skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major ethical concerns aside, only get drunk users to test your ux if you think your users will be drunk. E.g. quiz machines at pubs and bars. Condom machines in nightclub toilets. Taxi apps. Poker sites maybe. Etc.
On the east coast Amtrak is doing this thing where they pull the dining cars off of long distance trains and have snack cars only and offer lower roomette fares in return. Reviews are mixed.
I'm agnostic about those allegations personally. Anything fringe back then was going to attract tabloid claims, and Crowley himself was a troll who was fond of promoting outrageous BS about himself for attention. They were a bunch of nutballs certainly but there's quite a bit of very sensational stuff out there about that scene that's just as questionable.

Today they'd just be a bunch of goth swingers into Neo-Pagan LARPing and totally unremarkable.
Which nobody can do. It is encrypted and unless the device accept invalid certs, they can queue up, compress, batch upload any data they want. They control the security, not the end-luser.
There are a couple that I know. There is snips https://snips.ai/ which I haven't used and I have a Mycroft Mark I https://mycroft.ai/product/mycroft-mark-1/ .

Mycroft does most of the Alexa parlor tricks such as weather and wikipedia lookups out of the box. If you use the plugins you can integrate it with Home Assistant, Kodi but I've had mixed luck.

They send the voice to Google for speech to text, but I believe that is configurable and they are working on a personal server which theoretically could operate entirely locally.
Same story from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-an...
It was a lot easier to put in someone else's phone number than someone else's prime account.

Back in the day we used to hold "store card swapping parties" where you'd bring your store card, drop it in the pile, and then everyone randomly picks a new one. Do it about once a month.

Now of course the store cards are tied to apps that give you coupons on things you buy, so it's more in your interest not to mess with them.
Most of what they ascribe to Crowley is highly dubious and sensationalist. There have been many independent biographies of Crowley published, not to mention his "autohagiography" that shed a lot of light . The article also contains blatant falsehoods, their explanation of the avalanche incident is fabricated and not corresponding to history (diaries and 3rd party first-person accounts of what actually happened). Even wikipedia gives a different version of events that doesn't seem so callous.
Moreover, a lot of Crowley's writings are deliberately using veiled language meant to offend the uninitiated and those predisposed to a superficial reading of his material. This is of course treasure for lazy journalists - and readers - that want to shock and stir up drama.

As far as the incest/beastiality bits related to Parsons go, I can't find any verifiable references anywhere. They took some rumors as laid out in a highly sensationalist book and presented them as fact.

This is the sort of trash, low quality article that has no place in HN. Parsons - and Crowley - deserve better.
It’s true that military necessity has spurred a lot of things, but it sure would be nice if we had the same cultural agreement around basic research without that.
I'm sure everyone at Apple is very well paid. (Aside: I truly wish the canard that people who are not well paid must not be good at their jobs would finally die.)

There's a story I heard from a former coworker who worked at Apple QA during the time of the first iMac (take it as you will). The infamous puck mouse had hundreds of reports filed against it. They were vetoed, from above.

So I would probably agree that Apple has a QA team, and that the company knew about this decided to ship anyway.

I disagree that any of this is just "in the recent years", though. The Titanium PowerBooks fell apart easily. The 2013 Mac Pro has no internal expansion, but it's far from the first Mac to suffer from that. For any problem I hear about Apple's hardware today, I can think of other examples of it happening years or decades ago. Lacking a real escape key seems odd on the new MacBook Pro, but the (otherwise cute if big) Apple Adjustable Keyboard had the same problem (and not even the TouchBar as an excuse). And so on.
I guess you’ll have to wait another decade or two.

In the meantime, I’m “feeding” my devices every day.

Hopefully voice-first becomes a solved problem, and you’ll get your device sooner.
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Conrail doesn't really exist anymore as a Class 1 carrier.
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I disagree. Amazon seems to actually care about privacy and takes things like this pretty seriously. One could certainly criticize AMZN data collection, but I think Amazon has shown that it does care about privacy of this data. Mistakes do happen which is unfortunate, and I think there is a good argument for no company, no matter their intentions to record this much data.

On the other hand, this is Facebook's business model.
The critical piece is running a stand-alone environment that has low friction for the users - my family.

I want my Significant other to be able to post as easily as Facebook. My parents to browse easily on their devices, and uploading pictures from my phone to be Facebook Simple.

Mastodon is pretty close to having all of this if you turn off Federation, other than not being able to run a fully private node. You can still access public pages for users.

On my list to check out are: HumHub & Hubzilla.
Voice? Why re-invent the wheel?

Clap on, clap off, THE CLAPPER.
I hope they find someone
From my understanding that is likely going to be local to the eastern US seaboard. The gulf stream goes northeast towards Europe, and "pulls" water away from the east coast, effectively making the sea level on the east coast about 6' lower. So the gulf stream just has to lose a little strength to make local sea levels rise drastically, even if globally sea levels are barely rising.
King is not stating that here. He just says that the earth was no fun place to be, the last time greenhouse gasses were as high as they’ll likely be in 2100.
isn't this the same thing as blackbox learning?
Can you MITM SSL the conversations to Amazon? It has memory. There is no requirement that it transmits in real time.
Blogrolls worked quite well for me.
"The first [theory of the nature of a conscious mind] is what is called the Global Workspace Theory, which is associated with neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene and Bernard Baars. Their theory states that to be considered conscious a mental state must be among the contents of working memory (the “user interface” of our minds) and thereby be available to other mental functions, such as decision-making and verbalization"

This seems like an excellent article. Whether you agree with the author or not, he positions his ideas relative to other thinkers who are positing broadly verifiable ideas about the nature of consciousness, a subject that can easily veer off to irrefutable subjective claims.
No, Apple is acknowledging these iPads ship bent due to the manufacturing process, not that they bend easily as the comment I responded to claims.
And the store is packed full of people shopping for online delivery orders on their phone all the time.
Around 8 years ago I tried to pitch to Nokia/Microsoft to use .git somehow so users were paid to allow access to their data. They didn't listen but I still like the idea that people own their own data and can monetize it themselves somehow.
I'm not saying it's a _bad_ move. It's just insufficient. And until they unclench wrt publishing nothing is going to change for them. And even after they do that, it will take a lot of convincing (and large wads of cash) to hire the best talent that can not only get Siri to catch up to Google, but overtake it.

My problem is not with Giannandrea's new position, it's with the lack of urgency on Apple's part. My patience has been wearing thin as of late.
My read on the paper, is that it's suggesting using this as an RNG for a pre-shared key. I found this sentence especially striking:

> Alice and Bob, secretly, exchange their private key, X, generated using the spatiotemporal randomness of the T cell population.

It's always interesting to read about new RNG methods, but that seems pretty far from a crypto system.
Root causes analysis here should be yield some interesting results.
Has anyone on HN put their phones into Airplane mode with WiFi on and then had wireshark tracking all outgoing packets from the wifi devices in their home?

To see exactly what outbound connections were made by which device and which app when either device was being actively used, or laying dormant?

This is how it was discovered in the UK that SmartTVs were sending viewing data....
I’ve used CoreOS tools in the past to achieve the same goals. It’s really useful once it works! I hope CoreOS lives on after the Red Hat and IBM acquisitions.
They get a kick out of the whole revelation of the method thing.
Alternatively, ALL matter is conscious. And interstellar motion is guided not by gravity and dark matter interactions. But by volition. With young stars swerving between trajectories by minded emissions of directional jets ;)

Can Panpsychism Become an Observational Science?

https://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/579

This comes on the heels of the Free Will debate in neuroscience. Where some observers decipher the lighting up of a cluster of neurons in an fMRI machine milliseconds before an action takes place as proof of external determinism. Or perhaps it is conspiratorial prep for the coming age of state sponsored brain implants and hive mind mass control.

Regardless debates such as these will become moot once in vivo science of mind is achieved, perhaps not until century's end. The more interesting questions in neuroscience tend to be of the form: where do creativity and inspiration come from? We've all had the experience of focused concentration on a puzzling problem. Only to have the solution, fully formed, pop into our heads like a bolt of lighting. Is there some way to fertilize this process? To favor the probability of discovery.
Sure, but then you try to make the children be playmates, and only 3 might work for a while, 1 might be a jerk that hurts the others; and 5 years down the road, you move anyway, so you only have 1 baby.

^ Sticking to the analogy when it comes to integrating into business; competing products, and which one actually maintains adoption.

9 babies in 9 months is basically what Google has done with its messaging apps.
Paper is downloadable from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329423153_Biologica...
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What's funny about that is, I had voice recognition software in 1991 that could start up any application on my computer, reboot my computer, etc. Surely there must be a small device with the processing power of my old 386-DX40.

I believe it was made by a company called Covox or something? There were several other companies that made similar software back then.
Strange that they recommend an elliptic-curve based implementation considering it's not quantum resistant.
Ton of hard work ahead for us to do that doesnt end with YC - making sure we're building for and serving people from underserved, non-traditional, and disadvantaged backgrounds. Reaching them requires sharing our stories and listening to theirs.
My fiancee loves to cook, and since we live in SF without a car, she has spent a lot of time trying out various grocery delivery services. Every single one has problems, from cost to quality to delivery reliability. In our experience, Instacart+Whole Foods is the most unreliable. Prime is ok, but the quality isn't always there. We've also tried specialty delivery services for meat, but those get expensive. We ultimately have been pretty satisfied with Good Eggs + Thrive Market and haven't set foot in a grocery store in months.

All this is to say I think grocery delivery is the holy grail of supply chain challenges. There is little tolerance for inefficiency at any step between farm and table. It's easy to spot when you're out of tolerance, but difficult to control for.

I think we're still in the early days of this space. It reminds me of the early 2000s when cord cutting was possible, but not common. However, once it really takes off it'll change everything.
You can just mute the connected speakers and it's the same as having Siri off. Or get one of the ones that requires you to push a button (the Amazon Tap).
It's figuring out how not to oversleep for an important occasion, not figuring out the meaning of life... I mean, some people this age are working responsible jobs or serving in the military.
Ancient fiction does talk about feelings; the author evidently hasn't read any to any great degree. I mean, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Iliad to The Tale of the Heike to the Bible; plenty of emotion in all of them, and plenty of description of internal mental state.

It's true the sagas don't so much; mostly because it was a spoken word art form. Duh.
Is the author saying, in so many words, that we should go back to the Geocities era?
If we are playing the "you can't prove that" game, then you also can't prove that your $12 throw away phone isn't always recording, or that you new kitchen countertop doesn't have a recording device embedded in it, or that the maker of whatever device you are using to type that comment isn't breaking a plethora of laws to record everything you type or say or do around that device at any time.
Link to letter sent to the FTC [PDF]: https://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/sites/default/files/...
does that work fine with lag? No dropped characters?
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The VMSVGA for linux guests sounds awesome, since they previously removed 3D support for "linux guests using Wayland".. ie. Ubuntu 18.10.

Can any linux experts here explain briefly what is required to get this VMSVGA support? (win 10 host, Ubuntu guest)

Do I have to grab additional drivers or "guest additions" from VMware? Or will Ubuntu 18.10 have 3D support out of the box if I run in with VB6 ?
It’s not quite that simple. A case could be made that other variables are a proxy for race or national origin, and travel to specific countries is one of them.

Of course that argument has an opposing side as well, but it seems prima facie plausible as a cause of action.
I think it is Slacks fault for not being in compliance with export laws originally.

Their non-compliance is fact.

Whether or not you consider that law to be ethical is opinion.

I was not stating an opinion, merely stating fact. I was not trying to start a discussion of politics. I appologize if I was misunderstood.
I assumed they look at credit cards too, and swapping store cards wouldn't trick them unless you're paying cash. But maybe the number of people who do that is so small that stores haven't cared to catch it.
Encrypted or not, an audio stream should not be difficult to identify.
I think this might be because food is quite different to the other products you buy from Amazon - you typically buy ingredients and you typically do this once or more a week. Amazon makes a mistake every so often with a delivery but with this sort of throughput you have a bigger window for things to go wrong.

I stopped using Amazon Fresh after a string of deliveries where entire bags were just missing. Not out of stock, just not in the order. Of course, they refunded me but when buying ingredients to cook something complicated it can totally change your plans.

Their selection would change frequently. Sometimes basic things would be out of stock for weeks, sometimes items would just disappear, even items from common brands.

This is effectively the normal Amazon experience (good with occasional errors) but when applied to food it's somehow considerably worse. I now use a competitor's service; all they do is online grocery deliveries. It's very hard to be all things to all men; sometimes specialisation is a good thing.
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> Nothing in the article suggests they were linked to any kind of user identifier

They were able to provide the customer a bundle of his recordings upon request so they must've maintained such a lookup mapping.

Of course that led to the mix up reported here. But I'd argue it's safer if on Amazons side they simply can't fulfill such request themselves due to anonymization.
Interesting to cross-pollinate this sort of thing with Michael Levin's work (that went by a couple of days ago here on HN) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700328

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> The board's legal mandate is to make as much money as possible.

Why do people keep repeating this falsehood?

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

Per SCOTUS in US v. Hobby Lobby:

> While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so. For-profit corporations, with ownership approval, support a wide variety of charitable causes, and it is not at all uncommon for such corporations to further humanitarian and other altruistic objectives. Many examples come readily to mind. So long as its owners agree, a for-profit corporation may take costly pollution-control and energy-conservation measures that go beyond what the law requires. A for-profit corporation that operates facilities in other countries may exceed the requirements of local law regarding working conditions and benefits. If for-profit corporations may pursue such worthy objectives, there is no apparent reason why they may not further religious objectives as well.
We know how much storage is on the device - we could tell thru network monitoring if they were actually doing this - there is just enough smarts in the device to only turn on the recordings when the wake word is spoken - thats not being said a malicious player wouldnt hack it, and insert their own code to listen all the time - but based on the evidence, I don't think amazon is that player.
The interviewee, Peter Carruthers, makes it clear the idea of consciousness that he is addressing and claiming are false. Not all discussion around consciousness necessarily references "The Hard Problem". I suspect David Chalmers and his ideas are more popular in popular discussions than among other philosophers of the mind.
You shouldn't have to treat a $1000 device like it's going to turn into dust.

I don't understand the link between price and resistance to damage.

If I buy a Faberge egg for $4 million, I don't expect that I can sit on it without causing damage.

A friend recently spent $20k on new windows for his house. I don't expect them to be baseball-resistant because they cost more than his previous, cheaper, windows.

It sounds like Apple has sacrificed too much in the name of being thin

I don't disagree with this. I'd rather have a little thicker laptop in exchange for a better keyboard. But because my laptop cost $4k, I don't expect that I can treat it anyway I like. It's a computer, not a rock.
The rotors will bring a lot of energy into the equation on their own. It may be sufficient just to put some steel or lead in their path.

I'd be more concerned about the crashing drone than the shot. People are hit with falling shot fairly regularly when bird hunting and as far as I know it's not considered a serious problem.
It should be more than mild skepticism.

If they’re late 10% of the time and the odds of a flat tire are 1 in 1000 (based on my driving experience I’d say that’s a high estimate, too) then you should start by assigning a probability of around 1% to the flat tire hypothesis. Then modify that based on how honest they typically are.
My claim is not positive. My claim is that employer provided insurance is unlikely without government involvement. That is a negative claim.

Your claim is the opposite. You can prove it by showing that employer provided insurance started growing before the given government involvement.

I doubt that evidence exists.
I think the sales are worse, too. I used to be able to scan the meat and produce sales, and create meals around those options. Today that's virtually impossible.

Recently Amazon realized how badly they fucked up cheese sales, and reverted back to the old system. Most people I know will only buy good cheese if it's >30% discounted. For a couple months, Amazon decided to scrap big sales in favor of 1-5% off ones. So far as I can tell, that test was a complete failure, and we're back to being able to have good cheese at good prices.

It's a far worse store. Lucky for Amazon, they have a few years before a competitor will emerge to bring back a legitimate luxury shopping experience back to my demographic. But Eataly or someone of that nature will shift their business model a little to fill the void eventually.
I highly doubt there's a commercial drone out there capable of doing that for more than a few seconds.
And if there's one, the cost of the IMU alone would be a pretty strong deterrent against what just happened.
How come nearly everybody saying pretty much this exact thing on every FB thread recently also emphasizes that they are not trying to imagine a conspiracy here? Now, I am not trying to imagine a conspiracy here...
It certainly made me think about consciousness being a meta function looking at the subconscious result. So yeah GEB :)

It may well be the initial decision is subconscious and although we then (sometimes) inspect it in a meta/conscious way (and recursively if we are thinking hard), the article is saying we shouldn't confuse the meta process with the original thought. That original thought is derived in an unknown way. Its akin to the subsymbolic vs symbolic discussion elsewhere on HN in my opinion. The unconscious thought being the ANN (subsymbolic part) the meta function examining that thought and procesing it further being the symbolic part(consciousness).
As a general rule, higher temperatures lead to atrophied snowmelt rivers because there's not as much accumulation. That's one of the contributing factors for water problems in a lot of Western (U.S.) areas.
I don't like to be this guy but a price per feedback looks like a scam! what's preventing you from generating feedback by yourself?
> Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare.

They've only happened every decade so far: 1960 (IC), 1970 (DARPA), 1980 (PC), 1990 (GUI), 2000 (Internet), 2010 (smartphone).
When my throw away phone is transmitting, it gets warm. I also set it next to an amplifier and I can actually hear it bleed into the amp when it chats with the cell site. I can even tell a couple of seconds ahead of time when I am getting a text or a phone call.
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Is it possible to pace our my own sales class?

We are trying to do B2B sale but it's really hard fresh out of school. I can corroborate that our school doesn't offer training like that.
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