to the boondocks and she wouldn't have service with Ting, which is what we were using before.
One less thing to worry about. Adds to build time etc.
This looks very clever, but also like it could take an eye out if it deployed while the phone was held up to your face (or, indeed, was dropped while held over your face).

I'm very fond of the concept, but I think the implementation needs a lot of work.
OBike ended operation and customers are unable to get their deposits refunded
I have just written my own parser. Took some work when my bank switched from txt to PDF.

Then I match keywords in the strings to categorize the expenses. These days, this would be called AI :)

Edit: I use pdftotext, which has a mode that keeps the spatial structure of tables. Works for my bank.
> would do just fine with a "lesser database"

And I would grant you that if you could make the credible argument that a "lesser" [1] database could be a suitable replacement on a drop-in basis, without significant engineering effort.

As I pointed out in a downthread comment, a very useful feature is that existing stored procedure that encode business logic already work.

Are you really saying that only 0.1% of business database users fall into even that category? My second-hand (DBA I know) experience contradicts this, but if you have a better source, I'm certainly interested.

[1] I don't actually intend to make any overall value judgment, since my point isn't that Oracle has feature/performance superiority over any other database. Instead, I'm saying that it has specific features that the business needed at the time it was chosen that may not be offered by a different one.
That's the thing about anecdotes, one person's experience is completely opposite of anothers. I got a laptop with Windows 10 on it and immediately experienced the "100% disk utilization problem", which makes it basically unusable. I Googled around and found hundreds of posts about the problem and many dozens of suggested fixes of which zero worked (for me). So it's sitting on a shelf until I get around to installing Ubuntu on it, which has always just worked for me (which is the opposite of some other people's experiences).
But but... reactjs :( /s
One just has to know which situations the GC can't cope with and avoid them.

Unfortunately, many programmers believe that since Java uses garbage collection, you do not have to think about GC and ownership at all.

Oracle had to replace the fast implementation of substring that just returns a slice of a String (O(1) time) by a copying implementation (O(n)), because too many programmers do not know the basics of ownership/garbage collection and would accidentally hold on to larger strings.

Seeing the implementation details of reference counting, mark-sweep collection, and perhaps a generational collector once, makes you more aware of memory and ownership issues, even if you forget the nitty gritty details later.
> zcat in particular just doesn't work

?

I used `zcat` on macOS just today. What issue do you have with it?
import unittest

class SomeTestThing(unittest.TestCase):

def some_test(self):
self.assertTrue(False)

What on earth is hard about that?
Magical moderation I guess?
I think this is because the Mac doesn’t lock at all by default. The actual behavior seems to be “prompt for password after screen saver is interrupted” so that flash is the time it takes the OS to realize the screensaver just turned off and it’s time to ask for the password on the lock screen.

When I leave my Mac I always do a ctrl-shift-eject/power to force the lock immediately.
It's very helpful, yes, for your third or fourth job. People fresh out of school - or going into a career change, or moving to a new city - typically do not have much of a 'professional network', at least of any relevance.

I've had good experiences and bad with recruiters - the bad ones, fortunately, from the employer's side of the table, although they can't have been good for the candidates in that case either.
I think it depends on the model. I run arch on a Thinkpad and the battery life is about what I expect given the battery size. CPU voltage and fan is modulated properly. No lid or sleep issues whatsoever.
Agile Project Management vs. Traditional Project Management
But then again, would you have noticed the heaviness of the 2012 if you weren't given the 2016?
Ask HN: Freelancers/Independent Contractors what is your billing structure?
How much do you charge upfront, before any work is delivered?

Is the billing structure different for clients you already have a business relationship with?

What is your recourse in case of defaulting clients or disputes over billing milestones especially after delivery?

Do you offer any subscription type service, for example, paid support?
JavaScript Usage by Industry
Linux doesn't cut it for me after I've tried a BSD. It isn't as bad as Windows, but BSDs have a certain kind of elegance. And because the things you can do on them are limited (browsing and coding) and there aren't as many packages you are much more focused.
The Whole Foods in my area has various bulk foods (through Sprouts has FAR more) and has bulk body products (soaps, lotions, shampoos, etc.).
Nope, just tried this https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js on safari on my iphone. It just asks for permission, after that there is no indication that it's listening or not
Ask HN: How do you network with people working on machine learning/AI?
ML/AI is an exciting field. One half of it is the technical knowledge. The other half is talking to people in the space and understand real-world problems that they're trying to solve. This is to get into real-world problem solving mode rather than just classifying random images because it's fun.

How do you network? What kind of people do you talk to regularly to keep yourself acquainted with the field and the problems that it can solve very well?
You're forgetting health care costs, which have skyrocketed since the 80s. Interestingly, all of these costs are not part of official inflation numbers, so real inflation for middle class is much higher than the reports say.
This is also likely to impact web-services internationally in cases where you need a license to be viewed from China even if you are hosted internationally. This happens in the case of some content delivery networks and related software that are specifically targeted.Alternatively, they can throttle your access. Add social credit to that and you have a tool that makes GDPR look positively benign.
So? They can just choose to do business elsewhere. China should completely open up their markets, because they seem to prescribe that to everyone else except themselves. We should follow them in kind.
My high-rise miraculously had the good sense to install normal-ish smoke detectors in the units so burnt food doesn’t trigger a building-wide alarm. Those still exist too, but the only one I’ve seen was real (sprinkler activation, ladder trucks, the works).
Windows is truly a pain like never before. Going Linux can be very easy these days, depending what you do on the machine.
The thickness of the keyboard isn't the issue -- the issue is its fixability. I've heard various accounts of when a key gets stuck, Apple has to replace the whole bottom half of the laptop.
Why can't you run postgres on a rpi?

Isn't installing postgres as easy as mysql aka 'apt install mysql-server'?
Babylon claims its chatbot beats GPs at medical exam