skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I had Safeway deliver groceries to me, I noticed that they always selected the more expensive item over anything that was on sale - even when I selected something on sale, they would often claim "item not available, substituted"

I found that my delivered groceries were always more expensive than if I were able to pick out the items myself.

Obviously it will be different for everyone... but I personally dont like delivery for that reason.

Further, if I were amazon owning whole foods -- what I would focus on is minimally packaged items as a product line.

What would the impact to the overall cost of foods be if there were no need to flashy marketing/branding.

Vegetables are cheap in part because we don't need a ton of packaging and marketing around them.
I don't understand.

1. NSA whispers to DEA that stolen items are in Alice's basement.

2. DEA whispers to officer that stolen items are in Alice's basement.

3. Officer... does what? How is a warrant obtained to search Alice's basement?
Except, you know, memory - of which these devices don't have a ton.
I’m going to take a bigger view of this and you can say it’s “rather convenient”, but I’m not concerned about the experiences of a group of our society that is the biggest resource drag. I’ve had it with rural inhabitants. We already subsidize the shit out of their lifestyle, and now we’re expected to accommodate their Luddite-centric tech access? We need fewer people on the outskirts and more people in cities. The fucking planet is dying.

We should be incentiving people to live closer, not spending 90% of our time on them.
> “A number of MSPs have been affected, and naming them would have potential commercial consequences for them, putting them at an unfair disadvantage to their competitors,” she said.

Can someone explain to me why a government would want to protect businesses from taking a financial hit for being hacked when the hacked businesses' competitors weren't hacked?
>What I don't understand is why they have to store voice recordings instead of deleting them once they understand the vocal command.

They don't have to. You can disable it at https://myactivity.google.com
That works up to a point but sometimes you need something very particular where the substitutes available are inferior to the point of being wholly undesireable (like substituting hot italian sausage made in-store for prepackaged processed sausage filled with onlu god knows what) or niche enough that stores typically only stock 1 option (like clear, unflavored, unsweetened gelatin).

Missing either of those items is a deal breaker when you're planning for specific meals or dishes you plan to bring to an event.
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Some of the concepts you noted - specifically #1, #3, #3b, and #3c - form the basis of some of the stuff that the IndieWeb participants discuss/work on; see https://indieweb.org. In fact - and i think someone else might have already mentioned these guys - https://micro.blog already provides such a paid service. (There are free features of this service, but IIRC the paid parts fulfill some of the items you noted above.)
I don’t think any US president is going to be arrested anytime soon, the best/worst (depending on your political affiliations) that could happen is a repeat of how Nixon went away.

Afaik Nixon still had quite a big popular support when he was forced to make way, and I think that the people behind his fall thought that antagonizing his supporters by putting him behind bars would have created unnecessary political and geo-strategic turbulences. On the other hand, I think a president with low approval points is not worth being arrested while in office, he’s a sitting duck anyway, his hands are tied and he’d only have to see his mandate through without creating that much of a fuss.
Often it can be faster to enter data manually then to make a script collect it automatically with the same accuracy.
Isn't the more illuminating data the average wage growth of an individual?

That is, observing that the average height of the lower quintile has regrettably not changed in 40 years obscures the fact that it isn't at all unlikely for an individual who started at 1 foot tall to grow to 6 feet tall in just a few years.
Slack is banning some users with links to Iran even if they’ve left the country
I've tried 2 grocery pickup services.

One was a positive experience, but their prices are a bit high, and they charge $5 for the service on top of it. If I do most of my groceries from them, it'll affect my wallet too much.

The other was Walmart. Groceries are cheap, but I never got an order without a problem. Usually, they did not have an item (as in the store never carried it) - why can't the web site tell me that this particular store never has this item?

Now there's a fairly well priced grocery store I shop at. I'd happily pay them $5 each time for this service, but they don't offer it.
The trouble is, all of those "easy" website building services are still much harder and more customizable than Facebook. If you remember MySpace, you'll also remember that a pretty signifiant minority of pages were horrifically ugly and did super-annoying things. It seems most people are either terrible at web design or have no interest in it, even if you give them a pile of dead-easy templates. Part of the reason most of my social media use went to Facebook earlier on was that the user pages all looked reasonably nice and didn't play terrible music or blink or whatever. You could still post ugly pictures or stupid walls of text, but there's a limit to how unpleasant you can make a Facebook page. Sometimes, less customizability is better.
> Audits of controls are about ensuring the longevity of the business.

You must not have suffered a SOX audit before. Part of the audit is technical.

Also, the SEC greatly frowns upon lying about your business.
You can filter the captured traffic for anything coming from Alexa's IP or mac, or transmitting to any amazon-owned server.
I could see that. I guess I was just thinking that Parson's gave him his first big break in the occult.

I've never delved much deeper than internet reading. Do you have a book recommendations?
>The utility of being able to interact with a computer via my voice wildly surpasses the risk.

How?

Risks:

Willingly putting a proprietary device designed to listen to you and watch you, created by a company that exists only to maximize it's shareholders profits by either selling you things, advertising to you or collecting and selling data about you in order to do those first two things better, into your home to constantly watch and listen to everything that goes on.

Utility:

Control a computer by talking to it...

For me at least....that risk far outweighs whatever utility i migbt get by being able to speak to a computer and honestly, if i really needed it that bad i would just set up my computer with voice recognition and control software. It's existed for a while now. I remember playing with it when i was a kid...it sucked...but that was more than 15 years ago.

The only real novelty of alexa is that it'a a standalone box that answers you back.
> At least I know it's not listening to me all the time.

Do you really though?

Google admits its new smart speaker was eavesdropping on users https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/11/technology/google-home-mini...

And while Google responded quickly:

Google just permanently killed the feature that made some Home Minis eavesdrop https://www.the-ambient.com/news/google-home-mini-spy-proble...

who is to say what the next update brings?
Epic has been putting these cheesy dances in their games since the time of Unreal. I wonder if those dances were also "stolen" (as much as a dance can be).
Ask HN: What's your favorite technical Podcast?
I'm looking for some truly technical podcasts from experts in the field. The majority of technical podcasts that I've found are centered around "tech" in general rather than the specific domains.

What deep technical podcasts have you found?

Some examples: AI, security, biotech, etc...
Lol beat me to it. Number of ppl in our industry who don’t seem to be aware of the Brooks’ Law never siezes to amaze me.
You haven't rendered private health care "obsolete", you've just forced people to join your public system. Obviously people aren't going to pay for two health providers (unless the public system is completely inadequate). That does not imply that the private service is uncompetitive. There can be no competition when one service must find willing customers while the other takes its funding by force.

This is the same issue with toll roads vs. public roads. Imagine there are two similar roads leading from A to B, one a toll road and the other public. The toll road charges drivers $1 per 100 miles. The public road is free to use but costs every driver $5 per 100 miles in taxes. Which one do you think drivers will take? The more expensive public road, of course—because they're already paying for it, whereas the toll road would be an additional expense.
I would give VMWare a test on the Windows Side, it was always the best option from my own experience in Linux and Windows. That said, I mostly don't notice too much these days and mostly use Docker for (windows|mac) for anything Linux I'm working on in development. The only issue is anything that is a "shared volume" between the host and native will be very slow as it's copying actions in/out of the VM. Staying all in vm is better.

Are you using a GUI in the VM a lot?
I've certainly heard similar things from women about "that" kind of look, and I wouldn't have really questioned it if religion weren't brought in. They might be right about if they "should" be frightened. I'm not going to say otherwise, and I support their personally doing what they need to feel safe, based on whatever information they think is best.

However, when it comes to setting public policy that trades off against individual liberty, authoritatively stating which of N cities is safest, and so on, I think the bar should be higher. Statements should be based on hard data such as numbers of violent attacks. This isn't practical for individuals (imagine: "based on extensive personal trials, I was murdered ten times as often by people who...") but is on the scale of cities/states/countries.
Those aren't examples of the contrary, those are examples of in-precise recognition. That's miles away from being the same thing as "always recording".
How do we stop this 'tide' of surveillance? Its clearly political. Is it necessary to focus on educating kids so they can create a green revolution for privacy in 20+ years? Or is there a faster way to raise the public concern?
Are you serious? The "alien" here is just a metaphor to convey a basic concept. It couldn't even be used as an authority if we wanted it to be-- it's completely made up!
Nice, thanks. I just asked the previous commenter for book recs. I'll read at least one of these for sure.

edit: I ordered "sex and rockets."
I heard that especially in Israel your workplace is like your family. Is it still the case/ can it be confirmed?
“SpiderOak just revoked my Unlimited Storage account for using too much data”
There is some potential concurrency: a woman can produce two or more babies in 9 months, although it is uncommon.
Companies need to publish at least one piece per week or they risk dropping out of the public eye / down in search results.

Naturally, much of it is fluff.
My guess is that people wish for a people networking protocol/facility that isn't corporately controlled, similar to how email is not.
I find it all right actually, compared to the hot garbage that is yourchoicesonline. Once you've found the page with all the toggles at least you can opt out from everything in one place.

Both have the problem of needing you to go off-site with lots of redirects and having to allow js from tons of domains though.
Reminds me of libupskirt

https://fossil.instinctive.eu/libsoldout/wiki?name=about-the...
I really wish VMware would support this. I'm surprised Virtualbox has a technical advantage here.
Mossadegh was appointed Prime Minister, by the Shah, after a nomination from the Iran Majlis (Parliament). The system of representative democracy that allowed his appointment is similar to many countries around the world today, where the people do not select the leader, the people vote for the members of Parliament, who in turn select the leader (such as Australia).

The Shah carried out the appointment, only after the democratically elected parliament members nominated Mossadegh in an overwhelming majority vote).

This could be considered "slightly more democratic", only if you consider the Australia to be "slightly more democratic" than a dictatorship such as North Korea.

I'm not going to attempt to untangle your final paragraph, only to say you have made some very large claims without any sources to back up your claims.
Am I missing anything deeper in Suskinds work except an olfactory genius's murderous quest for the perfect scent?

I think, a non-dark version of this novel could be interesting too.
Isn't Parallel's business more or less entirely x86 virtualization products for MacOS? Do their other non-MacOS product lines bring in much revenue?

Interesting time to buy such a company when there are so many strong rumors pointing to the Mac's impending ARM chip future...
I don't think it had a visible cost in our case. For starters, my team understood the system adequately to not need to reference the original source code so closely. (Much of the work happened before even beginning to read the original source code.) Secondly, we all had enough Java exposure to be comfortable porting behavior over when it was needed.
> Literally every article about home assistants brings out a number of people who continue to say how they can't understand how people could have this in their homes.

It feels weird to feel out of touch. I’ve been a computer/technology enthusiast my whole life, and used to proudly early-adopt all sorts of crazy gadgetry. But the older I get, the fewer things coming out of Silicon Valley appeal to me, and the less I understand the use cases. I just have to shake my head and accept that they are somehow useful to a lot of people and that the idea of a cool useful product is changing.
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The point is that plenty of manufacturers (including Apple!) have made phones that don't bend if you look at them crooked. And a reasonable hypothesis is that users will migrate to those phones, once/if Apple gets a reputation for unreliability.

I'm not so sure, though, between the cult of Apple and consumers' well attested love of device thinness.
So we can finally live the dream of closing the virtuous circle of burning energy to mine cryptocurrency, so we can pay for our energy in that cryptocurrency, so we can burn more energy. It seems like good news that it doesn’t actually seem to reliably work.
> Talking to the internet? No way. Not even if I had root on the device with the source code to the OS, firmware and applications.

Can you explain how this is different from running your linux computer with a webcam attached?
I was thinking similar.

What if OP was living in a place where a cell phone and Facebook were "The Internet"? What if that was all OP knew and understood regarding such topics?
I'm not sure that's meaningfully true. There are two kinds of people who pick their own produce with care. The first kind have an irrational desire to choose their own produce because they've seen others do it. The second kind do it because they are actually good at using the senses of sight, touch, and smell to identify how ripe produce is. This can include weight, firmness, color, texture, and many other characteristics. But they can absolutely be quantified in an objective way. For anyone who has a rational basis for choosing.
Because your phone, or computer, or tablet can record your voice and far worse.
JG is the reason Google has all that ML effort. He joined google via the MetaWeb acquisition; when he'd finished his earn-out he wanted to leave but was asked to look around for something useful to do and consolidated a bunch of dispersed ML efforts. He also bought Deep Mind on behalf of Google.

I don't know why you would say he's "not a DL/ML guy per se" -- he's a programmer, not an MBA type. You consider MetaWeb and TellMe inadequate?
I was not going for exact years but some semblance of "around then" which conveniently rounded up to the nearest decade. The Apple II was 1978 and the PC was 1981. I agree that the GUI should be listed as 1984 in some official capacity (or is it 1978 with PARC?), but most of the world and I were using text mode by default in the 80s; it wasn't until Windows 3.1 (1990) that the GUI became the default. Similarly the internet was around before 2000 but became The Thing with the dotcom bubble (maybe this one should be called Google instead of Internet since I already put DARPA at 1970. Maybe 1970 should be UNIX instead?). Anyway I don't think this detracts from the larger point, which was that these huge shifts do seem to come along about once a decade in the computing sphere. Oh and we forgot to mention virtualization/cloud, is that more or less of a paradigm shift than Google and the smartphone?
OK, by your definition of "recording", a laptop contains several I/O devices that "record" my input, not just webcam and microphone, but keyboard as well. I guess I should just shrug at the revelation that it comes with a keylogger. Because hey, if I didn't want my written thoughts to be recorded, why did I buy a memory-enabled Internet-connected device to do actually that?
I've always found the mythical-man-month thing to be completely at odds with reality. Cities and ant colonies work because they use sophisticated collaboration technologies instead of top down rigid hierarchies. But maybe I'm wrong and there is a better explanation for NYC.
Are you referring to the food quality and freshness?

Note that I said nothing about their service, the tech, the price, the amount, etc. That's all pretty shitty IMO.
wonder if you could turn it off/on with an app on your phone. literally put a number in your phone and it turns off/on based on what you weigh.
Those organizations are composed of individuals. There are also many ways to influence people's perspectives, often without them realizing.
King has no basis whatever for his claim that the rest of the globe other than Antarctica was uninhabitable 60 million years ago. There are fossils from this period, including fossils of mammals, from all continents. The global average temperature during the PETM (which I assume is what he is referring to) was about 8 C warmer than today, which is warm but by no means uninhabitable. It's also a lot warmer than the expected warming by 2100.
The money itself pretty much has no value.

The big thing is strategic partnership and support from industry. If you look at who’s invested into Malta from the companies they list in the article, everyone one of them is highly relevant to some part of the business model / supply chain of Malta, with each company generally being at the top of their respective industries.
> what I would focus on is minimally packaged items as a product line.

> What would the impact to the overall cost of foods be if there were no need to flashy marketing/branding.

Only a matter of time until the 365 line is rebranded as Amazon Basics.
Which AP are you using?
Clearly the illustrator determined her head should be placed on backwards.
My grandmother used Safeway's delivery until she passed... What was funny is how many times bread was "out of stock" or similar, or that she got Goat Milk... etc, I don't think she ever got a complete, correct order.

For that matter, the handful of times I've ordered from Prime Now my order has been messed up in one way or another. Amazon keeps pushing the $5 credits for delayed delivery of their main market deliveries, no thank you.
What technology? I'm a fan of Musk's work but this whole venture seems like a pet project for a fantasy he has of bypassing LA traffic in a private billionaire tunnel. It's not clear they've identified an opportunity for some real technological or production advantages as with SpaceX and Tesla.
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Even if one lives a legal life and has no indication of ever being inclined to criminal activity, the cops will still hound you and claim they aren’t doing anything at all.
> that's kind of a tough thing to hang our hats on if the idea is to take Facebook down

I'm not taking a position on "taking Facebook down" - I'm arguing that legal isn't the same as moral/ethical, and it's entirely correct to label an activity as "wrong" and to be upset by it without that activity being illegal (In fact, I'd argue there's great value in having such legal-but-not-moral areas as long as they aren't too vast). I'm not well-versed enough in the legalities to SAY if the behavior is legal, but I feel well qualified to say when something feels deceptive and wrong.

Outside of the general issue of legal vs moral: While I agree with you about the legal requirements of agreements, I'm also okay with saying there is such thing as bad faith in entering an agreement, and a reasonableness standard about what people are actually agreeing to seems legit - the alternative grants all the power to people who can afford the time and lawyers for every agreement. Whether such standards would have any impact on this situation is way beyond my knowledge level to be certain (i.e. I'm not saying that's the solution to this particular problem, it's just a related thought)
Yeah, AFAIK it was login-with-facebook partners like Spotify. Were people ever able to login to Amazon with facebook?
About to graduate with non-CS degree and low GPA. How do I break into tech?
Like the title says, I am about to graduate with a non CS degree. I have some programming experience from making my own projects but nothing worth showing off. How can I use the next 8 mos. to set myself up for a job in tech?
But those 9 women don’t need to coordinate, each one will merrily go along with her task alone. So let’s keep the metaphor as used originally, it doesn’t extend further
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Or have the person doing the grocery shopping live stream themselves in first person with the option to ping the recipient if there are any decision points that need attention.
Who cares? The argument is that populist anger is rooted in economics. You want to look at large fractions of the populations and categorize them.
Sorry, that was the one I found too. I didn't do more than a cursory search before making that statement.
Don’t worry, the in-use parts of the swap file will be cached in memory
The GUI is not something I'd break out separately from the PC.

Why not? The PC (and I’d include things like the Apple ][ and C64) was a legitimate success before GUIs took off. The GUI was a separate step, also hugely important.

And ~1980 and ~1990 are reasonable dates for when personal computers and Windows took off, give or take a few years.
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>The only company I've seen take demonstrable action to protect their customer's privacy is Apple.

The same Apple that gave the Chinese government access to all their Chinese user's iCloud data?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/17/apples-icloud-user-data-in...
parallel construction? Officer sniffs around until he comes up with the right pretext.
I haven't seen a breakdown of opposition from perspective of financial interest. Privacy noise is just a tool to get to more money and control. Unless this hole is explored, FB has plausible case to play victim.