skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to tell right from wrong is not limited to America.

Anywhere in the world that these services could exist, they’d still be awful for everyone.
Yes. And for my 5 1/2 year old son, who’s always had voice around, it’s very natural. The first words I utter every day are “Alexa, start my day”, which triggers a whole bunch of automation (lights, plugs, news, etc) while I get my cereal and coffee ready.
>Around 90 percent of the plastic polluting our oceans comes from just ten rivers, a new study has shown.

>Eight of those rivers are in Asia, with the remaining two — the Nile and the Niger — in Africa.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/10-rivers-are-responsible-for-...
I do as well. I used to politely ask they unplug it, bit invariably there were more in other rooms. I just explain my concerns, and avoid those people if they cannot grasp or honor them. So far it seems a good strategy, as I have doged a few 'bullets' both security-wise and socially.
I think it's safe to assume that the knotted/maze pattern script (for example) was not intended to be consumed as text.
Consider too that macron is currently below 25% approval and doesn't seem ready to resign so I'm not sure how much approval plays into this.
Maybe the court feels there's a good chance for the verdict to not be overturned, since the supposedly infringing products were designed before Apple switched to Intel modems.
I started ML work in python coming from a .NET background. To echo one of the other comments here- I believe one main reason is due to the iterative nature of data science. You have to sort of re-build completely every time you make a change in .NET. There isn't much of a notebook concept in .NET- a running engine you can query with additional commands/cells/etc, which is beneficial. As well, real-world data feels easier to work with in a more forgiving environment (non-static typing, etc) like Python. However ML.NET is a cool endeavor and as the .NET data prep libraries get more mature we may find some more production benefits from the very typing/compiling system that, while making it difficult to iterate in, provide more stability in the wild.
Idea: Make the 'net' much more fuzzy/pronged, so plastic bumping against it against it naturally clings or clumps (i'm thinking naval hair/fuzz here)
Nevergrad?

I wonder if the maker never graduated.

;-)
Arresting someone is no joke and cannot be done using free market principles.

Enforcing laws is the point of government, and a free market requires enforcement of laws. This is why countries with a non-functioning government are an anathema to business, not a paradise.
Agreed. Financial institutions I've worked at have blocked unapproved USB devices at a domain level. Want that special keyboard or mouse? Got to have approval. Want to connect your iPod/phone for anything beyond charging? Hell no. Attach a USB mass storage device? Likely be ealked out the door fired before you get approval.

Edit: spelling.
Yes, it cares very much, the postal service has its own police department even.
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Just like the money in your wallet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency
Mostly 10 rivers in developing countries [1] and fishing equipment [2]

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...

2. https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/ocean-plastic-made-disca...
I've never heard your theory of economics before from any faction.
I was unxer the impression this was already somewhat the case. Don't many doorbell cameras offer onfettered access to law enforcement?
NON-discrimination:

There are 2 phenomena: Indians always talk about their talents. The Black created brilliant sciences and technologies and civilizations in movies.
I wish people would stop naming products after common names and letters for other things.
> Seeing touch sized click targets on HiDPI non-touch displays ...

That's always going to be a thing, as long as desktop environments lack a simple, foolproof way of switching system-wide between a "mouse/pointer input preferred" and a "touch/swipe input preferred" mode. (Windows 10 actually does this fairly well; I don't know of any other systems that offer the same thing, though.) It doesn't have to be a huge issue if the touch-friendly interface is well-designed. See GTK3, which has essentially switched to "touch-friendly" widgets and layouts with the new major release. Some people gripe about it, but at the end of the day it works fairly well - and at the same time, it lays the groundwork for a wholly touch-based interface to the Linux desktop.
You can set an alarm once for M-F, etc.
An IT career is now a lottery. Either you get equity in a successful startup or you get dumped when you turn 35.
I've been hosting a home Matrix server for around 6 months now and bridging my other services (hangouts, iMessage, SMS, and Slack) into it. As I slowly migrate away from those services I'll shut them down.

It is not perfect, particularly if you're using encryption, but everything I've had complaints about seems to be slowly but surely getting dealt with, and at this point it's actually a pretty solid experience with only a few bumps. In fact the thought of going back to having different applications, UIs, and devices to access my various communication channels seems ridiculous.
Not sure this is true. Every company at scale I've worked at has had policies banning unapproved USB devices since the early 2000s. It's usually smaller companies that are more susceptible to this, because they dont have the infrastructure.
Or, A Subarctically Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
(Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai, Nile, Meghna, Pearl, Amur, Niger, Mekong)
Disclaimer: I only red the TLDR.

> I don't know if mine is an isolated instance

I would think so. I'm not even US citizen and used Google Fi in 10+ countries over the last year. With iPad and iPhone before iPhone was even officially supported. The only hassle I have sometimes is a wrongly set APN but beside that I have good speed with 3G/LTE basically everywhere I go.
So I wouldn't say Google Fi if fked per sè :)
Uber’s self-driving cars return to public roads for first time since fatal crash
It's most certainly a lose for budget customers
The unmonitored just act worse.
Act as someone who does not understand a situation in order to not do something or not face the consequences.

An explanation I read is a reference to mutilated men being dismissed from going to war

https://www.dicionariopopular.com/dar-uma-de-joao-sem-braco/

( A Google translator might help)
It is a community product first and foremost with a plugin framework that allows for extensibility with access to the full core API.

You can discuss with the community online [1], or meet a core contributor at one of the community meetups or in the monthly community call that we usually announce on Discuss.

[1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong or https://discuss.konghq.com/
Cleaning up the significant amount of plastic that is on the surface still seems like a step in the right direction, even if there is other micropastic further down. The impact on ocean life is not well understood, but we do know that plastic is already having a devastating impact on such life, and I have a hard time imagining this would be worse. The engineering challenges are significant, as they are clearly discovering, but they are at least trying. Are there other more promising projects to clean up existing plastic from the ocean you are aware of?
Say you used your debit card instead of credit card, you are now 100% liable in the US, to the best of my knowledge, up to the point you or the credit card company identify the fraudulent activity.
clear linear information is a very nice way to improve people's behavior
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Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp
> Why is this amoral bullshit?

Because

> But, I don't see this right clearly defined in the constitution, so where does it come from? Are you sure it exists?

It comes from morality. Some people think it's immoral to defraud people, whether that is money or their private information.

Some people don't want to live in immoral societies and want the government to enforce some level of moral behaviour amongst it's subjects.

> I think it's unrealistic to expect FB to expend resources to determine what subset of data is 'required' for every app in its ecosystem.

How? They have billions in profits and are in the process of hiring thousands of people to help get their news curation/reporting systems upto scratch. Why can't they setup a process where people have to justify to facebook what they would use the data for?

I could easily argue it would have been in their financial interest as it's quite possible we wouldn't be here talking about facebook if they had taken this approach.

But no, im supposed to believe it's unrealistic to have such simple process.
So let's say we can pull all this plastic out of the ocean, then where do we put it? Won't it just find it's way back to the ocean?
Couldn't find any googling in Portuguese, but that is a reference to being screwed by the government seems a good guess
(ICYMI) Mastering data structures in Ruby – Recap
Would love to chat with anyone who has gone through this transition. (Engineering -> Sales)
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I appreciate the challenge of your situation and hope you are able to address the many simultaneous constraints you’re trying to satisfy. I submit that Hacker News may not be the right forum to handle the particular combination of details relevant for you, and indeed anonymous online forums in general might not be the best option. If you can consider other methods of seeking career guidance and assistance, it may offer better information for you.
Media News Links:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cbd-and-hemp-are-now-legal...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/422356-trump-off...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hemp-legal-farm-bill-st...
you’re the mark jackson of tech commentating. you refuse to commit to any fact, likely because you dont have any to share, yet you feel oh so strongly for your argument, so you try to base it on intangibles like “lack of urgency”.
Great idea, really like what you are doing!

I'm wondering what kind of opportunities are out there for an older engineer through this program? Aka someone that has recently turned 50, has a long career as a programmer, etc, etc.

I've been thinking about sales recently and it seems like there a higher salary/income ceiling, as as I find myself bumping into my own salary limits, this seems like a pretty interesting option.

Anyway, just wondering if this is more a young man's game so-to-speak, or if this program is suitable for us, uh-hm, 'seasoned professionals'.
You might enjoy Voxatron, a voxel based game engine. You can program it in LUA and it exports to various platforms

https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
Been an occasional long time user of clippingmagic, another tool made by this company. Great stuff
Can you tell me more about juanty? What’s it like, how does it work?

Would it be worth taking a trip up to ny or sf for a course?
>Take a close look at the others in the office when you 'walk through' to the conference room.

If only it even got that far. I haven't landed on onsite in 4 months of interviewing. It's absolutely maddening having left a stable lucrative job to interview for all of these recruiters hounding me. I'm going broke from bay area rent payments and will be homeless soon. I don't know what to do at this point and have basically given up.
I had the same experience with the new MacBooks - tired fingers. Ended up switching to a Dell XPS. That might not be an option for many, but I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the keyboard feels. I would've gladly paid Apple for an updated version of the 2012-2015 (2016?) version, but ultimately had to vote with my feet.
Well, that is because things aren't literally apocalyptic.

The science says that sea levels will rise by a meter or so over the next hundred years. That won't end the world.

The science says that climate change will cause trillions of dollars of damages, over the next hundred years.

Trillions of dollars in damages is bad. But it is on the same scale of "badness" as another iraq war.

I'd want to prevent a third Iraq war, but I am not going to pretend that it would put billions of lives in danger.
Scratch that, they actually don't for the images that are unclear.
I thought by now all airports should have some kind of anti drone weapon to handle cases like this.
sshuttle doesn't pass TCP over TCP, it does some work on the "local" side before sending it over TCP so it's actually just "data-over-TCP"[1].

[1]: https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/how-it-works.html
Reading the dumb things people in this thread go to the effort of making a voice controls for simply for the sake of using voice controls perfectly summarizes how useless voice control tech is. You're literally saving seconds of effort in order to open up yourself to an infinite amount of attack vectors. You deserve to be pwned.
They have created hundreds of millions in damage with a few thousand in drones, and have yet to be caught. While you may be angry with them, the facts hardly paint the suspects as 'idiots' just yet. Embarassing a first world nations military ability to find and disable a drone and its operator with a remote control heli is almost halarious if it wasn't indicitive of a gastly level of incompetince in drone warfare. Its hardly new.
Doing coding challenges doesn't count. It doesn't include the part your afraid of. They have to be real interviews. Maybe line up a bunch of interviews for companies you don't actually want to work for, and try that in your spare time?

On the CBT side you need to be aware of the various cognitive distortions that feed anxiety [0], and be critical of negative thought patterns. Critical in the sense of what they do to you, and which ones are cognitive distortions. Maybe sit down with a journal after the next interview and try to record lots of details about how you were feeling, and how your feelings made you think certain thoughts, and how it makes your body feel and how it's all related.

Let me do an example. You start the interview and you're asked a question, and you're brain freezes up. You start thinking, "oh no, it's happening again! It's already over, I know how this plays out. What are they thinking about me right now, just standing here doing nothing. I'm not going to get this job!" You can attack a lot of those thoughts. These are all distorted thoughts.

First say it's just an interview. You can try again another time. It's not the end of the world.

This happens to other people. I'm not the only one who has this problem in interviews!

They are probably thinking "oh she's taking their time trying to think the problem though. I know how they feel, I've been in their shoes before too. This is a lot of pressure." Most people are understanding and empathic, pretend that you are the interview, what would you be thinking?

You can even be honest with them! Tell them that you get a little psyched out doing technically problems and make a little joke about it, that it might take you a second to get ramped up. I've done this on plenty of interviews. It really helps defuse the anxiety for everyone! Let me tell you right now that as an interviewer whose interviewed dozens of people I spend a ton of time worried about what I'm going to say or ask next. They won't even be super focused on you the whole time.

Some of the physical sensations could be heart racing, sweating, thirst, etc etc. Acknowledge them and do some breathing to slow down a bit, and come back to the present.

Think of your interview more as a stepping stone. A learning experience. It's not black or white. I get the job or I don't. It's a process. Care a little bit less of how they see you.

In regards to a therapist, it took me 6-7 tries to get one that knew CBT and could help me. I'm not saying stop seeing your therapist or anything, just telling you my experience. And finding a therapist that can actually help and is trained in CBT and exposure therapy was very difficult for me.

The good news is you can do it yourself if you learn how to, but it's very hard to observe yourself and put in the work to basically be your own therapist.

Also disclaimer that I am not a doctor! :P

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
It wasn't long ago that people were up in arms about the Xbox One sending audio back to Microsoft in order to implement voice commands. In the time since this kind of thing seems to have become acceptable or even mundane. What is it that changed? It's not as if big tech has become more trustworthy in recent years.
Apple bullied me at some point https://blog.amahi.org/2011/06/21/apple-hits-amahi-with-a-ce...
Exactly my thoughts, but GP claimed that Vbox wasn’t ruined.
When I was in high school (early 1990s), I had one of those "this is not a fugazi t-shirt" t-shirts. My biology teacher was one of the more out-of-touch teachers in the school. When he saw the shirt he said "fug-uh-zee. What's a fug-uh-zee." And from that day forward he was nicknamed Mr Fugazi.
I use Siri for almost every task that doesn’t require me to physically look at my screen, e.g. reading, watching a video or typing. The #1 and #2 problems I have with Siri recognizing my input are in order: the quality of the mic I’m using and the ambient noise level in whatever environment I’m in. The #3 problem is the quality of my network connection because it won’t work if it can’t contact Apple.

In my experience, AirPods are the best Siri input device I own. EarPods are a distant second, and the built in mic on phone is a not very distant third. It is effectively unusable on my laptop’s built in mic.

The ambient noise basically means I can’t use Siri in noisy places, and I’m typically not inclined to. I might raise my voice a little if I’m putting in a podcast outside and it is windy.

#3 means disabling WiFi when I leave my house, until I’m in a location with a solid WiFi connection, in part because I make use of my cable WiFi. If I have no service and no WiFi then I have no Siri, not even to set a timer.

Beyond that, I find the basic feature set adequate, but not comprehensive. Siri shortcuts doubled Siri’s usefulness and I only use them for three or four apps.

That said, I appreciate Siri’s presence because it does enable me to leave my phone in my pocket a lot more than I used to, so there will occasionally be a week where I didn’t spend more than an hour or two looking at my phone’s screen the entire week (not per day, per week), with 90% of this time spent reading a book. Observing my friends’ obsessions and work habits, I appear to be the outlier in that regard.
#1 reminds me of the initial hesitations of buying clothes online. “The internet is fine for buying gadgets, but I need to try clothes on before purchasing them to make sure they fit right.”

We’re still at the early adopter phase of online grocery, but I’d be very surprised if this isn’t mainstream in a decade. Which is why I’d guess all major players take it seriously (from Walmart curbside to Kroger Clicklist).

Disclaimer: I work for a company associated with the online grocery space (though we aren’t online grocers). But I work here because I think it’s a solvable problem with tremendous upside to actually add value and convenience to people’s lives. Who wants to go to a mall to buy clothes these days?...
> This full moon is not special either. It falls close to the solstice. This will happen again in about ten years time.

The title of the submitted article is, "You won’t see a moon quite like this for another 11 years"
Wouldn't it be very effective to deploy this technology around the major plastic pollution sources instead?
Also the "Apple is gonna make voice control mainstream!" arguement in 2017+1 is hilarious. Apple has failed every new tech endeavor since the iPhone. The tablet, the smart watch, the touch bar, the ear pods, forcing usb3- everything has been a failure.
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

On my phone it's rare unless I'm getting in my car and having it pull up directions.

Where I found I use it all the time is with the Amazon Fire Stick. When I have a show I want to watch I don't have to fumble with a stupid keyboard on the TV, I just say the name and it works. Also setting timers in the kitchen when I'm cooking, it saves me from getting raw meat on all the surfaces
Chat bots & integrations...
Imagine if I were to say "the last time that large amounts of people walked around in suits on daily basis, we had two world wars!". This is both true and misleading.

No scientist believes that climate change will cause such sire circumstances.

The experts on the matter believe that sea levels will rise by a meter or so over the next hundred years.

If you believe that this will end the world, then you should know that the experts disagree with you, and that you should go read some more science.

So yes, it is true that "the last time C02 levels were at this level, the world could not sustain life". But it is also misleading as it implies causation.

The scienctists do not believe that these levels would cause mass extinction of human life. The badness is closer in scale to another Iraq war.
The fundamental problem is that Apple has been focused on making end user products for a very long time, but Google has been dealing with data and the cloud for 20 years.

Apple could probably become as good as Google at its own game, but it would take a lot of effort and I don't think Tim Cook et al have the vision to move in that direction like Microsoft did.

I feel Apple will become more and more irrelevant as years pass. With a bandwidth singularity end user hardware will be irrelevant in 10-20 years from now and other companies like Google and Microsoft are slowly catching up in making great end user experiences.
How do you tell the occupancy level of each room via WiFi signal?
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> That's always going to be a thing

Except that Apple spent a decade telling us it won't be a thing, which is why they never put a touch screen on a Mac. Until 2018 it had never been a thing. Supposedly this is iOS's remit, and designing the entire OS for solely touch (iOS) or solely mouse and keyboard (MacOS), they argue, is the better way forward.

Your arguments are perfectly valid for many other computer platforms, where mixed direct/indirect input exists. It has never existed on the Mac, supposedly by design, until now when Marzipan has provided a path for these touch UIs to ship on them. This is why it feels especially wrong on the Mac.
Google is a lot more than one guy
It really does, that’s why corporations fight tooth and nail on every attempt at labeling requirements.

From cigarette warnings, to food nutritional/ingredient labels, to modern fights by big Ag against having to label genetically modified food and food stuffs. It’s funny watching their lobbiest argue against gmo labels, it goes something like “it would be damaging to us to have to label our products with gmo labels, because consumers would largely stop buying our products, and there is no science to back gmo products dangerous. We need to continue studying.” My thought is who cares if science says gmos are harmful, if consumers would want to know so they could avoid a product, as admitted by the lobbiest, shouldn’t be entitled to know?
Google Reader was the only Google product I used regularly.
> plastic bags can take 20 years to decompose, plastic bottles up to 450 years

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/26/our-oceans-a-plasti...
In enterprises, its used a lot.

A lot of HN is a niche so don't get your used/not used stats from here