skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep - cheap enough and cool-futuristic enough to be a gift, regardless of usage.

I know several folks who are very tech oriented that have them, and they're used almost exclusively as voice command light switches, or infrequently timers and music. I also know regular folks who have them and they sit unused. That's just my anecdata but I have heard this echoed (heh) from many other people.

I think there's three fundamental problems:

1. Voice is not as efficient an interface for a variety of problems that visuals are better suited for.

2. Use cases where voice on a smart speaker in a home may excel are dependent on other home-related smart appliances, which do not have broad market penetration. Basically a home speaker is like talking to your home, but if it's not connected to other parts of your home, it's purpose is mostly lost.

3. There's a minimum threshold of usage under which you don't remember exactly how to use the device or what it's capable of, or make a habit of integrating it into your daily activities. This is true of all devices, but for devices that are used infrequently like voice speakers it's a real issue. So even in cases where voice is efficient, the user will fall back to a less-efficient but better understood interface, usually the smartphone.

On the last point, psychologically this is the forgetting curve, whereby things you learn that you do not reinforce through successive activities over time will fade away from memory exponentially.

There are strong use cases for voice, most notably in a car, but that's outside the scope of smart speakers.
I have a Rift, but I've never purchased any content from Facebook's marketplace. I use Steam, because that's where my gaming library lives. As long as the headset is tethered to a computer, Valve is going to capture the content distribution revenue. Facebook had to make a standalone device, because they never had a chance of monetizing anything other than the hardware itself on the desktop. I think this is a point that is often overlooked.

Given the Facebook's generally poor history of ecosystem stewardship, I don't see why any gaming enthusiast would even want them to be the arbiter of VR content distribution. Valve is far from perfect, but I'd much rather give my money to them than Facebook.
Advocates push to beef up privacy regulator
What is "ETA"? /s :-)
National (or oligarchical) competition is far from dead, despite the vacuous, maudlin bromides about global unity that will never be true. Why would you expect the US (or anyone else) not to drain other countries of their workers if it suits them? The emphasis is on "if". South Korea was transformed from a backwards rice farming country into a financially prosperous one not by draining Korea of Koreans, but in no small part because it was in the US's interest.
Potentially Citus may be worth a lot, so this is in no way just a symbolic gesture. IMHO it could be the start of something very right happening more often. It was funded for 13M so far btw (crunchbase data).
> Off topic: Do you get requests around embedding AI/NLP in your chat program?

Occasionally, but not too often. Thing is, relatively few of our customers use TalkJS for customer support - the usual suspects (Intercom, Zendesk, etc) are usually better than TalkJS for those use cases. Turns out most services that need the flexibility that TalkJS offers (eg for user-to-user chat instead of user-to-helpdesk chat) need it for direct communication between real humans.

But there's a number of edge cases, so we do have a few customers who've connected TalkJS to chatbot AIs via our REST API / webhooks.

There are other fields that AI could solve that we get requests about more frequently though. For instance disallowing people to share "real world" contact information such as street addresses (some of our customers are marketplaces who are afraid to lose their transaction markup if customers can easily bypass them). Given how insane street names can be this is an impossible problem, but decent AI could do better at that than any regex can.

Curious why you ask!
It's important to have an order of magnitude as a goal. In general the size of a company in dollars correlates with their impact on the world. The best talent is interested in making a big impact on the world.

2x or .5x won't make much of a difference, but if you are thinking 100x or 1,000x smaller then it will have an impact on your business in the early stages. If your goal is to make a $100M company you aren't likely thinking big enough to attract good talent and partners.
Love LINQ, hate loops (C#)
Well, this particular thread still exists; somewhere in the Tweets there there was a link posted to an archived version.
Well done Citus, comendable and inspiring.
I’m betting most of my wealth and my new company on Postgres, if it succeeds, I hope to emulate you.
Postgres is an incredible data platform, that just gets better and better every year with more functionality AND better performance (unlike most software where more features = slower) AND consistent rock solid reliability AND the best documentation of any product I have seen.
The example in the "Demo IV" video seems to be like that. I don't know Chinese, but this is directly from the video:

–

Word-by-Word Translation: river zemin correct united states president of speak express regret

Simultaneous Translation (wait 3): jiang zemin expressed his welcome to the us president 's remarks .

Simultaneous Translation (wait 5): jiang zemin expressed his regret over the us president 's remarks .

Baseline Translation (greedy): jiang zemin expressed regret over the us president 's remarks .

–

The "wait 3" model and "wait 5" model have a fixed 3 and 5 words, respectively, of "buffer" before they have to start translating. In this case, the Chinese word corresponding to "regret" comes between 3 and 5 words after its corresponding position in the English sentence. "Wait 5" is able to see it, but "wait 3" simply has to guess what goes in that position – and what it guesses is almost the exact opposite of the actual meaning! And it doesn't seem to be able to revise its translation after the fact.

To be useful in practice, you would definitely need to be able to do that. It seems like it would also help to dynamically vary the buffer size based on the amount of ambiguity – but according to the paper on arxiv, previous systems already did that, while theirs intentionally throws it away in favor of a fixed buffer, apparently because it's simpler to train and because they prioritize low latency.
And there I thought Yeti cups were expensive!!!
thank you. would you consider it less sketchy if you could opt-in/out of the XMR miner?
The author is not complaining on behalf of his own company, my dude. The author is pointing out a problem that affects everybody else who should be using SSO instead of risking their businesses with shared passwords, YOLO provisioning, and manual offboarding. And those people do not have a budget or a security team. But they probably have Google Apps.

SSO is, in 2018, just being decent about security. It is hard enough to operate securely; it is shitty behavior to make it inordinately harder for nontechnical people to do the right thing. (SCIM, however? That's something that directly benefits enterprises who have to operate in bulk.)
Hubble Moving Closer to Normal Science Operations
How about a Nintendo Switch?
Agreed. I'm convinced that some laws are kept only so they can be used as leverage for police officers to legally interfere with your life/collect revenue. Artificially low speed limits are one I would consider.
This is a workshop I prepared for my co-workers to encourage the use of LINQ over conventional loops in C#.

Any feedback is much appreciated!
this is fantastic! I've got several droplets for smaller customers and it's always a pain to setup and manage a DB for them.

I just hope it's not terribly expensive for the smallest tier.
If it were me, I'd be very wary about that coffee cup.
You are spot on.

Used to be, at least in my region of the USA, companies made local investments to build the talent pool needed.

Tektronix is a stellar example.

https://watch.opb.org/video/oregon-experience-the-spirit-of-...

People literally walked in off the street, got jobs, got education and went on to do great things.

It costs more to do that, but the benefits are easily seen.

Today, we see much less, and demand for people, largely from places that do continue to invest in people, has grown dramatically.
Initiative Q is doing the rounds again, and here's Q's economist on Bitcoin
Can you provide more details? I'm also an Arq user and haven't noticed any problems.
Is it an "attack" on URMs to say that affirmative action is wrong?

Is it an "attack" on immigrants to approve of Republicans' immigration policy?

Is it an "attack" on women to say that a 20-25% representation of women in tech is an acceptable figure?

There are many places (the company at which I work, for one) where such statements genuinely are seen as attacks.

While it's true that abject denigration and truly extreme political views (I'm talking actual white nationalism, or nationalist socialism here not what is usually referred to by flippant usages of the word "Nazi") deserve to be socially rejected. In that sense political correctness is good. However, I think a substantial amount of what we PC advocates try to pass off as basic respect is constraining valid ideas. And that has the consequence of a handful of people thinking their views are the majority when they really aren't.
It also executes command and process substitutions, opens files etc. But granted, it's a useful trick in some cases, after passing the fat-fingering stage.
Similar benefits to most hosted commenting solutions, most of which have to do with scale in one form or another. If you're a small blog who gets a handful of comments a month, you might not see as big a benefit (though, there are still some).

- Decreased server load.

- Reliable multi-region storage and delivery.

- More login options.

- One login account across several websites, which decreases friction whilst still providing the safety of having comments from verified users.

- Moderation filters that can act based on past user behavior, before they ever interact with your site.
Is it possible to allow users to add their comments in an annotation format? This would be helpful for lengthy web pages where users can inline their comments within the content itself.
Congrats!

Also, how's stride.io doing?
10x Club's Iyad Uakoub on Syria+ helping programmers get jobs w high salaries
>The best way to go about is ask you remote 'employees' to invoice your company. They are independent contractors and are responsible for their own taxes and social security payments.

This isn't legal in the Us except under specific circumstances. Whether I'm a contractor or an employee isn't my choice – the IRS has a pretty clear distinction between the two.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr...
I don't know what it's like now, but for a time /m/ was a major hub of the tokusatsu community, and most of the major fansubbing groups got their start on /m/.
I don't buy it. Why would the best talent (according to your criterion) join some nobody who aims for $100B, when they can join ~$100B companies and start making impacts right now.
I think robots have an uncanny-valley effect not just in aesthetics, but utility. For example, I actually really like my roomba because it only does one thing: it cleans my floor (when it doesn't get tangled in some cord). However, if there was a humanoid robot that can walk around and possibly knock over something or do something unexpected, I don't want that thing in my house. What prevents some hacker to compromise the robot and have it stab me in my sleep?

Another example is Alexa/Google Home. Some people love the convenience these in-home services provide, but others find the utility itself a liability: is this thing always listening to me and recording me in my home? The robots can do too much, they have too many functions and abilities, which makes me question the intent of the robot.

For robotics to really take off, I think there needs to be a kind of anthropomorphization that needs to happen: the utility of the robot must be high enough that I know that it understands my intention and can respond accordingly; that is to say, that I can have a relationship with my robot.
New chips from ARM Ltd [ARM6] (1991)
Some Disqus alternatives emerged in the last few years: Muut[0], Remarkbox[1], Hosted Comments[2]. I've also linked my blog post in this thread with some more alternatives for static sites.

[0] https://muut.com/

[1] https://www.remarkbox.com/

[2] https://www.hostedcomments.com/
If there’s no way to check ownership any properly resigned malicious apk would still not be distinguished from a real version.

According to the comments below currently the only way to notice a malicious but signed app would be updating an existing version from the play store. That requires access to the play store and installing an app from there first.

Allowing random 3rd parties to publish high profile apps stolen from the Play store seems a very bad idea. Especially if the OS doesn’t check apk signature against that same play store.
Organic foods still use a ton of pesticides. I just think people that would pay extra for organic foods are more interested in health overall, so it's a correlative effect only.

I don't think a double-blind test is feasible here, but I wouldn't be surprised if it showed little difference between both types of farming, provided proper food preparation is followed (wash produce, throughout cook meats, etc).
None of the $100B companies started with the goal of being $100B companies...
As a developer the simple fact is that if I knew something could happen I would have written the code to support it. Testers are about looking at the code from a different angle. It’s not surprising quality has dropped dramatically since Microsoft embraced the idea that devs should also be testers.

Customers are the ultimate testers. But using them as guinea pigs has a cost to your reputation.
Man, if someone needs an entry level web dev fast... there are so many bootcampers available. Granted the quality varies wildly (I'm a bootcamper myself, I know those people) but they are easily found.
Two years? That's it?

The iPhone 6 has been getting both feature and security updates for about 4 years, with the EOL not being for another year or two.

Google needs to do better.
I am similarly not worried on my Linux system, which also has frequent snapshots turned on. Instead I worry about bugs in btrfs, but that is another story.
> In 10 years there will be a dozen 1 trillion dollar companies. The number of $100B companies is going to explode as well.

Devil's advocate, is that actually a good thing?

Might be good for the consumer but not great for the laborer. Working for someone else is a bummer. Increasing consolidation means increasingly more of us will be in that position.
My advice would be to choose your battles, because you can't win them all. There are many ways to accomplish most tasks and sometimes good enough is good enough.

That being said, it's OK to have high standards. I've found myself in similar situations in the past and I discovered it's helpful to look at code reviews as a learning experience for everyone. If you find yourself reviewing truly horrendous code, it's an opportunity for you to develop your patience, teaching, and communication skills.
And it supports Postgres 10.x!

http://docs.pipelinedb.com/installation.html#install-postgre...

Can't wait for Postgres 11 support.
> 80k$-140k$

Thats the problem. You used the dollar symbol, but even if its euros, the upper range you gave is 160k. That's way, way too low for an upper range if someone's thinking of salaries on one of the US' coasts (especially west, but also east). Insurance is mostly for if you lose your job...as long as you have one, its a pretty tiny part of the paychecks, retirement matching is pretty common, food isn't that expense (I dunno about Germany, but compared to other countries Ive lived in, its cheap). After the difference in taxes, the delta in the upper range is a significant factor.

Im curious about the property taxes part though. Do you have some examples? Real numbers are hard to google.
Hi, thanks for sharing these games related projects. I noticed some of them are fairly large projects with tens of thousands lines of code, which is a major roadblock for many people to learn something from a large codebase. What do you look for in them? For example, do you just want to see how a particular component, like a rendering engine, is implemented? (just guessing, I know nothing about games)
As when any immigration topic comes up on here, I am in full support of getting the best talent from anywhere in the world to help create the next innovation or invention that makes people lives easier, better and richer. I just ask, because I know there are many immigrants on this forum, that if the American people are given a referendum on what they think is proper on how to handle immigration (whether it be legal or illegal) that you respect the vote of the electorate. With that being said I wish anyone that wants to immigrate to America has a good experience with the people here, works hard and achieves the American dream for themselves and their offspring.
Automatic lawn mowers are very normal in Norway. They are quiet and because they mow the lawn daily are better for the lawn as all the cuttings goes back to the ground. Most models requires an electromagnetic boundary, but geofenced versions are starting to come now. I've never heard of any accidents involving humans, but I know there have been some concern that they can cause harm to hedgehogs.
Yes, of course, Its a great tool to track statistics and write alerts. Prometheus is designed to scrape the stats from the services directly, but its also possible to do some kind of active checks. Maybe for checking the ssl cert expiry date you can use the blackbox exporter. https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
Aside from instantiating a DataFrame, I've written scikit/numpy/pandas code with nothing more than functions and data structures.
I'm more interested in knowing if some companies are inherently designed to be $100B companies, or can any company get there by gradually expanding its operations.

Can the $1M ARR SaaS startup build products that can take it to $1B ARR? Or does that require a different DNA altogether?
I'm lost. It doesn't work according to QM. And you agree that it doesn't work. How does it pose a problem for QM again?
Wildebeest muscles far more efficient than those of any other mammal measured
I run mine every day. I know it's not going to get 100% of the house clean on the first pass, but as long as the house doesn't get dirtier than the Roomba can clean in one day, we're good. If the Roomba gets 50% of the house clean every day and the house only gets 25% dirtied every day, then every day my house gets 25% cleaner. It's a life saver with two shaggy dogs and hardwood floors.

If you run it very infrequently, it'll never have a chance to catch up. You also need to replace the filters every so often in order to keep the proper amount of suction.
> join us at Eyebeam, at 199 Cook Street in Brooklyn, at 6pm on Thursday October 25th to view image #103001000EBC3C00 yourself.

Cool - I'll be there!
It's not difficult to work the logic out.

If ##% of commuters exceed the limit to get to work, and they are forced to cease, then the time and highway space they save speeding would instead be added to the overall stress of traffic. That would have ripple effects against people who drive the limit, and would cause everyone to need more commute time. The question comes whether the added stress would be debilitating for other commuters.

Edit: I'm a _very_ conscious and aware driver, and agree that driving fast is dangerous for many people. It's an unfortunate situation we're in, where the busted family wagon must defend against the drunk loony in the sports car. Sometimes however, the drunk loony in the sports car has to defend against the family that's fighting inside the wagon.
The shutdown protection is on by default, so the user needs to go into settings to do it. The number of people who actually turned it off is likely vanishingly small, which is why you're not hearing anything.
>underpaid skilled labor

H1B visas are only granted to people who are paid more than the prevailing wages of citizens working the same SOC code job in the same area. There have been consultancies in the past who have gamed this, but USCIS has cracked down severely on this in the past year or so.
Given lavender's known negative effects on developing boys, I think it should only be available in a medical environment, or extensively labeled and regulated.

If this destroys the oily-MLM huns, that would be a side benefit.
Give Apollo a go, runs great on my iPhone SE.
https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/eHxpJnqbcVpUw3pRhT5SYFwf4fY...

Near the top right of the image
> You can only claim with a straight face that android wins on privacy if you completely ignore google.

The only way you can say iOS wins on privacy is if you listen to marketing instead of what the OS actually does.

1. Aside from losing on location privacy, as I showed above,

2. iOS also loses on message privacy because you can't use a secure messaging system like Signal by default,

3. on tracker and advertising privacy because you can't install a system-wide adblocker like Blokada,

4. on user privacy because you can't install an app without an Apple ID,

5. on developer privacy because you can't develop apps for your own device without an Apple ID (and even worse, without a credit card to give up a verified name and address if you don't want to re-sign your apps every week),

6. and on account privacy because Apple does not allow you to delete your account unlike nearly every other service (even Facebook, which comes a close second to Apple as a bad actor) on the Internet.
This would be nice. I had planned on getting a Galaxy S9 until Samsung dropped the ball on months of updates at the start of its lifecycle. My Galaxy S7 is running an almost 3 month old update even though its supposed to get it monthly.

Both the manufacturers and the cell carriers are to blame for this farce of android updates. Even a arguably the most well known non-google Android vendor with major flagship phones, Samsung, can't keep their phones up to date. What hope do I have in any android vendor with how poor the updates are for security updates?
Nice job.

I'm a little skeptical though -- I think the devil is in the details. It's a lot of work to make a highly reliable backup program. As a Windows user, here's a list of questions I'd ask:

1. Does Relica work with OneDrive on-demand files? [1]

2. Does Relica work with WSL files? [2]

Supporting all these corner cases on Windows, Mac, and Linux will be a TON of work.

[1]: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/learn-about-onedriv...

[2]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/06/15/wsl-file-sys...
The Roomba 2.0
Awesome, https://www.franklinrobotics.com/ is the cutest thing ever. Maybe its big brother will do lawns though.
Dunkin’ Takes Shot at Starbucks with Less-Expensive Espresso
The video offers a great example of why a talented engineer would choose to join a startup (1990s Google) versus work in a large established company (Intel). It also turned out to be very beneficial for Paul Buchheit to join Google instead of stay at Intel.

There are a lot of talented engineers that prefer working for startups than large corporations. There are not enough talented engineers to staff all of the start ups. It's a competition for companies to attract the best talent.
I would suggest mentioning techniques for debugging LINQ, including breakpointing.

(Personally, I avoid LINQ/Java streams outside of trivial cases precisely because conventional loops make inserting breakpoints and debugging statements trivial.)