skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chime feature is enableable, and it's pretty tolerant on input too. These days I just say "Alexa bedroom off" and Alexa does the right thing. Getting rid of the cue phrase would be nice though. That is, if intonation or volume or directionality of my voice could help it determine when I'm giving a command vs random conversation.
For what it's worth, by 1988 the term was in SF novels such as David Zindell's Neverness
For me, it's a mix of UPS, USPS, and Amazon-branded "couriers" (in new Mercedes vans).
Obviously it is exaggeration. Exaggeration is a common form of rhetoric used in normal conversation. Exaggeration, however, is not trolling.

And it often has a kernel of truth behind it. It makes perfect sense to be skeptical or hesitant to use a Google product, especially a new one, especially one with no guarantees made with regards to longevity. In fact, I think it would be reasonable for most users to err on the side of caution here.
Yes, any server-side language will do. But when you read "database is the most common bottleneck", you could frequently replace it with "database is the least well understood component in the stack". As soon as you stop using the database as a dumb store, you start to realise that your db can handle a lot more than you thought. One has to go beyond what the average ORM offers.
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This says nothing about their financial situation. US suburbia does not exist in Europe, but not because people are poor.
Is the list of things that should be decided democratically on the list of things that should be decided democratically?
It looks like this was done at Microsoft Research Asia as a research project. It isn't weird that research projects implode when the researchers working on them leave the lab, whether in Beijing or Redmond, since these things were never in production in the first place. For all we know, this was just an intern project (though it looks like everyone in the paper list are FTEs).
Time out.

Despite it being VICE News (who do not quote Sgt. Tim Dahl in the article for some reason), and despite one video of some person we know nothing about and lack all context for, the article is actually a good dive into some strange stuff that is occuring between Amazon, FB, and MVPD.

Everyone should actually read the article and go look at the FB post by MVPD.

The VICE headline is pure clickbait.

That said, yeah, that looks shady.
My experience is, UPS always arrives on time, Fedex sometimes a day late, USPS rarely arrives late, but if it's late, it's usually not arriving at all.

The worst, by far, is Amazon's own delivery service. Often late, frequently damaged, and inconsistent on when they show up during the day, if they can get into the building, and where they leave packages.
"Amazon.com represented less than 1.3 percent of total FedEx revenue for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2018"
I'm a right-winger in a leftist workplace. The key is just to keep your head down whenever politics comes up, and never participate in discussion about controversial topics. Generally I would act the same in a right-leaning atmosphere if one ever existed anyway, but at least then I wouldn't hear my coworkers' rants.
+1 with that.

Having worked for an ad network: it doesn't matter how good your recommendation algorithms are if all you have in your ad campaign pool is shitty diet and car ads.
Attempted burglary is a crime.
We ship 75k shipments/yr across FedEx / UPS / USPS and, while I too have my own bias about preferred carrier, these kinds of preferences are usually pretty specific to locale.

Some people love the carrier you hate, and others hate the carrier you love.
You might have a good point, but why present it in this way? It is needlessly condescending and makes people want to not believe you. You could have easily stated your case for how much utility and adoption you think this will have without looking down your nose at people who hold a different opinion.

Comments like this devalue the entire conversation being had here by pushing people either towards twitter style shitposting/flamewars, which are terrible ways to have conversations, or simply causing those who would like to comment to not engage. Either way, can you not?
The cynical reply to this is also "Will I be alive to care?".

A more realistic reply might be "will any humans even be alive to inherit my game library?" or "will anyone even be able to run any of my games on the hardware and software available 100 years from now?"
I think it's more the "for access to the international space station" part that the questioner is interested in?

If the ISS is actually international then shouldn't access be open to all.

Nor that one expects USA decision makers not to extend their imperialism to space though.
Oh. The names are close so I accidentally conflated the two. Thanks!
Mine has been the opposite.. UPS was supposed to pick up a package for return once. They showed up, wrote "I'll pick up this package tomorrow." on the package's box, and never came back. I called UPS customer support 3 days in a row, trying to get them to pick it up, until they finally showed up on the 4th day.

They've also delivered my packages to both of my neighbors on multiple occasions. Thankfully my neighbors were nice enough to correct the mistake rather than just keeping the items.

I've never had an issue with FedEx.
NSA Warns Microsoft Windows Users: Update Now or Face 'Devastating Damage'
What happens when someone trips over the power cord?
More likely just US and maybe Five Eyes.

Almost all other countries seem to be okay with Huawei and any potential Chinese security threat.
alexa im scared, hide !

or alexa play hide n seek.
Locally I've gotten a lot more shipments delivered by Amazon delivery people.

They like to leave my packages in the driveway close-ish to the garage door rather than near the front door.

Not an ideal place....

Packages tend to be a lot more beat up too for some reason.
Good !! Fedex is the only carrier that fucks up my deliveries !
"As previously disclosed, Amazon.com is not FedEx’s largest customer."

Curious who their biggest customers are
Should have poured their time into making the web a viable alternative to native. Well, let's see what the next 10 years of mobile bring...
alexa, hide !

-ok ill let you know how to find me when i hear the safe word
That'd be really fun to have!

The elegance in these kinds of complex behaviors can be artistic in their own right.
Apple’s new iPod touch isn’t for the converted; it’s for the nonbelievers
Except the cultures are almost identical. Same religion, same food, same social norms and customs, same naming conventions, the two languages are mutually intelligible, most Ukrainians also speak Russian, hell even genetically they're almost the same (like I said, east of Galicia and west of Siberia).

I grew up in a Ukrainian-Canadian family, there was no animosity towards Russians whatsoever until the Orange Revolution and the fallout from that... They literally went to the same churches, did all the same things, it was objectively speaking the same culture.
Seriously, I've been waiting for a long time now for this to come about. This would make pytorch a much more powerful platform.
Meanwhile Amazon is rolling full-steam-ahead on developing facial recognition technologies and making no exception to handing them out to countries with track records for human rights abuses.

It's depressing how even when some companies are doing the right thing at their own expense, others delve straight into unrestricted greed with no regard for human lives.
These posts are being written/orchestrated by Meredith Whittaker, a self-appointed “AI Expert” with a degree in Rhetorics.

Claire, while she did amicable work organizing a walkout for employee conditions, also spent time participating in multiple, coordinated internal pressure campaigns that involved leaking confidential business plans.

For that reason, her leaving the company is for the best. Meredith should do the same, as she’s the protester-in-chief who’s arbitrarily turned a 20% project into her full time job. What other company allows or tolerates this?
Good for Amazon. FedEx is terrible. Mini-rant:

Ordered stuff online. FedEx says the package was delivered but I don’t see it. The online tracker lists the last location of the package in the city where I used to live. I assume I autofilled the wrong address or something. So I head down to my old apartment complex. They have my package. NBD, I’m able to pick it up without incident.

But then I check the shipping label on the package. It actually has my current address on it. And right below that is a “Corrected Address” label, with my old address. I double-check the online order. Turns out I gave them the right address. The retailer doesn't have any knowledge of my old address.

I call FedEx and ask what’s up. Turns out the sender gave them my phone number (presumably so they could call me if they had issues delivering — and indeed, my phone number is listed on the “Corrected Address” label, along with an alterante phone number I did not give to the sender). The CSR confirms that FedEx disregarded the address provided and “corrected” it to the address they previously associated with name + phone number. The CSR confirms that no, this was not something I signed up for or accidentally opted into. They just “correct” addresses automatically without asking. Even if the corrected address is in a completely different city and looks nothing like the given address. Because quality.

So apparently, everytime I move, I now have to let FedEx know where or else they’ll perpetually misdeliver my stuff. Lovely. And heaven forbid I try to send packages to my parent’s address or some other place that’s not the address FedEx currently has on file for me. Because just shipping packages to the address actually on the damn label is too damn hard for them.
I've replied to your thread level comment, but please do feel free to reach out to me if you want any advice or discussion: i@willcode.it
I don't understand why you're assuming "everyone" here will be wrong. I have yet to see a comment that has detracted from the value this brings to Facebook. What doesn't make any level of sense is why it's being labeled a cryptocurrency. It's a currency controlled by Facebook. That's no different than regular money issued by a central bank.
I have a rigol MSO1104 (1 ghz sampling, 100 mhz analog bandwidth, logic analyzer) I bought after I retired for doing some work out of my house. I remember it being about $1000. It's very nice, I would highly recommend it for a home lab. I also bought an analog discovery 2 to bring to the library where I teach Arduino and Raspberry Pi classes. It's 2 channel, I can't remember the bandwidth, I think 60 mhz analog bandwidth and maybe 500 megasamples/second? Anyway I think I bought the pro bundle, a little less than $300. I think it's a very nice setup for someone to get started, it has lots of really cool features like a network analyzer, minijack input for audio, serial decoders etc. The PC software works good, available on linux. It's small runs off USB power. I know the probes don't have the isolation that a normal commercial scope does, but for a lot of hobby/learning type things it doesn't matter. I like the idea of making your own hardware and learning things from it, but for a beginner in electronics or the occasional user I think the analog discovery is a pretty good value. I was never a big fan of National Instruments when I was working, but I think this is a pretty good product.
https://store.digilentinc.com/analog-discovery-2-pro-bundle/

(edit) - actually it's 30mhz with the bnc probes.
Hang on, let me count all the times I've seen an option to sign in to a third party service with my gitlab account.
No, I'm using "weaker methods" in the technical sense, not "performs worse".

I agree that many papers of that recipe type exist -- Sorensen and Weyland have skewered them effectively -- they are just froth, to be ignored in a discussion of the true merits of evolutionary computation.
Spying on Children Won’t Keep Them Safe
This is amazing. Am I right to conclude that this lets us use it in apps older than iOS 13 as well as it’s based off of oauth redirect?
It's probably specific to the drivers, not the companies.
It happened in a research lab, hardly the typical BigCo scenario.
One time I got really fed up with FedEx because when they delivered a package to me while I wasn't home, they dropped it off at the leasing office instead of taking it to the FedEx facility.

The leasing office closes at 6pm. The FedEx facility is only a few blocks away and closes at either 8 or 9. I got home at 6:30. Because of that driver's incompetence, I had to wait until the next day to get my package _and_ be late to work the next day because the leasing office doesn't open till 10am.

And this was something that was really time-sensitive, too.

This wasn't the first time they screwed up a delivery to me either. I will never do business with them again if I can help it.
This is a nicely designed site. The problem I have with this information is there is so many paths and classes to take for computer science. I have started teachyourselfcs and gotten through one chapter of the book. I have done CS50x. I have completed the MIT introductory course. I feel as if I am stuck in a introductory programmer hell with no direction because there are million different branches on the tree. What I seek is mentorship of where to go and what to choose. Yes this is asking for someone to give up there time to help me. However, a site that matches beginners with a personal tutor for free just for guidance and code reviews would be amazing. Again, the free part is a lot to ask but I am an idealist for this post.
They have a partnership with Walgreens as well. Not sure the capacity but I have seen signs signaling that you can drop off FedEx returns to Walgreens.
AI tool helps radiologists detect brain aneurysms
The complexity of the humble transit countdown clock
What do you mean "it was done wrong"? The idea of designing a place so packages can be delivered there at the exact same time that any working person is not present there is just bizarre.
Might you or someone else mind explaining how this "bidding component" works? I'm not familiar with it or with the specific bidding models at work - "bid per click * ctr" etc?
It's interesting to me how you can call out this post and recent others as a "marketing initiative from Mozilla" without any apparent backlash (as of yet), but when I called it "brigading by Mozilla supporters and fans" on multiple other threads I was completely removed from the conversation. Is there really a difference?

Is this the sort of story that casual users or even avid fans of the browser would organically promote? That's the logic that I was handed in some of the responses to me. Am I that out of place to assume that the following is how it goes down? 1.) The marketing/evangelical folks at Mozilla create a story and post it here and elsewhere. 2.) They put out a call to all their supporters in various channels to come and help promote the story (and keep other commenters in line apparently)...

I think the problem is that comment forums always optimize towards showing me what the currently active mob/majority thinks about a topic rather than sorting things towards my own personal tastes. I'd much rather see a rating system that weights posts/topics and comments based on my history. For instance: if I've promoted a certain topic in the past, put it higher. If I typically promote a given user, put their comment higher. If I typically promote a certain user who promoted another comment, put that comment higher. And so on. Basically censor the stuff I usually disagree with instead of allowing mob rule. [1]

I don't see the point of trying to make everybody see the same truth because that's not how real life works. Mostly, people tend to live in tribes. Wouldn't it be nice if the Internet wasn't always in your face telling you how wrong you are? IMO, such systems would put a chill on the global culture war.

[1] - This might be the perfect problem for a graph database. If anyone wants to work on something like this, let me know how to contact you and I'll give you all of my ideas!
I actually like Amazon deliveries. They leave the packages at the door (in this case I'm ok with) and send a picture of said delivery, verifying that they did indeed leave it at and not in the apartment main office (which is conveniently only open while I'm at work)
The FBI Once Helped in the Hunt for Bigfoot
It's a big problem.

In the case of New York State I do better when my income is less in that I can get a health plan called "The Essential Plan" where I pay $25 for a psychological visit, $50 to see a dietician, etc.

If I make more money I can get a high deductible plan where those things cost me about $200 each. If I don't want a high deductible plan on the Obamacare market I have to pay the whole cost of the deductible in my premium so what's the point?

Every private insurance plan from a company I might work with is high deductible. You've got to have a government job to get something else.
Alternatively put, FedEx might not be willing to grovel for what Amazon is offering.

Many moons ago I'd worked for some folks who'd sold a business to Amazon. I'd heard it said that the only relationship you want to be in with Amazon is as a customer, anything else and they will chew you up and spit you out in the most brutal fashion.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Amazon was lowballing FedEx to an obscene degree, especially given that Amazon is rolling out their own delivery operations.
The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union allows exceptions to the free movement of goods in certain cases, one of which is when the goods are national treasures of artistic, historic or archaeological value.

"The provisions of Articles 34 and 35 shall not preclude prohibitions or restrictions on imports, exports or goods in transit justified on grounds of public morality, public policy or public security; the protection of health and life of humans, animals or plants; the protection of national treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value; or the protection of industrial and commercial property. Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not, however, constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States."

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
This looks like a cool device for people just starting with electronics.

Slight OT: Its really sad to see that even though SDR really took off in the last couple of years, there really is no open source or at least low-cost toolchain for RF Engineering. No Signal Generation Hardware, no VNAs, no SAs... Mostly you have to make do with the still pretty expensive, 90s-Legacy devices of the large brands (Agilent/HP/Keysight or Rohde&Schwartz). Its also really stuff that Makerspaces and FabLabs are completely devoid of. Software is not much better, when you dont want to resort to unlicensed copies of the professional tools. Really hard to work on stuff like that when not either at a university or employed in that field...
With respect to the EPA, its worth pointing out they'll only punish significant point sources.

For example a sewage treatment plant dumping raw untreated sewage will get punished. However a city with a major homeless problem where many thousands poop on the street will not be punished for a larger release of untreated raw sewage.

Its kinda similar with major organizations and IT. If there's a policy with the correct checkboxes and strong sounding speeches and firmly worded emails were produced by executives, it doesn't matter if there's some individual unpatched Win95 machine running mission critical tasks, even if there's thousands of those supposedly isolated individual case systems.
Oddly enough, the USPS (which doesn't have their own fleet of aircraft) is the largest.

https://about.usps.com/news/statements/022317.htm
I'm not a crypto fan so don't take this the wrong way, but I think the crypto answer to "someone stole your private key and is stealing your money" is the same as the non-crypto answer to "someone stole your ATM PIN and is stealing your money." Namely, you ask police and prosecutors to track down the perpetrator to get your money back.
I'll happily work for Baltimore if I can implement something that will finally put all their corrupt cops and judges on the gallows.

Some distributed logs that can't be deleted would surely help with accountability.

But we all know that will never happen.
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Use Lyx. It's a wrapper around Latex (or frontend for it) that makes it much easier to use.
Ahh yes, knew I was forgetting an important one...

Oh, and SUN was the Stanford University Network.
Actually, UNSCII is also what I’m looking for in Termius (for drawille).
I think this is more a "You can't fire me, I quit" kind of thing. I'm guessing Fedex wasn't willing to make the concessions Amazon wanted. Better to have the news story be FedEx drops Amazon than vice versa.
I got fed up with this since it was happening for about half my deliveries. I ask for a refund and let them return to sender after the package is done sitting at the storage location.
That has been happening to me as well. I don't mind it being less visible from the road, but there isn't any shelter from the rain by my garage.
it's worth noting that today we already have self sustaining business machines called corporations.
Wouldn't increasing voter turnout be an upside? Reducing the loss of productivity of those participating? Voting electronically is dangerous today, but I still see it as something to work towards. However, I imagine that would require incredible innovation towards multiple layers of robust identity verification protocols.
This is the first and only comment I've read that actually gives credence to the idea of FB making it as a cryptocurrency, but it still falls short of a simple idea and gives FB too much credit for being an "open" player. FB is the issuer, why can't they just provide APIs to their ledger and APIs for settlement so it can be used outside of their direct ecosystem, but still allows them full control? FB wants to keep people in their ecosystem.
Google Announces TensorFlow 2.0 Beta
A Flutter app that lets devs collaborate to build ML models
Will "Sign in with Apple" be available on non Apple devices? If not how will cross device syncing etc work?
Yeah I've had straight up soaked through packages lately.
Most common Amazon delivery where I am is FedEx to the local post office, then USPS for last-mile.
I'm not really sure what you're ranting about. Are you under the impression that I'm implying third party identity federation is something new? Because I'm not.

I'm implying that, it's great that we have an additional identity provider who isn't a drug addict about user data like google and facebook are, that's run by a company who has shown a history of actually caring about user privacy. It gives those of us that are concerned about privacy, an option to use for identity federation.

And I'm saying the opposite, that it's great that Apple's using an existing standard (which implies they didn't invent it) instead of doing something totally custom.

It sounds like you had that post already written and ready based on this being an apple post.
Langton's ant will always be near and dear to my heart. It was the first program of my Intro to CS II course and also the point where I went from "Heh I think I can do this programming thing" to "Holy moly what did I get myself into?
I think you need to fix your submission.