skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are TVs without microphones. For example, Sony TVs have a microphone in the touchpad remote but not in the TV itself or in the standard remote. If you don't want to be listened to, just remove the batteries from the touchpad remote (if it even comes with your TV - some only have the one standard remote.)
Also, I can definitely foresee normal people just putting the FC Ambassador Tag behind their name on twitter, getting the amazon banner, and just impersonating amazon employees. Say funny/offensive things, throw in a bit of amazon shade and you have a serious problem.

Who came up with this idea. Having normal people act as PR, replying to everything is a TERRIBLE idea, especially for a huge company. It makes your brand look way worse, especially when they happily engage in twitter fights.
AWS couldn't build a Heroku-like PaaS if their entire business depended on it. They're organizationally incapable of something so simple, beautiful, and productive.

I legitimately believe there's a checklist at the bottom of every new AWS service launch, and among their internal requirements includes a line like "Is this product so amazingly incomprehensible that customers will take weeks to integrate with it and be forced to upgrade to a technical support plan?"

The closest any major cloud player has gotten is App Engine. And its pretty close; it has issues, and some inherent complexity, but generally I recommend any new startups look to either App Engine or Heroku for hosting. Avoid AWS like the plague.
I think that you want to extend your copyright claims as far into the _future_ as possible.
Blog about testing broke medium when launched
You repeating the same thing won't change the fact that lock-in is a foul practice that simply taxes developers for the benefit of those who want to hamper competition. Only shills support such approaches. You perfectly well know it yourself.
> Automatic differentiation is an elegant technique for converting a computable function expressed as a program into a derivative-computing program with similar time complexity. It does not execute the original program as a black-box, nor does it expand the program into a mathematical formula, both of which would be counter-productive. By generalizing this technique, you can produce efficient algorithms for constraint satisfaction, optimization, and Bayesian inference on models specified as programs. This approach can be broadly described as compiling into a message-passing program.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/from-automati...
Code is for humans. If your language lets you make silly mistakes maybe it needs to stop doing that. Why can I assign during a branch? It's unnecessary.
Yup interesting trend. The real story is the public has made this happen.

Given the kind of cut throat competition that exists, Marketing manager don't really get "fed up". They are more focused on hitting their weekly numbers, than on where the numbers come from. It's all the screen grabs and naming and shaming on social media that makes them notice and change tack.

I see the public pressure getting more organized and targeted in future.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20700810
The Affinity is built around the CFM56 core. Not a brand new turbofan, just a further development of a massively successful product.

Edited to add: there was originally a lot of vague insinuations about the GE Affinity turbofan in the parent comment, but it was edited down from five paragraphs to one after I replied.
Put it in historical context; the mainframes of Moravec's day were less powerful than a microcontroller which controls the windshield wiper in your car. The fact that guys like Moravec were able to build checkers computers, things that could "talk" (at least in the meta-x emacs sense), things that could diagnose infectious diseases as well as a doctor, and things which did applied mathematics (those integrals didn't integrate themselves back in the day) is absolutely astounding.

The fact that they we still can't generally solve crap like the lost robot problem which insects are able to handle should also strike you as astounding.

That's what the Moravec paradox means. Stuff humans find difficult due to logic, abstraction and theory are often easy for computers, and stuff that bugs can do naturally are still impossible for computers.
If this was an exterior camera, I would agree. But if someone is already in my home, I feel like them seeing the camera light isn't going to make them turn around and leave but it could lead to them destroying my camera and then I would lose evidence of their next moves.

Maybe the camera should contain a switch allowing me to choose which mode the LED should work in (on when being viewed, always off, or always on).
For most programmers, a C-ish syntax is going to be most familiar. In general, I'd define the "universal C-ish syntax" as:

* Ending statements with ;

* {} for braces, lowercase keywords for control flow

* [] and 0-based indexing for arrays

* Infix operator notation, with mathematical operator precedence

* &, |, ^, ~ for bitwise operators

* . is used for member access

But they didn't copy all of C's syntax:

* There's no ->, since dereference is usually automatic.

* No ?:, if/else can be used as expressions instead

* No ~, since ! on an integer variable does bitwise negation instead.

* Pointer, array, and function types don't have the weird syntax they do in C... you say [ * mut fn()->i32; 4] instead of int ( * ())[4]

* Types follow variables instead of precede them (x: i32 instead of int x)

* No C-style casts (x as i32 instead of (int)x)
It's open source.
https://github.com/RoganMurley/Ring-of-Worlds/blob/master/se...
Could Iron Replace Lithium in Batteries?
Worked on my iPad, which is unusual for demos like that. And wicked fast! The article is beautifully written and the information presented with astonishing clarity. Well, well done.
I think that has to be it. I'm really surprised that people are objecting to having a "camera active" light.
> Why can't I buy just the panel that shows the image

You can, they sell "just dumb panels" for commercial signage applications. They cost way more. Smart TVs selling your eyeballs and your data make them cheaper than dumb panels. And since most consumers buy on price, they also get the advantage of scale. So they're more expensive and they do less, their only market is a handful of privacy geeks who aren't going to just not connect it to the internet - a tiny market.

https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-adv...

> A January interview on The Verge's podcast with Vizio's chief technology officer, Bill Baxter, did a great job illuminating how this works.

> "This is a cutthroat industry," Baxter said. "It's a 6% margin industry. The greater strategy is I really don't need to make money off of the TV. I need to cover my cost."

> "It's not just about data collection. It's about post-purchase monetization of the TV."

> "You sell some movies, you sell some TV shows, you sell some ads, you know," he said. "It's not really that different than the Verge website."
Agreed. The username is simply a human friendly representation of an internal unique ID use in the database. What if the user decides to change their name from "CPU" to "CPUZ"? They would lose all of their experience. I really the implementation is not as shown in the screen shot.
I wonder if this is an adaptation to not be woken up by infants crying at night until they're old enough that sleep isn't as important or they're able to help?
I tend to avoid places that whiteboard, the one time I did have to do it I sucked it up only because a friend stuck their neck out to get me the interview. I was told syntax didn't have to be perfect. Yeah I think they may come up with stupid excuses basically to not hire you.

Honestly, interviews go two ways: you figure out if you really want to work there, and they do as well. If they don't want you, assume it's for the best, you would of had to deal with worse: coworkers who hate your personality or have a toxic personality.
There is not really a good answer to social engineering, as far as I can tell. For example -- I do my banking with a big, reputable bank most everyone has heard of (and not one of the banks people like to hate) and I've got passwords, two factor authentication, etc. That's all great. And yet, about a year ago my wife's debit card got cloned at a compromised ATM and armed with that information (bank, and name) someone called up the customer service at my bank and asked them to reset the password to our account. According to a security investigation by the bank, it took them six attempts before they found someone who believed their sob story about being stuck in a hospital somewhere with no access to money, etc. Gave them our account login and reset our password for them. The person logged into the web site, transferred a bunch of money from savings into the compromised debit account and started pulling it out as fast as they could. I got instant notifications as they did it but was driving and didn't see them for about 20 minutes, by then the bank had deduced that something was wrong and shut it down, $5K later. Luckily the bank didn't really argue the point, they knew they were totally at fault for letting it happen, but still -- all the security in the world that I tried to use for that account and all it took was one bank employee to negate 100% of it.
I like reading scientific papers and most examples sections provide rich and intricate outlines of real-life use-cases where the idea can be experimented against. These examples usually involve quite complicated scenarios that "put the idea to the test".

One that I recently read involved a solution to the "Challenge Problem" [1] (simulating the movement of a rover) which involves lots of interesting properties and allows one's idea or framework (or whatever) to really battle test the grounds with reality.

On the web however it's different... we're somehow stuck with todo-lists.

1. https://mdetools.github.io/mdetools18/challengeproblem.html
https://github.com/RoganMurley/Ring-of-Worlds/blob/master/se...

It's all open source
Because the boot loader is locked, so does its launcher, unless LauncherHijack installed and abuses Accessibility feature to draw Overlays on top of your screen....

Speaking of modifying existing hardwares, Nexus 7 is my personal favorite: http://i.imgur.com/8H9LH9U.jpg
Congrats! Like many I was looking forward to async/await in this release but I'm happy they've taken some extra time to work through any existing issues before releasing it.
Sounds like the same person talking from multiple accounts to me.
If you like TDD, checkout rustlings https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/. I'd recommend https://exercism.io/, but there's such a shortage of mentors for the Rust track that you can get blocked very easily waiting for feedback. One of my solutions went un-mentored for over a month - and it was only after I asked someone directly to mentor my solution that it passed. If that weren't a problem, I would highly recommend exercism.io
A black magic marker would work too.
This is slick.
Requiem for Linux Journal
it's very common these days
to allege that

So? The reason that's very common is the increase public understanding that this is often happening. There are several reasons fo this, including: leaks like Wikileaks, opening of Soviet-block achieves (e.g. Stasi), transparency laws that force more transparency on lobbying, a massive increase in the amount of lobbying which means more and more people work in this domain, increasing sensitivity to such issues (e.g. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica). Anecdata, but I've personally been involved with an NGO that a big international oil company tried to use to get oil drilling right.
Countries like Saudi Arabia have everything to loose from de-carbonification, and we've seen that they are not shy to undermine anything that threatens the affluence of the ruling families.

against the Left

So? Is the left immune from being used and sponsored? It's well know
for example that Germany supported not only Lenin's Bolsheviks, but also socialist rivals (Leon Trotsky, then a Menshevik, who published antiwar articles in Paris and then New York City). During the Napoleonic wars, France aided Irish rebels to undermine Britain, and Polish nationalists against Russia. Britain, in turn, backed Spanish guerrillas fighting French occupation forces. See e.g. [1].

whiff of McCarthyism

The funny thing is that the original McCarthyite accusations were (in some sense) not without evidence. Maybe McCarthy looked at the wrong people, but there was Soviet subversion, up to the highest levels of the US government (e.g. Harry Dexter White [2]) famous for tricking John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods Conference.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/opinion/was-lenin-a-germa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White
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Butt Plug Hacking: Real Penetration Testing - DEFCON 27
Those rational and enlightened humans would have to be willing to move out of popular cities.

You work in technology. You are, in all likelihood, capable of moving to the country, cooking at home, and telecommuting for 15 hours a week. Have you? Why not?
It most definitely is
https://github.com/RoganMurley/Ring-of-Worlds/blob/master/se...

Unless, I read that wrong
If you're coming from Ruby, you might like Gin[0].

I'd also recommend learning to write web APIs with the standard library so you know the primitives. Writing Web Applications[1] on golang.org covers the basics.

[0] https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

[1] https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki
The Metastasis of the Misdemeanor System
Contextual targeting is fairly kosher and can be genuinely useful. Let's hope changes like these make the current approach less feasible, cost-wise.
Also I believe a lot of these warehouses are subcontractors for Amazon.
Right so 300kmph = 83.3 m/s which means every 83.3 metres (call it 100) buys you an additional second of thinking time and back of the envelope calculation (2km/minute) [0] suggests you can move up to 33 metres per second horizontally (feel like this is optimistic - I openly welcome corrections here...)

In any case a fun thought experiment

[0]https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-horizontal-distanc...
If your unit of work is a transaction that takes 15+ minutes that's not possible. A common example is nightly ETL jobs that update the world.
They wouldn’t, of course, but it’s painting the caller in a human light that call center employees may empathize with.
Did my masters project on quadtrees, specifically distributed methods for solving differential equations. Using them for mapping and loading adjacent cells is a similar application, as a lot of my work was in trying to maintain locality when flattening the structure. I had a great time writing this up, they're fantastic structures with a lot of potential.

https://github.com/MattDiesel/tftt/releases/tag/1.2
Cameras are expensive, it is advertising your house is full of goodies.
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Thanks, the_seraphim, for your comment! What lines of text and verbiage would you have corrected and how? If you could specify it here it would be a great help for me!
An apt analogy in that much of the chair's time is spent cleaning up sh*t...
Sure it is. It's only unsustainable if you restrict the population to a limited area (ie - Earth)

There may come a time when we don't NEED a larger population to support increasing specialization, but until then a broader population base is needed to foster growth in technology.

Not to mention that those 'one in a billion' history changing genius happen in larger numbers when we have more billions...
You mean like if the following GPS location is uttered verbally to, say, a first responder: 40.7485452,-73.9879575 ...you likely would end up in midtown NYC...while if i verbally forget to include the "-"...then i end up in Kyrgyzstan? ;-)

I'm teasing you of course (all in good fun). But you certainly make valid points: what3words isn't perfect...But, i still stand by the point that it's a novel approach, AND that there's an opportunity here (here, i mean an opportunity for the betterment of society, safety, humanity, etc., less about "business opportunity").
Getting your news from ar15.com is not correct in any meaningful interpretation
Oh, interesting. I guess I'll just keep never connecting the TV to wifi, then.
Except when it is. See also Enron, the Trump "empire", Libor, gold price fixing, the 2008 crash, S&L, and many more.
I wonder why they didn't just decide to have a more finite "history" so that they could keep the "parlor trick."
Just open https://studio.mapbox.com and have a go! It's a really powerful tool with a ton of customization options, including ones related to textures & patterns. Also check out one of the recent tutorials for a textured map:
https://blog.mapbox.com/designing-the-treasure-map-style-431...
We also have a cool guide for map design: https://www.mapbox.com/map-design/
"Another nice thing: the node_modules folder for this Hello World Svelte app totals only 29MB and 242 packages."

How is it nice that you have almost 30MB of code for something that prints "Hello World"?

EDIT: For what it's worth, I don't fault Svelte for this necessarily. This is indicative of NPM bloat which is becoming rampant in my opinion.
AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
Fraud != financial engineering.
Yeah real simple when it has a huge round circle of light https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/rNMc3Qrlhua2ngFDHaVKbP53ZAU...
EKS Engineer here.

Calico policy can be used with the AWS VPC CNI, but you can remove the default CNI and install Calico or any other CNI plugin you’d like.
Can someone explain why the warehouse workers have to walk 10-20 miles per day? Wouldn't it be faster to give them rollerskates or a scooter? Is it a safety concern?
"Silicon Valley companies' only goal is maximizing profit. Why do we keep forgetting it?"

I am not sure I understand how this is different from any other company. Most corporations have bylaws that force them to optimize for profit.

In fact many corporations, if they don't optimize for profit, they can be sued by shareholders for securities fraud.

To be clear, I am not saying this is right, or there is not a human toll to this mentality. I am just not able to see "Big Tech" as acting any differently than other large companies with similar size, reach, and economic power.

I realize she is making a similar point, but why single out one group?
Except for the millions that died.
Hyperface Project (2017)
Linux boots fine on new Apple hardware, but only just gained support for Apple's not quite spec compliant NVMe
As an uninformed outside observer, I have seen a large number of companies that used to pride themselves on product quality, customer support, and treating workers well get bought by private equity or other finance guys (or maybe sometimes just taken over from inside), shed everyone competent, focus on cost cutting and nickel-and-diming customers, and start producing garbage products with no support, transforming the relationship with customers into a largely adversarial one.

In many cases the finance guys have (legally?) embezzled large amounts of money while loading the companies with debt and then dumped them, leaving customers, employees, suppliers, and other investors holding the bag.

I’m sure this process is considered to be “sound financial management” by some.
I've run into this problem. But I believe the parent was referring to the situation where new lambdas spin up and aren't immediately ready to respond to invocations. The delay can be significant in some cases though almost immeasurable in aggregate.
How does an account holder know what their password is?

(They remember it, or they write it down and store it with their other valuable pieces of paper.)
To paraphrase Matt Levine - everything is securities fraud
I'm pissed because the whole point of an outdoor camera is to not advertise when someone is watching. If they don't back pedal on this I'm switching to ubiquity and running my own NVR so I don't have to worry about someone in california deciding to change how a product I own works.
No, if Markopolos's allegations are correct then this is exactly how financial markets are supposed to work. They are about price discovery - the reward for this information integration is the profit that Markopolos and the Hedge Fund have made / are about to make. If these allegations prove to be baseless then they will receive a hefty fine by the SEC which I'm sure will at the very least take away any profits they've incurred.
I used these [1] with remote thermocouples to track temp mostly in curing epoxy for my biz, but also for freezers. They work great, and should for your freezer application too. Get the one with the display and you can view the current/hi/lo temps anytime, and grab the data for extended review. I've found that I can see the freezer's on-off cycles very well, pretty much the expected sawtooth wave...

[1] https://www.lascarelectronics.com/data-loggers/all?type=usb

edit: no commercial connection, just a happy customer
Fixed, thanks for the heads up!
I don't think your point is going to get across.

You're talking to basically a huge crowd of well-paid individuals who can and do frequently swap between employment and self-employment, including employing others.

The people who these talking points might hit better with are people who don't have the capital, or access to such capital, to be able to do such things.
Was your manager not in the union as well...? This is so far outside my experience I can't even understand it. How does union leadership know if you talk to your manager? How do they enforce you not talking to them?
On the other hand it looks like his channel has plenty of videos with same theme: he is sitting in dark room, looking straight into camera and bashing evil corporations with broken voice and apparently broken hearth. It's almost like episode from Black Mirrow tv show ("Fifteen Million Merits") manifested in real life.
I could understand if both the parent and grand parent were equally down voted, but they're not. Instead the parent is downvoted without any explanation as to why they're wrong, and a culture of pointing out why someone is wrong before downvoting them is the only reasonable dividing line I can think of between the 2 comments, thus seemingly proving the parent right...
Ask HN: What would you stop doing?
I would like to stop reading random news, watching Netflix, YouTube, surfing Internet, and talking much. What would you stop?
Does anyone offer a monitoring service for consumers? I would pay a nominal fee to be able to dip in to the big databases like this to find out what they think they know about me. If it's so cheap on a per-lookup basis, maybe someone could offer a consolidated view. Pay us X dollars and we will go dip into the top 50 databases right now and see what they say.

Of course, they probably contractually cannot do this and would get cut off immediately if they did.

Edit: Didn't know, nextcaller is a YC company. LOL
Some lawyers are more conservative about what they should and should not do. Apple's lawyers put it all on one page: https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...

Other lawyers want it everywhere possible. It's not required to be everywhere, however, just sometimes.

I have one customer who is a franchisee and their franchiser company demands the (R) everywhere because their MARKETER think it's "impressive" to people.
Gun insurance proposed by San Jose mayor might not exist
Serious question, why do you need a giant TV? Why not just use a personal device like a computer, tablet, or phone to watch whatever?

I imagine you'll say something about watching TV with other people, which seems fair, but in my experience people don't watch TV "together". The TV is on, maybe one person is paying attention to it, most are just on their phone, or talking to eachother.

Maybe my experience is an outlier here.