skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The insistence, in the absence of concrete evidence, that tech companies are using illicit speech recognition is a symptom of tech illiteracy in the broader population. People are basically anthropomorphizing their phones - since humans acquire most of their knowledge by listening to others talk, people irrationally assume that the machines must be operating using the same methods. They don't quite grok that there are other less anthropomorphic, less intuitive, but more sophisticated methods for apps to make inferences about you without having to listen to you talk.

I saw some guy on Reddit once triumphantly declare he had proof that Google (or Facebook?) was listening to his microphone because he started receiving Spanish language ads after he began working at an office with a bunch of Spanish speakers. Come on dude, you share a wifi network with them, your GPS location overlaps with theirs 8 hours a day, and you presumably frequently send/receive emails from them. Facebook/Google doesn't need to listen to your mic to know that you have a bunch of Spanish speakers in your social network.
I bought one ~6 months ago and my 2 sleep trackers reported slightly longer duration and more deep sleep for about a week, and then numbers went back to normal. Concluded that it may have been a placebo effect.
Finance:

Standard Deviations, The Disciplined Investor, Animal Spirits, Wall Street Unplugged, Radical Personal Finance, Dvorak-Horowitz Unplugged, The Meb Faber Show, The Sherman Show, Money For the Rest of Us, Peter Schiff Podcast, The Voluntary Life

Tech:

Accidental Tech Podcast, Mac Break Weekly, Security Now, Core Intuition, This Week In Google, Under The Radar, All About Android

Other stuff:

Voyage To The Stars (Comedy), Dragon Talk (D&D)
The C64 could communicate with peripherals with the same speed as it could talk to RAM.
"Technically" this would also be possible on x86_64 machines right from the start. The "enabling technology" in this case is that electrical RX/TX components can be manufactured in smaller feature size without breaking the bank. USB is succesfull because it is cheap.
A possible route for this info that I've considered is that whatever service is serving you ads knows who your friends are and perhaps they are interested in this thing you spoke of together.

That or you and I are just a lot more predictable than we think (which is actually what I think).
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The constructed language Ithkuil is, among other things, designed to have a higher transmission rate. Here are documents and ideas about the upcoming new 2.0 language version:

http://www.ithkuil.net/new_morpho-phonology_v_0_8.pdf

http://www.ithkuil.net/phonotaxis_v_0_4.pdf

http://www.ithkuil.net/roots_v_0_1.pdf

http://www.ithkuil.net/VxCs_Affixes_v_0_2.pdf

http://www.ithkuil.net/script_presentation_0_2.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ithkuil/comments/bvk1t5/tnil_number...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ithkuil/comments/29wzfq/interesting...
> but those consumers probably are interested in having their favorite websites being kept alive.

I'm one of "those consumers" and I'm actively looking for sustainable ways to pay content producers.

Here's what I do currently:

- subscribe to two newspapers in addition to the mandatory payments to the national news broadcaster.

- donate to the Guardian

- buy on Blendle

If there was a way to pay for single pay-walled stories I would probably use it a few times a week in addition to my current subscriptions.

I'm not interested in any more subscriptions (unless they are all inclusive like Spotify so I can cancel my current subscriptions, and even then I'm not sure since I actually want to support those two papers and think I do so better through direct payments than through revenue sharing through a huge international tech company. )
This is unrelated to the stores but related to Lego and the topic of knockoffs and product range. One market I've been seeing a niche level growth in is nano blocks. Lots of knock offs but nothing compares with the quality of the original nano block stuff. Has anyone else tried these out? I'd love for Lego to merge them in and create sets related to all the IP they seem to be building around these days. A nano block star wars ship set would be amazing.

Bringing me around to the reason I mentioned this. It's nice to see Lego spread further. It feels like it's been a while since I saw them introduce a new line of toys though (like the mindstorm range). Would love if miniature blocks could become a thing.
Go's concurrency features provide a larger super set of possibilities of other language. If you only do concurrency programming in a simple way (just as most languages), it is hard to make some mistakes even if you are a moderate Go programmer. On the other hand, Go allows you to do concurrency programming with many creative ideas which are hard to apply in other languages. Surely, you should be an experienced Go programmer to implement these creative ideas.

Rust does prevent some errors at compile time, but achieving this has its own cost, such as sacrificing flexibility and simplicity. For many use cases, the sacrifices are not worth it.

> it's several times more verbose than other langs I've used, and often requires continually re-implementing common "wheels"

If the common wheels need generics to implement, I have nothing to defend. I can only say generics will come to Go eventually.
Probably, I'm somewhat of a fundamentalist pragmatist ("this cannot be legal!" - "everybody does it, judges say it's okay" - "oh, I guess it's legal then :("), but in this case I'm not so sure. I still believe that Google does not consider them data processors (possibly because they don't consider a google_push id PII), because if they did, they'd have to name them in their privacy terms as entities they share data with. They don't. Of course, this might be because they don't care, but since it's a delicate issue and the stakes are somewhat high already, that doesn't sound plausible to me.

Pretty much all examples for data processing I've read are similar in this regard: the data controller (DC) passes data to the data processor (DP) so the DP can perform a specific task for them (handle invoicing, do analytics, run a web server, mail packages etc). The DP must not use the data for anything else, must not share the data with anyone (except for sub-processing, which has strict rules, too). "Exchanging/Syncing PII of users so we can create better profiles, more efficiently track them and show ads to them that are more personalized" doesn't fit the bill at all from what I understand. Similarly, landlords cannot get together and share all the data on their tenants to figure out who was a pleasant renter and who sued because the heater broke in winter.

So, in my understanding, even if you and I used the same invoicing provider, they wouldn't be allowed to tell me if they've invoiced a certain person for you previously, because we're different entities using them as a data processor and our data is to be kept separate. If we wanted to do data sharing (or even share aggregate probabilities like credit check agencies), we'd need a different construct, explicit consent and a bunch of additional compliance requirements.
> it’s imprisonment

This punts the question. What is imprisonment if not a restriction on free movement and association?
Isn't the YC business model 1. get lots of users 2. sell user data when you start running out of money and realize your business model doesn't work? Not sure how this would apply to actual issues like climate change...
Yes, I've seen that article and I'm familiar with this industry. Are you suggesting that people aren't buying drones? They are. They're just buying them (mostly) from one company, DJI, that in 2017, had revenue of over 2.8 billion dollars. To suggest that consumer robotics is not a thing because DJI has dominated the market is akin to suggesting that operating systems weren't a thing in the 90s.
These kind of corrolation incidents are why the myth exists. The truth is that advertising companies like Facebook don't need to listen to us. They already know more than enough personal information about us to target ads.
> More people are killed with hammers and clubs each year in the US than with guns

This is blatantly false.

You appear to be repeating a sound bite from far-right web sites that claims that "more people are killed each year by hammers and fists than by AR-15s".

The above statement excludes about 97% of the people killed by guns. Guns kill vastly more people than fists or clubs in the US - the numbers are on the order of > 10,000 killed by guns, < 800 killed by fists and clubs.
https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/VehicleSafetyReport?redirect=no

In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.27 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.19 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.41 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 498,000 miles.*

*Note: Since we released our last quarterly safety report, NHTSA has released new data, which we’ve referenced in this quarter’s report.

Whatever is the reason (may it be better road conditions) when you use Autopilot you are less likely to crash.
So those new reactors that do not exist have no humans working there? Interesting theory...

You CAN decommission them. You just don't WANT. Germany managed it. France could too but they are not doing it because of greed aka human intervention.

In the end the same fact remains: humans = bad, bad shouldn't manage nuclear ergo no nuclear.
The researchers [Oxford University] , writing in the British Medical Journal, said: 'Overall, the present study has shown that UK adults who were fish eaters or vegetarians had lower risks of ischaemic heart disease than meat eaters, but that vegetarians had higher risks of stroke.'

It's dangerous to discard an article simply because it is published in the DM.
I bought a chilipad[1] awhile back after reading Sam Altman's post on productivity[2]. I leave it on 66 or 67 degrees, and fall asleep much faster than I did before. I snake the tube under the bathroom door to muffle the sound, but it's totally worth a little white noise to have a perpetual cool-side-of-the-pillow feeling the whole night. Since it's removing the heat from under you, I suspect it would work quite well in tandem with a weighted blanket.

[1] https://www.chilitechnology.com
[2] http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
Also explains why so many people think vaccines cause autism.

"I vaccinated my child and 6 months later he was diagnosed with autism. Cause and effect!"
It is also possible that the fact you watched John Wick puts you in a category of people that would own a handgun.
This is the correct pronounciation! I think the only part that varies between pronouncioations is the last vocal, which can be pronounced as an a, e or somewhere in between.
It's ridiculous, you're paying thousands of dollars for a cheap medicine, to be injected in a medical setting. I mean it's typical of how medical things work. But you can DIY that for like way less if you really wanna. Just do a bit of research.
WeLive was similar to this. Wonder how they're doing these days?
And a 1000 other times you discussed a different topic your facebook feed didn't show ads for it.
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Same thing seem to have happened to ISO 9001 and others.
My guess is fully autonomous drone products will prevail. The capabilities today are already incredible and the mobility lends itself to generalize to solutions that weren't previously possible. They could be one of the first kind of robotic agents that we regularly interact with in our lives besides automobiles.

Skydio - https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17195622/skydio-r1-review-...

Shield AI - https://www.shield.ai/nova

Battery life is certainly an issue but even before a major breakthrough happens 10-20 minutes is a long enough flight time for a lot of autonomous tasks. Plus what if they dock and charge themselves?

I think they're going to continue getting smaller, more power efficient, and cheaper and it will continue to open up possibilities.
Bought one recently, it's comforting but not a cure-all. My mattress is too soft and the weighted blanket hasn't offset the discomfort of it.
I would have to look at this since I’m not familiar with the codebase, but I’ll have a look. Thanks!

I’m not quite sure this is what I meant from the description of the problem. This looks more like a problem of trying to program Java in Go. What I was thinking of was more along the lines of modeling things in ways that either disconnect you from the problem you are trying to solve or solve it with too much abstract cruft grafted onto the model so just dealing with the abstractions themselves becomes more work than a more direct and naive approach.
I am unable to find anything published by Wandera related to this. What source is BBC quoting and where is the paper?

I am hoping that the datasets used by Wandera will be available for us to look at.
> instant (especially advantage for the large numbers, since banks cannot do that)

It's not instant. According to https://www.crypto51.app/ the cost to 51% attack ethereum for 1 hour is $92k. This means it's $2.2 million for one day or 24 hours. Let's say you want to transfer $10 million via ethereum. Then the party who gives you the eth can perform a double spending attack, only pretending to give you the $10 million while getting something else from you in exchange as part of the original deal that takes one day to be transfferred to them. As long as that something else is worth more than $2.2 million, that other party has made a return. The only good remedy is waiting for the double spending cost to exceed the contract volume, but it means that the currency isn't instant any more, or at least is instant for small sums of money only.
> due process is only required for deprivation of life, liberty, or property

This is incorrect.

The Fifth Amendment expands that coverage[1] to which the Fourteenth adds the equal protection clause [2].

As a result, the “Supreme Court of the United States interprets the clauses as providing four protections: procedural due process (in civil and criminal proceedings), substantive due process, a prohibition against vague laws, and as the vehicle for the incorporation of the Bill of Rights“ [3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process
It’s just been quite a pain to work with many startups who don’t come from such an environment given that we are in a regulated environment.
"Air conditioner". Reading, it's blood vessels. So, really, a radiator. Nothing to do with cooling air, and everything to do with transferring heat from blood to air, resulting in warmer air and cooler blood.

Bad, journalism. No biscuit.
I’m not sure what I think is more scary when these scenarios pop up.

Being listened to, or companies being able to predict my behaviour before it happens based on the data they’ve got on me.
The specific UK mechanism that is the subject of this subthread was introduced in July; it's not what your wikipedia link describes (social engineering to get a number ported).
Those are generally with patient's previous consent though, right? Things get a lot easier if you have somebody sign some documents before you start working on them.
This is a misleading title. Intelligence agencies turning phones into listening devices is not a myth
Shame about your downvotes -- I guess people don't want to believe that vac. scepticism can be a reasonable conclusion from limited evidence.

Well: it is. Autism is a childhood disorder (therefore) whose symptoms usually follow vaccination. It is not unreasonable to hypothesize a causal link.

It may be unreasonable to maintain it in light of other evidence (eg., no difference in rate amongst the non-vax'd). But people don't live in the macro (ie., comparative contexts) they live in the micro (ie., their own experience). And its hard to communicate macros to micros.
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As the other commenter wrote.

Pee stinks BUT there is a catch: only a certain amount of people have smelly pee and some people produce smelly pee but don't smell it.

It's genetic. Some enzyme turns something in the asparagus in sulphur. It's pretty bad. I have it and my SO too.

So a high end asparagus discussion contains the "are you a stinker" team finding competition ;)
Why phones that secretly listen to us are a myth?

Because we know they're doing it. Therefore, not a secret.
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Would a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco even have enough fuel to make it to Kansas City? That's a much longer trip.
E.g. https://curaofsweden.com/en/produkt/cura-pearl/

I have one of those, and it's cooler than my previous blanket - a bit too cool for winter nights imho.
I had the same experience but I was just thinking about it! Somehow Facebook app is reading my thoughts! /s
Seems like graphene has been around the corner for a decade or more - are there any real world applications yet?
I run into people like you on the internet all the time, who are you, what do you do? what motivates you? why do you argue without any arguments? are you like this in person? were you on the internet in the 90s?
I can only say that my 6 yo daughter has more LEGO (Frozen and/or Friends) sets than I have (Technic or Creator).
China is becoming one of LEGO’s biggest markets, but their store presence here is still minimal. According to the article, 140 of the new stores will be in China.

I’m sure there’s plenty room for growth in a couple other markets as well.
The notation that phones that secretly listen to us, because the big tech companies are evil and they do it because they can - may be a complete myth.

But the notation that phones, due to their system insecurity, widespread of malicious applications, the reliance of voice recognition over 3rd-party servers (and in turns, their insecurity), and the ethical problems of handing training data and samples, are all avenues that can be easily exploited to secretly listen to us, is very true.

Overemphasizing the first notion while downplaying the second one is a way to manipulatively shutdown the public concerns over privacy issues.
I think there might be a better measure than what your sleep trackers say — how did you feel?
This makes me incredibly happy: there is finally a western European democracy that makes the outlawing of cash a true political issue.

The EU has quietly taken away what I consider to be a fundamental human rights over the past 10 years (the right to buy something without the whole world knowing what that was), and no one noticed.

Did you know you can't buy a car cash in most EU countries?

[EDIT]: This is issue is nowhere on the political radar of most USians because it hasn't come to your shores. But it should, because it's coming.
fedex ground drivers are contractors, fedex express are employees.

fedex ground originated as a totally separate company that they acquired and re-branded.

https://about.van.fedex.com/our-story/history-timeline/histo...
That's not a fair comparison: you're comparing the specific revision of USB with the earliest revision of the audio jack. The first version of the audio jack, in 1877, is the 1/4" mono jack. The version that you're thinking of is the 3.5mm (just under 1/8") stereo jack. According to that Wikipedia article, the 3.5mm mono jack is from the 1950s, and it doesn't say when the stereo version is from. (Amazingly, the original 1/4" is still used, usually for connecting up instruments rather than for headphones.)
that is even more susceptible to the placebo effect.
Searching for signal uses some kind of exponential backoff algorithm (somekind because of patent wars between Qualcomm Broadcom and others), the phone doesn't simply sends the maximum power every fraction of a second. 1% per minute means something is wrong with your phone, or a weird edge case.
Money laundering is typically tied illegal behavior, things such as tax evasion, extortion, trafficking, etc. Having the means to deal with money laundering helps inhibit the illegal activity tied to it.
Regarding 'agile' and 'kanban'. It really amazes me how many highly intelligent people truely believe that you can solve very complex problems by splitting them in subtasks or stages and simply dragging cards across the board. It's no more intelligent than believing in faith healing.
Rather interesting that so much focus is placed upon the AR-15 which kills less than bare hands, year on year.

Even better is that some two-thirds of deaths are suicide, yet we consider this categorically the same as homicide for some reason.
Even if there were not already ample evidence that phones do listen to us, the very publishing of this article would basically be a blaring confirmation.

This feels like it was dictated to the writer directly by a not-super-competent intern at an intelligence agency.
A less virtuous person would just pay criminals a hundred bucks or some other trivial fee to have direct access to the data that's being collected (and mishandled) about him. The song and dance required to keep these leaks out of public sight only enables victimizers, and there would be a magnet link in this very thread if they didn't have deep pockets and a vested interest in relegating this news to a one-and-half-page internet news blurb.
If your language is complex enough (and it's my understanding that Ithkuil is[0]) that the emitter takes more time to translate thoughts into it, the transmission rate is not going to raise regardless of information density (remember rate is over time).

I guess if we consider non-real time communication, but in that case (e.g. in English, which is limited by the medium's rate) the reception rate is the main factor, which is probably not too far off the transmission rate.

I'd say Ithkuil is designed for information density and my guess is its actual max rate is pretty similar to the submission's 39bps.

[0] IIRC not even its creator is a fluent speaker.
Can't some service dogs predict seizures? If so, an AI probably could as well (maybe with the right sensor input).
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None of the things you list are "benefits" if you're an individual. They are only "benefits" to governments because it gives them additional means of controlling the bleating flock.
Great job guys!!! UI is amazing, love it. Going to spend a few more days learning 8base. Do you have some kind of public roadmap with features coming?
From an advertisement standpoint, there is so much noise in a microphone signal. It would be helpful for large-scale surveillance so a human could pin-point individual persons-of-interest and listen to what they're saying (big brother style). But that's not how advertisements work.