skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: how do you think Home, Alexa, Siri, etc were trained before coming to the market ?

Another serious question: couldn't you ask ME to fix the data every so often (like the "improve this traduction" feature of google translate) ?
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You wouldn't lower your quality of life, just your quality of luxury.

Your quality of life would presumably improve due to cleaner air and less pollution. If you take public transit you are also lowering your carbon footprint and alleviating congestion, improving quality of life for you and everyone else in town. If you walk or bike (I bike every day and find it faster to get to work than driving in rush hour traffic, in fact), you are getting a little cardio out of the deal and improving your quality of life. And presumably if enough people opt to walk/bike/transit, investment in that infrastructure will follow and quality of life in that department will also improve.

The true costs of our luxury goods like a personal car are completely hidden to us. It's important to realize how harmful to quality of life certain luxuries we are accustom to really are.
I believe the standard says that move does "valid but unspecified" for standard library objects, but does not generally guarantee that moved from objects must be valid.
>When meritocrats and technocrats fail to seize power, extinction ensues.

I'm curious to see how your sample size for that statement is anything other than 0.

>The oligarchs of the world have more than enough money to fix all the climate issues, but since they derive their wealth from exploiting the climate, there is no hope for a fix from them.

There's a huge disconnect here. The wealthy of the world do not have massive piles of cash sitting around with which they can use to change all of society to value the environment. The majority of their wealth is in assets...companies, properties, relationships etc. The value exists in those assets because of a huge underlying social structure that supports that value. You allude to it when you say "since they derive their wealth from X." That wealth is mobilized only through structures that permeate and are supported by most of human society.

It's easy to point our fingers at wealthy people and blame them for not fixing the world, but the reality is that they are merely figureheads for the global trends of our collective decisions. You want the top of a pyramid to touch another point in the sky, because it is clearly the tallest and has reach, but you want it to do so without moving the entire supporting pyramid base. It's not going to happen. The change has to be grass roots, only then will the wealth of the world represent different collective decisions.

The only alternative to grass roots change is authoritarianism...by forcing society to change through state sponsored violence. But at least here in America, you will find that that will not work out so well for you.
google employees liste to the recordings made with the smart google home speakers and via the google assistant app on smartphones. worldwide ex.belgium and netherlands people listen to those recordings to make the search engineer smarter. VRT NWS was able to listen to more 1,000 tracks thats why the employees must be listeing to the home conversations.
It's a quick way to get around iframe requests when the site in question has something like frame-ancestors set and you're doing local development against it. Ignoring the hosts file makes development more difficult. I like firefox and I develop for it first before chrome and safari but I don't agree with your assessment or theirs.
I haven't done any benchmarking, but for around 200,000 rows of data, which I am handling daily at work, the following line of python code takes around 10 seconds.

pandas.read_json(json_obj).to_sql()

Any transformation of the data before writing into DB is split second with vectorized pandas operation.

Pandas is still my first choice when it comes to tasks like this.
And what, downvote for expressing an opinion - I guess from the OP.

Go on DV this too. Pathetic.
When I need something like that I prefer the crossplatform and open source http://speedcrunch.org
Electron isn't native in any sense of the word. I meant something more like OS-specific binary executables that get loaded and executed in a sandbox.

Mike Acton once said something about having created a browser plugin his team used that loaded and ran binary exe tools on demand, but that it was also wildly insecure. At least I think he said something like that. My memory could be wrong about that.
Forget iPhone 11, Apple's Next iPhones Detailed
Don't you mean dc(1)? If user interfaces don't matter to you, you don't even need a spreadsheet.
If you are going to do this approach, make sure that your ISP's router/modem is not on the same network. I.e. you should be running your own network, then have it connect to the outside world through the Pi-hole which is the only device that is connected to the ISP-controlled hardware.

Otherwise, their hardware could just be reading everything and reporting home on it, since it'd be able to see the unencrypted DNS requests that are sent over its network to the Pi-hole.
[...] the diameter of the observable universe is ~42 billion light-years [...]

That's the radius.
I think you're missing the gap between "could fairly easily be" and "has been".

As a programmer, the REPL and/or notebook interfaces for my favorite languages provide what Soulver offers already, so it isn't as valuable to me. To a non-programmer, Soulver seems like a very pleasant, user-friendly tool.
3% is still significant and such estimates vary. Some estimate it at 15%.

Moreover, greenhouse gas emissions aren't end all be all. Animal agriculture fucks up the environment. It's a source of drug-resistant diseases.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/04/animal...

Unless you have certain medical issue, the cost of not eating meat is just a minor inconvenience.
I reimplemented a simplified version of it 7 years ago (wow, time flies) and open sourced it, if people are interested. https://github.com/vjeux/soulver.js
I personally use Numi, which is very similar. I like the ability to assign variables and reuse them (and change the value of the variable on the fly, instantly redoing all other calculations).

https://numi.io/
Those stats don't really mean anything to the statement that was made. Yes, due to technological, scientific, and social advancements many rates of death are decreasing. However, that does not at all invalidate that profits still trump safety in many industries and decisions worldwide
I castigated no-one for this. I didn't suggest not developing new antibiotics. Far from it. Merely that we use new and old ones wisely. That, and make decision based on data.
They aren't the most efficient mode of transportation, depending on your definition. In terms of carbon, energy utilized, or even time, in many places walking/biking will beat cars. It's not a moronic conspiracy theory to suggest that bringing a 2 ton wheel-chair everywhere we go is inefficient.
Oh. Since full body scanners are now everywhere, why do we still need to take our goddamn shoes off?
I wonder if that's the reason for somewhat patchy USB performance. when copying data between two USB HDDs the data goes at 40-50MB/s for a minute or two then drops down to like 500kb/s and then ramps up again after a while. When copying data the USB chip and the ports themselves get stupidly hot.
What about their current privacy policy do you find hard to understand?
I've been a Soulver user since 2012, and it's been an integral part of my works, even acting as a scratch pad for ideas with numbers.

The UX is the plus here - I am aware that there have been several other apps that have offered a polished UX since then, but the convenience and my learned affinity to Soulver makes me keep it.
When I give a voice command, I know that my voice could be recorded. What I'm actually concerned about is devices which are always listening, even when I'm not giving a voice command, and recordings from when I'm not interacting with the device potentially falling in the wrong hands.
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This is completely departing from the original claim that going vegan is "the single best thing an individual can do" for the planet.
Spreadsheets force you to pick cells, and the formulas are hidden. They are non-linear, this is linear. They also take a lot of screen space, this is tiny.
I haven't used it, but not having to type your data points into separate columns seems to be the benefit here. Instead of forcing rigid entry you can type human-like numeric notes and it will perform the calculations on the fly.
Stay fit or get bit – ethical issues in sharing health data with insurers’ apps
Thanks. I don't have accounts there, nor do I plan to have.
An excellent series indeed :) , binge watched it after Silicon Valley. Ironically the series ended with Yahoo! at its peak and back then I was interning at Oath ( yahoo under Verizon ) and could see the post glory phase at the purple tech giant in Sunnyvale
They are also just in the models and heads of physicists.
Just to give a head's up in re: Dillo browser: https://www.dillo.org/

On modern hardware it's effectively instantaneous. Click the icon to start it and it's up and rendered the homepage before I release the mouse button.

Many sites don't work well in Dillo, but then many sites do.
Maybe that explains all those times I've seen spiders seemingly floating in mid air coming towards me.
Some of these themes are touched upon in this video, based on Douglas Hofstadter's book 'I am a strange loop'.

https://youtu.be/hQsnHkfs3sA
The funny thing is that Excel would basically meet this need perfectly if it didn’t take 5 seconds to open.
The part that sticks out to me is that it only runs on Apple stuff. I imagine lots of Apple users are multi-device households.
>Which is a strong argument for cars. Cars make things drastically more affordable for people. If you remove them, you increase the costs for everything (food, transportation, housing, healthcare, education, etc), to heights no regular person could ever afford.

So why is it that the US has the most expensive healthcare costs in the world, and also extremely high food and housing costs?
Even with a population as low as a few million, humans could rapidly destroy the climate. Or 10B humans could live sustainably for a long time. The pain involved in the latter is fairly small.
Most are, but I have definitely worked on projects that weren't
Based on what I've seen - it's on my list of projects to "try out", but rapidly becoming a more obsolete idea the longer I wait (but then again, I've got an Altair on my todo list, so meh)...

Taking a low-cost Mini ITX board and pairing it with a decent mini-sized GTX 750 TI SC video card (I prefer the EVGA one) should yield a system that is somewhat on par with some of NVidia's embedded ML offerings, with the tradeoff of size and efficiency - but at a significantly reduced cost.

Add a very short PCIe riser ribbon (or, if you can find one tall enough, a right-angle riser), and you could lay the card over "flat" above the CPU (using a 1U cooler/heatsink); you'd have to make a custom mounting frame of course, but I think you could make the whole package relatively compact.

From my limited experience using Tensorflow with the 750 - it is a very capable card in that capacity and relatively inexpensive today. If you were willing to spend a bit more, there are mini-sized NVidia GPUs available in more recent models; of course if space is not an issue, then full-length GPUs can be substituted (my "goal" was to build such a system as close to within the footprint of a Mini-ITX board as possible).

As far as the Mini-ITX motherboard is concerned, again, size to your budget. That said, if you decided to build this system using cheap pre-owned components, maybe an I5 with 8 gig - you could probably get it going for under $250.00 USD, maybe less.
Type annotated calculator. If the author had a Windows version he would probably sell many more licenses, but understandably that's probably not high on their priority list.
Blog posts can't be 'Show HN' submissions https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The concern remains the same though: Making user data available to a non-Google entity.

Do you care if Google makes money off of that trade? Really, they get value one way or another, because the analysis is incorporated back into the product.
What does "PIs" stand for in this context?
> Does even anybody remember the good old HTTP basic acess authentification?

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.

And no, handycapped people aren't excluded just because something doesn't degrade gracefully into a no-JS environment. You can (and many people do) make perfectly accessible web sites that still require JS.

As for offloading captchas to the client? That suffers a similar problem to basic auth - it's extremely vulnerable because attackers can obtain access to information that makes their job trivial. That's why we cannot "come up with a standard" - the client has to be treated as hostile, because there's no way to verify their integrity.
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Previous discussion about nomination: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20358300
Amusingly, there appears to be no relationship between the "Rock Pi" and the Rock64/RockPro64 family. These names are really confusing.
The cost of not eating meat is also a large quality of life impact in that now you can't eat a substantial portion of dishes. Let alone going vegan as the original commenter proposed. You may see this as "just a minor inconvenience", much of the world disagrees.
I don't know how much of Crystal Pepsi's failure is attributable to Tab Clear, but as someone who's tasted Crystal Pepsi I have a hard time imagining it otherwise surviving.
Scent-ient machines are making sense of smell and taste
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*Above: Opera = Oprah

I wish I'd taken more time to write the response in a way that's easier to read; you are most welcome. If it's not working for you, or you need inspiration, or you want to share notes do feel free to drop me an email at nao-at-nao360.com. I have all the time in the world for people that want to be happy, and are willing to put in the work.
You got Speedcrunch which is both crossplatform and opensource
Well, since you can literally build game engines in free spreadsheet apps, probably none, but, as you noticed yourself, the selling point is the UX/UI, which seems to be excellent.
What happens if a hypersurveillance approach to spying on workers becomes norm?
Spiders don't stand a chance against orange oil concentrate. It handily kills them right along with every other crawly thing. I won't spray the ones that stay up high, but if you've ever seen a Wolf spider in your house, you'd spray them, too. They can get rather large. If only I could convince my wife to move someplace civil like Vermont or just slightly east of Seattle, like Issaquah or Snohomish. Texas has too many critters. Where I live, the coons will attempt to gain entry into your trash cans, the possums will be under your cars and hiss at you, the snakes are ever present. Just down the street from us, a family killed two water moccasins in their back garden a couple of weeks ago. They also have seen several copperheads. Both are venomous.
> Graceful degradation isn't free, and for many types of applications, simply isn't worth the effort to support.

I hate to say it, but you're essentially saying "we can't afford to support people who are disabled, cannot afford the newest hardware, or are simply driving through a place with poor reception".
> The core problem is resource usage

No, it isn't. The core problem is exponential growth. The population today is double what it was just 50 years ago, so you could cut resource usage in half and all that would accomplish is taking us back to the problem as it stood in 1970 or so.

It's true that this is a social issue, but even there the problem is very difficult. The entire world economy is built on the premise of eternal exponential growth in something with economic value. That is fundamentally unsustainable. At some point we will have to transition to at leasy polynomial growth, if not an actual steady-state solution. No one is even talking about that AFAICT.
>just make sure it degrades gracefully

Okay, example: client pays me to make an somewhat interactive website. Client wants it to be done using React as that is easy to get other devs for in the future, if the need arises. Client doesn't want to pay double (random estimate) to make everything behave in e.g. Lynx. Do I do it out of pocket, or just say no to the client?
I'm sure they did. And probably still do. But no amount of paid for training data is going to cover all situations that occur in real life. Accents, mannerism, speech imperments - you can't cover all possible premutations.
All is not lost, yet. It is not said that we have yet passed this "critical threshold". We are seeing rapid adoption of renewable energy now, and new leadership in the United States might bring about an even more rapid shift to renewable energy. I just ask that people VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE (just once, but definitively).
Robot series is good, Foundation series by him is brilliant.

Also check out The Culture novels by Iain M Banks (he was the closest recent author to be a great the equal of Wells, Huxley or Orwell (imo) just a phenomenal writer).

The Polity series by Neal Asher are well imagined and he world builds brilliantly.
Yes. Our quality of life will probably go down. That's going to happen. If we do nothing, our quality of life will go down because Florida floods so regularly people mass-migrate out. That'll be a drop in a bucket. Enormous swaths of equatorial and tropical land will be too hot for people to live in (economically/year round). So dozens, hundreds of millions of people now living in Mexico / Bangladesh / India / Syria / Ethiopia / Algiera will be forced to migrate or die. So those people will want to be your neighbors as well.

Your life is going to change. Slowly at first then not so slowly. Your kid's life is definitely going to change. Your grandkids lives will for sure be different from what your life is.

Do we want to start mitigating changes now and avoid the worst case scenarios? Or do we say !@#& the next two generations, no one can tell me my life has to change.
good point, there's precedent from hospitals wrt IRB and other infrastructure involved w/ data gathering. Hospitals/research institutions self-regulate in this regard, doesn't appear tech does
How many people would know what caused it, though? Maybe they spent a while on a few different websites, but only one was a resource hog...
...but it is no substitute for teacher-student interaction

Curious as to why you say this because recently it seems like people are realizing you DON'T need a tradition teacher student interaction to learn, and more and more people are turning to the wealth of education at our fingertips instead of traditional schooling.
I've been very happy with super-fatted soaps and soaps with added shea butter. My favorite so far has been Dudu Osun.
Many of the major product listings seem to be okay—for example I've ordered a number of the Samsung Evo+ cards I link to in the blog post, and tested each one and never found one that didn't perform as the first I bought—but I have gotten fakes here and there.

Almost every time, though, it's because the Amazon official supplier/warehouse was out of stock and I accidentally ordered from one of the secondary suppliers. The problem is, unless you know what to look for in the interface, it's hard to determine if you're buying from Amazon or the manufacturer, or some 3rd party.

Even then, there are many reputable 3rd parties. But there are many who are not.

The worst cases in my experience are ordering 'Apple OEM' type products. I will not buy a charger or any other Apple accessory on Amazon because more than 50% of the time I've gotten a non-Apple-manufactured product.
Speedcrunch is a different product. You can't edit the "notepad", you just interact with the input box which is separate.
I think I had read somewhere they usually left the wreckage in place, but during WWII a lot of sites were cleaned up to get steel for the war effort.
This sent me down the rabbithole of learning how identifiable voiceprints are. As you might guess, the answer is "very", although to my surprise our voices change enough that recordings lose a great deal of fidelity over a few years.

Authentication on fixed phrases is reasonably accurate within a very few words, so at minimum it should be possible to associate "Hey Google" clips with regular users of Google Assistant voice control (i.e. "OK Google"). Identifying whether someone is present in a large dataset on open phrases is much harder, but a ~30s clip could do the job fairly consistently for anyone with access to a significant amount of voice data. And if this employee (who isn't directly working for Google) shared 'thousands' of clips with a news org, the cautious bet is that some other employee might share them with anyone willing to pay for the records.
Is it? Robust transit systems are efficient and don't take much more time. If it's substantially longer, maybe we need to look at our work attendance policies to account for the increased transit time? (We already needed to do that anyway, considering how little of the average workday is spent on actual work, and how much less the average labor hour is worth today compared to a few decades ago.) And how old are the kids? Alien as it is to suburbanites, city kids often get around by themselves (often in groups) by the end of elementary school.
Pedestrian culture in that area is weird. There's a general region which I think centers on Berkeley, but definitely includes Oakland, in which pedestrians have right of way (in some cases legally, in others just culturally/in expectation).

It makes driving pretty stressful because it makes people much less predictable. When I commuted to Berkeley I would often joke/not joke that Berkeley pedestrians were trying to make me kill them with my car.

But a different weird thing is that being a pedestrian in Berkeley turns you into one of those people who is trying to die by car. I was more cautious than average (read: acting like a normal pedestrian somewhere else), and it was annoying and maybe dangerous for everyone else.

That may not seem clear, but it's analogous to someone being "nice" at a 4-way stop and letting everyone else go even if it's your turn. It's not "nice," because it delays and confuses everyone who now has to cautiously navigate a potentially dangerous situation instead of just following a simple procedure.

Similarly, cars stop for people in Berkeley. That's how it goes. If you act like they don't, then you get awkward standoffs between people and cars each not trusting the other to go first, all while traffic piles up behind the cars, and other pedestrians are now interleaving in between the cars in the jam. If you're on foot, you should just step out into road and cross it, after a perfunctory check, otherwise you're gumming up the works.

I don't like it, on either side, but it's not possible to unilaterally do better. You just have to go with it.
...everything makes sense now! Thanks.
I repeatedly agree that carbon tax+tariff would be incredibly great. Somehow the point of what I'm saying is not getting trough and people assume that I argue against tariffs.

In a polarized world looking both good and bad sides of generally good thing is seen as being against.

My point is that if we want to make a real change, we can't realistically expect to fix all negative side effects that even the best solution has. If the overall solution becomes politically possible, we must hammer it trough even if we must throw many good people under the bus.