skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But supposedly phones aren't always on and listening to all your audio like the 'smart' speakers.

New phones are.

Also, AFAIK, Alexa et al. are only sending traffic home after the wake word is heard. I believe this has been confirmed via wireshark.
I have asked that question a few times in conferences. Capacity wise they can handle it as they already need it to defend against the massive DDoS threat that they face. Relative recently they also added anycast, which further increases the capacity.

DNS queries is also generally quite small and has not significant changed, and the modern resolver software is pretty efficient. DNS is also designed for redundancy so in combination with anycast is quite simply to scale up.

Because of the persistent DDoS threat the question of capacity is constantly discussed. I don't remember the exact numbers but the current overhead is quite large compared to actual usage. It is also constantly being increased based on the threat rather than usage.
Twitter says politicians aren’t “entirely” above the rules
This is 2019. We want to cast out anybody different, in the name of empathy and inclusiveness.
well thanks, I'll give it a try later, perhaps my response was a subtle Ad Hominem to a very harsh Ad Hominem, In general I think we need to get pass falacies and have a real conversation.
> Adam Smith wrote a book about how he thought the market worked and then mercantilism disappeared.

Mercantilism didn't disappear, it just became less dominant. It's still around, and still sometimes ends up being the philosophy that drives policy, though we tend to call it by other names. “Protectionism” is a manifestation of mercantilism, as is worry over trade deficits.

Mercantilism isn't a predictive theory of how economics works, it's a public (economic) policy framework. Smith talking about how he thought that economy worked didn't make mercantilism less dominant, him proposing alternative policy based on that description did, though.
can elixir compete with the seven other programming languages you named?
Well I know decisions makers and people looking for solutions to hard problems with no simple answers, don't care about consensus/debates coming out of Associations.

They care about problems created by Tech that Techies have zero insight about.

If we are scratching our head in a tech company, wondering how to deal with Deaf users and an Anthropologist has spent 20 years embedded in Deaf society, that is someone we want in the room when decisions get made. It's that simple.

Similarly where I work we push to get Political Scientists, Social Psychologists, Historians and Economists into the room anytime the Techies in the room have no insight beyond some book they read during a vacation. Sometimes we have people whose experience is running a school of Dance or Music when talking about innovation and creativity. Doesn't matter whether its called a Science or not.

What is a science and what some group of old men at yearly meetings mentally masturbate about is not relevant to actual problems orgs face.
> If you can afford to give your employees these benefits your profit margins are vastly larger than most software companies.

the 40h/week, paid leave, etc. are minimums set by law in my home country, so I really doubt that.
I love pen plotters. When I worked with CAD we still had them. It was so much fun seeing it slowly working on a technical drawing. Laser printers are obviously much better and faster but much less fun to watch.
>Elizabeth Warren to get in office and stop some of this anti-competitive behavior.

Warren is a run of the mill middle of the pack Democrat. She only looks good because at present the GOP looks so bad.

The government needs to be reformed, electing one party or another President isn't going to change much, unless you set the bar really low (Trump)
opinion opinion opinion, it's nice 'moot point' was in bold. i stopped reading there and took it as a summary of the article. don't care about stallman nor FSF, but this article seems a sad attempt at making any kind of point. Much negativity in the first few scentences makes the writer seem exactly the kind of person he's trying to describe. :')
regarding Siri, I think the general assumption is that the phone is triggered by hearing 'Siri' to start recording. I doubt very much that people think their phone is always recording everything and that they are therefore ok with being recorded when not using siri.
If you weren't given right to read it, you wouldn't have been hurt! See?
> I think that Patagonia is 100% committed to being sustainable

Then you shouldn't have accused them of greenwashing, because that's exactly the opposite of what greenwashing means.
It's very simple. It's federal land and therefore cannot be taxed by the local governments.
IRS has your W2s and 1099s by February. It could compute and suggest your takes based on your previous year age & family profile. It already does this verify your filing.
Joke's on you, Scotland doesn't have a stock exchange.
In biological anthropology, there is a fair bit more science.

However, in cultural anthropology, its methods are purely qualitative. You can't make a hypothesis, breed 100 people and have them interact for a lifetime with your variable (with another 100 for control) to prove a hypothesis.

The questions that cultural anthropologists are asking cannot ethically be answered with science because there are too many variables to separate out a dependent and independent variable.

It's the difference between running a/b testing and going out and talking with your customers. Going out to talk with your customers is essentially applied anthropology - the methods are the same.

(source: my husband is a cultural anthropologist and I've been in countless conversations regarding Anthropology and science.)
Thanks for that graphic. I don't know what Barnier said along showing that slide, but for me it looks more like "there's no point even thinking about offering or discussing these options if you've ruled them out already" and less like "we have offered all of these in earnest". But I understand that your interpretation differs.

Edit: I found this: https://www.businessinsider.de/what-is-the-norway-model-brex... "The EU has always said the Norway option is available to the UK.", which I'll choose to believe. I stand corrected.
I have the same problem. I bookmark a lot and never come back. I lose interest in some of them, which I think is good, because I can focus on what’s left. But even that is too much.

The best way for me to learn is blogging. I usually study a topic first and then explain it to others.
That assumes that it'll recognize any of the original fingerprints after you put on the screen protector. It may just see one big blob though the screen protector.

You'd have to take the phone, put a screen protector on, give it back, have them retrain the detection, then steal it again and finally unlock it.
This GNUNet?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Gn...
I own one of those. They are great. I can buy a lot of stuff at the market around the corner and I don't have to endure my hands getting cut by my bags. I stopped shopping with my car as it is easier to walk into the kitchen with my shopping cart than loading and unloading my car and the elevator (my cart goes inside the elevator, so I don't need to unload it like my car).
I don't see how this is a spoiler - the plot of the novel is very complex, and told from multiple POVs. I was just pointing out a technical inconsistency; it's still very worth reading.
Some of those sources are pretty daunting...
I’m fairly ignorant about microplastic shedding. Is it common to all synthetic fabrics, primarily polyester...?
Similar in NL; it used to be a desktop app (which IIRC was even distributed via diskettes or a CD-ROM but later just a download), nowadays it's a webapp. Also prefills most information from employers (who already pay your income tax for you every month), mortgages, banks, etc.

The only complexity for me came when I bought my house (some costs are deductible) and when I had to report Bitcoin held at Coinbase (and for that I had to report the (EUR) on January 1st 2018 specifically).
Particularly odious considering these very same people did not have the guts to publish their criticism when he was seen as unimpeachable. It would've had more seeming validity then, and now just seems like an attempt to flog the dead horse, even if some genuine points are present.
Couldn't have said it better.

I hope Stallman survives this coup because there is potential here for the GNU project to be destroyed by the actions of a few (I'd like to say misguided but I fear that some of them have been planning this for a long time).

And unlike what they say they want to push towards, there is value in GNU not being a "democracy". Committees can easily get corrupted - we've seen this repeatedly in the open source world - and are not a good substitute for a single person with a strong moral code. A "democracy" would never have given raise to the GNU project to start with.

Here is Andy Wingo beating the war drums [1] and starting a witch hunt [2] against some poor guy:

" "He starts his talk by stating his hope that he won't be seen as "offensive or part of rape culture or something" "

"His microphone wasn't on, so once he gets it on he repeats the joke. I stomp out, slam the door, and tweet a few angry things"

To Andy Wingo, this was a "rape culture joke". Notice his snap judgement on the matter, there is no room for additional interpretation here, no room for thinking. His mind is already made up. He "stomps out and slams the door".

We have reached the point where people with hair-thin triggers are ready to jump on someone and brand him with the vilest form of - career destroying - criticism if they deem what he says offensive. I'm disgusted by this behavior and hope that the GNU project finds a way to distance themselves from this sort of idiotic ideology.

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2014/08/18/on-gnu-and-on-hacke...

[2] https://twitter.com/andywingo/status/500637145342935040
Hawking and other successful people would also handily qualify for visas based on achievements.
If this were true, then why is there so much genuine uncertainty over the net worth of a certain Donald J. Trump?
Miners are not paying their electricity bills with bitcoin (most of them). It's the other buyers, that buy the bitcoins from the miner in exchange for dollars, that in fact pay the bills. And those are willing to pay the current price of electricity required to create the block.

And mining costs have gone down before. It's when bitcoin's price falls making mining unprofitable, so some miners stop, which lowers the difficulty, which makes mining profitable again at lower level - mining costs decreased to match the price.
I am asking why using discrimination (favoring women) to reverse a discrimination trend is a problem. Not why discrimination in general is a problem, which it obviously is.
Rigidity is a major factor--if you inspect one you'll notice that high speed and high repeatability machines (e.g. a 6-axis +/- 0.020mm repeatability manipulator) are made from rigid (often high-mass) components with robust joints.
I feel like this talk does a great job of answering that question - The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Saša Jurić (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE)
Your code needs a dose of offensive programming
Jean-Claude Juncker has ruled out an extension to the Brexit deal. "Mr Juncker said: "He and myself don't think it's possible to give another prolongation. There will be no other."

This means (probably, given the time period) either acceptance of the deal or leaving without a deal irrespective of the UK Parliament.
...so if there are x tables, each with y different pizzas, unknown to you at the start, and you have a mental algorithm that assigns each pizzas a score between 0 and 1, how many tables do you need to visit before you are confident you are selecting a pizza that is in the 90th percentile of available pizzas, if we assume you're not allowed to return to a table after dismissing it..?
I don't think that is accurate. I believe the issue is that adding your fingerprint with the screen protector on essentially makes it so anyone can unlock it. If you add your fingerprint without the screen protector, putting the screen protector on and scanning a fingerprint will not get you in.
Mozilla Foundation has a site called *privacy not included that I think attempts to accomplish what you're asking for: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
> See Knight Capital for a good example as to why

Not really, that was about incompatible versions of software talking to each other, which would not really fall under what is meant by "correctness".
We will see in May.
Really depends on your threat model and what kind of access you want to prevent.

Random person tries to get in (eg phone was stolen in the subway, ...): biometrics work, password works.

Close person tries to get in (significant other, coworker, ...): biometrics is flawed, password works.

Government respecting your rights tries to get in: biometrics is completly broken, password works.

Government that don't respect your rights tries to get in: https://xkcd.com/538/

Although in that last case, as-in the case of Government respecting your rights but the court order you to give access, password still allows you to have the ability to block/brick/wipe the phone.

All of this of course is if you have a good password hygiene, but if you don't I don't think you have a claim to complain about weak security models.
Bash is not Unix.
You could miss forms like AMT and NET with FFF. Until recent tax reform I was borderline most years, so defer to tax software to determine if I had these taxes. ACA penalty a mess too.
how I see it, it's not a stigma, but also we shouldn't trivialise it randomnly diagnosing people, the risk of trivialising is that when someone has real issues we won't take them as seriously because anyways we all have "mental issues" *or so says people that disagree with you)
I'm just imagining applying this principle more broadly. Perhaps before every meal I could be forced to calculate the number of calories in each item, total them up and submit them. Maybe before every car journey I could fill out an estimate of the wear and tear on the tyres, gearbox and suspension, and record that in a big log book of car events.

Doesn't seem like a particularly useful way to approach life, to me.
Like TurboTax?
A "red flag" for what? He's using macOS, in which the typical user-facing directories are propercase (/Users, ~/Documents, etc.)
I don't have enough Karma to downvote a comment, but I can understand what you mean. That's probably worse than what I am facing.
Or set your phone to hotspot mode and transmit a poop emoji everywhere you go! It's the little things in life ...
> That doesn’t mean that free fillable forms need to be unnecessarily more difficult to use than commercial solutions.

They aren't. The IRS form is the exact for completed by TurboTax or any other accountant/service provider. The IRS only accepts their own forms.

>For most people the IRS could send a tax form already filed out to read, verify, and return.

Thats what is really being asked...the Government to do tax returns for you for free. Even if TurboTax and accountants weren't lobbying the Government not to do taxpayers tax returns for them for free, its a major jump to say the government/IRS would unilaterally begin doing this for taxpayers as a free service.
In New Zealand, the involvement that I had with my tax department this year since they have switched to an automated system was checking my bank balance one day to find that I had received a tax refund.
Canada doesn't release its own software, but it certifies a selection of free and paid software of varying complexity.

I'd like it if we could take up other, simpler models of sorting out income tax but I use software out of this pool† every year and its served me just fine:

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...

† usually StudioTax. I donated to them last year. It's not pretty software but it's effective and easy to use. https://www.studiotax.com/en/

"Our business model is similar to that of a street performer. You can use and enjoy our software and later decide if the experience was worth it and you can afford a donation.
However, based on many users’ feedback, you should be wary of recent free offerings from big commercial organizations. To use our previous analogy, they are big circuses that send their clowns out to the street to attract unsuspecting customers to their tents and pressure them in paying for their overpriced shows."
If any of you are interested in FPGA's after reading the article I highly recommend:

Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with VHDL
by Brock J LaMeres

He was my instructor in college and the text itself is extremely helpful for all things FPGA.
Good thing those companies are private, so that those of us who want to are free to pursue this venture with money earned "saving our planet right now."
Better management of transitive dependencies and conflicts
There are better ways to detect whether the finger is still attached to a live person.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128225-100-fingerpr...

Nevertheless it probably won't ever be completely reliable short of installing a hypodermic needle with the sensor to take a blood sample every time :)
If Assistant is that far ahead, then it's really funny because assistant is very disappointing. These companies are pushing voice onto the general public before it is ready to be actually useful. I got a free google home with something and half the time I try to use it I end up closing the conversation with something like "hey google you are completely useless".

When it comes to voice recognition and language modeling we are still rubbing sticks together to make fire. But Google and Amazon are marketing their voice products like it's a zippo lighter.

They really have a chicken and the egg problem. They need more data input to train their AI and make the service better, but they need the service to be better before more people will adopt it and feed data to train the AI.
Spending Google's money.
the thread is about Bitcoin mining using stolen energy
I definitely think that most people who describe themselves that way probably subscribe to the idea that unhealthy working hours are the only way to be innovative.

But this isn't so much evidence that your claim about the OPs employees is true as an attempted definition of "relentless innovators and world changers".

We could equally baselessly argue relentless innovators who are trying to find the next big thing would prefer a sane working environment so that they can have enough of a life to actually pursue their passion.
What else can you use, though? DuckDuckGo tracks you too, they're just lying about it, which is imho worse. Don't have the links handy right now, but it should be searchable. Alternatively, don't trust me.
I used to do that. Because I'm a proud software engineer and why should this stuff be complicated? It's just numbers you add or subtract...

wait, does the Transmogrifier Deduction for Frobnubilors apply when you claim to be Single-and-Only Highlander? pauses and takes 1 hour to read up on the IRS rules for this and compares with the advice of $random_internet_guy

And after the personal satisfaction of having completed everything myself, I file and a few months later get a letter from the IRS to the effect of "Dear Mr Bonehead, you totally forgot this obvious item, so we're going to refund you a bit more. You're welcome."

Taxes are not hard if you know how all of the rules apply to your special situation. If you don't, like most people, you're in the dark and it becomes a very poor use of time, with lost money at stake—or worse if your intentions are deemed to be fraudulent.
> If you can have an operations team who are experts on the application as well

Then functionally they're going to end up as software developers. And you're going to treat them as such or they're going to leave. Which is what the notion of a "devops engineer" evolved to be, yet every good-to-great "devops engineer" I've ever worked with identified as a software developer and could be hired at any developer role they wanted.

If you want a warm-body ops team, they're not going to be experts. If you want experts, in 2019 they're going to rapidly stop being just-an-ops-team.

> Some managers have told me that hiring for devops is harder.

It's easier to hire "devops" if your idea of "devops" is "somebody with an AWS Associate cert." It's much harder to hire "devops" if your idea of "devops" is "thinks systematically and is capable of debugging a problem nose-to-tail without waking up a developer."

I am the latter, and there are remarkably few of these.

> And developers should feel some of the pain—I’m not saying page them in the middle of the night, but they should be doing daytime on-call rotations.

I feel like you've got this wildly backwards. Developers should be first-line on-call in almost every situation modulo detectible hardware failures. Because here's the thing--I've been doing this a long time as a mostly-unbiased consultant (I'm in-house now and it still holds), and in most environments, operations/infrastructure 1) break things less, and 2) break things quickly, so there's usually relatively little time between the break and the working-hours fix.

If a developer can't solve a developer problem because they think it's actually infrastructural, they can escalate. Making that ops/infra group be first-line support for application pages is both inefficient and unfair.
Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
/pol/ has almost always been an echo chamber of whatever opinion was deemed fringe from what I remember. I seriously doubt anyone cared about Ron Paul winning the election other than the fact that they wanted to see what he would actually do in office, as it is with Trump right now - the general stance is Trump is horrible, not because of his policies, but because of the low impact of his policies compared to what anons had in mind would have been enacted.

It still has an air of anarchy/anarcho-capitalism as it always had, the tone has just shifted more towards the anarchism element.

And as it stands now, 4chan is still the most popular imageboard, which is largely why /pol/ is a blob of opinions where the only thing anyone can agree on is that they hate each other.
> Laws are often made to protect minorities, because history shows us time and time again that an unchecked majority of people can be real dicks.

Under democracy, a majority of people can decide what laws there are, and inflict their dickishness as they wish. Laws are often made to oppress minorities. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

See also part I of this essay: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/21/current-affairs-some-p...