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> It's just that there's no intrinsic reason that the same company that gives away labour as OSS should also make the best complements to that OSS.

AWS's version will likely always lag on features, whether it's their Elasticsearch service or this new DocumentDB thing. So to continue the music industry analogy from the original article, sure Taylor Swift may or may not be able run the most reliable streaming service but she'll still get business if Spotify/Pandora only has covers of her songs.
That would either increase the cost of the device or degrade the performance of the speech-to-text.

In the case of your phone, you'd get about an hour of battery life. Reasonably accurate speech recognition requires several orders of magnitude more computation than wake word detection.
btw do the other instruments work for you (Firefox)?
Oh, I still use the internet. WebKitLeopard is up-to-date and not a RAM whore like TenFourFox.
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This is similar to the issue of people being scared of radiation from cell towers but somehow not freaking out that they have a transmitter in their pocket that uses the same range of frequencies but at vastly higher power (due to the proximity).
Defendants take the stand all the time.
Well, obviously you need to have either money or a plan so you don't end up homeless.

The OP edited his question after I replied. When I wrote my reply the question was a oneliner: "how do I escape my meaningless job"
Heathrow
We had to get from terminal 2 to 4 .sounds simple but No. First we need to go to Terminal 1 wait 30 mines change another bus (which will take u on the tarmac with a “follow me” vehicle ) than it took me to terminal 4 wait another line for the as called of security .After 45 minutes wait it’s my turn to meet this incompetent staff .The staff there threatened me to put me on the radioactive jar if I don’t stop giving them a hard time . Then these imbeciles are going through my bag .Honestly I do not know and I draught they know what they are looking for. Now comes the time to go through the metal detector and when I preempted to take the names of these rude staff. As they are afraid of consequences from their rude behavior they are covering their ids with their palm to prevent me from reading their name .Now comes the time to look at my laptop. It took about 20 minutes to just get to my laptop. The way they inspected the laptop I thought they saw one for the first time. When I complained to the so called supervisor. told me that I was rude at his beloved staff and he was more rude back .Then when I told him I want to complain, he arrogantly threw a pen at me to so call complain . I told him this is a hell of a way to treat passengers and he told me arrogantly not to come to Heathrow in the future <I tend to agree with him.
On the way back again they wanted me to take 2 buses to get from terminal 4 to 2 .As they got loud
As I had only 2 hour layover for my NY Virgin Atlantic flight >They did me the favor top provide the group with a microbus that took us to terminal 2 DIRECTLY . I guess they know how to expedite when you get rude and load
Honestly I was traumatized of this horrible transfer experience .I travelled through Moscow , JFK (NY) Budapest ,Switzerland <Vienna , Frankfurt .Parris airports no problem .Heathrow is a DISASTER for transfer flights
> While I'm naturally lazy, a procrastinator, and completely unambitious; the sheer worry during my younger years forced me to try harder.

This, so many times this. I tell people I'm lazy and they say "You have two jobs, GM a weekly RPG and a monthly LARP, how can you be lazy?" They don't look at how little I WANT to do, they don't see how perpetually behind I am because given 3 hours to catch up I'll waste 2.5 of them, they don't see how a lifetime of this has taught me to wing it really well, to hide and cover up how behind I am. They'll talk about taking hikes or wanting to travel, but I want to sit and read or play games. Their dream superpower is flying, while I dream of teleportation and telekinesis - anything that means I'll have to struggle with the act of "doing" less.
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Is billing really important for your project? like can you release and iterate?

The biggest mistake I did when I was working on a reasonably bigger project is that I wanted all modules to be in there to Go Live, to the point I ended up fixing browser related bugs before I ship assuming users will hate the product if I don't.

I never ended up launching it and since then, I stuck to the real MVP, as in the smallest thing I could ship. This helped me launch 2 side projects and got insane confidence boost.
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MongoDB did use the AGPL and still had issues with companies trying to argue they didn't need to release their changes. So they switched to their own license which was even more explicit on the matter.
First thing in the morning, write three pages. 30-40 mts. Don’t plot. Just write. Don’t spell check. Don’t try to weave a story. Just write without a plan. Pen to paper. Writing is a habit. You can’t be a sporadic writer or author. It’s a craft. It needs discipline. Do this for six weeks first.
It means Alternate account. players are pretty bitter about the use of ALTs because they're used to join opponent alliances and then spy on them. hence, most alliances now have a pretty rigorous "getting to know you period"
It's somewhat poignant that you say "adolescent" because I know a number of octogenarians and nonagenarians for whom these are indispensable. I won't buy one at this phase in my life, but there will come a point in most people's lives where having an omnipresent corporation listening in will become a net positive.

I would of course prefer dear friends listening in, but who knows what life will bring.
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So credit for a phrase? Neither invented the actual strategy.
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Could one not argue this comment itself is a middlebrow dismissal? I don't think it makes sense to discredit comments just because they're not positive.
Holy pooping Platypuses this is one of the best pieces of tldr for something I have seen. High Praises and thanks. You are a personal hero for a day
I've seen this blind kid on YouTube who posts a lot of clips of him joyfully using Alexa. Obviously of great utility to him.
right click and ctrl-c blocked - fuck them.
Are there any real-world Node.js applications on GitHub that you would recommend as a good example? Like https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso for React.
I was going to say this, the only real cost would be the cognitive service to transcribe, storing a text version would be nothing.
Motivation is a personal topic but there seem to be certain themes. I can share mine. I have been a solo founder for a few months and this is something I am also facing every single day.

- Have something to be excited about. There is the rational reason to do something, but there is also something that is emotional and exciting about it. It could be about seeing your idea used by many people, or just the vision of building something real out there (which is mighty hard by itself). It could be even things that will happen later as a result of this project - may be it will open up new avenues for you to do other exciting things, live a different lifestyle, boost your confidence and so on. I call it the "emotional fingerprint" that we tend to get excited about. Identify the biggest 1-3 things that excite you greatly, even if they are really "embarrassing" to share with others. Keep them on the fore-front of your mind every day.

- Have a few people in your network or outside it who can care about either you or the project, and make sure you talk to them regularly. Your cheerleaders. Show them what you are doing, get their feedback, look for signals. It can feel like a waste of time as an engineer, but in my experience really helps me get outside my own head.

- See frustrations as learning. Think about the long haul. Is this just a one time project you're doing or do you want to be in it for the longer term, perhaps for multiple projects down the road? anything worthwhile you'll do will have frustrating or unexpected elements built in. How you deal with them also strengthens you for the long run.

One mental approach I apply is to treat each difficulty as a puzzle to be solved. Every time you solve one, you become better at solving similar puzzles in the future. It is tempting to want to know the answers in advance to everything. Forego that temptation and embrace "puzzle-solving" everyday to issues you have never encountered before. What I am implying is "gamifying" this whole process a little bit. If you have played frustrating puzzle games before, you can perhaps relate.

Just my 2 cents on this topic :)
This actually sounds like it would be an excellent candidate for making a hobby robotics sensor - too bad they weren't readily available (at least in the US). Kind of like the Game Boy Camera, although it sounds like the Game Boy Camera is superior to this one.
I deliberately avoided using the word good because otherwise we go down a rabbit hole talking about what makes a good engineer versus a good waiter.

> Education does not equal a good living

No but it is heavily correlated with one.

There are plenty of restaurants that will hire an 18 year old with no experience and literally no qualifications to be a waiter. Lots of places when they are looking for experienced staff just hire anyone who had any waiting experience. They aren't nearly as picky as development managers.

I don't know of any software companies that will just hire an 18 year old to write their code without any training or experience. Without a 4 year degree I've seen it take people usually a year or longer of spending all of their free time coding to get their first coding job.

But if you think it's as easy to get your first waiting job as software engineering job(which is very different from my friends experience who has done both), what do you think is the cause of the wage discrepancy?
That just sounds like AdGuard. Plenty of consumer routers offer VPN server capability for free. That combined with DuckDNS or a similar free service would be a better option I think
Never seen a single use case? How about a kitchen assistant, especially with dirty hands, or a task doer for the elderly or otherwise mobility disabled. It’s a generic time saver, and time=money for most people.
Honestly. I know that a lot of new technology is not quickly adopted by older people.

But do we really need technology to save us any more time? Are we really filling the empty time with worthwhile activities?
Yeah, I got one for Christmas a couple of years ago; thought it would be really gimmicky, but I find it's actually quite a lot nicer to use than my phone or other devices for the following:

* Turning on/off lights

* Changing the thermostat set temp

* Asking about the weather forecast

* Add items to a shopping list

* Playing music

If you can't imagine a voice interface being appreciably better than a phone interface for these things, I recommend withholding judgment until you've tried it.

Also, to be very clear (since some people have a knack for arguing points I never made), I'm explicitly not saying that the current hot-mic implementation is technically necessary or ideal, nor that these conveniences justify the privacy tradeoff.
> "A guide to being on-call... we all have lives which might get in the way of on-call time"

How dare those engineers live a life. They're on-call goddammit.
> (they aren’t)

How do you know? And, how do you know they will not do this silently in the future?

Also worse detection does not mean more false positives. Usually, you can get the false positive rate very low by allowing more false negatives. In this way you have a choice, how you want to trade-off. Without this device, you are stuck with the choice that Amazon/Google make for you.
Completely agree. This is how power works.

Note that I said "could" in the original post ...
Type 1. Some things "could" be with enough power backing them,
Type 2. While others could never be regardless of power backing (eg engineering limits like quantum computing, or even organizational limits like the petro-bolivar?).

With the right backing - political, resources, talent - surveillance tech "could" quickly squash dropgangs, so it belongs to Type 1. (Btw, where talent goes is a key determinant.)
> who really would want to risk real-world consequences for a random survey?

Why not? We don't know the baseline behavior and expectations of the respondents.

I think we differ on where our subjective Bayesian priors are situated.

I'm more at the 50/50 mark in that I think the results could be biased but at the same time, there's no necessity that they must be. Whereas most people on this thread automatically assume a priori that the survey results surely are biased, because China.
Found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/4lxnjj/request_li...
>Suddenly changing his sentence to death is rather suspicious, but at least for me it doesn’t make a huge difference compared to a 15-year sentence.

I'm guessing going from 15 years to death sentence is probably a big difference to him.
I'm very comfortable with my keybindings for a lot of things, particularly the way I have vim and tmux set up to work nicely together. I also have a fairly extensive zsh config using vi mode and some alternate key bindings. If I remote in to a stock machine, I can get by though.

I have about 7 different machines/VMs/VPSes/partitions I use semi-regularly, so it's nice to have the exact same setup I use everywhere.

I also don't want to have to re-create my setup every time because I won't remember all the tweaks I set up months or years ago. I'm not the kind of user who constantly tweaks their configs, I've been using basically the same configs for about three years.
This always helped me: Baby steps over time walk a mile.

Just work on a something every day. It can be small or big it doesn't matter just make progress. Over time you will see how much you have accomplished.

Instead of thinking that you have to write the entire billing functionality, think I just need to get an API token from the server today, fix a typo or whatever... and if you aren't feeling motivated to continue after after the small task be done for the day.
Your smartphone is also always listening. What's the difference?
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Curious how PagerDuty handles incident response when PagerDuty itself is down.
Treatments that can have seriously adverse side effects for some individuals or simply not work at all for others. Furthermore, most of the treatments do exactly what you said: they slow the progression, not halt it. It's not so black and white, unfortunately.
Looking at the huge collection of odd camera brands starting around 2001 reminded me of an earlier article linked on HN about Fuji/Kodak transitioning from film.

You can see the point where cheap cameras became increasingly easy for anyone to assemble from commoditized parts in China, which was apparently one of the reasons it became infeasible for Kodak/Fuji to transition their entire film business to digital cameras (it was much easier to produce a decent digital camera than film)
The game is still actively in development. It isn't just a clone of some other game, it's a new game and the actual design of the game is another part of the project that's evolving as the engine is built.
License the core to a saas company to pay per seat and let them handle billing.

Personally, I like micro-rewards for getting little tasks done. Things like, spending some time on a side project after doing some house chores, or grabbing a brewski after doing taxes. Little things. It could help if it is compatible with your voice-in-head firmware.
Actually, it doubles your area of risk. Now you have 2 companies to worry about per device.
If your kids are screaming loudly and aggressively about things they want, you have a problem that technology will not solve.
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Rarely do I need to answer a simplistic question in line with "what's the time now".

Its rather some deeper info that first few lines of wikipedia article covers, sometimes more. Is your use case valid? For sure for you. But it wouldn't be enough for me, not for the price, upfront and hidden, not for the creepiness it potentially brings. The real time and energy saved for me would be tiny - but that's me. I can still do a bit of 'work' myself.

This reminds me of my recent trip to Aconcagua, highest peak in South (both) America. One US lady had this electric air mattress inflater, and she ran off the charge. She was bragging how smart is she for having such appliances. Rest of the group just smiled and inflated our mattress ourselves, even in 6000m high camp. If you can't do 10 full lungs blows yourself and spend that 1 minute preparing mattress, you shouldn't be up there, by huge margin.
There's not much you can do with the IP if China stops being willing to make the product for you. (Unless the IP is so far ahead of the competition you can sell it, but Chinese phone manufacturers are making phones that are very competitive with iPhones.)
Who are you and why are you spreading this fud?

Everytime instant messaging gets talked about here someone has to bring up how unsecure telegram is. Like someone doesn't want people to use telegram...

Unless you can show me a proof of concept, stop already.
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"The course uses a module for table manipulation, charts, and maps that provides an interface appropriate for an introductory course. The Table class is similar to a DataFrame in Pandas, but explicitly does not support row indexes, hierarchical indexes, time series data, missing values, slicing, and many other advanced features that can complicate table manipulation for novices. The charting features use Matplotlib, but customize the output to match the pedagogical goals of the course. The mapping features are implemented by Folium, but aim to simplify working with tables and geojson files. While the datascience module can certainly be used outside the context of the course, it was specifically designed to support the Data 8 curriculum, while setting up students to transition to more standard tools such as Pandas."

I can't imagine anyone not migrating into pandas after the course, therefore I question the usefulness of teaching a simplified tool in advance. That said, the course looks well put together.
I split time. I have things I like to do and things I have to do. I often keep a couple projects going at a time. I make a reasonable milestone and do the drudgery in the morning until I hit it (often midday, sometimes later, sometimes earlier), then I give myself the rest of the day for fun. This can be researching new tech, working on a project I actually enjoy, etc. I'm only worth a half-day of sucky work each day anyways, whether I self-motivate or languish, so might as well knock it out.
Apologies if this comes across as too "get off my lawn", but I come from a time when to look something up, you had to haul yourself to the library; open one of dozens of drawers filled with index cards; find the card your looking for, which directed you to a stack in the library; find the book on the stack; and finally find the page in the book by consulting an index. It's a lost art. Then, you would have to go to an actual person and engage with them in order to take the book home with you, giving you time-limited access to the information. That's if you're lucky enough that the book existed at your library. If it was checked out or had to be ordered, it might take weeks for you to get access to that information.

Many people today grew up with cellphones in their cribs. They have no idea what information starvation is like. The experience of receiving information you've been waiting for for weeks or months is exhilarating.

Anyway, when you take the library experience versus the experience of pulling up information from a cellphone the improvement is astronomical. From cellphone to voice assistant, the improvement seems very marginal.

Cell phones even represented a distinct advantage over desktops and laptops in that they were always there on your person. Cell phones opened up the possibility to look up information anywhere. With voice assistants it seems the only advantage you gain over cell phones in that you don't have to use your fingers. That doesn't seem very life changing by comparison, unless you don't have fingers, in which case I will admit your life would be vastly improved.

But the downside is that you're connecting a always-on microphone access to mega-corporations who are looking to monetize your existence. For those of us who grew up without the internet or cell phones the trade-off just makes zero sense. We're willing to use cell phones because they open up new worlds of information access. But voice assistants just seems to create more problems than they solve.
Very cool! Last time I looked at this (and no, I don't remember why I looked at this) the state of the art was that while qemu didn't have a compatible card, MAME's MESS emulator had support: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2013/12/09/virtual-xenix-... Getting it working under the qemu accelerator instead of the faithful-enough-for-video-games MAME emulator is a great result.
+1 for the 6809. I've worked with both the Z80 and 6809, and while both were long enough ago that I don't remember the details the 6809 really impressed me. I wonder if there's ever been another 8-bit processor that surpassed it.
Some may see smart devices as part of a greater cultural movement, in which corporations entice individuals to trade privacy for convenience

Someone who thinks these things are a gimmick, and a harmful gimmick at that, is right to express an opinion about the value these devices add. The same way I'd encourage a friend to quit chain smoking tobacco cigarettes, and not visit his house with my family if it were full of secondhand smoke.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1807/
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Huh, I have about the same number. I suppose this is a matter of personal taste. Thanks for addressing my curiosity!
Right, it's tricky, and- although I do think there's a legitimate ethics argument from principle, it does look like this particular case is only being taken (somewhat) seriously because of other reasons.
Yes, been there. A few times.

Payment processors are awful to work with... and it's sometimes tricky to test with.

They really do make you question your desire to remain on this planet, let alone continue to work on it!

I've found that more documentation they provide just adds to the confusion and contradictions. Sometimes contacting support helps... more often than not, they'll provide you with a key ingredient that isn't even in the documentation!

(failing that, for 1.0 just go for a Paypal button)
I agree completely. As there are more remote jobs, this will apply less and less. At which point I suspect you'll see a bimodal distribution, much like you see with in person jobs today.

There will be the "location independent" companies that pay top dollar, and then everyone else who pays a "global market average". Top candidates will get the top pay, and everyone else, even if they live in the Bay Area, will have to fight for the "global market" rate jobs, meaning it won't be feasible to be a programmer in the Bay Area anymore (barring a solution to the California housing crisis).
Maybe dropgangs read Paul Graham's "Do things that don't scale" advice.
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It's an open source project. There's no company to trust.
If they (the smart assistant makers) would promote the fact that their devices only go online after the trigger word is detected that would go far is assuaging people's fear of the always-on microphone