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Ask HN: Hacking an Echo Dot?
My company gave us Amazon Echo Dots for the holidays one year. I don't want Amazon in my home, so it's been sitting in the box.

Does anyone know if it's possible to get Alexa off of it and put custom software on it? Uses I can think of include making it a Bluetooth speaker, putting an open source assistant on it, or any number of other things if I could load custom code.
The US Government created TOR.
They'd burn you at the stake.
Please keep this sort of dross off HN, regardless of how you feel about $celebrity. Such discussions are low-information, and we're hoping for at least a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I changed it a bit.
Chainlink Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
I think there is room for improvement

#1 - why do you have to take your hands off the wheel?

#2 - when you DO take your hands off the wheel, the targets should be well positioned (high) and easy to hit (large). Now they are neither. Multiple taps are terrible (eg raise suspension for a driveway)

#3 - listen - to ui experts, to customers - there are enormous forum threads devoted ui complaints (v9 vs v8, crappy usb ui, etc)

I think Steve Jobs ran into most of this sort of stuff with the original scrollwheel iPod and managed to pull off a good UI for the time by "sending it back to the kitchen". I think some of these UI decisions should be sent back.

Good thing is things can be improved in a software update (apart from the nonexistent model 3 dashboard).

I will say, most people with a tesla don't want to give up their car.
> Whether you consider that equivalent to selling your data is a separate question. You'll find a lot of disagreement here about it.

I can't remember previously seeing an argument that this is equivalent. Sharing one quality (in this case the ability to target users on Google's platform based on data Google has collected) does not make two things equivalent. Data passing between hands is obviously different than one entity providing an interface for another entity to utilise data without having it themselves, as in the former case you are now trusting both entities to safely store it which increases the chance of public disclosure (or private exposure that results in negative personal effects such as embarrassment and/or blackmail).

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Oh dear. User comments on The Register aren't journalism. You may as well go the TheDonald on Reddit for your news.
You are correct. Endangered species protection didn’t mean shit at the time. Easy to access whales near shore were nearly wiped out, and whalers pursued deeper international waters for “supply”. For more information on this, I highly recommend the book, “1000 barrels a second” by Peter Tertzakian, the executive director of Arc Energy. The book is a bit dated (pre fracking revolution), but very good. By pure luck in timing, and the increasing cost of pursuing whales as they were thinned out, economic oil production saved the day for our whales.

Interestingly, the exact same story has played out in oil. Easy to access conventional fields in politically stable countries was first drained, then producers had to go further and deeper offshore, and into politically unstable countries for supply.

Once again a “magic bullet” of technological development saved the day. Fracking replenished stable supplies and pushed a supply shortage out significantly, buying us some time to transition to cleaner energy. It is important to not squander this time that we were once again lucky to come into at the right time or we could face a massive economic disruption as large fracking fields like the Permian are drained over the next 15-30 years.

We can only get lucky so many times.

I’ve worked in energy trading (oil, gas, power) my whole career. If anyone has any questions on commodities trading, risk, business development, or quantitative analysis in the commodities trading field, feel free to reach out.
Ah, my bad, I missed that point.
In that case, I'm unclear why the prior-mentioned girlfriend selected the "disappointing" option.

I can't check myself, I've never used Uber. I've been unable to sign up due to some problem where my "email address is already registered", which apparently can't be fixed. I could just use a different email, but I don't really want to deal with a company that has such issues.
What's wrong with CDMA?

I mean, the technology is used in most current wireless standards, so the complaint has to be that you can only use phones that are compatible with Sprint and the largest wireless network in the US?
Bing is best for certain sorts of videos with safe mode off. Their arrangement and recommendations are tops in this domain.
This breaks the site guidelines. They require you not to call names and not to make insinuations about astroturfing when commenting here. Would you mind reviewing and following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Plenty of explanation of why we have that anti-insinuation rule is here for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
You're right - the user should be asked and informed before any data is sent. But the situation is more complex than that.

- For better or worse, most people aren't scared of the Internet, so they don't want a detailed, itemised list of risks and mitigations to allay their fears, they just want to get down to business. How do you ask and inform a user who refuses to answer or read?

- People want to use the web-browser that works best with the sites they visit, and the connectivity they have available. While every person's situation is different, the Pareto principle says an awful lot of people will be in a very similar situation, so any browser vendor willing to accurately measure people's situations and optimize for them would become tremendously more attractive for most people. Refusing to implement telemetry, or leaving it as opt-in, means voluntarily giving up the mass market to less scrupulous browser vendors.
I moved here last year -- down to meet up! Email in bio.
Take LSD or mushrooms before you go. Not because it will make you no longer be suicidal, but because it is one of the most powerful experiences that you can achieve in this universe. To die without such experience, is incredible tragedy, especially for someone with your perspective. It also may inform you of ways you can optimize your impact on departure, given your reasoning about being a 'weak seed'.

But its really best if you don't kill yourself.
Some more info: https://pdxpeople.com/steve-jobs/
> So fork a sanctioned version of React or some other framework

They have basically done that by making LWC a pure ES6 implementation. If you look at how one authors LWCs, then you'll see that you're very much at home if you have worked in React or Angular using JS or TypeScript. It's basically, conceptually the same as those other frameworks and all your JS experience applies.

The difference is all the styles and widgets that make their JS library (called Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS)), plus all the decorators and how they work.

Here's why I think that Salesforce should be praised for the direction they have taken in the last two years or so...

They have completely revamped and sped up the Lightning UI so that speed is not an issue anymore. They have also flattened their authoring environment to ES6. To get this done, they have taken the bold step of dumping their old Lightning (Aura) framework for this new LWC framework.

That means if you're an enterprise who's invested in the old Aura-based framework, you're basically screwed and now have a dead codebase. But, it also means that no one has to use that old, crappy framework anymore.

And, here's the most important thing that Salesforce has done to bolster it's own ecosystem. With Lightning Web Components, if you are looking for Salesforce devs, it's now a lot easier to hire SQL-savvy Javascript devs who can adapt their React experience to LWC.
I could certainly support cops focusing more on reckless driving (tailgating, weaving, no-signal lane changes). if a cop sees a driver doing something unsafe with their own two eyes, I have no problem with them making a stop. I bet they would actually end up catching a decent number of drunk drivers this way.
I smell a old Chris Rock joke...
Mark Zuckerberg's personal security chief accused of misconduct
Is this available on Citus Cloud or any hosted Postgres as of today?
It looks like RTP has not been rolled out everywhere yet and that there are some issues: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2019/01/22/the-cl...

But still, definitely a promising improvement over ACH.

It is a practical problem that the merchant has to wait 24-48 hrs for funds. It's a cash flow problem. It slows down the speed at which that cash can be used to purchase other goods or services. For example, a made-to-order business has to wait for funds to clear from a customer (or front the capital) before they can turn around and order goods to produce the product a customer is purchasing. Which slows down delivery. And that effect is amplified across the whole supply chain.
As it stands, there were little (let's say at least felt) profits from trade for a large part of the US population. Their jobs went away, the additional money never came.

Now it turns out that the Chinese have been profiting from this, often by illegal means and on a basis that exactly isn't free trade and competition.

So what do you tell your voters if you are the Donald?
Sorry we got duped by China, but trade is still good?
Sorry its the CEO's fault for caring about short term goals?

I mean is it even ethical to continue with China? Buy Huawei after they stole all their tech from Cisco (or whatever example you want to bring here)?

I think the goal, beyond fair intra-US distribution, must be to force China to play fair. Market access, both import and export, must be tit-for-tat. IP theft and license infringement must be handled in the same way. This would give China a legitimate way to act in the same way if an US company acts out.
If that occurs, we may have a mutually beneficial equilibrium.

Currently, it is not. And it is also not stable. The more wealth, production and IP shifts - or seems to shift - from US to China based on seemingly unfair advantages, the closer we are to war.
The HN guidelines ask you not to post insinuations about astroturfing to this site. If you're genuinely concerned about abuse, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it (which we will). But it's not ok to shoot it as cheap ammunition into an argument—it poisons the well, and is a thousand times more likely to be an imaginary projection than anything else. I've written hundreds of comments about this over many years, so there's plenty of explanation for anyone who wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
I almost switched a few months ago but didn't because Chrome just felt smoother, but I'm sorry, this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Firefox supports every extension I care about.

I'm a convert.
I thought in US, cross-state commerce issues (like covert tarrifs or other trade-impeding actions) -- are under jurisdiction of Federal Government.

Salesforce (and therefore Heroku) HQ are in CA, so it would seem that they can implement these kinds of trade-restrictive practices, however not across state lines.

Would US Fed gov, have a say in this (same about Netflix and Disney saying that they will not produce their films in Georgia now).
GSM is a global standard that lets you use any phone just by putting in a sim. CDMA is not widely supported outside of the US. But even worse, CDMA is slow compared to GSM (HSDPA).
I’m not sure how common that usage is . ‘Hadoop Ecosystem’ surely encompasses Spark and the rest, but I’d argue ‘Hadoop’ most commonly refers to MR, HDFS, and maybe YARN. Which is only to say I’d be surprised to hear an application described as ‘using Hadoop’ and find it using Spark on data in S3
What’s wrong with using the resources of evil (freely given, oddly enough) to destroy evil?

If someone you hate offers you a billion dollars, you should take it—because in doing so you’ve made someone you hate a billion dollars poorer! It’s like stealing the money from them, with less work!

Imagine, analogously: a lottery whose proceeds go to a charity supporting statistics education.
The article discusses a wide range of what constitute significant conceptual mappings discovered autonomously. This work was trained on a single game with a single art direction. The AI can generalize to new maps it has not seen before within that style of art direction, including reliably beating expert human players on maps that are new to both human and AI. That is a significant generalization. The technique should be generalizable to other styles of skinning or different art direction in other games, but there is no way for the the AI to have learned that yet in this experiment because the AI was only ever exposed to a single game here. Over time this technique undoubtedly will be extended to multiple games with different styles of art direction, the challenge there being less on the AI/machine learning side and more on the effort required to hook up multiple games for use in this type of training environment.
For a long time, I would have agreed... Until my family began to confuse fb messenger with text messaging itself.
What many others have already said - it's slower and many popular sites don't work properly on it. I don't feel like randomly having websites break when I am trying to get things done.

Even on a newer computer Firefox feels jagged and hangs. Memory leaks still happening years later. It is so frustrating to see Firefox using 1.5GB of RAM when only 2 tabs remain.

Quantum helped a lot, but it's still not enough for me and many others.
Alright, taking it out of the important part and dropping it from Alphabet

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/2540...

http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

I am more right than I am wrong.
Fingerprinting is the primary way that Captcha decides whether to block you or not. Fingerprinting == security is the parallel they are drawing.
Don't they have a desktop client that works just fine? Also, Chrome's "advantage" may be having built-in DRM, but it's not much of one: Netflix limits Chrome users to 720p video. So for all practical purposes you need a different browser or client for Netflix anyway if your main browser is Chromium based.
"Disingenuous" has become a way of insinuating astroturfing, which the guidelines ask HN users to refrain from. Please don't do that here. If you have better information than other users, that's great, but please simply provide it, so we all can learn. Attacking the other users' integrity poisons the well, and is mostly a cheap side-effect of the irritation we all feel when encountering views we disagree with.

Real astroturfing exists, of course, but is far rarer than insinuation. If you or anyone are genuinely concerned you might be seeing it, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.

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The dev tools are pretty good, just laid out slightly differently than the other browsers, and not quite as deep in some areas. But FWIW I use Safari as my primary browser and FF Developer Edition for the dev tools, and that arrangement works well for me. I do use Safari dev tools when I’m running on battery though - I get about 2 more hours of life, which is more than worth it.
Continuous assessment is good (tool-driven continuous assessment can be sketchy), and is a norm at larger tech companies. Quarterly 3rd party assessments aren't, even at large companies (big companies might get many more than 4 audits per year, but will not as a rule re-assess things more often than annually or at major revisions).
If you think of "privacy-preserving" for a company as a costly virtue, then the standard advice is to appear virtuous without actually bearing all the cost of truly being virtious.

Since they are closed source and secretive, there is a significant information asymmetry and we will never know how honest they are being.

Firefox, on the other hand, has an incentive to honestly preserve privacy, as their attempts to test the water on privacy-reducing features have a high probability of becoming public.
The basic idea behind your point is "What we (China) did is totally fine in terms of working against your (US) economy but you doing something different against us (China) is NOT okay, irrespective of the magnitude of impact."

Seems pretty silly to me. China's barring of US enterprises from selling in China is dramatically more damaging at scale than US blacklisting Huawei.
I'm honestly not sure why this is considered acceptable. officers should not get to stop me and shine a light around in my car unless they have at least some reason to suspect that I am breaking the law. the fact that I'm leaving downtown on a holiday isn't enough.
But our worries are influenced by what we see on the news.
PHPStorm IDE Support, Netbeans Connector are both only available for Chrome. Not a game changer but it certainly makes using Firefox less convenient.
Boost also uses Sprint's LTE network.
It wouldn't take too many more revelations for deviant sexual exploitation to be the first thing non-sports people think of when they hear the phrase "Big 10". Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State...
> This always-negative/outrage attitude just erodes any sort of meaningful discussion.

They destroyed some of my bookmarks when they dropped RSS support. That isn't privacy-eroding, it's data destruction, and they didn't even let me opt out.

I know they probably had a lot of conversation about it, but when the conversation ends with "And then we destroy the data of random people without letting them say no", you need to back up a few steps and look closely at what went wrong in your process.
Berkeley's fast food delivery robots remote-controlled by workers in Colombia
Apple WWDC 2019: Mac Pro, iOS 13, Marzipan, and What Else to Expect
joel_liu was crystal clear about where the cases are similar and where they diverged.

There was even a numbered list to help you out with it.

Saying that there's more harm done by blocking Facebook inside China than there is by trying to eliminate Huawei worldwide... well, I'm already on record downthread calling that attitude colonialist.

I suppose, if it backfires and causes Huawei to successfully develop a competing OS, you'll be sort of right.. although I think intentions should count for something.
The fact this got downvoted without discussion must prove it completely discredits Plan 9.
From the old comment thread:

> I'm curious if there are any methods they could use to scan and translate the typed Braille into written English, or language in which it is written.

Liblouis [1] can translate in both directions.

[1]: http://liblouis.org/
And with Nest's new neighborhood watch feature, my dad just took me on a cctv tour around the neighborhood as all the neighbors had opted into sharing their doorbell feeds. It was cool. And creepy.
waterfox, LOL hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha, lovely name!
I’m pro patent and copyright law. But they are, by strict definition, government sanctioned monopolies. There ain’t nothing free market about this licensing situation.
Torvalds!
That would be very disappointing from mozilla! I only found a
support-thread from yappy in 2016 but if this is still up-to-date there
should be an outrage on HN's frontpage.

I also made a simple, private(!) extension before I learned about the
signing-requirement and that it won't work without uploading it. So I
canceled my career as an extension-writer and just went to bed angry.

They really fucked this up (without even mentioning the "armag-addon").
Surprise! Faceberg doesn't like Iran... Hmmmm is every country not on the petro-dollar gonna get slammed? And I'm banned :P
Go has very few warts.

* nil interfaces.

* duration arithmetic (easy to avoid once you understand it).

* multiple ways of instantiating things (var vs new vs literals)
Why would Intel sell that though?

Selling toast isn't easy when you let the customer borrow your bread and butter.

To put it another way, Apple took their ball and went home. No soup for them!
I was recently planning to write something just like this. Thanks for sharing.
I'm referring specifically to hunger pangs, or hunger contractions - a mild to moderate pain or cramping in the stomach that occurs when you've gone for a while without food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(motivational_state)#...

I've met others who simply don't experience hunger pangs, but I've always felt them and I didn't know how fully in-my-head it was until I tried intermittent fasting a few years ago.
You do have to agree to the McDonald's app terms and conditions so you can get its benefits, like skipping the line. You pay twice: first, with money; then, with data.
I suspect that the fact that those were the only choices is a result of Qualcomm’s abusive licensing.
Perhaps the response is disproportionate because the United States has built up international coalitions over time, but a lot of people observing western media are going to think that this is but one event in a recent history of tension and escalation.

I would say similarly if China decides to limit their production of rare earth metals.
well, presumably the same method I use to figure out how to read books I haven't read yet, listen to music when I don't have a radio: organically or through picking some out from good reviews or subject matter sharing/experts.

An actual benefit to this in my eyes is that marketing and fads tend to have short attention spans, so if you're interested in quality as opposed to 'riding the social wave', most fads won't hold their quality/appeal after a few years.

And besides, we're so overwhelmed with media, the desire to 'get more' is about the definition of an anti- problem... we actually need to find ways to consume less...
Performance of Various Python Exponentiation Methods
If you have a stray comma in your multi-TB CSV file, you probably don't _want_ it to keep going. You risk misinterpreting the mistake and having a grossly malformed output... There's no way to reliably and elegantly recover from something like that. Validation should preferably happen before processing
What's your point? Do you think I misrepresented his points?

What he didn't include was the relative damage from these different motions which was my expansion on it. Feel free to add more to the discussion than "what he said was well laid out".
It also seems that Dropbox Plus somewhat recently gained "smart sync" capabilities, allowing for the storage of selected folders/files in the cloud only.
This argument has held progressively less weight since 1995, when Intel released the Pentium Pro and started the precedent of deciding x86 CISC instructions into the micro-ops which are actually executed. ARM is a respectable architecture and Apple has shipped some very competitive chips but it’s not like Intel’s engineers have been in a coma for forty years.
I had a similar experience when I tried intermittent fasting a few years ago.

Most of us are so sedentary but eating like construction workers (at least I was). I also cut my food intake by something like 30-40% with nothing more than a week or two of discomfort.
Saying that something is subjective is not the same as saying it is propaganda, which is what you originally stated.
Wysiwyg HTML Editor (3.0)
came here wondering the same thing. those cold start times aren't acceptable for user-facing apps and i had to switch a serverless project from RDS in a VPC to dynamodb. even worse is that these cold start times are for each lambda, so if you've got concurrent usage then each new lambda spin up causes a cold start.

having said that, i'm actually pretty happy with dynamodb...so far.
To anyone interested in a compelling analysis of fake news since the invention of the printing press, Niall Ferguson’s most recent book The Square and the Tower is an excellent read.