skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread made by a white westerner. I understand situations are not black and white and not everyone has to be like us and I would be interested in hearing perspective that is not majority white western, but i realize it may be a bit insensitive to ask for your safety and privacy. Anything people want to make public would be appreciated.
You seem fixated on the word "promise," which I've never once heard said.

Assistant calling and Duplex appointment booking were both available within the year, across most of the United States, but you claim neither work.
If you're in a heavily trafficked road, particulate matter from other vehicles' exhaust is a far worse threat than elevated co2. Always recirculate on the highway, especially if you sit on it for multiple hours a day for you commute.
If only more people would use org-babel...

If you're on emacs and like Jupyter, there's https://github.com/dzop/emacs-jupyter , which is pretty nice. I've been using it for a few days with Julia, and it works really nice. It also allows you to use different kernels from the same org-mode file, though I haven't tried to pass data between them yet (should be possible, though, at least it works in plain org-mode).
That works well for bad products, which is why bad products are the least of our problems. But consumer choice is utterly ineffective at internalizing externalities, because consumers don't have the time to research the supply chains behind different options and don't feel like they have the money to make choices that don't lead to disaster in the long run.
I specifically said, no whataboutism please.
Dhh recommends awair highly. Convinced me to get one, he tested a lot.

Hasn't arrived yet so I can't comment directly

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqh8oLY7Ik
So the value of art by Jeffrey Koons could be the gainful employment of the people that physically produce it, though their number appears to be dwindling.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-downsizing-1442...
Yeah, get out of business if you can't afford to send your offshored $5/hour indian developers to a 1-time $10 course to learn a new paradigm... Not sure I'm for flutter, react native, or some other (shopping around now for a good cross platform solution, quasar + cordova might be enough for my needs as I prefer vue), but these people need not be in business if they have no money to run their business properly. They'll just get shitty code that someonee else will eventually have to rewrite.
Upvoted assuming that was /s
This. We evolved in an environment with plenty of particulate matter. It's the exotic stuff that has no analog from the time when we evolved that causes problems.
The point of Chapter 11 is the company continues operating. To use a transportation example, all three of the largest airlines in the US went through Chapter 11 and never stopped flying during the process.
You've made this claim a few times in this thread now. Can you please elaborate as to what about Duplex, specifically, has not worked for you?

Edit: A quick browse through OP's comment history suggests that s/he might not be US-based. Should that be the case, then it's not that Duplex is flawed, it's that it's simply not available where they live.
duplex is available though, have you even tried using it ?

can you provide any basis for your "facts"

Siri being subpar when compared to Google Assistant is well established.
I love Google. I bought an Oppo phone. But all my data goes through their app - even when i switch off their SMS feature that data still goes through their app and i guess they intercept it and send it to a dial home server. And I'd rather my data goes to Google. So when I can afford a Google Pixel - gonna buy one

But anyone who thinks he's wrong - Remember into whose hands Java fell.
Isotopium: World's Remote Reality Game
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Let me google that for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie
This is almost certainly correct. An unventilated space as small as a car will increase within 30-60 seconds, based on my testing of small indoor rooms.
I sometimes shake my head in wonder about what gets downvoted here around, since you speak the factual truth.

Think about it: if commercial banks wouldn't handle finance in the way you describe, it would be virtually impossible that they go bust.

They could still be drowned by dodgy loans. But let's just say that the risk profile would be rather different.
Mostly it's because of renewables integration difficulties. Look at the grid problems South Australia has experienced in recent years: cheap solar has caused coal generators to go out of business, with the result that periods of low solar and high load (like a hot summer night) can trigger blackouts. This problem needs to be solved before we can increase renewables generation.
If Google's possession of all this data makes many new good things possible, then sharing this data broadly and freely with others would make even more good things possible. Would Google share the data with other corporations so that they, too, can innovate and serve the consumer even better?

I mean, if I buy into the notion of Google's benevolence, I should buy into that notion for other corporations, shouldn't I?
You're totally right. I'd like to blame autocorrect, except that I typed it on my laptop. Instead I'll blame the fact that I was writing about queuing theory just before I made that comment.
That's a myth of Capitalism, a lot of crappy products are used every day because of marketing, market flooding, patenting, copyright, corruption and so on and so forth.
It simply doesn't matter how many pages are returned as a count.

Most people - indeed, nearly all - only look at the first page or two, no matter what. (PaulHoule pointed out that "researching patents" is one exception.)

Google reports "532 000 000" results for 'chrome desktop'. Yet Google is pretty popular.

People still use Google since the results they want are usually on the first page. Indeed, that's why people switched from AltaVista to Google; AltaVista often required trawling through tens of pages to find a good match.
>It all begins with our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and today, our mission feels as relevant as ever.

I said this 15 years ago and I will repeat it again. Google is like a man selling boats after a dam brake. They are profiting by managing the problem, not by fixing it. It is to their benefit if the problem actually gets worse. In other words, looking at their long-running effects and initiatives, I see that they aim to change the Internet so that it's completely unusable without their services. (The recent stunts with AMP and Gmail are great, obvious examples, but it didn't start there. It was going on for a very long while.)

This not the kind of thing that I want to spread to my offline life.
I think that the most common justification for murder is "the law demands" or "for god and country" or "it's not murder, it's execution". I mean, not to get semantic about it.
Show HN: So Anyway, I'm Making an AR OS [Introducing Phantom]
> what happens when google is Google no more?

Google already have many, many advertising partners to whom they gladly provide your location and other data. But they anonymize it, so you are safe ;)
This article title is so click-baity, it's a shame considering the articles contents isn't shilling some weird product or whatever.

For those wondering, it is about the importance of integrity for success and the success of those around you.
Indeed, albeit Spectre exploits for the brain are so common that we even have a short word for them: we call them jokes.
are you saying US's credit score shouldn't apply to immigrant?
The doctors at the sleep center were happy to prescribe the CPAP machine (which their "partner" business supplied), as well as prescribing sleep meds and scheduling regular checkups on me.

Interestingly enough, at the end of my sleep study the technician commented to me that I appeared to have a deviated septum and perhaps I should have that looked at. The doctor who reviewed my study didn't mention that and never suggested I see an ENT for a second opinion.

Instead, I was pitched an implanted device that would ostensibly "cure" the apnea (no thank you!).

I did see an ENT, did get surgery and now sleep soundly. I've never gone back to that sleep center where they were only interested in extracting as much money from me as possible.
>Now France's problem is it has too much electricity, as it over-estimated how much energy demands would ramp up going into the 21st century, and so now sells excess wattage to Germany.

Um, that doesn't exactly sound like a "problem", especially since Germany gave up on nuclear due to nuclear fears, and still has a lot of coal plants.
Jeff Hawkins introduced this in 2004 "On Intelligence":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-prediction_framework
The product could be "a thermostat that works until 2021" though, then companies wouldn't be hamstrung with supporting old devices beyond the promises they'd made? Like giving a warranty, or making a parts/repair promise.

I'd like to see something like a requirement to publish interoperability details, or code that runs on a major OS that operates as a server, to facilitate long term user-led support, too.
This is rubbish. Foreign assets & factories are basically for manufacturing products for export, nationalise them and you no longer have any legal products to export, so you now have worthless exports and you lost the legitimate manufacturing & export you were doing.
Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWcEsSLIthQ&t=1s
Yes, because the bit about exchanges buying from each other wasn’t the main point, it’s just the bit you focused on.
'Deep fake' videos that can make anyone say anything worries U.S. intelligence
LOL ok, so "eat a diet and time your eating in a way that promotes healthy hormone balance and use of fat as energy" is a silver bullet but "use our magic equations based on state of the art info from 1958 to calculate your daily food needs and all your food and exercise as numbers and if your equation balances you'll lose weight" isn't. Sure.
NAL but speculating: I assume it was because arbitration clauses (contrary to the popular perception) have to make some attempt at fairness in order to hold up in court, so Uber's lawyers figured that, by making Uber responsible for the fee, it would look more like a reasonable arrangement that a driver with actual bargaining power might agree to.
As you can imagine, its a vast vast field, and probably researching just one mechanism of an anticancer drug would consume all of ones career. This seems to be a good primer -

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29768576
Professional setup has much tighter tolerance than 3dB. I was using 6dB as an example. Usually you're trying to kill peaks that are 10-20dB over.

This kind of debugging is very routine. You do it manually with E/H field probes and a spectrum analyzer in between lab visits. This setup makes it more repeatable by automating it.
It is a great package. Two disadvantages are that the interfacte is not very pythonic and that there is no interactivity.
️Compress files on the client side super fast using WASM
the in-migration is because employers choose where you're job is, not the other way around.
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Is there an opening for a Junior or New Grad Software Engineer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic-link_library

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_library

I'm not saying Windows is wrong (other systems later changed to dynmaic linking but some still have support for static linking) it just means that you can't replace only the kernel with a new major version and expect it to work (another issue there is kmem grovelers which I think Linux is entirely rid of but NetBSD isn't quite).

IIUC, most of the major issues with Windows compatability are due to developers not following the documented system interface and directly calling the explicitly unstable and undocumented system calls directly. Stuff that uses the documented interface continues to work indefinitely.

The origin of the stable syscall tradition in unixy systems is not fixing the same issues that Windows has but is due to the historic use of static binaries.
Your point is well taken, but 100 years will anyone care that you had the flu on May 7 2019?

>Who the fuck owns MySpace now?

It's all deleted. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/18271023/myspace-music-vi...
Agree to disagree then.
I had a somewhat kafka-esque experience trying to install the Docker client on Windows recently. I just wanted the standalone executable so I could connect to Docker running on a headless Linux server on the local network. They don't make that available anymore for the latest version and force you to install Docker Desktop, which required two reboots and enabling Hyper-V, none of which should actually be necessary if all you are doing is connecting to a Linux box. It was a garbage experience. While I was trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out how to get the standalone binary, I noticed that the Docker website has been completely taken over by really low-signal marketing crap, and all of the actual technical substance is now hidden away in the documentation. The way that Docker is flailing around as it desperately seeks some kind of enterprise traction is really a huge turn off to their core audience.
Emphasis added to my original quote:

> Mostly the tariffs are/were very inconvenient for US business that manufactured in China.
Ask HN: How to explain / 'prove' to friends FB is not listening via phone
Lots of my friends believe FB is listening to them, and serving them ads based on their conversations IRL.

Any good articles or studies showing this is not the case?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie

"If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk"

"If you give a mouse a glass of milk, he'll ask for a straw"

And the story keeps going like that, with more and more requests coming in. It's almost like never-ending scope creep, except the book has an infinite loop in it.
I've found many houses I've been in to be extremely stuffy and stale inside...I think most American homes fall into a bad middle ground for indoor air quality: well enough sealed to trap indoor pollutants, but lacking the more sophisticated HVAC systems that can efficiently exchange fresh air.

Additionally, it seems that many Americans also really hate opening their windows (and indeed the climate often doesn't really lend itself to opening the windows, in some places ever). I grew up in a drafty old house with no A/C, and even as a kid felt other people's–newer, not drafty, air conditioned–homes had an airless feeling.

It's been interesting to follow the recent studies on indoor CO2 and other air pollution...I don't feel quite so crazy for wanting to open the windows all the time when visiting family.
They would never think about that. Otherwise, Muslim would burn their office, shoot their employee and the other medias would say, the burning is for justice :)
It would seem to be bowing to what their customer base wanted (whether their customers realized it or not). Most of my personal/work devices are Windows and prior to the big change, on each one I'd have a virtual machine with a linux distro in it so that I could do some work that was outside of ASP.NET (which I'd do in Windows).

Now, ASP.NET can be developed in OSX/Linux/Windows and they've cut out layers involved so that developers can work within Linux on their Windows machine.

Is the goal to upsell you on Azure? Most likely. Nothing wrong with that though: every company that intends to make a profit wants you to use the thing that gives them said profit. The fact you can use the two previously mentioned things without any requirement to use Azure is probably what they should be measured on in regards to those two things. On the bright side, Azure is a pretty diverse setup whereas it could've been Windows Server w/ IIS and Windows Server w/ SQL Server instances as far as the eye can see.

Another possible perspective is that Apple has more or less given a passing interest to OSX in recent years and Microsoft felt they could make inroads with developers using Mac products (that weren't there for iOS development. ie web). It's worked to some degree (anecdotally. Though the substantial enhancements to the OS on the Windows side have been at a higher clip than on the OSX side for a bit though) and been a driver for a bit of good faith with development audiences so they probably view it as a win-win. But they're not doing a great job of extinguishing (if that were indeed the goal) because Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code have both found their way onto OSX (VSCode on Linux too). Would seem nutty to bolster OSX's appeal if this were the same old Microsoft just under new management.
I anticipated a response like this but I don't think it applies in this situation.

According to the article around 60,000 people have found the time to make this happen.

What we are seeing is a fundamental aspect of human nature and that is that spite is a great motivator.

You're right, most people can't afford to do this, but many can. Enough that it is hitting Uber where it hurts -- the bottom line.

And as someone who favours stronger protections for workers that is most pleasing.
Also when using Term2 (on Mac) or a Linux terminal you can configure the backend of matplotlib to draw plots right in a SSH shell, term window, etc. I think this would work fine if you were running emacs with -nw no window option in a terminal.
Rimmer: We can’t afford to take any chances. Jump up to red alert.

Kryten: Are you sure, sir? It does mean changing the bulb.
The idea of therapy and its effects on personality is actually something discussed in psychoanalytic literature (noting that psychoanalysis !== "therapy" in most cases), often framed as an ethical question, "when is it permissible to perform psychoanalysis?" Some quotes from a book on Lacan:

> what exactly does ‘curing’ mean? Is it simply the disappearance of a symptom, or does one aim to change the underlying personality structure that produced it and in which it is inscribed? Is this at all achievable, and if it is, is it desirable? If it is neither achievable nor desirable, then where should curing stop – at what boundary line? And finally, is it always a good thing even to begin the process, when you don’t know where to end it or whether you will be leaving behind a damaged and less effective Subject?

> By the early 1960s, Lacan felt that forcing people to confront the truth about themselves, the meaning of their symptoms and the hitherto repressed elements in their unconscious, had consequences too serious to be undertaken with anything less than the greatest caution.

> I shall finish with an example of a patient who, at the end of her treatment, seemed quite aware of the loss she would suffer as a result of being cured. The young woman, who had been severely anorexic, talked about a dream during one of her last sessions. In it, she had on a necklace on which there was a great, pointed spike or barb. The curious thing was that this necklace was under her skin, within her body, and she wanted to remove it – to get it out of her. She somehow managed to tug it out, but as the spike came out of her body, it left a gaping hole, and she was bleeding. The analyst said in agreement with her unconscious knowledge: ‘Yes, you will be left with a hole. And you will be
bleeding.’ The patient understood immediately and perfectly the meaning of both: that the giving up of her symptom would indeed leave a hole in the structure of her Subject, and she would face the new reality of menstrual bleeding. If this illustration leaves one with many questions, that is as Lacan would have wished.
> these are unpredictable sources

They are inherently variable, but that doesn't necessarily imply that they are unpredictable. In many cases the degree of variability across a portfolio of sources can be predicted several days in advance, at least.
> If you're not on top of the latest hacks and get some bitcoin that were stolen you'll be at a loss.

The same happen with counterfeit money, yet here we are, still using it everywhere.

In most case, if it's physical, you can catch it before it get send. If it's digital, you can cut access. No big deal.

Go see any big Ebay seller and find one that didn't lost any money from a scammer.
It only takes one person desperate enough or psychopathic enough to do it.
It's entirely possible to fight censorship by selectively doubling down on censorship when you know or suspect the effect of that censorship will backfire and have the opposite result.

It's not just about what you do, it's about the outcome you expect and aim for.
We're seeing an explosion of Jupyter use as well on GitLab. GitLab already makes Jupyter easier to install on a Kubernetes cluster https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/#installing... In response to the growing demand we're doing two things:

1. Adding better Jupyter support to GitLab 12.0 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/47138 as suggested by my co-founder.

2. Making it easier to do the entire data lifecycle with Meltano https://meltano.com/ which plans to include JupyterHub
I mostly use Spacemacs for org-mode, but I've found it quite useful for the occasional remote ssh session (TRAMP). Can highly recommend that.

I'm also considering playing around with the interactive shell, in particular for various scripts and whatnot, and I'm thinking of broadening my horizon a bit more. Could the Emacs experts in here give me some suggestions as to what might be good next steps, alongside the shell stuff?
Pod Living
Can't criticize Nadella here. You will be able to do so in 5 years when something evil happens. Then HN will be trying to determine how this could possibly have happened.
That depends on how complete the combustion is and how well the produced gasses are filtered.
This is false. He must have done something to artificially lengthen this like not apply for his Green Card, because I have friends from India who have been here less years with their GC.
Why do lawmakers have no personal responsibility for the consequences of the laws they enact?
Honestly if you understand the NodeMCU / ESP8266 devices you're half way there.

The difference with smaller chips is you often have to use odd/annoying toolchains, or resort to assembly language. Since you say you're a programmer I'm sure you can practice the basics on a real PC before scaling down.

e.g. Write some assembly language programs to invoke linux-syscalls, etc. Of course on a smaller controller you won't have syscalls, but the interfacing with external hardware will be familiar to you from the nodemcu - even if you have to bit-bang your own I/O by hand.

Of course it goes without saying that the more popular your chosen chip is the easier things will come; others will have written code, and the documentation will be better.
> We've been recently working in a FREE hosted version [...]

Oh no, you make it sound like this is a good thing. It only means I can't take you serious.

Don't make it free. That is not a feature for a computation environment, it will only cause headaches on your side and people get wrong (bad) impression about the performance (assuming free accounts get some limited shared instances).

I rather pay a monthly fee for a good application, than a pseudo free instance, where you get limited resources. Do you have your credits forever?