skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Google’s response is (paraphrased as fairly as I can while removing the sugar-coating):

’Yes, we hire people to listen in to and transcribe some conversations from the private homes of our customers (so as improve our speech recognition engines); but the recordings aren’t linked to personally identifiable information.’

Even assuming they have only the purest intentions here, I still don’t understand how they can possibly guarantee that these recorded conversations are not linked to personally identifiable information!

For example, what’s to stop me from saying “Hey Google, I am <full legal name / ID> and my most embarrassing and private secret is <...>”?

One might argue that they could detect this in the recognized text and omit those samples, but presumably the whole purpose of hiring people to create transcripts is because the existing speech-to-text engine isn’t perfect, and they need more training data.
Air combat in the world’s smallest jet fighter, the ferocious Gnat
Scott Alexander at SlateStarCodex wrote a good piece on why these branded combination nootropic supplements are risky and probably a bad idea: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/10/brief-cautionary-notes...
It's not personified, it's almost the opposite — to insitutionalize the mindset in the form of law is precisely to depersonalize it, take it out of any individual's hands. The reason this pattern seems so common to you is because it is an extremely important phenomenon in modernity. See Max Weber on the rationalization of society[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(sociology)
I use my handheld exclusively on any non-turned based style games because the input lag on my television for action games is just too noticeable.
In Defence of Decency
Home, Siri, Alexa, M, they all do. I have friends that work on this field transcribing the audio, and measuring its accuracy. Sometimes it's multiple layers of contractors: An employee hands the task to a contractor, another contractor verifies the speech to text, and they're all managed by a contractor.

Search for languages like Portuguese, Swedish, Chinese, etc on LinkedIn and you'll find the jobs posts https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=portuguese&lo...
Tech Ingredients - Speaker and science maker series.

Savage Geese - Long form in-depth car reviews.

Rich Rebuilds - Guy rebuilds decommissioned Teslas.

Joe Rogan Experience - Longform interviews.

PBS SpaceTime - Quantum Physicist explains astrophysics.

Scott Manley - Everything space travel.

Joe Scott - Science for the masses.

SciShow - Science for the masses.

French Guy Cooking - French cooking.

FortNine - Motorcycle advice and reviews.

Bon Appetit - Cooking.

mtmwood - Making Chess and cutting boards.

kobeomsuk - Japanese handmade furniture.

Tom Scott - Applied Science.

SteveMould - Physics explanations.

Hudson Henry Photography - Photography.

Rick Beato - Music theory.

What I've Learned - Diet and Nutrition.

How To Drink - Cocktail mixology.

Firebox Stove - Camping cooking.

Forty Times Around - Motorcycle camping.

Stock & Barrel Co - Making leather apparel.

Thomas Heaton - Landscape Photography.

Simon Baxter - Landscape Photography.

WiseCrack - Film Theory.

The Film Theorists - Movie breakdowns.

Rare Earth - Sociology.
Ask HN: Recommend book on reverse engineering / static analysis
It's something I'm planning to do soon, and I'm curious if anyone knew any recommended reading material. I've seen a lot of books on Amazon, but many are specifically in the context of analyzing malware whereas I'm more interested in analyzing general binary code (my first project will be attempting to analyze an old dos driver)
25M Infected Devices: Research Discovers New Variant of Android Malware
Thank you for the advice. I've witnessed the business growing up on its own because the products are far superior to all others on the market. It's one of those things that happened unexpectedly, and I jumped in when things were on the up already.

I want to see the business thriving and wouldn't consider a buyout for less than a million because that would be foolish. I do, however, need a new direction to accelerate our growth.
It's no coincidence that companies like Amazon market their Echos as "stocking stuffers" for the holiday season. I've wondered how Google Home and these "smart home" devices were always able to be priced as low as they are. Goes to show that paying for the product doesn't exempt you from still being part of the product.
How about air conditioned skyways for pedestrians in cities and underground roads everywhere else?
"I often wonder what enables people to leave such scathing reviews of someone else's work."

Possibly some sort of internet-enabled device running a web browser?

"Reviewers like you had nothing to do with the production or promotion of videos and often don't pay anything to watch them."

That's true of practically all reviewers of every product/service ever. In fact, if they were involved in any way it would deserve some sort of "vested interest" warning. It's also true of much of the content on youtube.

"It's as if you felt a sense of ownership in Cody'sLab and he let you down when he began to display the negative affects of his real live in the videos he created....Your feeling of ownership over something you have done nothing to earn is entitlement."

I don't see that in the original comment at all. They just seem to prefer channel 1 over channel 2, and gave a reason ("..shows him safely cleaning up and what not.."). What's wrong with that?

If one is producing youtube videos for fun, and finds it no fun, they should stop. Likewise, if they're doing it for money and not making enough money, stop. No-one's forcing them to do it. Nobody owes them anything. There are a million other channels out there, and i'm grateful to the OP and everyone else in this thread for pointing them out.
What about things like the pharmaceutical industry pumping out insane quantities of opiates?

Or the gun lobbying industry trying to block regulations on registration and background checks?

Or the crazy number of petrol-refinery incidents in recent years (which could probably be prevented with stricter regulations or monitoring but that would cut back on profits)?

Or the links between social media and suicide rates?

Or every industry lobbying against climate change related regulations?

Or the Boeing 737 MAX incidents that could have probably been prevented with more training and stricter regulations (but, you know, those pesky profits)?

Or the entire tobacco industry and links to cancer or other deadly conditions?

I think it's pretty easy to make the case -for many companies- that "profits trump safety and any reason that stands in the way is ignored". The only things that stop this are regulations which make those dangerous practices less profitable or consumer backlash which make them less profitable. Either way, it's still always all about the profits.
Public transportation is not free, someone has to pay for it which means its more expensive for everyone else..

The real problem though is what you do in less densly populated areas.
Yeah I’ll need to do some research, if I can only poll the db for just the time I need this will be a huge cost saving for me. I think the db only gets queried if a dag actually runs but I’m not 100% sure.
The No. 10 fastest supercomputer is being shredded into scrap
It’s important to take any information someone presents you that doesn’t line up with your existing worldview and just find a way to ignore it, that’s why were all here right?
Tell the truth or remain silent. Try not to incriminate yourself.
This is a story from oakland a city where the citizens do not like the police and protest against them. As a result it is crime ridden and the police are ineffective. At one point, oakland was the murder capital of america and murder was also a non punished crime.

In most parts of the country, I doubt this story would have played out this way
Ask HN: Getting a Job Without Leetcode?
As the title implies, is it possible in this day and age to find a software engineering job without grinding LeetCode?

Is work experience and personal side projects not enough?

I understand that we as engineers must follow the the tide of the industry and adapt to its current and future challenges. But spending time outside of work to "practice" these style of questions leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Any advice is welcome.
your a dhead stop telling people how to avoid mistakes and being pwned!!! They need to learn the hard way.
Engineering Tip #2 -> if you pay someone else to do it, you can technically say you did it in the cloud
>Only new forests sequester

*Younger forests pull the most out over a given period of time. The bulk of the carbon stays locked up as long as the wood doesn't decay/isn't burned. It's one reason some architects are starting to look at structural wood for larger buildings again, as long as the building stands you keep the carbon locked up in the framing. If we had a magic wand we could create a few super-fast growing species and plant massive amounts of forest of complimentary species that provide the soil with nearly everything needed to grow one another and simply harvest the lumber, drag it out to anoxic depths at sea and sink it not unlike the commonly accepted theory of the azolla event doing similar with aquatic ferns in our planet's past.

The best trees can manage about 48lbs of CO2 per year, that's 46 trees per metric tonne and healthy forest is 40-60 trees per acre. Just to go carbon neutral last year that would mean you would have needed at LEAST 53 million square miles of optimal forest. For reference, there are 196.9 million square miles of land on earth, effectively 1/4 of the land mass on earth would need to be 100% optimized decade or two old forest.

Roughly 31% of the earth is forest, however it's far from the above optimal conditions. In reality we'd need probably 50% (if not more) of the earth to be forest to manage what we did last year.

Coincidentally, pre-industrial era the earth was about 48% forest and current estimates are we lose something like 28,125 square miles annually to human operations. We're producing more and more while reducing the planet's ability to sequester.

Sadly planting more trees isn't even going to equate to a bandaid, it's going to be like loosing a limb to a wood chipper and gently blowing on the wound. It's purely a "this makes me feel good" thing.
> And vegetarians struggle quite a bit with getting proper dietary nutrition, not just with iron, but also Vitamin B12, Zinc, Omega-3 fatty acids, Vitamin D, Calcium, Protein and Riboflavin. So it is not quite just "simply" adjust your diet you lazy meat eater.

I'm a vegetarian (yes, not a vegan yet) living in India and I'm not deficient in any of these. Also, never have been.

e.g. take the case of protein, I eat pulses almost daily (and a variety of) with rice, never felt I have less protein than required.

Vit B12 - you can get from fermented foods like Idli etc. Also, from the water soaked overnight in rice (actually rice is soaked in water).

Vegetarianism had been practised in India since time immemorial. One can say the food has been perfected here to stay healthy.
> When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues.

That's not the problem. The problem is that the meritocrats and the technocrats have failed to grasp the real problem. The real problem is that at the end of the day the dynamics of living systems are determined by Darwinian evolution, and Darwinian evolution has no foresight. It optimizes for solutions that reproduce well (relative to competitors) in the short term. So, for example, genes that build brains that have an instinctive revulsion against things like abortion and birth control will reproduce better than genes that build brains that think it's perfectly OK to choose not to have kids. As a result, the world becomes populated by the former sort of brain, along with all of the ancillary effects that building such brains has, such as having a resistance to certain kinds of objective facts, like the long-term consequences of overpopulation.

The fact of the matter is that there is only one environmental problem here on earth, and that is an overabundance of humans. But saying that is taboo, even here on HN. I try to make this point here on occasion and every single time I do I am downvoted into oblivion, not because I'm wrong, but because the world is full of brains with an instinctive revulsion towards the idea that there are, or even could be, too many of us, because the genes that build that kind of brain reproduce better than the genes that build brains that think it's perfectly OK, even necessary, to have fewer people.

This is a very hard problem to solve. It's not at all clear that it even has a solution. It could even be the answer to Fermi's paradox. I hope not, but it's starting to look like a real possibility.
I mean, I would assume that humans are used to improve the speech recognition capabilities of voice assistants. Accents alone are a big challenge to voice recognition, not to mention regional dialects, and the more complex languages.

People listening to what is said to a voice assistant after the prompt doesn't really alarm me. What would be alarming is if the voice assistant was secretly recording normal conversations.
This is a good point, one of the reasons to use it is for reminders "Hey Google, remind me to visit x at place y"
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or you think that's actually feasible and simple.
No. Many sites have a style like "display: none" on body element, to hide content until JS is loaded. But of course they have content in HTML for search engines optimization. So they show content to Google robot instantly, but the human user has to wait.

Google also uses this trick in search results if I remember correctly.
So now Coke was murdered by those evil Southerners as well? Gosh golly, thanks for informing us of that 'Mother Jones'.

In reality, the article misses the point as badly as the Coke executives, and the 'taste testers'.

People don't chose a Cola because of taste, if they did, there'd be tons of competition, tons of brands for people to choose from.

Taste is important, but familiarity more so; in taste, experience, i.e. 'total brand'.

What Coke should have done was introduced a different coke, possibly with a different name, just as they did with 'Coke Zero' instead of simply replacing the 'Diet Coke' recipe.
Programming TypeScript
Duh! Of course they are listening; how else would they train such agent ? It's not like you can come up with a random NN that is suddenly sentient.
while rich countries adopt expensive greener tech and blame the poor countries again

seems about right
AI4Bharat: Artificial Intelligence for India
since I've read it a few times latey: this is the sh*t _I_ come to HN for...
Guys tell me how to become a date engineer?
Mass transit + bikes or scooters is pretty good. Millions of people in cities don't own cars. It's good enough for many people and there is still lots of room for improvement.
Or a rogue terraforming project like seeding the ocean with iron or deploying reflective particulates into the atmosphere.
(Anonymous smirk)
What Activities Resonate Most with VR Users?
That makes sense. I'm glad you're standardizing all this early, unlike Python which created an entire Twisted parallel universe for everything and only standardized later.
From a computer science perspective, what should Google do to train its models in a privacy conscious way?
carbon tax & dividend means that your choices are:

- use the dividend to pay the carbon tax, and keep driving.

- buy a new car, keep part of the dividend

- walk/bike/transit, keep the whole dividend
For sure. In fact there are already 4 people with commit permissions to the repo.
Yes, Orwell was a very shallow thinker.
Fermented foods like Idli can get you enough Vit B12. No need to eat meat.
They made history in a split second, presumably after spending decades on building the infrastructure and gathering all the prerequisite knowledge.

The first observed binary black hole merge signal was probably also quite short (I'd wager less than a minute, possibly even less than a second), and many of us have read about how much effort that one took.
Until someone presses the back button. :)

I find it mind-boggling that people forget the hell of flash scope and the back button and broken history and POST-redirect-GET. Session state was miserable and the best thing about SPAs is avoiding that.
I do what I'm paid to do :)
This doesn't explain why Norwegian are above to fly transatlantic for as low as $104 one-way (PVD-DUB on Feb 5th). I know that Providence airport likely charges lower fees, but it demonstrates how little "tax" is being paid on international flights.
Probably a company like https://scale.ai/, although I don't think they do audio.
I mean, it's roughly the same level of exposure you run into literally every minute you're out in public anyway - all those phones around you have microphones, and more and more, they're always listening in exactly the same fashion. This is how always-on "Hey Siri" or "Okay Google" works.

Which isn't to say it isn't frustrating, just that your frustration at your friend is misplaced - they're not exposing you to anything which you aren't already exposed. If your fear is that these tech companies are going to misuse casually-overheard conversations from these devices, they're just as likely to use it from all the phones you're near.

If your fear is that your friend is going to use this tech, however, maybe you need better friends. There's nothing stopping an unscrupulous friend from putting plain-old audio recorders through their house anyway.
Yeah, we were keenly aware of these splits happening and so worked really early to figure out how to not split the ecosystem. It’s been a long hard road...
No, we don't. We live in a local minimum based on what we're actually well equipped to define and measure, and what people in positions of power are willing to treat as actionable information.

Politics is swinging to the extremes, violence is changing it's clothes, taking on other less familiar forms. Trust in the system is at a low.

Economic inequality is rife; infrastructure and the environment is approaching levels of instability previously unheard of.

These aren't media bubbles. These are failures to maintain or achieve higher order awareness. All of these things are feeding into each other in myriad ways; they can't be reasoned in individual contexts for solutions. That's the thinking that got us where we are. They need to be reasoned about as a whole.

Problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them in the first place.
Crystalline (table sugar). Powered would likely work as well. The baking soda destroys them from the inside out, basically blowing them up. Roaches have strong stomach acid, but they cannot "burp" so the baking soda creates a mini explosion inside them. Fitting end.
A basic calculator today is more powerful than Apollo 11 mission main computer
Typhoon, a minimal and free Kubernetes distribution
Here: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36152571

> The view of many, including the OECD and the European Commission, is that the labour market is at the heart of the problem, though it's not the only factor.

> That reflects a persistent complaint from business: that it's too expensive to hire workers and to fire them or lay them off if they need to.

> The OECD says in its assessment of the French economy: "To reduce the duality of the labour market, the procedures for laying off employees, particularly those on permanent contracts, need to be simplified and shortened….
Unrelated to the primary content and purpose of this post but this was actually a pretty interesting use of an image map. Sadly the polygons don't seem to align that greatly with the image, nor does it seem like mobile Chrome applies the tap-helping algorithm it uses to help you tap the link you "intended" to tap (rather than were your finger actually registered its coordinates).

I was also surprised to find that there's lots and lots of text stowed away in the HTML comments. Perhaps it's a peak into how this particular article evolved?
Yeah, it's 150ppm. Anything less than that and we're definitely heading towards mass extinction, as proven by history. Anything on the upper bound is theoretical and based on shaky models, whereas the lower bound is proven based on historical examples.

Edit: Bring on the downvotes, but it won't change the science.
Nomads Travel to America’s Walmarts to Stock Amazon’s Shelves
The Anxiety Healing Program: A Touch That Will Never Be Forgotten
Previous HN on DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371741
That's a great idea!

https://arcosanti.org/project/about-arcosanti/
Hate spoilers? This AI tool spots them for you
You could be right.

I base my estimates on several very admiring write-ups on Woz's genius early designs.

But of course those kinds of stories travel better than "his designs were half decent and did the job good enough to capture an empty market", and winners always write history, etc.
Yeah, that is what I was trying say. The money is available but we choose to spend it on other things that seem less important but have powerful vested interests behind it.

If we spend it on fighting climate change instead someone else will get that money, and the people currently getting it is not going to let them happen without a fight.
Feels like the first thing I'd do when coding with this would be a hilbert curve <-> linear form converter script.

edit: ah, right there's some commands that can move in 2D and depend on the position in the hilbert curve, so that'd probably be harder than expected.
But what if you want more than just YouTube? :)

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

Very useful for even strange sites like my local news station that uses a broken Flash media player.
My prediction is that we will do the latter first and then maybe do the former.
100% agree. When I was at my best, I was lifting weights every morning before going to work & it’s super addicting.

Fast forward to today after a 7 month grueling project, and I’m exhausted every day so I’m being a scumbag and not going to the gym in the AM. I started running a few miles each night about 3 weeks ago, and I’ve been more clear headed than before.

Time to get back to lifting heavy things up and putting them back down again in the AM.
To contrast this, I found that I much prefer to play Celeste with the joy-con buttons. The Pro's D-Pad is mostly excellent, but it seems a bit too eager to trigger diagonal inputs, which in a tight platformer like Celeste is typically a death.

Of course, the left Joy-con still has those signal disconnect issues...
I propose greater enforcement of existing traffic laws (instead of just speed and DUI); and a heavier hand when it comes to revocation. This would target those who need to be retested the most regardless of age and the burden of doing so can be put on them through fees.
> Strange to think that a railroad executive would turn out to be an overgrown four-year-old

I'd rather say it's impressive your four-year-old nephew precociously identified great ideas in human entertainment, decades before his time!