skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if they just paid people to record their voice they would not get training data for real use cases.

I cannot find the blog post now, but quite a few years ago I recall some Google employees noticed a large number of queries for "cha cha cha cha cha..." from Android users in New York. All of the queries were done using voice search, so they listened to a few of the recordings. It turns out that their speech-to-text models were interpreting the sound of the NYC metro pulling into a station as speech.

Obviously they didn't have enough training data of people trying to talk next to a train.
This would be interesting to check; I know there are few people on the Pi forums exploring some of the outer edges of what's now possible with a decent USB controller.
I love Speedcrunch and it's an integral part of my Windows workflow, but not as flexible as Numi or Soulver. I would incorporate either of those two into my Windows workflow if they were available as such with the same responsiveness and footprint.
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Look at the absolute intellectual-curiosity-free morons the masses are electing to lead us across the world. We are past that point.
"Market can be irrational for longer than you can remain solvent"
Intel’s New Omni-Directional Interconnect Combines EMIB, Foveros
That or you're reading too much Hunter Thompson.
Really like https://calca.io
Was looking for this one. Implemented in Haskell too!
You can provide the software as a service BUT you have to give the source code to all users, including your modifications if you have made any.

In other words - you can't sell SaaS based on AGPL software + proprietary secret sauce, you have to share back your secret sauce with all users.

It doesn't prevent you from selling it as SaaS, I could sell vanilla Mattermost as a service under AGPL, my selling point might be that I provide high reliability and excellent support.

Do you have an example of that dual license?

I don't see how that would work, the first person you give an MIT license to can re-distribute it under MIT to anyone else, including corporations.

Usually for dual-license you have the opposite, you would have a restrictive license like AGPL for the public, and you would sell non-free licenses with no redistribution rights that allow modifications without sharing back, for corporate clients who want to add their secret sauce to the software without having to give away the secret sauce for free.
I agree. We've been engineering the atmosphere for hundreds of years by burning fossil fuels. We have to continue engineering it by blocking heat energy or radiating it away from the planet somehow. We'll still have to then sequester the carbon we'll continue to emit in various niche industries, and sequester the massive amount of historical emissions.

I was thinking with the cheapened cost of space flight in the next couple of decades, couldn't we lift a huge solar reflector sail in between our planet's poles and the sun? Just block 1% of the heat energy or so, would that be possible?
Just a heads up, the sign up for your newsletter has a really irritating reCAPTCHA. I have gone through at multiple grids to no avail. I have given up at this point. The newsletter is not worth it.
Answer to that question: because people are greedy and can't be expected to do the ethical thing. That's why we need government regulation.
Fairly soon? We're barely getting man-sized robots that can open doors and walk over stairs. You would need thousands of much better robots that can not only walk more difficult terrain but also navigate and search completely autonomously and pursue at a high speed (some cockroaches can even fly) while having enough strength to crush them.
The phones listen in the same fashion as the in-home devices, is what I mean - they both work on the wakeup words. So if you're mistrustful of the in-home devices, you should be petrified of your morning commute.
I agree that going 100% vegan is "a large quality of life impact". I don't agree that going vegetarian is.

>much of the world disagrees

Much of the world didn't ever try it.
So what's the threat model for being enslaved by Google Home?
What we need is an AI to label the training data for ML to cut out the need for human workers to listen to people scream "Alexa" during sex. Or new laws to stop people from naming their kids Alexa or variations of it such as Alexander.

I am sure we can whip up some such AI easily with some quantum computing. Preferably in a blockchain so we can verify correct operation and scale better.

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Sure. As I said, my response wasn't intended to undermine the thesis, just to point out some confusion (hopefully in language, possibly in ideas).
Cockroaches are small. Note that most of the animal species that survive mass extinction are small.

Also, ocean warming can trigger anoxic events which release hydrogen sulfide which can suffocate entire coastlines and also attack the ozone layer affecting life everywhere. The worst case feedback loops are nightmarish.

And it would also be nice to avoid the not-even-worst case where civilization is reduced to some isolated enclaves clinging on with their bare lives.
I figured there must be some precedent involving Cliffs/Sparks/Coles Notes, but all I could find was this: [1]. Unfortunately it just talks about an upcoming lawsuit, not the result.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/04/prof-sues-note/
I would add a new @type property to table elements and publish it as HTML6 standard. @type=reactive would let you add/delete rows in the table.
Yeah, that narrative isn't new; its being covered in various documentaries and books, including this cartoon [1]

Harari gives very good examples of how money is useful for trade in his book. These examples underline how money is useful for trade. Its downright impractical to trade goods for goods because of multiple factors: fluctuation of value, different values for different people, lack of preference of the item from one of the parties.

Perhaps there was not one reason why money is useful. There surely isn't one now.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC6RSau7r8
What FPGA are you planning on using?
I'd like to offer a counterpoint to romanticizing the Amish way of life.

Love it or hate it, our current world would not have developed the way it has if everyone was following the Amish way of life. They enjoy a massive number of benefits that were born out of alternative-to-them life styles. For example we may have "an endless stream of distracting media" but we also have a hugely increased life span and reduced mortality rate due to advances in modern science.

To me, this is a bit like the "self-made" billionaire ignoring all the societal infrastructure afforded to them..
Intel takes the chiplet concept to the next level with co-EMIB, ODI connections
The original statement implied that profits always trump safety. The reply points out that, over time, safety has generally become more regarded. Of course there is still progress to be made, but it's silly to think that train crashes as dangerous as those in the article we be allowed in most of today's developed countries.
Poincare has proven that it's impossible to synchronize clocks exactly
I usually use Mathematica for this kind of thing.
Interesting. And https://html.brow.sh/maps.google.com generates a timeout.

The only thing I can think of is the filtering I had to setup after Browsh got blacklisted for rendering https://html.brow.sh/https://mail.google.com as it was seen as a phishing attempt. Now I 301 redirect all matches for `[mail|accounts].google.com`.

If you install Browsh yourself you can customise the redirect filters however you want.
It is true, instead of MITMing the HTTP request, you can MITM the DNS request. The issue then is that you need to distribute and configure the private key and certificate on all the static file servers rather than just on the router
Your comment has nothing to do with any of the arguments nightski brought up.
kobeomsuk is a Korean furniture making channel
To a limited extent. The accelerated graphics on ARM (and cell phones) has always been a system integrator problem. Until very recently, they were not user customizable - which means the initialisation was part of the proprietary firmware and hard to port across even different implementations of the same SoC.

The x86 world had the advantage of user upgradable GPUs, which necessitates standardization and common firmware.

On top of which, the accelerated graphics of cell phones is a horrible kludge of various standards.
Very good article! Learned a lot of interesting things. Nice work :)
For Windows you might want to checkout OpalCalc. The website is horrible, but the product is actually good (if ugly).
> like how Ubuntu asks me if I want to send them my core dumps

While I like how Ubuntu does it, I actually like better how Fedora does it. Not only do they ask to submit core dumps but gives you the ability to annotate and inspect what gets sent as well as gives you a bug report ID which you can use to follow up on.
In the Final Minutes of His Life, Calvin Has One Last Talk with Hobbes
Nitpick: the first 15'' retina was introduced in 2012 on which the 2015 model is based on.

Anyway I agree, a new MBP has to be in the works. Hopefully it will be released this year without the butterfly keyboard and the touch bar.
We were seeing some issues, one engineer was blaming signal integrity issues, we didn't have access to a high enough speed oscope to get a clean eye diagram, and so another engineer literally disappeared for an hour and had the boards running over the clothes hangars on the old firmware to say, no, it's not a questionable signal integrity issue, go back and fix your code.
It sounds like you're hoping for this as evidence that you were right to be concerned; have you considered that you might be wrong? What if your coworkers are right, and the risk is actually extremely low? How would you determine that?
I hear this every year when I post new benchmark results, but it's weird, I have literally not had one microSD card failure when using any of SanDisk, Samsung, or Sony.

I had one fail with a Toshiba card, but at that time I was also using a cheap micro USB power adapter that probably wasn't putting out a solid 2A.

I think the primary reason people have problems with microSD card corruption is the power supply. Even with a good power supply, when you plug in a lot of USB devices and push a Pi to the limits, it can draw ~2+ Amps, and only very good power supplies will not have weird issues at that draw.

The Pi doesn't handle that situation very well (nor do microSD cards).

But running my Pis headless (no USB accessories attached) without any video output keeps the power draw down to 1-1.5A max, even when CPUs are maxed out and I'm saturating the network.
My problem with C++ isn't the lack of borrow checker - this is the feature I like the least in Rust (I know it's their core design goal but frankly the inconvenience and limitations it imposes don't seem worth it for my use case, and then theres the compile times).

C++ lack of modules and package management on the other hand is a huge PITA and I'm not optimistic either of those bolted on so late in to the language lifecycle will provide a useful solution.

It's a pity D took it too far in the other direction with GC and runtime - I really could use a C with classes and modules.
It’s useful to talk about people who are self funded/ directed vs people who are part of an institution like a corporation or university.
It'll make a big difference if the USA has a Democratic president, but the Senate will still be GOP most likely, and the supreme court is majority conservative AKA GOP, and unlikely to help. Therefore, we need massive pushes on the innovation/cost front, we need blue states to pull us forward (thank you NY, CA, and MA), and we need a lot of individual effort towards greening our transport, homes, diet, etc.
Those statistics compare it to a time when it was absurdly high though in the midst of massive lobbying efforts to prevent gun control regulations (but also significant increases due to the war on drugs and generally elevated crime rates). There still has been a noticeable recent uptick [1]. And there would be better studies regarding the nature of these crimes if there weren't corporate lobbying being done to block that research. [2]

Maybe it is all just related to opiates but I've yet to see any significant study there and the numbers on a per-state basis don't seem to align with opiate-related deaths.

PS: I'm not on the "ban all the guns" side of the debate or anything. My point was just that corporations most certainly do profit from death or violence even today and the main thing stopping them is regulation or consumer backlash. Otherwise their sole existence is to maximize profit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/13/us-gun-death...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/04/05/599773911/how-the-nra-worked-...
> Yes! It was great! People would just transmit username and password in plaintext!

> Wait. That's actually the opposite of great. That's why nobody uses it any more.

Unless of course, if you're using HTTPS, in which case HTTP basic auth is fine and very simple to configure for many use cases.
That's a really big claim. No, technically they were not profitable for several years. Then, in the last 10-12 years, you are right that they invested heavily in R&D and everyone knows that one story.
https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization

Click on Voice & Audio Activity, then Manage Activity. You can listen to and delete every recording Google has of your voice. It's a little trippy to be honest. They've had this since long before the GDPR.
I share your egalitarian spirit, but I you're a little off here.

I don't think there's anything demeaning or low-class in being a "citizen scientist" or an amateur (which means someone who does something for the love of it, "ama"). And I think it's proper to give respect to those who have gone the distance to become professional scientists. Certainly the few scientists I've been honored to meet pretty much are on a different level than us amateurs.
yeah but then how do you get organic traffic?
Just to be clear, there is a mistake in this post. Adding a noindex tag will cause google to not display the page in their search results. They will still crawl ( they have to), in order to see that directive.

Also, keep in mind that google has recently changed the way they deal with robots.txt. So they only way to do what the author is suggesting is to add the noindex meta tag and let them crawl. Once they are removed from the index, block the google IPs.
"I don't like one of their products so I don't want anyone to find the stuff I write online"

Unless you are dependent on SEM, AMP doesn't really hurt you. This whole no-index thing is ridiculous and not at all possible for any sufficiently large website/company.

Only thing I can agree with is the alternative search engine point. We really need more competition in the field, so Google is forced to cater to it's user's wishes more instead of purely pushing their agenda on them.
And in the world where people in Walmart are paid $200 an hour, what price does Walmart sell a jar of pickles for?
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Likely Apple is reducing the laptop lineup because they aren't selling enough. Although they have been great machines (I still use a Pro every day) they are not competitively priced. Especially for a student, a laptop at roughly half the price for enough comparative capabilities is a much better selection. For hardcore software development and graphics work, a Dell XPS is also roughly half the price. The display performance may not quite compare to the Pro but the price difference is huge.

Reducing the line up indicates to me that Apple recognizes they are not competitive in this market and they are pulling out. Apple's business focus has been and continues to go in other directions.
Are they actually blocking Google somehow?

No robots.txt, no 403 when using a Googlebot user agent to fetch the site page...
what motivates all these esolangs? these fractals tend to be coding exercises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve
Using artificial intelligence to detect discrimination
> As fewer results of such not-for-profit websites show up in Google Search, competition will be reintroduced to the search market.

I don't think it will. While I personally hate AMP, and disagree with many of Google's practices, this is not the solution. Google is everywhere.

It is the default search engine on almost every browser, as well as on most devices. How often do you hear someone say "look it up" as opposed to "Google it"? The latter is much more common in my experience. Google is synonymous with internet searches.

Outside of tech circles, no one is going to make an effort to even try other search engines. There's a reason Bing and Yahoo are treated as a joke.

Google is also the best at searches. While other search engines are slowly catching up, and Google's own results are becoming worse, it's still way better then most search engines - especially when it comes to specific and local/regional results.

Lastly, blocking Google means that you site also won't show up on Startpage.com results, because it sources results from Google. This is unfortunate, since Startpage is definitely one of the search engines that respect your privacy the most.
Binging with Babish: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw

His basisc series is what has essentially been teaching me how to cook, and the binging series is great for getting some inspiration.
The kids need to be picked up in a car partly (largely?) because there's no alternative. Given increased public transit, they may be able to get themselves to soccer practice.
The Mycroft project has a better approach to this:

"Mycroft uses opt-in privacy. This means we will only record what you say to Mycroft with your explicit permission. Don’t want us to record your voice? No problem! If you’d like us to help Mycroft become more accurate, you can opt in to have your voice anonymously recorded."

(project is open source, at https://mycroft.ai/)

Let people participate in R&D if they want to, but don't force it.
The Early Impact of 5G (Infographic)
Seconded (though I'm tentatively switching to dc[0], reverse polish notation ftw), can anyone who has used both Numi and Soulver point out the differences between the two? They look super similar to me.

[0] https://www.computerhope.com/unix/udc.htm
I wrote https://dedo.io/ as a web version of this, since there's no good equivalent for linux
No, they don't, however, accidental activation is still highly likely.

I've had other people's devices activate during conversations where I couldn't figure out which part of the sentence activated them, it just happens.

"Ok, Go get..."
"Ok, Good ..."
"All except..."
"Sir, I..."

Then you have television shows and adverts that intentionally use language to activate these assistants.

Usually the assistants are going to say something when it accidentally detects a wake word, but if you're in another room or don't hear it for some reason, it can easily capture a conversation without you knowing.
This. Excel as a notepad would be great. Don't know enough about windows desktop development to implement my own solution, but I'm surprised that nothing currently exists.
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Facebook amends ban on calls for violence, adds exceptions
That point was raised earlier in a different branch of the discussion. My response is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403067
No, the single best thing you can do for yourself at this point is move away from water, learn basic farming skills, and teach your kids and grand kids how to survive the next, turbulent, 100 years.
If there's ever a way to avoid writing small chunks to disk, that's preferred. But I think people are spoiled by having fast SSDs in their local machines, and much of today's software, web applications, etc. expect to be able to treat SSDs as RAM, pretty much.

Once I can fully boot my Pis off USB, I'm planning on reworking my cluster to run off SSD alone to see what kind of performance I can get out of it.
> Google needs to stick to being a solid search engine instead of trying to be gate keepers

While I agree with the sentiment, I feel like this ship sailed years ago - it's like saying "Amazon should stick to being an ecommerce platform".

What's more, Google was never in the business of "being a solid search engine". Google is and always has been in the business of selling access to users' eyeballs. AMP - as much as I hate it - is directly in line with their core business.
Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches
Or attempt a weird version of this raining upwards trick from Now You See Me 2, but with spiders... https://youtu.be/6qBwKnh99ck
> societal implications of those technologies

Asserting your point of view as "educated" and "correct" while labeling people who don't share it as dangerous. Doesn't sound like a great way to start a discussion.
That would be where the new row is, but not where you were scrolled to previously.
Open source maintainership can be an exercise in stress and guilt. You don't owe people anything and self-care is very important. Thanks for creating the project, and good job handing out some commit bits. Take care of yourself first, the code will come along eventually.
I just bought a brand new New 3DS XL (Pikachu edition) off Amazon for $213 last week
Lobbying and voting for pro-renewable politicians (or at least those that are neutral).
It starts with one, Google abused their power too many times. Get a good domain name and direct traffic. That is all.
Well the same applies to images because they can be used for tracking.
I've checked a couple of fake Sundisk cards from Aliexpress as well, detected as fake as they should.
Yeah... it surprised me that the VLI USB chip was much hotter than the processor even during CPU stress testing. Between that and the little power controller chip by the USB-C power supply port, the Pi 4 pretty much demands active cooling for any but the most mundane tasks.
Intel reveals three new chip packaging technologies