skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video in the article shows up as unavailable, but there is a version available here (blocked unless you subscribe to cable TV Science channel):

https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/dark-matters/full-ep...
You have a good way to signal that i'm wrong, and a bad way. The good way is to quote the paragraph you think supports your point. You're choosing the bad way, which is pretty solid evidence that you're the fool pretending to knowledge, and you know it.
Good point. You should install LineageOS first, you can then select the GApps bundle size you need or try and replace them with FOSS alternatives. For me, Yalp Store has made using LineageOS + minimal, permission sandboxed google services a bearable experience.
> #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.

So, pick your meat yourself based off of old photos of the meat?
Two Android apps used in combat by US troops contained severe vulnerabilities
I well know that any playback of recorded sound is hopelessly inadequate compared to live sound (I don't know why).

But listen to any Herb Alpert recording, and then listen to any synthesized trumpet. The gulf is as wide as the Atlantic. (Part of the reason is that Alpert plays with the notes and the transitions, while a synthesizer just emits a note.)
Arguments Against the Autonomous-Vehicle Utopia
I believe the intention is providing a voice recognition system you can use to interface with other things, like APIs. Products from Big Data (in my usage like Big Oil, Big Tobacco, etc.) offer convenience at the cost of privacy. For many people, this is a minor trade-off. For others, alternatives with perhaps less convenience.
Wouldn't be much point to Hey Siri if it didn't work with the screen off :)
How did GeoText do on mine?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358038
It depends on the market. In Peapod’s home market (Chicagoland) it is independent.
I turned hey Siri off, but found something unsettling.

If I say RED FIRE TRUCK to my iPhone with HeySiri turned off, and immediately hold the home button down for Siri, “she” sometimes has fire or fire truck pulled up already. This was WAY WORSE with Hey Siri turned on where it would always have those words and sometimes even more.

So best case, they are always caching a little bit and maybe only upload or process it when I hold the button down - but it’s definitely clear they are doing a little general pre-recording of all words.

If they’re doing a little, it stands to reason they could do a lot. Which is a bummer, but it’s not like I have much say in the matter.
Even on problems that map well into the OOP paradigm, the gain does not come from the standard patterns.

Proof of that is that in languages where there are alternative patterns (like Python), people rarely create a factory, they use functions that return classes; they don't use singletons, they just use module static variables; they don't create observers, just just gather callbacks on a list; and so on.

There are many less formal patterns that do add a lot of value. And there are syntactic and type level patterns that are great, but typically OOP programs use those less than code in other paradigms. OOP has one common less formal pattern that is very useful and less used elsewhere - it's the abstract API, but this one people on the internet mostly recommend not using, because it requires inheritance.
Cell carriers can track iPhones as well through triangulation, etc. There’s not much you can do to prevent this.
This project has obviously been carefully planned out, well defined ahead of time, and overseen with a militant eye for detail and style. That has lead to a neat, tidy, and immediately accessible code base that delivers what look like rock solid UI components.

Compare and contrast that to every private sector project I've worked on (for global household names none the less) and this sort of thoughtfulness and consideration simply is not compatible with the business objectives, and as such is the first thing to get the chop, leading to code bases that grow increasingly incoherent over time and deliver flakey solutions at best.

The next time anyone tries to sell me on the notion that the public sector can't do anything as well as the private sector, this is what I'll point them to. They wont understand what they're looking at of course, but that won't make them any less wrong.
I'm all against unwarranted surveillance but for voice assistants you basically sell the risk of privacy intrusion for utility. You're making an active choice. I see nothing wrong with that.
The link to the Navy Inspector General report from the article: https://www.scribd.com/document/396040628/DI-17-3391
I get out of bed and walk to the kitchen (admittedly, only about 15 feet across a studio apartment) before reaching for my phone, but it's still within a minute of waking up.
Also doesn't affect any users on Tor, which for that kind of thing is a lot.
According to the article, it was cocaine "residue." And based on the rest of the officers' dubious claims (The victim bragged about having concealed drugs? Really?), how much do you want to bet the cops saw some dust on the interior and claimed it was cocaine residue to justify this arrest and search?
Well this seems important (google translated, so take with a grain of salt):

>Rather, for procedural reasons, the board had to base its decision on the fact that the chip works as the claimant asserts (see section "Background" in this press release). Therefore, in the opinion of the Chamber, no witnesses were allowed to be heard who had been brought by the defendant on the last date - without charge of the court - nor was the Chamber allowed to examine the schematics of the attacked chip.

It sounds like due to the law in Germany, they HAD to assume that Qualcomm was correct in their assessment of the situation. The court didn't actually find in fact that there was infringement.
Inside of Danderspritz post-exploitation modules
The Case Against Marzipan
Yeah. It's just bad writing in the opening paragraph.

WhatsApp doesn't provide search but groups can be joined via links. Third-party apps and sites use the links to index groups. Some groups share illegal content. WhatsApp should hire people to crawl those apps/sites, find the illegal groups, join, verify and ban.

Not entirely unreasonable. Won't fix anything* but if the company is big and well funded they should at least make some effort.

* so you ban the users? $10 gets you a new pre-paid sim card

Could it be that "tech companies" are reluctant to pursue cat and mouse solutions (which also cost money) while "non-tech public" seems content enough if attempts are made to push the issue deeper under the surface?
Climate change science isn't the result of a small cabal of academics, it's a vast interdisciplinary study involving all fields.

Bias isn't a binary proposition: it's not that since both sides have some bias, they should be equally distrusted. It's that one side has 0.02 bias and the other side has 0.6 bias, so weigh accordingly.
I've used Amazon Fresh on and off for about 2 years in the Boston area (totaling maybe around 15 orders). My experience has been pleasant. Never gotten a cracked egg or spilled milk. I did get a subpar water melon and pineapple. But I was really pushing my luck there ordering these two.
The Ministry of State Security sanctioned this, so let's do both.
Yes. I read that. But as an American who doesn’t fully understand NHS... what is this?

Why are people making NHS Websites? That’s the part I don’t get, who is using this code and for what? Isn’t NHS a government run service and they run their own websites?
Some people call it wifi, I call it 'netless internet'
That's because you haven't considered how big the US is and you haven't considered that the US is mostly a land of immigrants not a land of people who lived their almost all their lives for several generations.

Healthcare systems like the scandinavian are established over decades as the young needs to pay for the old until they get old themselves and have to get covered by the young.

This kind of system is more or less impossible in the US and it would be extremely expensive.

That doesn't mean the current system in the US is any good, it's horrible to say the least. But the scandinavian dream isn't possible in the US and I have yet to see anyone showing any actual proposal that would work given the setup with federal and state and what they can decide.
Yes, you can. It’s in Settings under “Siri”.
There are some use-cases where voice is a better interaction method. Driving alone in a car is one -- so you can keep both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road.
Another one is in the kitchen. My hands are often full/busy/messy when I'm cooking -- which is a pain when I need to set a timer on my phone. Being able to say "Alexa - set a timer for 12 minutes" is great. The novelty of the Echo has faded almost completely beyond Timers, spotify and weather. Beyond that -- it's a novelty. But I do love those timers.
I understand what OP was talking about, but disagree that dragnet, untargeted, warrant-less searches are legal and permissible in court.
Fanfare? Hardly.
I mean, the blame is somewhat shared. Blaming the perpetrator only helps so much. It's reactionary. It's similar to the reason you get insurance before bad things happen, not after. You can blame perpetrators all you want, but you still need to protect yourself.
You won’t see a moon quite like this for another 11 years
No, just word of mouth.
I have read his books.
You're missing the point of the video. It's not that you would intentionally bend it in half with your bare hands, it's that if it's so flimsy that that's trivial then it's flimsy enough to not withstand common accidental loads.

I'm not going to buy an expensive portable piece of electronics that can't survive being in a backpack. I do own expensive fragile things, but they stay on a shelf in my apartment. No way in hell would I bring them out into the world with me every day where they can be easily destroyed.

This isn't "millennials'" fault for being less careful with things; it's a simple failure of industrial engineering. And no, back in your day, people weren't more careful.
Crap keyboards are an issue (they may have fixed them, but I think we need another ~9 mnoths to really say that for sure), but I really don't get the complaints about dongles.

Well, let me rephrase that: sure, I get that dongles are annoying, and there are capital-I Issues with USB-C that need to be worked out. But the alternative to dongles is "never change hardware connectors." Unless you make the leap to USB-C by replacing every single peripheral and cable you own, you will probably need an adapter. And you may say that now is not the right time, and you might be right, but again: unless the entire market shifts virtually overnight, there is going to be a period where using a new connector is annoying, and is going to require dongles.

tl;dr: I'm happy to be a homesteader in Dongletown, baby.
Let's start with some information that could be helpful.

Where do you live?
How many dependents so you have?
Did you contribute to a:401k,HSA,FSA, or any other tax deferred accounts?
So you own a home?
Do you pay for private insurance?
What is your adjusted gross rate?
> The only people who can say that are people who have good reasons to hide: drug dealers with multiple lines of business, professional black hat hackers, home grown terrorists, life insurance fraudsters, etc.

That this flawed and toxic thinking is so often repeated, especially in tech circles, truly horrifies me.
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

Siri plus shortcuts have made many mundane tasks easier. When I get in my car to come home from work I say "Hey Siri, heading home." That causes my phone to text my wife my arrival time and starts the last podcast I had playing.

It's a simple thing, but is so much easier than texting and then thumbing through the podcast player to start where I left off. I have others like logging my water intake or weight, but it was really adding shortcuts to Siri that made these possible.

Playing music or TV shows is also much easier/nicer. "Hey Google, play The Office on Netflix".

Timers. Another simple thing that is so much easier when you can use your voice when cooking.
I disagree with that popular notion also. We're entitled to our opinions and it's natural to judge others, but I think it crosses the line when that judgement turns into action, and that action is net harmful.

In outrage scandals like this, we're so quick to condemn the actor and demand punishment. I think the more constructive action is to condemn the action (not the actor) and demand regulation (not punishment). Condemning the actor may quench our thirst for justice, but I think it's often net harmful.

I get that calling for punishment is a good disincentive for future immoral, unregulated activity, but the punishment has to fit the bill. FB lost, what, $30B of value over this 'scandal'. Is that not a big enough fine?
A quick listing of what most of these buildings are:

* 1, 2: Edo-Tokyo Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-Tokyo_Museum

* 3: Tokyo Big Sight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Big_Sight

* 4, 5: ?

* 6: Fuji TV HQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_TV

* 7: ?

* 8: Nakagin Capsule Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower

* 9, 10, 11: ?

* 12: Asahi Beer Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Beer_Hall

* 13, 14: ?

It's also worth noting every single one of these is a Bubble Era creation from the 1990s or earlier, meaning they're starting to get some of the "this is what we thought the future would look like" Disney Tomorrowland retro-futuristic vibe.

And a gratuitous plug for some of my own retro-Tokyo pics, although there's a bunch of other stuff as well:

https://www.photo.net/jpatokal
Windows requires some swap to work correctly. Unlike Linux, it doesn't ever overcommit. IIRC, too little swap can make some parts of Windows work incorrectly.
> #1 why is this so important? Once in a while you get the lesser piece, the other times the better

That assumes the store isn't binning meat and produce. It makes some sense to direct the merely acceptable items to people buying sight-unseen, and reserve the appealing items for those buying in person who can reject lower quality items. The latter group will likely pass over the merely acceptable, resulting in more unsold food waste and worse sales.
Companies aren't liable for how stolen information is used, so they don't invest in security. Want to prevent this from happening? Make companies liable for how stolen information is used, and overnight watch as security becomes a first thought at most companies, instead of ignored entirely.
I find disturbing the idea that a human body movement could be copyrighted.

"I own taking 13 steps, looking to the right and shrugging. If you do this in any film I want a royalty!"
>iCloud data doesn't contain phone call contents or iMessage data contents.

Literally the first paragraph of both of bduerst's links suggest otherwise.

Also, I don't know if you've used iCloud on multiple devices before, but it very much contains iMessage data contents.
> not just to and from but also the subject line

Subject is hidden in newer software e.g. Enigmail and K9 (it's moved to encrypted part and replaced with a placeholder see https://github.com/autocrypt/memoryhole).
This is essentially the story of Supreme.
Lightbeam let's you watch videos with your friends in real-time
You’re confusing “designed” with “expected outcome”. Obviously Apple didn’t design the iPad to be pre-bent, and presumably they’re not thrilled about this. But that doesn’t mean this isn’t an expected outcome of the manufacturing process. It’s not a desired outcome, but it’s one that I guess Apple decided was acceptable in order to meet the other goals they had for the process.
That's a different issue entirely.

Can Apple opt to do bad or short-sighted things? Yes.

Are they legally required to do them to maximize profits? No.
For a fun experiment, yell RED FIRE TRUCK into your phone then immediately activate Siri manually.

With Hey Siri turned on, you will reliably get all three words. With it off, you will usually get Chuck or Truck, or sometimes FIRETRUCK depending on timing.

This seems to be for people who start talking before the Siri prompt is fully active like “Set <button> Timer for 5 minutes”.

But shows that Apple is typically pre-recording if not also pre-processing.
> stock at $6 and popping to $32 on the Linux hype

These words don't sound right.
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Also, grocery stores tend to be closer than other retail stores. At an average of 2.14 miles from the the average US consumer[1], added to the fact that most US consumers that would pay extra for the use of a delivery service own a car, are delivery services actually solving a serious pain point for the majority of US consumers?

Is the experience of finding food on an phone or computer a tangibly better experience than doing it in person? Is having to plan in advance for what you want and the requirement of being home around the time of delivery actually a better experience than hopping in the car and driving 5-ish minutes and selecting the products in person? Do enough people trust someone else to select their produce? For some people I would say this is true. But is there a large enough subset of US consumers to justify the scale required for grocery delivery to be a viable mainstream service? Or is this more of a niche product?

I feel like this is different from other consumer goods, like electronics, where things like price comparison, selection, reviews, and research play a much larger role in the shopping experience and it is a mistake to assume that grocery is an analog to other consumer goods.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/august/most-us-hou...

From the cited article:

"The distance to the nearest supermarket or supercenter for the average U.S. household was 2.14 miles"
I discovered how different the Whole Foods experience is nationwide when visiting them in Memphis and San Diego. I wonder if some of the negative WF comments are a reflection of that. My experience (and personal opinion) is that Seattle tends to have a far superior experience. I feel that after the Amazon acquisition, the produce, selection and prices seem to have changed only a little, it's the rest of the experience that tends to win me over: brand new stores, espresso bar, hot lunch/breakfast and salad bars.

As for the delivery service, I have had a love-hate relationship with Amazon Fresh as well as Prime Now WF delivery in the past. Having analyzed the situation a little I realize that my satisfaction with their service is a reflection of my state of mind. Outside of some blatant delivery issues such as the leaving my groceries on a busy arterial in the vicinity of my home (yes, actually happened), I have been unhappy when there wasn't an immediate need for the groceries. This is when I tend to notice issues such as price discrepancies, or poorly substituted items, etc. I have been much happier when there is a burning need, such as being exceptionally busy and not having time to make a grocery run that week. That's when the smaller issues tend to go unnoticed.

I am glad to have their delivery service available. Once a month or so I find things to be quite chaotic, and find it quite easy to launch an app on my phone and get groceries a few hours later. Instacart is similarly convenient, but none of the other stores I have tried (Safeway, Costco, etc.) come even close. They all suck sometimes, but the WF/Amazon experience seems to sucks less.

Somewhat related, if you have friends going through a major life event such as having a baby, receiving the gift of free grocery delivery will make them very happy.
As I understand it, we have a relatively small number of people with serious or chronic illnesses whose normal, predictable healthcare expenses will drastically and permanently outstrip their realistic ability to pay. The only way they will ever be able to receive treatment is on someone else's dime, one way or another. And because everyone involved knows they're going to cost more to treat than they can pay then no sane insurer will willingly cover them if they have a choice in the matter.

As far as I can tell the main difference between the socialized food insurance we already have and the socialized medical insurance I'd like us to have is that subsistence level food costs are uniformly low for everyone whereas subsistence level medical costs vary wildly from person to person.
Definitely. I might be blind, but I don't see C++ at all in the list of skills.
They had to assume Qualcomm to be correct, because Apple refused to explain exactly how Qualcomm was wrong. If one side makes detailed accusations, the other side has to refute them in equal detail. (That's explained in II)
How is $4,600 justified for a rectal probe. United States has zero compassion for its citizens if it allows medical bills to exceed reasonable financial means of the average citizen. The average citizen only has so much in a lifetime for emergency funds. No rectal probe should take such a portion away.
So it's my fault if someone steals a package from my porch?
> sophisticated collaboration technologies instead of top down rigid hierarchies

Let me know when you find sophisticated collaboration technologies working beyond a team of say, 5-10.
Arresting someone suspected of a crime is not responding to initiation of force, because the suspect hasn't been convicted yet.

There are private police forces, we call them the "mafia", and people pay them for "protection". Sure, they're corrupt, but with no government funded police, whatcha going to do about it?
Car thief steals your car from your garage.

Car thief crashes car into crowd of people.

Crowd of people sue you for damages because you didn't make your garage secure enough? Why didn't you hire a 24/7 security service to protect your property to decrease risk?
It's a story that bears a parallel to what happened to a man in New Mexico a few years ago that resulted in multiple lawsuits against the police, a hospital and several physicians. [0] Ultimately the New Mexico case resulted in a damages award in the amount of 1.6 million dollars. [1]

[0] https://blogs.findlaw.com/injured/2013/11/nm-man-sues-over-m...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/justice/new-mexico-search-set...
Don't let these huge corporations overplay the victim card though, withholding information from customers how their systems might be affected is also unacceptable.
The whole concept of a victim probably isn’t appropriate when referencing a large corporation. Even if it is, what these companies did after being victimized is certainly something deserving of a portion of fault, along with the hackers.
Lawsuit: H-1B worker in SJ forced to pay own salary, threatened with deportation
It would appear so... but in this case it will cost you about six hundred billion dollars if you're just trying your luck.

I suspect Qualcomm genuinely believe they have a case. But I wouldn't bet against Apple being genuinely innocent.
Sure, but Qualcomm doesn't have the "mindshare" that Apple does. If Qualcomm were bigger than Apple, they'd just use Apple to swipe at Qualcomm.

That's because Qualcomm and Apple aren't the intended targets. The US is the target.
NASA hacking scandal sees employees’ data leaked
There's plenty of precedent. For example, red soled high-heel shoes:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/12/news/christian-louboutin-ec...
The idea that dance could be owned and "stolen" is farcical. Culture is not a commodity.
A mobile phone that doesn't leak your position is impossible, but a voice activated assistant that doesn't spy on you on by the orders of some company is pretty much possible.