skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was disappointed to not see any discussion of the thinking that might plausibly be concious. Yes, most of our "thinking" is instinctive. But we also have Kannehman's "System 2"[1] which does seem to correspond to what we would normally consider conscious though. We may "think much less than we think we think" but that doesn't mean we don't think at all.

This does, in a sense, all boil down to semantics. Poeple can argue for hours about whether a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear makes a sound without realizing that they're arguing over the definition of "sound". But the notion of conscious versus unconscious decisions is a useful one, so given that we have multiple possible scientific definitions of "consciousness" that correspond to our traditional conception we might as well pick the one that's most useful.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Reason #1 is a big one in my experience trying out various grocery delivery services but the greatest problem IMO is in how there isn't a good way to deal with things that couldn't be found or are found to be out-of-stock. 3rd-party services don't have perfect visibility into the layout and inventory system of every grocery chain and each of their individual locations so there is almost always something that can't be delivered in every order. This isn't a problem whenever I run errands myself as I will be more familiar with my go-to stores, meaning I can find most anything (it seems many 3rd-party services push their workers so hard in terms of efficiency metrics that they will give up on locating an item if it isn't immediately apparent where it is) and I can also swing by another store while I'm out if a critical item isn't in stock at my go-to store.

Grocery delivery seemed really slick at first but after the 5th time receiving an order that is missing a critical item, the novelty (and the time savings/convenience/etc) wears off.
Facebook, and almost all the other platforms which allow this type of targeting, make it impossible to do this now by setting a minimum matched audience size. This means that even if you upload a list of 9,999 fake email addresses and 1 real email address it will not allow you to run ads against that audience explicitly in order to make it impossible to do this.
The two things I really appreciated about Whole Foods were the faster checkouts and the fact that they didn't constantly bug you about a club card.

I don't really go out of my way to shop there any more...
>could mean there's less appetite for community to port and support zfs on Mac.

Eh? The community port and support already happened, years ago. I made the move myself from ZEVO once Spotlight support got mainlined but even that was a while ago and it already had a ton of great features before that. It is a small scale effort compared to Linux or FreeBSD of course, but it has kept up pretty darn well and is pretty solidly developed at this point. I push it pretty hard on my Macs and it's been pretty reliable, though there are definitely edge case oddities that can be found. You can also see the smaller scale of the effort in areas like the wiki not being fully up to date, or that booting off of it still is rough. Even so it's pretty solid at this point and hits all the core features including encryption.

Long term the big risk of course is that Apple will shut off all user low level access to their drives via T-series chips in Macs, since they don't actually give hardware owners the ability to use their own keys there. Ideally this would be illegal but I doubt any movement will be made on that in the US at least in the near future. Even so given that Apple up until recent has still been selling brand new Macs without it macOS itself will likely support running on those systems for a long time to come (Apple still officially supports running the existing version even on 8 year old MPs, granted with compromises but those had pretty fundamental divergences from modern firmware too). O3X is still pretty nice in the mean time.
Or swiping the alarm off instead of the snooze. Physical alarm clocks have different motions. Push big button, snooze. Click little switch, turn off alarm. Much better.

Though, like everything these days, I heard there is an app for that. Swipe to snooze. Calculate some math problem and enter the answer for alarm off. Haven't bought the app myself yet.
Hosted client, set of sources, some magical mix and match. Did you just invent Facebook?
He's been apologizing since 2006... think they'd get better at it by now.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40547045/a-brief-history-of-mark...
Very unlikely. In fact, the error came from an actual GDPR Right of Access request. If they inform the affected person and take measures to prevent it from happening again, then they're in compliance of GDPR.

GDPR was created to prevent organizations from hiding data breaches, trading or transfering customer information, avoiding privacy compliance, etc.

This is making the news because is Amazon, but you will be surprised how many of these breaches happen in a daily basis in all types of organizations.
Did you happen to watch the video? He didn't try very hard to break it. It's not like he put it over his knee using all his strength.
As I suspected your statititic for the average number of hours worked per year does not tell the whole story and is not pertinent to the discussion at hand. Front he OECD source you quoted:

The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources. Part-time workers are covered as well as full-time workers.
Magic is about management. The most talented ICs can't do much unless management supports them in it. (And I say this as an IC.)
what is it you think executives do?
I'm having trouble getting worked up about this one. Yeah a privacy breach happened, but it was only one person's data exposed, and only to one other person.

The only reason it made the news is because people are already paranoid about voice assistants.
If anyone hasn't seen Strange Angel I highly recommend it. It's definitely the "Hollywood version" to some extent but it's relatively close to his biographies and is a decent watch regardless.

The title and thesis here is a bit wacky. JPL itself doesn't have "occult roots." Parsons was into occultism and Thelema/Crowley, which is far less sensational than it sounds if you've ever actually read any of that stuff. It's not any more shocking than someone being into Daoism, esoteric Hinduism, Sufism, or any other minority (in this country) religious or philosophical sect. The beliefs involved are no more or less bizarre than the beliefs championed by much more popular religions.

I have noticed a tendency for creative outside thinkers like Parsons to be into "weird" belief systems. I've met a good number of really bright hacker types who are into all kinds of non-mainstream beliefs including conspiracy theories, Neo-Paganism, esoteric types of religion, strong interests in topics like UFOs and the paranormal, etc.
in the morning!
The paper doesn't seem to acknowledge existence of TRNG's, let alone compare results to them. Compared to pseudo-random generators, this is an improvement, but compared to existing hardware random number generator chips -- which are available on the market for tens of cents -- is this cheaper? Higher entropy? Faster? Easier to implement?

It's great to do research like this as that is how we get advancements and breakthroughs, but it's another thing to completely ignore an entire sub-field of the area you're researching in order to misrepresent what you're doing as being an amazing breakthrough.

All it would have taken is a simple statement like "We acknowledge there are existing non-pseudo-random solutions to this problem that use thermal noise, radioactive decay, etc, but wanted to try a biological process because ____________".
> In my experience, I could see no major differences between their solution and, say, Virtualbox.

What software were you running inside the VM? Parallels performance is good enough I can actually play a lot of games, which was amazing to me after years with Virtualbox.

TBH, even for simple stuff like Internet Explorer, I'm surprised you didn't notice a performance difference.
> opinionated way for developing javascript applications

> React, Flux, JSX, GraphQL, Jest.

Opinionated implies there is "1 true way" to do things a la angular or ember.

react is most definitely not the embodiment of opinionated.

ref the multitude of libraries which were flavour of the month before something else came along.

> It is a full tool-chain, language, architecture, API spec, and testing framework.

Ok, now I know you're either trolling or have never used any technology but React to solve problems.
> Apple is also known for holding its manufacturers to high quality bars that sometimes are often difficult to meet. So they are under pressure to both meet the agreed upon standards, but also ship tremendous quantities of product without high amounts of rework, the costs of which they, the manufacturer, would have to eat, not Apple.

According to Apple:

>The bend is the result of a cooling process involving the iPad Pro’s metal and plastic components during manufacturing, according to Apple

Apple is ultimately responsible. They designed this device. Their materials people knew how flexible this chassis would be. I find it highly unlikely they didn't know it would bend until manufacturing ramped up.
Corel seems to be one of those places where software goes to die. Almost like Yahoo, but withering, instead of going with a bang.

With Oracle at the realm of VirtualBox and now this, it’s not a pretty landscape.

I hope I’m wrong though.
Companies can use their political influence to get other companies to change. This isn't happening today because everyone on Earth is happier when electricity and gas are cheaper, from the poorest consumer to the wealthiest executive.
If there’s one company that’s proved how successful non-technical leaders can be, it would seemingly be Apple.
You shouldn't have to treat a $1000 device like it's going to turn into dust. Sure, don't chuck your phone at concrete walls, but in general a phone needs to be able to take a spill occasionally or have someone sit on it because those things happen in real life.

It sounds like Apple has sacrificed too much in the name of being thin, and really botched their structural integrity.

Devices exist to be used, not kept in a museum.
A good idea. idk if that will ever happen. Still I like my weird website - there aren't enough crooked angles, messiness, imperfections or just internet spam in general on Facebook. Parts of the internet are obsessed with authenticity and identity, and also reliability and uptime. Those things are important for airplanes, trains, things like that. Not something like this: a phonebook used to keep in touch with people and have random conversations about nothing. I like to imagine a place like facebook that gets permanently blurry if it gets rained on, like a phonebook would. And also there's no passwords, like a real phone book.

Our everyday internet should be taken less seriously - used for what you want, to simplify a few things, not make them more complicated or hidden.

Lev Manovich has some interesting thoughts on the database-centric nature of how the internet's come to be. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-new-media
Re #2: At least in Seattle I can get beer and wine shipped via Prime Now.

Honestly, alcohol is one of the better use cases of Prime Now, since it's always a bummer to have someone get alcohol when it runs out at a party.
Price-fixing lawsuit accuses nearly 20 drug co's, a billionaire, and others
I commuted on Amtrak for two years between DC and Baltimore. The train was routinely 15 minutes late, and regularly 1 hour+. Destroying it might allow something else to be built in its place.
Very true! I'm currently trying to de-social network my life :). Was mostly a tounge in cheek comment because the OP was on twitter.com.
The MTA problem is not about technology, though: "How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Didn't Portlandia do this a few seasons ago?
Japan's 700-year-old 'oke' craft gets a modern makeover (2017)
Everyone who cares even a little about their academic career. Apple doesn't really let you publish. Even pop-sci articles they do publish on their website don't have any names. I know no sane researcher who would agree to end their academic participation so abruptly, particularly in order to work for an organization widely perceived as a perennial laggard.
I would guess that the main financial motive for ever-increasing copyright terms is strictly anti-competitive, in the sense that the studios are attempting to avoid competing with their own back-catalogs. There is more decent entertainment out there already than any one person could properly appreciate in their lifetime; the only way the studios can ensure a market for their more recent works is by banning all the older ones.
The worst part about going through this process is to getting to checkout and realizing I only had 1 discounted item (out of 20) that saved me 30 cents.. The labor of connecting to in-store wifi and opening the app itself almost isn't worth the discount..
where do you shop instead?
I'm the same way, especially with hearing a time verbally, or thinking about a stretch of time like "this meeting will take two hours".
> On the vast majority of devices it is not always on.

Would you consider the device "listening" if a DSP is listening for a particular hotword, but no audio data is being uploaded?

I'm pretty sure that's what happens in either case, whether you're using Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant, and whether it's a "home" device or a phone with hotword detection. I used to work at Google on some related hardware projects.

If you're suspicious because the home devices seem much more accurate, that's because they have microphone arrays which can facilitate beamforming.
AI, Machine Learning, Analytics and Data Science Main Developments in 2018
Not in research.
There's a helm chart for that :) https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/kong
Agreed, I’m surprised at the HN relative silence because there are so many other drone stories that warrant such HN attention.

In this case all flights from Gatwick (the next busiest London airport after Heathrow) have been cancelled for nearly 24 hours.

That’s 110k passengers on 760 flights during one of the busiest travel periods of the year!
New Research Indicates Anything Can Be Pumped
Meanwhile the healthrisks are being overlooked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUa_XbgZgq8

https://www.projectcensored.org/4-how-big-wireless-convinced...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/2/15/17008482/ce...
I have noticed this too. The bar code scan is never useful, so in a way it's not actually intrusive - I've wound up never doing it.
"He thought of Alexa with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them."

The irony is the ability for mass survelence (by unelected corporations) is far more than they had in 1984
People aren't rational. If you want to deal with human behavior, you don't start by faulting them for their irrationality, you start by acknowledging that it's part of the package.
If you use 32 cards, it maps cleanly to 5-bits of entropy. You can keep the others in there to keep shuffling randomness of 52 cards. Just ignore them when entering numbers.
> Have I missed something?

Yes. Sitting for hours at the Amtrak station waiting for a delayed train to arrive.
9 women can't make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months.

More people can work on more/different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)
We can't say the prisoners chose to enter the gulags of their own free will, though. Since freedom of contract requires all parties to enter into the agreement consentually, that means that the market for gulag laborers is not free.

The US governent does create incentives which change the optimal behavior of rational actors in the health insurance market, but those actors still have very broad latitude to respond to those incentives as they see fit. That's not perfect economic freedom, but it's a lot closer to it than the systems most other countries use. It also gets noticeably worse results on a broad variety of metrics than the systems most other countries use. Make of that what you will.
Say I am running a social network. I want to allow my users to give access to their own damn data to third parties. I want them to be able to use third party chat UIs.

This is precisely why I keep pounding on the idea that "Trusted Execution" technologies need to be turned around 180 degrees. It's intimately tied tot he idea of privacy. It's horrible when governments and big companies have "privacy" but use their power to strip individuals of it. Likewise, it's a public good for individuals to have privacy, and for governments and big companies to be transparent. Likewise, it's horrible when big companies turn "Trusted Execution" against individuals -- this is DRM. However, it would be a tremendous good if the voting public got some laws passed requiring big companies to subject themselves to Trusted Execution technologies when handling customer data.

Doing this would give individuals the keys to control their own personal information.
Check out the Upgrade Path here: https://github.com/Kong/kong/blob/master/UPGRADE.md
Find two numbers from an array that sum to a target number
Why does Musk have to hold a big media event (i.e. free advertising) for a pre-alpha tunnel? No one forced him to, so to complain when the attention is of the disappointed and negative variety strikes me as a bit strange.
Yeah (DoS factor).
That's true, although their thinnest products always had a small surface area as well (iPod nano), so less torque could be applied which probably contributed to the durability.
1 is solvable and has already been solved by competitors.

What I believe is an EU based VC funded startup, HelloFresh, delivers boxes with recipes + the necessary ingredients to your home. We've been a customer for a while, and everything they send is extremely fresh. Their fish is fresher and better than anything I've been able to buy in my city (not by the sea), including specialized fish shops.

They're definitely not cheap, but they've proven that "I can't see what produce I get" is not a problem to customers if the quality is both consistent and extremely high. For all the criticism they've been getting in here in the Netherlands, their fast-moving consumer goods logistics is spectacular.
Justice Dept. charges Chinese nationals in ‘extensive’ global hacking campaign
A flip clock will bridge that gap.
I'm still waiting for a bogograd optimizer!
I'll take that bet. The iPhone is going to keep printing money for the next 15-20 years at least.

Apple is a 40 year old company, and they're still raking in the dough from their original product category.
My intention was to show that in reality it doesn't matter whether a software is open source or proprietary like sourceforge .golang has nit blocked Iran .I highly doubt anyone among go community and creators would think or know about this issue . it is only blocked because of app engine just like many other non-google websites which use app engine.
Still arguably better than waking up, grabbing the paper immediately, and reading it probably before even getting out of bed--which is what the article is about. To me, that's very different from getting out of bed, retrieving the paper, and reading it over breakfast.
I'm far more concerned about the weekly stabbing than whatever this is supposed to be.
By tools I meant for collaborating, not replacing humans. I'm not some robot who just wants to sit head down because I'm terrible at socializing. I do enjoy being in the office to see faces, but I also have realized this not a very strong argument for having every company be so resisting to remote work.

And as I stated you can replace this in other ways. Because you're home you may end up at a gym or coffee shop or group bike rides more often. That gives you a different form of social interaction in the day to day to replace "water cooler" talk.
Because it doesn't matter. Human error. Will be fixed.
Oaths GDPR panel is one of the worst out there. Seriously, try and set your preferences.

You visit the site, it says it's tracking you and personalising adverts. No thanks. Click the button to change it. Get presented with a page asking you to visit somewhere else to change it. Ok. Click the link, get presented with a huge privacy policy and a load of not very useful sidebar links. Click around, no button to say "go away stop tracking me". And if you try and "find out how our partners use your data", good luck, all the links are 404's or behind login boxes.

Good riddance.
Easily at BR quality with a high speed connection — it's only 20-30 mbps — but as you say, consumers don't care enough to pay what it would cost to stream at higher bitrates.
Amtrak's long-term vision did involve moving away from the coast and swinging up future HSR via Hartford and western Massachusetts.

I say "did", because politicians from eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island were understandably not thrilled about losing their existing high-ish speed services.
Especially because the ecosystem that Siri can use is so nice, with homekit devices and shortcuts.
Many Antennas are grounded (eg for lightning protection), but that has no relevance for their effectiveness as an antenna.

Because the size is much less than a wavelength, the body can be at ground, while the active parts can be at RF potential.

Example: Your phone is grounded, but it still works.
Is the problem too many services targeting people who want organic produce, imported crackers, and meat/fish that's 2x Krogers?
So then, is this a thought provoking article or is there no such thing?
Well, bend-gate for the 6 plus was fake.

Any reason we shouldn't assume this is fake too?
Yes it does. Con la mafia no se jode. Jode is not mess with, but more aggressive, and when they fired shots at you, much more. And I am Argentinean.
I'm reminded of DiSo from a different internet age: https://diso-project.org/

It was an attempt to extend the blogging model with open standards so that others could consume it the way they consume the news feed today.

Unless you were around for it back then, you probably never heard of DiSo, which tells you all you need to know about how good of an idea it is in practice. Or maybe it was ahead of its time. I don't know.
>Whole Foods in particular caters to shoppers who care about the quality of their meat and produce and want to examine it before they buy.

That may be true but I could equally well argue that, because Whole Foods tends to have higher and more consistent quality than many other chains, a random pick from the product department or meat counter is likely to result in something I'm fine with. At least that's my impression though I don't shop at Whole Foods with any great regularity.
Yeah but this isn't chemotherapy, and with chemotherapy you are literally trying to kill cells.
Planes already can't fly if the drone is in the air...
When I was ordering groceries from Instacart it let me choose the action in case the item is missing, like choosing a possible replacement (e.g. different brand of milk or frozen pizza) - for each individual item.

In Poland I had similar experience, and there's also an option "call me", when the person completing my order will tell me what the issue is and let me decide.

I realize, however, that the approach might not scale, especially when the phone call is required.
It's quite good at accents as well.