skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would ordinary people assume that this testing is done on live customer data? I understand that this is a common practice in the industry, it's not the only way to do the testing, and I'd bet it would surprise most people.
It's funny as a previous dev that worked with Magento, they said that Shopify did not pose any threat to their business. But I think it's getting clear now that Magneto/Adobe's positioning in the market (enterprise/large-ish medium businesses) is still a good niche but seems like their losing a lot of the SMB customers that made the Magento community what it was.
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Nope.

They need a sufficient internet infrastructure. People with access to it.

People with money to spend.

People with enough peace of mind to spend it on something else than absolute essentials.

People with enough peace of mind and free time to leisurely waste on mostly useless websites.

People to whom the physical goods of a great number of their advertisers can be delivered (infrastructure & post system).

Eyeballs alone are worthless.

The differences in CPC between an affluent white male working in tech in San Francisco and a poor black woman selling peanuts on the street in Rufisque, Senegal (which isn't even the most extreme opposite one could think of) is proof of that.
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Bing has a rewards program, I have a few friends who use Bing just to collect something like ten bucks of Amazon gift card every month.
Recursion schemes are the FP way of doing the Visitor Pattern. You can get annotations with (coelgot, zygo) which are super useful for tupecheckers, allow the fold to accumulate effects (gana, gcata), or even look into the future of the recursion (futu).

They do get a bit much at times though, since you can compose them easily. Zygohistoprepromorphisms are one example of this.
The infinity symbol is part of the code. This is about "the first N elements of an infinite sequence".

Explaining laziness without infinite lists makes laziness harder to understand.
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> No one* that gives it more than a passing thought

*who has an understanding of ML
The term is "amateurization", and it can lead to efficiencies since the lesser skilled labor pool is larger.
Most importantly, the PIN is used to unlock a private key in the hardware TPM module: it's the private key that is the real password for the account at that point. The PIN is never sent over the wire anywhere (no server knows it, it isn't even on the local hard-drive, it's just a TPM unlock code), it simply unlocks that key and it is that device key that is then used to unlock everything else.

(Same for Windows Hello whether faceprint or thumbprint or what have you: the biometrics just unlock the local TPM key, they are never shared outside of that device and its relationship with the local TPM.)
You have to file a federal tax return to get an ITIN in US.
And there's a lot of taxes that US leverages...
The more blockstack and the ecosystem is decentralized the less the tokens are a security.
Yeah... his current employer already does.
Is this honestly surprising to any developer? How can you develop a product like Siri/OK Google without being able look closely at edge cases? And if you have to record conversations to troubleshoot even extremely rare edge cases, you still end up with a system that allows this eavesdropping.
>but it wasn't done maliciously.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion.
Having worked for a few shops where the internally developed software I helped write was seen as an expense, and a tool to facilitate the company's real work, I'm skeptical this will work all that well in the general case.

My data points, though limited in number, indicate a strong tendency on the part of these kinds of shops to build solutions that are over-fit to their particular workflows, and to under-resource their development. I was, in one of these environments, explicitly told that version control and separate development/test/production — or even just dev and prod — environments were a silly extravagance.

I'm sure there exist shops that don't do it that badly. I'm more sure, however, that they're not the norm.
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> If our major failures are ultimately the result of ill will, but humans are inherently malign creatures, or our collective endeavours are always undermined by the malignant actions of some individuals, then this would be little comfort indeed.

If people really believed that they wouldn't complain so much about it and they certainly wouldn't be politically active about it. There would be no point.

Arguably, this is true for most of the population. But there is a big loud minority that works very hard to make sure the correct lizard rules over us, so they must believe that not all humans are inherently evil.
>On second thought, there's a faster way to the goal. Just make smartphones listen all the time.

Which is why all the complaints about these smart speakers have always seemed a little silly to me. Tapping into the audio of the phone we all carry with us everywhere is infinitely more valuable than tapping into a stationary speaker that is probably sitting in a room alone 90% of the time. It is also much easier to hide all the bandwidth associated with capturing all that extra audio since it has access to a network that the user doesn't completely control. Plus it has access to sensors like a camera and GPS that can reveal info that is even more private than audio.

TL;DR - If you don't trust Google's smart speakers, why are your trusting their phone software?
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I don't really understand who an "open source turnkey ecommerce solution" serves.

The last thing you need when trying to sell product is to now deal with running software and a server. Kinda reminds me of when I thought I could build a webshop for my father with Rails and Stripe. Thank god I realized sooner than later that there's basically zero upside to running this software and I switched my father to Shopify where he's happily been since.

I think this kind of solution only seems good to HN nerds who don't realize what Shopify brings to the table, or that technology is somehow the hardest part of running a webshop. It seems naive.

Since you're asking these questions, it sounds like you don't have much domain experience. I encourage you to create a simple Shopify shop and try selling something, if only to see what it gives you out of the box that your turnkey solution can't. That would be essential experience to have before you even make your initial commit.
My experience has been the opposite. Of all the people I've worked with using Macs, all of them were developing cross-platform open source software. I've yet to meet a single developer making MacOS applications.
sometimes, but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Your story does sounds like bad medical practice.

The use of antibiotics is actually very institution specific. Hospital usually have antibiotic protocols - the tests that should be run and what drugs are used 1st line, 2nd line, etc.

Antibiotic resistance can be really high at one hospital and really low at another hospital down the street.
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It's a good burial place and/or a good place to preserve bones.
Thanks for clarifying that. I have occasionally had that need. Some protocols like SAML are actually doing in-browser redirects so they bypass that problem.

I'll bookmark this in case I have this need in the future.
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It seems like it should be the opposite right? There is no uranium being exchanged with the environment after burial, so you can determine the age by how much has decayed.
https://cen.acs.org/energy/solar-power/Supercharging-silicon... has some good takes from people in the field
Will the source of this be published to github (or similar) for contributing?
> If instead of almost 8 billion humans there were 4 billions we wouldn't be in this mess either.

I'm not sure your logic follows. The US outputs roughly 13% of global CO2 emissions despite having 4% of the world population.

If the ratio of population to CO2 output was scaled in this case, 7.5 billion US citizens would output 118,000 Mt of CO2 per year. Halving that (to less than 4 billion humans) would be 59,000 Mt of CO2 per year, and the current global output is 37,000 Mt per year.
Sounds like a great recipe to end US tech dominance and tank the market cap of global companies.
Part of me originally wanted the US to retaliate since this theoretically threatens my paycheck, but a 3% tax on revenue generated within the country is pretty low and seems reasonable considering how ineffective taxing profits is due to loopholes.

I really don't think it's sour grapes so much as trying to address the Irish/Luxembourgish tax schemes
What if you don't live near an apple store? Why not let the user manage their own battery, that is also not a terrific challenge.
Its supported in IE, Chrome and Firefox, havent tried Safari and others. They will wait until timeout, then try the next IP. IE will give up if the second IP is down, while Firefox and Chrome will try many IPs
No, the smaller, more recent one that was mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
>Then there’s the cyclists that think it’s appropriate to ride on the divider between the bike lane and the car lanes instead of in the lane itself.

People don't want to get doored. That's the main reason why I do this and deem this necessary. There are well traveled bike lanes out where where you do need to ride on the margin of the lane because it wasn't built parking protected and there was no space buffer set aside for car doors.
It's the same skill, just a different degree of practice. Depending on your skill level drawing involves a lot of simple geometric shapes and then using those shapes as a point of reference to draw the final result. The reason why art seems so difficult is because people don't see the intermediate steps which were taken, they only see the final result.
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> A good programmer will write readable code in any language,

That's a fantasy, pure and simple. Taking the statement on its face, let us ignore the undefined boundaries of "good" or "readable" and focus on the practical issue. Have you seen Brainfuck or Whitespace? Many languages are less readable than others, be it incidentally or by design. People are imperfect beings and for whatever "good" means, a "good" or "bad" programmer will write code that is against their assessed skill at times.
ISPs generally don’t own the land cables run over/under
That's just making the user need _more_ passwords, and will result in bad password mangement and lost access. Also pins are quite a bit easier to shoulder surf, so this is just nuts.
France has a robust nationalization laws, btw.
If US becomes belligerent enough, Alstom may be taken away from GE.
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Nah, that’s overthinking it, I think. States are also like participants in a market. In exchange for access to French citizens, France charges some people some amount. It’s really no different from what Facebook charges you for running an ad on their platform. It’s decoupled from cost because it’s not about cost.
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I'm pretty sure the Nexus 5X I got off of craigslist is an unbranded, unlocked phone with an OS from Google, and it makes wifi calls on T-Mobile.
Typically there is a relay at the battery to cut high voltage to the rest of the vehicle. Also, some components have requirements to discharge internal capacitance (and hence the bus) in a short time. A crash should trigger all this, but I suppose from a safety POV you can never be completely certain.
Employees can only give answers they know about, and a general battery issue was denied by Apple. That they didn't tell their own employees does not clear Apple from misleading their customers.

Aside, I'm pretty sure that Apple Stores do care about margin, and so do employees that identify with their business or are encouraged by their managers, but I am not accusing them (the employees) of anything.
Not disputing your number, but wherever you got it, it’s likely “40% of challenged patents” that are invalid. Only a relatively small subset of patents are challenged.

As an aside; patent attorney productivity is an elusive concept. Or any attorney, at that. And that is because every single attorney only cares about one metric: billable hours. Not volume of work produced, not client wins, but billable hours. Efficiency to an attorney means lower effort to bill more hours. Quality is not a concern, only hours. I cannot stress enough how traditional concepts of efficiency or success or effectiveness don’t apply to lawyers. It’s a deeply flawed industry. And in patent work, it’s difficult for clients to determine if the lawyer is doing a good job or not. Concrete results are many years down the road, and often the in-house attorneys supervising aren’t qualified or given enough time to evaluate ongoing prosecution efforts across a large portfolio.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20402070 "People who install Google Home or Assistant are not advised that people can listen to the voice commands."
Yeah. In the same way the Somalian market did in the 2000s.
I fail to see the relevance of Samsung not updating their phones to Google not wanting Android to be forked. If Samsung had forked Android, they still wouldn't update old phones.
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Rate-limiting & banning after repeat failed login attempts should be the baseline moat an IT admin or selfhosted infrastructure should have.

Fail2ban rules like "after 5 failed logins, ban for 30min, 10 failed logins in a day (with no succesful login) is a permaban" will curtail most non-spear phishing attacks.
What's a rocker channel?
I believe that you've never played chess or anything similar. If you did, I'm certain that you would not say what you say so easily. RTSes are always played using heuristic, experience based decision-making on the spot. I think you're mistaking calling back on past experience with actual strategic thinking and deep planning. You cannot play purely turn based games like chess that way at all.
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Only 0.2 %? 1 out of every 500? That seems like a lot to me, especially given that there must be millions if not billions of interactions. How many of those things are out there? And how many interactions does the average user perform? And they keep them all? Forever? I could probably find the numbers myself or at least estimate them, I just don't care enough. I would however by happy to learn them if someone happens to know them.
You should try Bai’s soda like tasting drinks as far more healthy, and would make the transition to water or flavored water such as with lime and lemon more manageable. Also working out a lot will make you want to drink a lot more water, though adding a significant workout routine adds it’s own set of challenges.
quickjs.c is 47,842 lines of non-generated code. :mindblown:
Well I meant as bad as drinking too much water.

When your weight is 70kg you can safely consume 2800mg per day. And that's a lot!
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Because other companies are already covered by tax laws.

They try fooling around with said laws, but for them it's illegal and they better not get caught.
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In some ways, this is missing the point. To people working in machine learning, this isn't a revelation. To ordinary people, it is.

A common refrain that comes up in discussions about privacy is that ordinary consumers don't care about stuff like Google Home. They don't care about privacy, only weird tech people care about privacy.

However, the fact that articles like this get traction shows that a substantial portion of ordinary people don't understand what privacy they're giving up when they use Google Home. They didn't understand when they were installing the devices that a human was going to be able to listen to their recordings. And when they do understand that a human might be listening, that creeps them out.

This implies two things:

a) if properly informed and educated, normal people probably would care about privacy more. Part of the reason why it's mostly tech-people complaining about Google Home and Alexa is because it's mostly tech-people who understand what these devices do.

b) consumers aren't being properly informed about the privacy implications of devices like Google Home and Alexa, or else they wouldn't be surprised by any of this. If this news story is getting traction, it means that Google did not do a good enough job informing users about who had access to their data.
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$100M sounds like a lot of money, but that's over 3 years.

So $33.3M per year or roughly $2.8 million per month. Time claims to see 65 million unique visitors per month so that works out to less than a nickle per unique user every month.

I'm paying Google Fi $10 / gigabyte for bandwidth on my phone. If the images and javascript in an Outbrain ad are more than 5 MB, then I'm paying more for the bandwidth than Time is getting to show me that. I wish I could just pay Time sixty cents per year and not have to see those ads.
As well as passivates the Si
There’s a lot of good ideas to reduce costs for patentees, but this article doesn’t really touch on any of them
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From the FAQ:

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Do you know who his current employer is (if any)?
I have a Google Home in every room of my home. This only records after the trigger word, right? And it isn’t tied to my account? Well, then, I’m fine with it.
surely no one is surprised by this? why would you put a device in your home that is constantly listening to you? crazy.
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Maybe by impressions only. But I think these days are long gone.
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If Upwork will disqualify you for payment for not fulfilling a set of rules in a rather than look into the source of the dispute as a misunderstanding from a completion, I find that in bad faith and a terrible customer support experience.
A common mistake (those who see themselves as) clever people make is that they believe that if you win an argument, you are correct.

That's why when a person is upset and has a hard time expressing themselves, or when an old person struggles to explain the importance of some traditional custom to a new generation, people tend to automatically dismiss them. We often care more about winning arguments than about finding truth.
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If the 3 letter agencies need a terror event to justify installing microphones throughout the country, then they will instigate the terror event themselves. There are already cameras. They didn't need announcements or justification. The cameras just went up, and they continue going up. If any justification was needed to blanket the country in cameras, it was "terror". Would they not have already installed microphones? Of course there are microphones, at least in portions of cities. We simply don't know the extent. They are probably being actively installed. Cameras are everywhere, why not microphones? Up next (now): 5G! A tool of surveillance being pushed by the FCC (because Ajit cares about streaming video) to install (more) spy devices on street corners, in addition to all the cameras and bluetooth. Did anyone ask for it? If the agencies haven't already infiltrated every hardware manufacturer (or strong-armed them, or compelled them by law), then they are certainly in a race to compromise every currently-uncompromised device on the market. People know, or at least suspect, that their phones are listening to them, through whatever apps they've carelessly downloaded under the illusion that the apps must be "safe" because they must be "vetted" because they are from "respectable companies". Regular people suspect their phones are spying on them (there are countless accounts and videos and articles to this end), and do they curb their behavior in any way? Do they turn their phones off, ever? No. "It's creepy" is about as far as it goes before that wall of cognitive dissonance. Why? Because they are addicted to the blinking lights, the egoist mentality that social media has driven into them, or whatever "fix" they think they need by constantly inspecting the tiny box they carry, which incidentally broadcasts their location everywhere they go. The agencies don't need justification because they sell us on fear so that we self-report and link our doorbells to police stations, and they convince us that this is what we want, or that this is what we need - that this is just the way things are. It's only when we need convincing that they resort to real terror. The rest is just talking about it.
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The idea behind taxation is "the government needs money to function, and it alone has the authority to take it by force". Anything else is a post hoc justification.