skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#1 is solvable to a certain extent by the store providing photos of the specific units you can order.
Can't you turn of this feature on iOS? I don't have Google assistant on on my device.
What backpack do you use? Both of my Timbuk2 bags have incredible water resistance. I've been out with them in dozens of thunderstorms - the kind where you get home and have to change out of all your clothes - and I haven't had so much as a notebook page get wet.
The complex precession in the Schrodinger equation doesn't involve angular momentum.
That seems like enough of a reason not to pick it as a good shared base protocol, even if technically it's good. It's nice that they're funding MLS though; looking forward to the results of that effort.
Seems like the underlying point of all their examples are:

People are tired of having control stripped away from them and being told what to do, and lashing out.

Isn't this a tale as old as civilization ?
We have leaders who no longer care about the will of the "peasants". A generation that has forget why the noblesse oblige.
The situation for social networks would be strictly better if you could easily migrate accounts between FB, Google, etc and subscribe to feeds from multiple networks.

That's also my point.
This reminds me of the Mortgage Broker Scene in The Big Short where they interview two brokers. It's their job yet they are contributing in spite of consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MesrrYyuoa4
They are the Yahoo of software companies.
> But then the data is tied up in their proprietary service.

It doesn't need to be proprietary. They can follow the lead of OSM and publish their data so that others can use and edit it.
Fortunately OSMand works reliably (and offline).
I also think the old site was looking more profesional. Instead of continue and refine the branding it go to something else.
1. Redis — according to its creator — has always been, is, and will continue to be FOSS. Redis Labs did not create Redis, nor can they re-license it.

2. HAproxy is still GPLv2.

3. Redis Labs's CCL and MongoDB's SSPL are not open source licenses, but their purveyors sure do like to give off the impression that they are open source. If you want to keep your code proprietary, keep it proprietary. Don't pretend to be open source. If you are not okay with others using your work, even making money off of it, as long they adhere to the rules of the open source licence you used to license your work to them, then don't license your work to them under open source licenses, or don't cry foul when they use it under the terms of the license.
For sound I would recommend scream: https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream

I've been using it in my KVM PCI passthrough VM for some months and it works well.
I don't understand why this hasn't been translated before. Is it just too much work and nobody volunteer to do it?
mosalarynolife indicates it's the cultural fit part of the interview. If that's the case, do some googling on how to improve that part of your interview process. Another thought, is it possible they don't want to pay what you're asking?

I'm sure you're hirable. You probably already know this but keep your head up, don't take these rejections personally, all that stuff. If I were in your position I'd be tempted to believe I'm an imposter, so be on the lookout for signs of imposter syndrome.
The first GDPR fine was against knuddels.de because they accidentally stored passwords in plain text [0]:

“By storing the passwords in clear text, the company knowingly violated its duty to ensure data security in the processing of personal data in accordance with GDPR Article 32(1)(a),”

[0] https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/11/27/german-chat-site-f...
Mastodon is a great option, me thinks:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
How could i forget the haboob! I was actually in Phoenix for this, it was wild. Like something straight out of the Mummy movies.
The only other kind of data I could imagine this kind of reaction to would be NEST cameras or similar. I'm pretty accepting of voice assistants now, but even I would be pretty put out by the thought of video of me in my jammies going to a stranger without my permission.
Someone read The Mythical Man Month. :)
If you have ever paid with a credit card, then the store likely knows exactly who “Customer #12345” is. Stores are tracking purchases this way whether there’s a loyalty account or not.

Discussion of this: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/retailer-data-t...
what the heck ... (my karma in this thread is like the stock market today) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
The issue is not personnel — it is data privacy/ethics. Apple has come down heavily on the side of “we aren’t going to do creepy shit with your data”. Google, Amazon, and FB can all pull ahead because they have no such scruples.
>Have they "decided" though? The reason for their existence is largely historic. I don't think people are really aware of the costs, both monetary and non-monetary. [...] I've brought it up before. I was told that it's good because students can then get athletic scholarships. When I brought up that the sum of the scholarships received this was was very well below the budget of the athletic department, I didn't receive an answer.

Again, if the status quo is not to your liking, attempt to change it. If you think people are unaware of the costs, educate them. Personally, I am aware of both and find them satisfactory. Perhaps those people did as well.

> No, chess club has very little external costs. As the comment I was responding to said, one school cancelled later times (something everyone would benefit from) due to sports. Also, chess matches aren't a major "social event".

Sure, but if all schools adopted later start times (as they should), it would no longer be a problem for sports to find scheduling. And my point is that kids are going to do something as an after-school activity, and that sports are perfectly fine as one of them.

> Which skills? Don't say "team work" or "diligence" or something.

Good workout routines and general ways of keeping physically fit. Tactical planning and how to effectively and efficiently fill roles. Teamwork, which I am saying anyway because that is absolutely a valuable takeaway from team sports, I'm not sure why you think that isn't good enough. Are these things exclusively learned from team sports? No, but nothing is really exclusively learned from anything else.

>It's not about me disliking them, it's about me having it shoved down my throat and me, as a taxpayer, paying for it.

I don't like everything my taxes are spent on either, but that's the price we pay for living in a civilized society sometimes.

>By the way the sports culture was a major factor in the Columbine shooting

This is in absolutely no way, shape, or form relevant to the discussion, and you should be ashamed for even considering to compare people who think sports have value in society to mass murderers in an otherwise civil discussion.
Spinthariscope
This is interesting. Literally the one thing that prevents me from using social networks is the real names database. I refuse to give my real name so I don't get the full experience other users do. I would never use facebook, but I would be interested in an anonymous distributed 1:1 social network (like email, without servers). Currently I do use email and minimize my exposure by changing addresses from time to time, however, I'd prefer a full control version. Running an email server is too hard.

Back in the old days I was on IRC. I loved IRC. It was anonymous and everyone could have their own server and you could have individual chat and direct file share instead of broadcasting to everyone. But it's not asynchronous. I would do this thing where I would send my IP and a passcode to my IRC friends and with the IP and credentials they would have access to a specific folder on my home server. I put occasionally a diary or some photos on there and they could leave me messages. (OK it was a very crude solution. I was very young.) I liked it because it did not commit me to having the stuff up all the time but at the same time it wasn't gone forever if I didn't get to it right then.

I realize I am something of an anti-market and nobody would find my dream social network viable. Maybe I should make one for myself. I only have a dozen people I talk to really so there's no "all my friends are here" effect to consider for me.
Interviewed at Corel a few years back. Surprised the company still exists given how dated the product line is.
Thanks for the question! We should do a better job describing this. In short:
1. Generates analytic SQL queries based on Cube.js schema. It can be simple ones like calculating page views or more advanced like calculating session metrics, attribution models or funnels.
2. Caches sql responses to not to overwhelm SQL backend with user requests.
3. Pre-aggregates data to be able to query trillions of data points in matter of seconds.
4. Orchestrates SQL query execution. Organizes dependencies between pre-aggregations, queue priorities, cache refreshes.
5. Provides REST analytic API for end users.
Or just becoming bloated and complacent.
I believe the general consensus is that your face is more akin to a username. In combination with a password and a second factor such as text message, facial recognition could provide proper security but not on its own.
Yeah, some of the explanation of benefits I've received are insane. Insurance is apparently able to negotiate ~50% bill reductions for multi 10K bills.
API Gateway not supports websockets. Will that change anything?
I have eaten one Amtrak meal.

It was a burger in a plastic wrap, which was microwaved to heat it.

I've had bad airline food, like British Airways ten years back, and food from British trains, but Amtrak's offering was easily the worst. Hopefully they've improved by now.

The best meal was on a Swiss train (in Germany). That was also the cheapest Swiss food I've ever had.
Actual casinos is something people vote for with their wallets, but are heavily regulated because it's known they are dangerous and harmful to susceptible people. I don't think the whole mobile "whales" thing is any different.
I think they're asking about the assertion that "WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives", which would be pretty surprising. Libreoffice, Google Docs, and iWork all exist, and all seem more popular.
That's not a metaphor, that's what actually happens.

In order to see a flowerpot your brain has to have a way to connect the image to something internal. Our brain knows how to do semiotics without our being conscious of it.

So what we think of as "consciousness" is just our brain processing information that has a sensory manifestation. Light goes into our eyes, is processed by our brain, and then we know what's in the room.

But if the lights are turned off in the room, we still now what's in the room.

And we call this capability "consciousness" but that's not what it is.

The difficulty is that any conversation about this topic takes on the character of a Buddhist riddle. No one knows how to take the next step.
It’s research so it’s good to know how to do it really well so in 10 years you can throw it in. Chasing photo realism is sisyphisian.

Using this now for anything like a commercial game is way past the point of diminishing returns. In their paper the SNR between their solution and default Unity’s blur shader is a couple percent while the computational costs are extremely steep.

At 512x512 resolution their fast solution adds 3ms to render time of each frame using, if I’m reading it right, 4 GPUs, which is a drop in 10fps. That’s mind boggling slow for real-time graphics, especially VR which is even more resolution and frame rate sensitive.

If instead of using the default Unity dof blur you really focused on tuning a blur algorithm, which no one really bothers with because it’s not worth the effort, you could probably make up much of the difference.

But really once you have eye tracking, status quo dof blurring will be more than good enough.

The case they mention where someone would be in VR all day makes sense, but let’s all hope we never reach that dystopic vision.
It would be nice if lying to congress had consequences.
> Using the right codec, they could likely upload a hour of audio in a few hundred kbytes.

But at the same time, you're convinced that you would notice if your phone was slipping out these kilobytes as part of its usual communication?

It seems to me that you've just arbitrarily picked a level of paranoia where you've decided that this can definitely happen with the Alexa, but won't happen with your phone. Your proud paranoia isn't applied consistently.
XMPP is a federated protocol. Google supported federation for a time, but dropped federation in 2013 which cut off a lot of people from being reached if you didn't use Google Talk yourself. I'm not sure any of the other big players in messaging support XMPP federation.
When I was in uni root send me the unshadowed /etc/passwd file... no idea what that was about. Just logged in one day with an email of 'passwd' and everyone's passwords were there salted... almost seemed like they were daring me!
Blisk – Developer First Browser
If copyright at life+70 years oversupplies the art market, crashing the equilibrium price to nearly zero....

Is the solution too obvious? Cut the term of copyright protection by 5 years every year, then start halving the remaining term after hitting five, until the shovelware "art" becomes trivially manageable. If it still comes in heaping, steaming piles all the way down to one week, then clearly copyright was unnecessary.
Cool! What about when they leak or give that info to someone you don’t trust.
1) The devices are useful.

2) The chances of a mishap like this happening to a single user are very very small.

3) Even if a mishap like this occurs, the chances of it causing meaningful harm for most people are small.

The fact that you are baffled by this phenomenon says a lot more about you than it does about users of these products.
Just to clarify, are you trying to land a job in NYC, or are you trying to land a remote job?
No, he didn’t. He’s one of the few that looked into what it actually said and how it was to be interpreted. Everyone else misunderstood it, and that’s the problem. University lawyers agreed with him.
If you said “take me to” an not “show me a list” then it actually did the wrong thing by showing you a list. I suppose “not working” is technically an interface choice, though.
I'd rather have the list than a single choice. That way I can pick one that isn't in a crappy neighborhood, or is on the way to a place I'm going anyway.

My biggest frustration with my car's built-in navigation is that when I ask it for the "nearest" item, more than 50% of the time it tells me to make a U-turn because it picked the mathematically nearest item, rather than picking the conventionally nearest item.
#1 probably is solvable. In a warehouse, before the meat is packaged, take a 360 degree photo of the portion, and tie the photo to a unique identifier for that portion of meat. Users browse through all the portions in an app, pick the one they want, and that's the one which gets picked off the line and sent to them.

The real problem with that is Goodhart's Law. If you measure for visual appearance, you'll start targeting visual appearance, and the pressures which led suppliers and farmers to value large but flavorless product will only get worse.

The best solution for consumers is a simple weight measurement, and a focus on speeding up logistics to keep the product as fresh as possible. Amazon is uniquely situated to win the logistics game, but it'll take time.
The keyboard issues were fixed in the 2018 MacBook Pros.

And there is no systemic issues with the security chips. We have entire floors of developers using MacBook Pros and no one has had “frequent crashes” from the T2 chip.
The rise of the irrational.
there's nothing stopping from Alexa recording content locally and transmitting it with a traditional request once activated.

Also, there's no reason for Amazon to want a constant stream of Alexa data hitting their cloud services. The goal is to mine and extract valuable data about users to build profiles, ideally you'd want to do that on-device and send up the most valuable bits.

These are also capabilities they can silently introduce at anytime for any device.

Steve Gibsons "analysis" means nothing.
I'm with you. I was severely unimpressed - I can't say "go to sleep in a half hour," but must say "go to sleep in 30 minutes." If I accidentally say "go to bed" I've got to start up a whole new "Hey Google" cycle again.

At least I know it's not listening to me all the time.
"politically and economically" this is the problem right there. When people graciously justify (and subconsciously) roadblock to any advancement and progress economical and political issues.

If Amtrack pauses its service segment-by-segment so they get to focus on re-building infrastructure then I believe It will not have that much of a negative impact on travelers, at least. People can always resort to other traveling alternatives(buses, cars, planes). Heck, it is economical to travel from NYC to DC by bus vs train. Train gets you in 3 hours for $200 and bus gets you in 4 hours for $19. For me, $200 is worth paying if I get to DC in an hour!

Yes there will be job displacements while the overhaul is underway. But for numbers sake, more job will be created as part of the overhaul.

By politics I assume you meant unions. It is a rabbit-hole debate but I will say this that unions have done more damage to the infrastructure progress
than any other political entity in northeast USA.
Hmmm. Doing a little research myself now and I think there's a whole bunch of different servers but they all seem to communicate? Dispora* is just one of them.
I've made a fairly well-considered decision to use most of these new services. I keep virtually all of my content on services run by five major corporations because I'd rather have my entire phone's photos published on the front page of the Washington Post than lose all the photos of my kids. I'd rather have Jeff Bezos listening to everything happening in my house than have the more frequent trips to the grocery store that were needed before I had voice-controlled shopping lists. I'm not an ignoramus, I've just decided that certain things that are very important to some are not important to me.

I agree that the decisions that me and others are making are hugely damaging collectively but that is a different issue.
I've cancelled online many times. The only way I find them to be priced right is when they offer a deal.

If these places could lower shipping costs somehow & get their prices down a bit while keeping quality high, I would gladly order more. I'm amazed places like Walmart, Target & large grocers haven't dominated this market with similar boxes you can pick up at a store or have delivered to your house.
> We have settled the case, with DEA reimbursing EFF $160,000 in legal fees. A judge has now dismissed the case, pursuant to the terms of a settlement. This was a hard-won victory by our legal team...

It's a good time to make end of the year donations: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/year-end-challenge-2018
There's some weird cognitive bias people have about visible vs invisible technology.

If they can't see it they're fine with it.

For example, if someone is walking in the mall they're being filmed by a dozen cameras.

But if you walk behind them with your own handheld camera photographing them they will get VERY angry and freak out and start yelling at you.

Yet nothing has changed...

Same thing with Facebook. People don't mind giving their data to Facebook but if Zuck was staring over their shoulders reading their email they would be upset.
A smartphone with a connection to a monitor, keyboard and mouse could replace a desktop. If I were the CEO of MSFT, I'd put serious R&D funds into this.
Management is a necessary but insufficient condition for magic.
> And yet they take in many of RedHat solutions and decisions

Citation needed - that's simply not true.
By stating the result of data sharing directly. e.g. if they are sharing the data with a bank, then state clearly that the bank can deny you loan based on what you're doing on that social media. They know this, but will not say. Silicon valley tends to hide or obfuscate as much as possible without being illegal.
Ideally all the unemployed males during the dry season would volunteer for the sake of their community. So maybe a few dozen men running fiber in a region where power is provided by local generators, solar panels, and fuel oil trucks.

So, the infrastructure isn’t even there, and the central government doesn’t care about any road side construction.
Point 1: Keyword triggers and is actually said are miles apart, as shown by the Alexa creepy laugh episode. There is no practical way of knowing when Alexa has heard a keyword and recorded content around it. Not to mention the Google play incident where a poor wiring job made the devices think the "enable assistant" button was constantly being pressed.

Point 2: My phone, an iPhone, offers a way to turn off the keyword-listening functionality - and presents this switch during initial setup. It also offers a way to turn off all tracking functionality. Apple has no financial gain from lying about this.

Point 3: This comes back to point 1. If you don't know what and when the assistant is listening to, you have no idea what phrases are being collected and shipped off. Also, there are plenty of studies floating about the internet about how "anonymized" search engine queries have been collected, studied, and in many cases paint very personal portraits of the people doing searches.
I don't see what the velocity of the transfer has to do with the rules. Seems rather arbitrary.

Hacker News isn't a place because you're just requesting data from their servers with a well-known DNS name. In fact everyone who "visits" is technically getting a private copy sent to them, and it's all data being transferred between borders. You can clearly see it reflected in internet routing where transit is defined by political and business connections, and things like the Great Firewall of China.

Calling it a community fits better sure, but that just describes a group of individuals and doesn't create any political sovereignty. People still live in physical locations which are bound by laws, there's no way around that.
> Part of where the standard libertarian argument falls apart, in my eyes, is that government in many ways really is just a scaled up version of "people banding together to build a road".

There is a significant qualitative difference in that "people banding together to build a road" is an entirely voluntary activity, whereas government is nothing of the kind. It's not merely a matter of "opt-in vs. opt-out". Even in an opt-out system one can choose not to participate without penalty, but if you inform a government that you're choosing to "opt out" they won't just leave you alone to live as you please. They draw their arbitrary lines on a map and consider everything within those lines to fall under their control. Even if you move halfway around the world and renounce your citizenship, and in doing so cut off all ties to everyone and everything you once knew, you may find that they still claim a share of your income to pay for that road you'll never be able to use.

The "scaled-up" version of "people banding together to build a road" is a co-op or corporation. Such an organization does not have the power to tax or to impose regulations on anyone who doesn't explicitly and voluntarily agree to them.
y'know, I never thought about it, but I think I agree with you that being willing to pay another company for access to private information about you probably counts as not caring about your privacy.

It's not as bad. It's the difference between paying somebody to tell them secrets about you and selling secrets about you. But it's definitely not a thing a person respectful of your privacy would do.