skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whats worse is that if you own a google home mini and turn off the web and app activity it essentially becomes a useless brick.

For most commands literally everything is on the lines of "Sorry I don't have enough access to perform that command. You can change this in the Google Home app". Simple stuff like "Play some music" and "Whats the weather like?" is blocked.

I just wish there was more fine grained control over exactly what I give access to.
Ask HN: Browser tools for viewing/interacting with the graph of a web page
Graphs are essential data structures, but lots of web content is presented in narrative/documentary form and great resources are spent on making it attractive to look at.

I am often more interested in the metadata and structural aspects of what I'm looking at than the content itself. Consider long HN debates; they often yield predictable branching patterns, and if you were to represent them as graphs then you'd quickly observe which comments generated many shallow replies or which yield involved discussions, which graph shapes signify 2 people having a long argument and so on. Another example would be the graph of hyperlinks in pages, such as Wikipedia or news articles. Yet another (albeit more complex) would be the graph of interactions between people on social media, like how often you and I vote on or comment upon each others' status posts.

I enjoy looking at this data because it shows patterns independently of content, eg looking at relationships of botnets on Twitter using Gephi. But not every site has an API, nor should it need one. For example, I might like to see a Medium article as a shortish chain of 6 paragraphs interspersed with a 3 pictures with outlinks to 4 other pages. And then step out to see that Medium author's page as a collection of shortish chains.

Besides observing the graph directly, I'm also interested in treating metadata as parametric input to rendering engines; for example, I think it would be interesting to be able to view Twitter conversations as actual trees in a virtual environment, for example - analytics as structural rather than just cardinal, so to speak.

I've seen a few things like d3 experiments that pull a graph out of a page, but they have mostly been toys or proofs of concept as opposed to tools. And it's rather difficult to search for because it's easy to find articles about how to put a graph IN a webpage, as opposed to generating the graph OF a webpage. Any suggestions?
What would you suggest? Homelessness is not a punishment society forces onto people. It's an issue for all of society and affects everyone. Pointing fingers and shunning and saying that these people are worthless and deserve everything that get, even if true, isn't a solution to the issue. It seems that if it were possible you would prefer to just eradicate every homeless person out there. Of course that's not possible, so realistic solutions have to be tried.

In a sense the vast majority of us are a drain on society at small and large. The people doing the work of growing food, maintaining and building infrastructure, providing medical care, pursuing scientific advancement are a small number. My sense is that most people living in developed countries are doing so on the backs of others. It's easy to point at homeless and say they need to "earn their way," but did we really "earn" that car or earn that house. Did you "earn" your vaccinations. In the sense that you purchased it, did you earn it. How much did sitting in an office or stacking bricks or breaking concrete go towards actually earning the invention of that piston engine or the discovery of the measles vaccine? How much does the effort of sitting in a cubicle translate to the effort of constructing a house or growing a garden.

Very little anyone possesses is individually earned. We're all profitting from centuries of technology and advancement we had no part in. The humane thing to do is share what we did not reap with people less advantaged.

So as long as there are societies there will always be people living on the fringes of those societies. There will always be elderly, babies, children, criminals, mentally ill, physically handicapped, low income earners, etc. Nonetheless those people are also apart of society. Supporting people on the fringe is an act society does to support itself.
C's strength is being the lingua franca of the bottom of the stack. I can believe that there are some applications that know a priori that they will never need to be portable to MSVC. But for any foundational open-source library, closing the door to MSVC is a high price to pay. Someone, sooner or later, will want to use the code on Windows. If you are zlib, ffmpeg, freetype, Lua, LuaJIT, sqlite, libpng, c-ares, OpenSSL, PostgreSQL, glib, gtk, or anything that aspires to be as widely used as these, you stay C89-compatible to support MSVC.
Noone cares about Microsoft except a dozen guys caught in the reservation^Wecosystem there who still haven't moved to .NET.
The job title thing worries me. My current title is “designer” but I’ve ended up doing more front-end than design at my current workplace. I was hoping to find work as a developer elsewhere. Will I get filtered out because my title isn’t already “developer”? What should I do in that case?
How come you wrote "behaviour" in the first sentence and "behavior" in the second sentence?
My dad (now data science/stats professor) was at the 1986 version of this talk at Bellcore (where he spent almost two decades working). He speaks glowingly of it.

Original transcript and previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626349

EDIT:
I can have my dad respond on this thread, if anyone has questions about Hamming — or the Bell Labs culture.
You're looking for an argument that I don't want to have by taking what I said and twisting it to include historical aspects of those democracies when that clearly wasn't what was being talked about. I'm aware of the horrific histories of many Western democracies, including the UK (empire), Belgium (Congo), Germany (Holocaust) etc. The parent comment was comparing present-day nation states, which is overheated.
Did your desire to use the word fungible outweigh the fact that the US has drastically reduced its dependence already?
I believe it's similar with a lot of the Google devices.

Last I read, a pretrained ML trigger happens entirely on-device, and if the trigger happens, it sends the previous few seconds to the server that does the real processing to check voice match and other stuff.
I first parsed the title as (Fast, Constant) Time-Sphere indexing, and thought of http://timecube.2enp.com/.

Anyway, neat article, the interactive diagrams are very nice.
A couple year ago, they were the highest producer of energy of any form in the US (including oil, coal, solar, and wind).
Decline in cardiorespiratory fitness in the Swedish working force 1995 to 2017
For as much as this is getting downvoted, I've been to PyCon several years running, and it is correct. While the actual usage of Python is very broad, the PyCon convention itself skews very heavily towards data science applications.
The "progress" defined here is complete control over all actions of individuals in society by an AI god.

I know you're using hyperbole here, and many people will disagree with what I'm going to write next, but that's exactly what I think the long term goal of technology should be. Not just individuals but all of our systems as well.
If it were anything more than casual banter, you wouldn't need a press release.
They are saying that they made have mistakes now, it's rather defensive. Isn't it?
Show HN: New storage technology
Hi,

I have developed a new technology to storage data in computer hard drive. It does have a native compression method that is transparent to OS and makes disk access faster than traditional SSD.

It is enabled by some math formulas combined with existing programming principles.
A practical implementation has been done in a windows virtual driver.

As an example:
You can create a virtual machine disk and install a 10GB Windows while in physical storage it only costs a few hundred megabytes, 100MB, 300MB depending on optimization.
This short storage allow for memory caching making access way much faster while it remains non-volatile.

Imagine companies with 10,000 VMs with much faster desktops and storage cost reduction on orders of magnitude. That is what can be done here.

Few video illustrations below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZR3bSntHY

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

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

Problem I'm having is I emailed several research groups and email is ignored, people don't even click the video link. Any suggestions to take this further?

Thanks
Lucas
My models create their own reality all the time, and don’t realise they are lying to themselves.
> C11 is barely supported.

Username checks out.
"Yo, Bixby!"
My knowledge about this case comes only from the Wikipedia link you provided, but were the consequences in that case any different than what a U.S. citizen would face? I agree that DMCA cases are problematic to say the least. But I don't think it is at all reasonable to conclude, "If that's the trouble a simple DMCA case gets you, imagine what you face for foreign espionage" -- because we don't really need to imagine the latter. In Sklyarov's case, and in actual espionage cases, we know the details of the charges and judicial proceedings, even if we think the punishment/indictments are out of whack.

We don't seem to really know anything about UAE's case at the present moment. From The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/british-academ...

> However, Emirati press claimed Hedges had confessed to the charges against him and the case had been passed to the state security court. There is no independent confirmation of this claim. Hedges was taken to court in Abu Dhabi twice in October, with the case being adjourned both times.

Again, Gitmo notwithstanding, I can't recall a U.S. case being handle in this fashion:

> Tejada said that during the first six weeks he was interrogated without a lawyer or consular access, and held in “inhuman” conditions under which his mental health deteriorated. During this time he was allegedly made to sign a document in Arabic which it has now been disclosed was a confession statement. Hedges does not speak or read Arabic.
China imports more oil than we do and their demand for energy is only going to go up. We’re producing more energy domestically and lessening our reliance on foreign energy, so China has a bigger incentive to change their energy equation —in addition, their gov can just issue a decree and change policy with but a little corruption interfering a bit.
Of course they do.
Their EU HQ is in Luxembourg.
Your comment seems fundamentally misguided to me and it’s very telling that your first thought is that somehow the magnitude of lifestyle privilege factors into it in any way (it does not).

Even societies in which most people are barely living at a pure subsistence level have historically had revolutions, and in fact subsistence commoners becoming angry to the point of revolution has repeatedly been one way that nature corrects concentrations of power.

I’d go even further and say that your argument is not just wrong, but dangerously wrong because it offers an excuse for why a person might not cultivate their indignant rage at the corruption. You invite them to self-pity and woe their poverty as an excuse to not direct that rage at social progress, which is unacceptable even if you’re all the way at true subsistence level poverty (most aren’t, even by world standards).

And you also create an excuse for not being upset with other people who fail to act on their indignant rage over this issue too. You can just write it off as someone not “privileged enough” to sacrifice for the sake of acting to stop corruption.
You missed "popular". Very cool, though.
It's not a cheap dis. It's a joke along the lines of the ioccc's usual shtick. Downvoting that joke possibly shows one hasn't read the ioccc website.
The hoster certainly has the power to scam people, but he doesn't have the power to deanonymise them.
First, realize that humans are bad about taking good things for granted and only focusing on the negative. The first part of this is a good description of that:

https://saltyoldgal.blogspot.com/p/prevention-is-hard-to-mea...

So, actively look for good news. There is good news out there, for example:

In 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases of Guinea worm in 20 endemic nations in Asia and Africa.[3] Ghana alone reported 180,000 cases in 1989. The number of cases has since been reduced by more than 99.999% to 22 in 2015

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

Try to make things a little better in your little world. Try to be helpful and do good and yadda.

Also, make sure to take care of yourself. If you are hungry, tired, sick, broke, etc. the world tends to look pretty bleak.
Sure, but for every line of code in such a library there's a hundred (or hundred thousand) lines of code that use that library. A small bunch of people maintain some CUDA code that's underneath a Python wrapper, but great many people write code that uses it.
> going after people who were already fucked at least once.

I'm not sure it's so clear cut. The last anecdote in the article was a civil engineer with savings and a good salary, who thought his entire mortgage was forgiven by PNC and he got a free house. At least in that case, he should be obligated to pay his mortgage.
Isn't oracle vm written in C++?
I was talking about employee being sent to a conference. Employer organizing local conference as a hiring honeypot is a different case.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CppCon

Actually is a really good conference to learn Software Development beyond C++
Do you expect the RSS feed to contain the entire article so that you can read it all entirely within Feedly? Or does RSS only need to have a summary and then a link to the full article?

I know that some blogs put their full articles in the RSS feed, so you can just read it directly in your RSS viewer, email notification, etc. I've tried doing this too but since my blog is 100% bespoke PHP (i.e. it's not WordPress or some other big platform), it's not easy to do. When I write an article, I'm literally writing raw HTML with some included PHP functions to stick the navbar and footer on. It's not easy to get this into an RSS feed as you can imagine...
Holy crap. I wonder how big this market is? If it’s enough to matter, I’d say this is a sign that people should get the hell out.
Maybe they started a dash conference and made a dash for it?
I don't know what the hell people do with Go these days

It mostly falls under the rubric of "writing servers."
America now produces enough oil that cutting off Saudi Arabia wouldn't be any kind of energy crisis. The only reason to be nice to tolerate their journalist murders at this point is for military strategic advantages in the middle east.
Exactly. You've hired a monstrously large entity to snoop on all your activities. This is in no way equivalent to hiring a human person, which has orders of magnitude smaller information and economic footprint. An analogy that keeps things in proportion:

'You've effectively hired KGB/CIA to work in your house, the human assistant is just the interface'.
First? What about ram jets?
>people who were already fucked at least once

People who were given money and didn’t repay it. Why should that loan just be forgiven?
-Nope, they didn't - and I don't think they would have (could have?) anyway.

(In fairness, they never got the chance - I did break the ice by observing that after walking past that office door down the hall, I realised why Swahili had been on the list of qualifications - so were they interested in looking at the work samples I'd brought along, or should I rather fail the Swahili test first?)
My family has been in commercial property rental for a long time, but never residential.

Residential is seen as an easier path to being a landlord because the capital requirements are lower, but I caution everyone considering buying a rental property to ask a very simple question: "Are you willing to kick someone out of their home?" Would you be prepared to evict a human being not that different from yourself, who may have lost their job, have kids, medical problems, etc?

In addition most jurisdictions stack the laws against residential landlords (I'm in Canada) for both legitimate and populist reasons. It's not quite as blatant with commercial.

Buying delinquent mortgages that are so underwater that lenders will sell them to collection requires a whole new level of commitment. You will need to become one of those people who call at dinner every single day, call employers, stalk online, harrass, even threaten - you're literally trying to squeeze money out of the people who have the least to spare. I'm not going to judge the collectors, debtors or the business model, but it's definitely not for me.
maybe the vast majority of use cases for applications do not require the lower levels of abstractions provided by C. Meaning, whatever overhead associated with higher level languages, they are entirely within the realm of acceptability, for the vast majority of use cases.

I also think, as you go lower in the levels of abstraction, each implementation of a solution with that language becomes less applicable to other use cases, so there is a more robust barrier between each instance in the community.
For anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-....
A similar thing happened to my uncle. He applied for a university position for which he was qualified (military history/strategy)- but there were a few odd requirements like needing to speak Italian (luckily he had gone to high school in Italy and spoke fluently). He also did his post-grad at MIT so it would be very unlikely someone would be more qualified than him. Yet, he was rejected and they informed him that they were closing the position and not hiring anyone for it after all because they didn't have the budget. Later he saw it up again with even more obscure and stringent requirements... they were obviously just going through the motions in order to justify hiring someone they already had in mind and he had thrown a wrench in their plans.
The current administration doesn't seem to particularly care about peace, so I'm skeptical that this will make any difference at all. The US is even treating long standing allies as enemies these days.
"Hey Siri" always feels similarly awkward to me. The only wake words I really like so far are "Alexa" (it helps that the Echo seems to recognize it even when I'm particularly mealy-mouthed) and "Computer" (that one's probably because of Star Trek making it feel more natural in my head).
Yes, every time I've seen an article on wooden bikes I've looked and they are crazily expensive while being ridiculously heavy. I also tend to think they're ugly.
so why not use jets to reach cruise altitude, then switch to ion thrusters ( for which you don't need fuel )?
No I don't recall ever reading about that, though it sounds interesting - if implausible. Do you have any reference materials?
“Computer” - is there a reason someone hasn’t done this? Is it too non-specific? Would this upset the owners of Star Trek?
His entire lecture series is excellent. It's worth listening and re-listening through the course of a career. Just amazing.

His other topics that are memorable: Creativity, Experts, How do we know what we know?, Mathematics, Information Theory.
"Hey Siri, Ok Google, Alexa, Hey Cortana"
Edex-ui: fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
> Texas is in a funny place. They are pumping oil like crazy, but they are building wind like crazy as well.

There isn't really anything contradictory about that. Oil has a vastly different set of use-cases than wind energy. There are no electric alternatives for most long distance transportation, which is a huge chunk of our energy consumption.

Gaining independence from OPEC by supporting local oil extraction while simultaneously moving as much of the grid to renewable as possible is a completely rational choice.
The existence of prions is a dead certain proof that creationists are full of bs. Prions are a fluke of nature that jams our biochemical machinery. The immune system in the eyes is down-regulated as a form of innate protection because uncontrolled inflammation could be devastation on the eyesight, so it's not that surprising that these suckers could hide out there.
I wholeheartedly agree with this article. The common defense for software patents is that a small company doesn't have any other means to prevent a big company from copying its invention, but I'd claim that a small company can't afford to build the patent portfolio in the first place and thus even that point is moot.
As far as I know that disambiguation is pretty naive, just your general voice register; i.e., you could fool it pretty easily if you were trying to. That's why it still requires you to unlock a device for personal requests.
Lots of people in Texas have gotten good at making money from producing energy. Simple as that.
I tried going to one once but the address I had for the conference center pointed past the end of the street ?!?!?
I'd say if you want to attend a C conference, check one of the BSD gatherings. Lots of good C code, everything open source, and a great community
Relative to the Lisp world, Clozure CL is relatively 'popular'. ;-)
In this case: protecting the users == hiding their origin
There is no electrical generation source that is worse than oil, for any electric car. Only 12-30% [1] (EDIT: replaced 1% after correction from nradov) of energy makes it to the wheels when burning petroleum to propel a vehicle forward.

Your electric car will get cleaner over time (90-95% of new generation coming online each year are renewables), your petrol vehicle will burn petrol forever.

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
God bless. Fuck OPEC.
Looks like AWS lambda can be too small for the job.

Have you checked https://www.tensorflow.org/serving/ ?
The Lego Movie got to it first.
>planes use most of their energy to not crash into the ground

Surprisingly, not by much!

To the first approximation an optimized plane will use 50% of its power during cruise generating lift ("not crashing into the ground"), and 50% of its power overcoming drag.[1] The tie is broken because planes expend extra more energy climbing than they save descending, and that's also part of "not crashing into the ground." :)

[1] http://www.withouthotair.com/cC/page_272.shtml
It would certainly be the most frugal choice.

They already own a device that is just as fast as a new Android device and has at least as many years of support coming to it.

The reasons to upgrade would be increased performance and the battery life improvements you would pick up from moving to an iPhone XR.

>The contrast to the best Android SoCs have to offer is extremely stark – both in terms of performance as well as in power efficiency. Apple’s SoCs have better energy efficiency than all recent Android SoCs while having a nearly 2x performance advantage. I wouldn’t be surprised that if we were to normalise for energy used, Apple would have a 3x performance lead.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

Perhaps that is worth the puchase price to you and perhaps it is not.
Yes and the propaganda was highly effective politically, leading to terrible policy outcomes.

The same can be true for highly centralized news media. That's one of the points made in Manufacturing Consent.
Did your desire to use the word fungible outweigh the fact that the US has drastically reduced its dependence already?

Anyway, you're right that decreasing oil demand will lessen dependency on foreign oil. You're wrong that our current approach "isn't feasible". Our oil imports from Saudi and worldwide are falling. See: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0...