skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks
The author seems confused about what artificial general intelligence is. People have not meaningfully moved towards AGI - it's still a distant pipe dream.

The closest we've gotten is probably a Dota bot that's pretty good as long as you give the bot a huge advantage. Which is an incredible piece of technology, but about as close to AGI as an ant is to a human.
Hmm, listening the the samples [0], the OPUS one is almost unbearably noisy, whereas the MP3 while, while clearly low quality, is still listenable. Am I missing something, why is OPUS doing so poorly?

[0] http://ajroach42.com/floppycast-examples/
Slightly OT, but I deleted my Facebook last year. Ever since, the Instagram ads I see are woefully targeted. I'm a 30 year old man living in New Delhi, India, yet in the past few weeks, I've seen ads for:

- A real estate company in Denver, Colarado

- Sanitary pads for women

- A Dubai property brokerage

- BMW Las Vegas

I really don't know what's going on with these ads because geographic and gender exclusion would be the first step in any targeting
I paid off my loans over a decade ago. I'd rather see a war on student loans than a war against Iran. It would be a better use of tax money and a massive economic stimulus.
Project Veritas also leaked internal Google presentations and notes on "algorithmic unfairness," fake news, and biases amplified by machine learning. I found it thoughtful, though unfortunately some communities have just narrowed in on a few slides about Hollywood they disagree with and rejected the rest.

https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SS...
BS Industrial Complex is good at selling "bad for you" especially when it's something younger people do more than older people.
1. Rpi 3 keeping my IRC session up and working as small server for small tasks.
2. Rpi 2 has zigbee-module (raspbee) which controls lights.
3. Zero W with camera is currently doing nothing.
Could prohibit charging money for it.
The dollar is already worthless. It because fancy Monopoly money after we scrapped the gold standard.
Wage garnishment isn't a thing for creditors like hospitals, unlimited IRA protection, homestead exemption in bankruptcy up to at least 10 acres (and case law includes the rented-out portion of duplexes through quadplexes), and annuities get exempted out too. Basically creditors can seize accounts and trash your credit rating, and that's about it in Texas.
be interesting in weather monitoring, could you describe it more detail
> How do you detect the modifications? We compute the hashes of the files regularly. If only one character in a file changes, his hash will change.

Does this include HTTP headers? For instance a yay.js framework that helps people print 'yay' to the console could return:

HTTP/1.1 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY
LOCATION: http://evil.evil/evil.js

console.log('yay!');
>It would be interesting. So interesting you might find reading the article worthwhile.

I did not find a comparative analysis of the various oil rigs w.r.t engineering and safety. Link?

>Your comments here purporting legitimate uncertainty about whether this is an externality Taylor Energy is responsible for read very much like unnecessary FUD.

I have an open mind, unlike some. Also you can either hurl accusations, or have a dialogue and be respectful of others opinions. Pick one.
This would be really bad if she happened to be at a performance, restaurant, active shooter situation, etc.

Better off forcing a ring in the home than where you can't foresee the consequences.
I look at BS as an inevitable symptom of the Singularity.

As we approach the capacity of human reason, fewer people are able to keep up with the world, and are therefore more susceptible to it.
Sounds pretty insane to me too, but I think it is valuable to let people do insane things more securely, as I don't think security concerns are generally a very big deterrent in software development (unfortunately).
Java Structural Design Patterns – Composite Pattern
take out one earbud. does the other seem drastically loud? turn down the volume until it doesn't. voila. ambient congruence.

same goes for lcd brightness. if the screen you're looking at is brighter than a sheet of paper would be, reduce its amplification.

i still believe in the power of humanity to reclaim its environmental awareness, and press a button accordingly.
I can confirm. Otherwise it would dial emergency services when calling Taiwanese mobiles, which are in the format +886 911 ... ....
The platform collapsed not just because of hurricane force winds, rain, and rough seas. The platform mainly collapsed because the mud it was put down on gave way into an underwater mudslide. An earlier assessment recommended continued monitoring and evaluation of the site as attempting to mess with the site might only make things worse until we know what to do about it. As you can see from the ranges given in even this most recent report, estimates on oil flow rate out of what is left of the well is all over the place as its hard to really tell what is brewing under all the mud. Essentially, poking the mud pile might release even more of a catastrophe than what there is currently going on. This new study gives us more insight that the leak rate is probably either on the high side of initial estimates or much higher than what was previously thought.

https://mc20response.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Taylor-E...

As a note this is a report hosted by mc20response.com, which is essentially all Taylor Energy is today. It has data reported from a few different government agencies, and overall this trust is pretty much just a pile of money to go towards cleaning up the mess. Feel free to take its findings with however big of a grain of salt as you'd like.
Sure, one could make that argument. But suggesting that we are close to creating a general intelligence on-par with humans is entirely unfounded.

Even if we assume that the only thing differentiating humans from other forms of intelligence (including artificial neural networks) is more pattern to learn, then that still requires data sets millions if not billions the size of what we currently have. Plus, we know very little about the types of patterns we would need to train an AI on in order for them to reach the AGI level.

I think it's safe to say that "artificial general intelligence" is just another iteration of the BS Industrial Complex.
Title: Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s CoC

Actual content: Google employees who wish to attend Pride and simultaneously protest recent decisions made by Google (YouTube) must not walk with the Google official float. They are however free to either walk with the Google float (celebrating Pride) and not protest Google OR walk separately from the Google float (celebrating pride) and protest Google.

Oh yeah, it's theverge.com
You will probably get an insane bill. But don't get disheartened. Our plan had an out of pocket max and several different doctors (like anesthesiologists) tried to bill us directly because they were out of network. It took a lot of back and forth and many months but after all was said and done, we didn't pay a dime over the out of pocket maximum. This is apparently par for the course.
I also worked on a team that built something similar, and I've seen it done in other companies. With services like this, and others like Transit Gateway, it's getting a lot easier to manage multiple accounts and VPCs. I haven't tried AWS Control Tower yet, but I am hoping it gives easy visibility into all the accounts in one place. With Amazon accounts, once you assume a role into an account, you can't see other accounts without switching back into them.

This is one area where I think GCP got it right. By using organizations and projects within one account instead of having parent and child accounts, it's quite a bit easier to see what's going on. And a parent account has a very different role from child accounts, so it makes sense to treat them as separate things.
> as long as they are not marching with Google in an official capacity. According to internal memos sent to employees, anyone who chooses to walk the parade as a representative of Google and voice any protest will be considered in violation of Google’s code of conduct

Clickbait title.
Curious: How does one generally load balance udp? Drop packets? Slow them down?
I sent one to space on a helium balloon. Some details here http://sulkunte.net/tale-of-an-ambitious-space-odyssey/
My main short-term fear is that increased automation will lead to an increasingly isolated society. I can already get almost everything delivered through amazon, order takeout through an app without speaking to anyone. Watch movies on Netflix without needing to go to a video store. What's the world going to be like when drone deliveries become a thing, and I don't even have to speak to a delivery driver? How will it affect kids if they do all their schooling online?

I think that, even before AGI happens, AI assistants will become placeholder friends for a lot of people. You'll be able to have a conversation with Siri or Alexa. Eventually, people might have pseudo relationships with robot boyfriend/girlfriends. Imagine having a friend who is anything you want them to be, does everything you want, and most importantly, never challenges you or tells you anything you don't want to hear. People will get used to that, and it will become difficult for them to have real human relationships.

In other words, technology is enabling everyone to function without directly interacting with others. People might choose not to interact with other humans out of convenience, insecurity, fear. Japan already has a population of "herbivores", people who choose not to get into relationships, and the rest of the world could become like that too. I hope we find a way to reverse this trend.

Short documentary on hikikomori in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1UIK85E3E
That's plain wrong. I've statically linked SQLite 7 times before.

Edit: and yes, with Go
To save time you'd otherwise spend writing and testing the serverless function. This applies to literally every SaaS.
Perhaps you could get it smaller by making a "vector format" for podcasts and leave it to the audio player to "do it live"

<bgmusic character="spooky" />

<archiveaudio year="1972" type="cop" tone="evasive" />

<foley type="tirescreech" />

<foley type="river" weight="300" />
If you make your employer look bad, you lose your job. Remember James Damore? His free speech embarrassed Google, so they threw him under the bus. Pride protests are no different.
Really love that model. Thank you for sharing!
The treasury is not out “a few million”.
I believe Go is weaker than Python. Python dataclasses/attrs (effectively structs) raise an error instead of silently doing the wrong thing, if you omit a constructor keyword parameter. You can still supply default values, which makes the corresponding constructor parameters optional.

Keep in mind that dataclass defaults suffer from the same "mutable default arguments" issue as function parameters.
"Google does not sanction pride protestors"
Wishing the best for your daughter and family as well
> She may have "used some imprecise language" but I have no doubt that many Google employees do indeed feel like they should use their company's influence to prevent "the next Trump situation."

Well, to be fair, the goal of preventing a child rapist [1] and a "they-let-you-do-anything" man from taking the helm is kind of a laudable goal.

[1]: https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Ep...
this comes on the same day that Project Veritas releases hidden cam footage from senior google employees who admit they have modified their algorithms to change their search results to be more pro-gay, anti-trump...[1]

[1] https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whis...
A Pi Zero W at work, controlling an LED from BlinkStick which change color depending on my presence and status, monitoring my position and calendar through IFTTT.

I
I can also change it manually through HTTP GET commands on the BlinkStick server with my API key.
CSS at Scale: Cosmetic vs. Layout Properties
The obvious is a robust welfare state. I mean it seems pretty clear to now that inequality goes up, social stability decreases, major overhaul, a generation of babysitting it... like just stop pandering to the meme we can’t afford universal healthcare and college education. Cause we also cannot afford leashing the next generation to soon to dead men’s gambling debts.

But that effectively ends the point in aristocracy, the meme that we must cater to all these rugged individuals living off grandpas old money. So that’ll never fly.

Violent revolt it is! Front row to the apocalypse! /s
The Authn/Authz story of Phoenix is a joke though compared to Rails/Devise or Django. The framework authors refuse to ship a first party implementation and instead leave it to the community. Problem is, the ones available are mostly extremely low level (ueberauth, guardian etc.) and you have to spend ages customizing it. On Rails it's literally two commands to set up user registration, email confirmation, password reset. Despite its supposed Rails roots, Phoenix has a long way to go (the greater irony is that the company behind Devise, Platformatec, is also the company behind Elixir).

If you only need basic functionality and absolutely have to use Phoenix, Pow is a good choice:

https://github.com/danschultzer/pow
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-June/101614.h...
They do only show what you have been charged, but to my knowledge this is update very regularly. It seems at least next day.
We have not yet invented "Artificial Intelligence," but are already making big leaps in "Artificial Ignorance"
"Negative externality" is a word meaning that something valuable is destroyed but it's no one's private property.

If it were property, it could have a price, and compensation of damage to it could be sought. But not everything is easy to price in a market: e.g. a national park.

Anyway, if damage is real, or a risk is real, a court could look at it. If not people themselves, an insurance company could, in some cases.
Most of the people involved with this circus seem to think that they can maintain an artificial scarcity of names, that they can be manipulated like a real resource to gain financial advantage.

However, all that's needed to completely obsolete the existing domain name system is for any significant part of the total population of Internet users to agree to use a new one.

It's not even necessary to change the software used for DNS or change how the system works. Just agree to change, select new master servers, configure the software and start resolving.

Because of the way the system works, the old and new DNS trees can even coexist, all that's needed is to list members of the new system as servers for resolution, to be checked in addition to the ones for the old system.

Thinking about it, it's quite likely that this has already been done, and that independent DNS systems are already in use for things like the "Dark Web".

The major purpose of having an organization manage the name and number spaces is to organize them and avoid collisions... I don't think the people at ICANN really understand how replaceable their function is.
I believe in the power of humanity to screw itself and never been let down.
Show HN: A11y-CSS-reset – A small set of global rules for accessiblity
No, that one is the main subject of the article. Are you suggesting that any amount of damage invalidates the figures' historical status?
New research sheds light on possible cause of autism: processed foods
Note that nim compiles to C, c++, objective C, or javascript, and not to llvm IR directly. Just because gcc or llvm are involved in the compilation process doesn't mean nim is as fast as C. cython, for example, compiles python to C but doesn't always match the performance of writing the code in native C.
It would be nice if she’d elaborate on the comments she made, particularly where the “imprecise” language was —- what was she trying to say at the dinner? There were many long runs of commentary without opportunity for deceptive editing.
Ah yes, daily active shooter situation...

In the same sentence as performance and a restaurant, not less.
its pretty disturbing when you type in "men can" on the google search screen and the suggested search keywords that follow are "men can get pregnant", "men can have periods", and "men can have babies"... I mean, is this really what it has degenerated into? Do they really want people to think there is any honesty in these results, as if anyone actually believes this? Makes me want too run to duckduckgo
If I recall correctly, that only happens at the Enterprise support tier.
I'm looking at buying the raspberry pi 4 right now, as I've been thinking of getting something to replace my odroid-c1 for a while now.

My understanding is that the RockPro64 has pcie slots on it, which allows Sata boards so you can connect drives directly without usb. Personally, I'm more interested in the odroid-h2, with the native Sata. Unfortunately, it costs far more ($111 without ram) and has no wireless connectivity built in.
https://pastebin.com/eEuJcy18
Plants already have a method for nutrient exchange, with a symbiotic network called the mycorrhizal mutualistic association, formed by soil fungae. It is beautiful, fascinating, and deeply organic. Life on this planet is very ancient and its habits are not merely complex, they are transcendent. But sure, let's spray pesticide nanoparticles, that'll no doubt be equally subtle.
For the lazy:

AS701 Verizon Business/UUnet

AS702 Verizon Business/UUnet Europe

AS703 Verizon Business/UUnet ASPAC
I'm in the ultra minority, but I use https://instagram.com on my phone and I've never seen an ad.
Tstng.
Don't worry, my parents still call me for things like that, and they don't even have the excuse of being non-english speakers. I will say, if you have the time, set your folks up with something like Linux mint: my step-dad somehow mahaged to get malware on a Mac, and it's much easier for me to keep an identical Mint VM around so I can walk him through everything screen-by-screen. Honestly, setting up their new printer was harder on my mom's Win10 machine, which greatly surprised me.
Uh... it's already economically rational... It's called a "negative externality" and the economic consensus is that the correct way to make a market efficiently operate is by applying a tax on those who generate "negative externalities" (i.e. damage the world around them) that can offset the damage.

This is very basic and undisputed economics, so I'm not sure why you're waiving that phrase around.
My catholic elementary school was only 4k per child in orange county and my high school 10k. For elementary, all kids past three were free and this being catholic school there were several large families. And my brother and I are both successful... Married with kids. My brother retired early actually and owns multiple homes and we'll be buying our first this year. Just a data point that california is overcharging the state for the quality of education provided. My mother was a public school teacher and the money is mostly wasted.
Heh, I couldn't figure out what my daughter meant when she was in kindergarten in RTP and said they go to different "sinners" throughout the day (she meant centers).
Scientists Create Universal Computer Memory That Could Change How We Store Data
The Raspberry Pi has an ARM processor, while macOS requires an x86_64 processor, so you could not build a Hackintosh. One could conceivably run iOS, as enough is understood to emulate the OS on similar hardware (see https://alephsecurity.com/2019/06/17/xnu-qemu-arm64-1/).
I'm not a fan of relying only on any single language, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but D comes with a lot that some people wouldn't expect.

It covers a lot of low-level and high-level concepts, and has a decent package manager attached to the ecosystem. (dub).

Which means you can magically do things like:

#!/usr/bin/env dub
/+ dub.sdl:
dependency "vibe-d" version="~>0.8.0"
+/
void main()
{
import vibe.d;
listenHTTP(":8080", (req, res) {
res.writeBody("Hello, World: " ~ req.path);
});
runApplication();
}

Whilst at the same time D also supports a 'betterC' flag so that transferring your low-level code to a language with higher-level support and higher levels of safety is fairly easy.

It has generics, compile-time evaluation, a great FFI story, and a fairly decent ecosystem of packages out there for you to play with. It has threading and multiprocessing and... So on.
If you’re talking about ear/airpods then it’s possible some are purely “default option”.

However I do believe that Apple did a lot of research to find a good basic shape, and I and quite a few other dolls I know prefer them for their breathability (your ear isn’t designed to be sealed up) and sound awareness.
"Gifted" means more than just "smart." He was the first literary protagonist to have clearly defined personality traits associated today with a spectrum that ranges from "gifted" to "Asperger's" to "autism".

He was capable of intense focus. He obsessively pursued deep knowledge of subjects that interested him. He paid little attention to social norms. He didn't give automatic respect to authority figures. Boredom and lack of challenge were serious problems for him.

These are traits that have only been recognized as facets of a defined personality type in the past couple of generations. People of this type were invisible a century ago. Today they drive significant fractions of society and culture.

Thus Sherlock Holmes attracts ever-increasing attention and interest. Because the type he represents is gaining influence and status in contemporary society.
when I read the title I somehow assumed that the optimization would be in the length of the recording, not the encoding. I would like a podcast format with very short episodes.
If you’re looking for more “PL ADD” fuel, don’t forget to look into Zig! https://ziglang.org/

Of all the modern systems level programming languages I’ve seen, I like Zig the most. It combines a powerful, modern type system (generics, algebraic data types, statically checked null references) with an impressive simplicity (e.g. without the productivity-consuming and mentally burdensome “borrow checker” of Rust).
I'm challenging the assumption that driving aids cause drivers to "zone out" any more than normal driving. Driving automation has been common for decades in the form of cruise control. I don't see anyone making the claim that using it makes you "zone out". Auto Pilot is just an evolution of this that handles the steering too. Drivers still need to drive and be engaged.
Isnt there an out of pocket max?
I'm really surprised that someone with only 6000 followers can command such high rates. I know from listening to podcasters that they make around $20-30 per 1000 listeners per ad. She's earning between $50 and $130 per thousand (potential) impressions.

(I thought these might be multi-ad deals, but from scanning her page, I only see each product featured once.)
Every time I read a story like this about Google employees complaining I can’t help but think how overwhelming a sense of entitlement some of them feel. Like seriously if they are so unhappy to the point where they are protesting their own company for relatively isolated policy gaffes, they should seriously find another job. It looks so foolish from the outside.
he used the opusenc setting "tuned for speech" and music sections (like :22) sound awful. would like to know what it would sound like without that mode turned on, as it also surprises me how bad opus sounds vs mp3.
If you want to mitigate that, you simply need to run this from, or proxy the request through, some other random ip address.
Great to know, thanks.
Generally, no, but if you have a mains-powered wireless phone as your only phone (as my grandparents have for over a decade, it essentially is. This isn't necessarily something you can rely on (unless you specifically plan ahead for this).