skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by how frequently I occasionally lose internet connection for a mile or two in my major metro area for even basic tasks, like Siri dictation or streaming audio, I can't imagine how remote takeover could possibly be the answer to the "10%" situation unless we're prepared for some percentage of the time we are faced with a truck that simply gives up, puts on four-way flashers and comes to a stop wherever it may be (which could include network dead zones)... and then it's a matter for the police and/or recovery workers to either get the AI back in the saddle or move the truck.
Agree re: scraping, I was more stuck on "obligatory" so I guess I glossed over that.

I also agree that the big players would roll it into their core offering which would make life easier, but I'm wary of monocultures. A lot of people are already a bit annoyed at how much Wordpress is out there and this would just be another reason to skip a smaller (or bespoke) alternative and raise the barrier of entry for anyone thinking of making an alternative. But if we're agreeing that no one is forced to do it and scraping is OK, that's fine.
It has learned from those times, as much as you can even talk about "W3C" as an entity doing coherent things. Individual working groups have can have very little overlap with other groups, and have a lot of freedom in how they work. Which means they can putter about in ivory towers, or do effective work, as they wish.
Yes. This is true..what you say. But the world keeps turning. C’est la vie etc.
Did some Googling myself and found some related links:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-hacker-and-the-perils-of-dork...

https://pentestmag.com/zeus-scanner-advanced-dork-searching/

https://github.com/E4rr0r4/XGDork

https://github.com/GuestGuri/dork-scanner

https://www.darknet.org.uk/2017/10/sqliv-sql-injection-dork-...
I chuckle at a 'reassurance' like that one. Mechanically, a speaker is a poorly optimized microphone and a microphone is a poorly optimized speaker.[1]

I don't doubt there are people working for most major governments' intelligence departments who can use malicious software to facilitate listening through a computer connected speaker when surveilling a target (even if that speaker doesn't have an integrated microphone, in a very literal sense it is a microphone).

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/154343/can-a-sp...

Edit: precision of language
> 1. Yeah right. I assume you write software for a living; I'm not sure how you got through writing that sentence.

Not the author, but I took this statement to mean no major bugs which actually prevent utilization of the core system. Not necessarily no bugs that aren't fringe or easy to work around or cosmetic only. If the app in question is an alarm clock, the thing better alert me on time every time. Bugs that interfere with that core function are unacceptable. But if the font of the clock is off for one second every midnight, it wouldn't rise to that level. I imagine that threshold varies from person to person.
> Batteries need a ~40x improvement in their specific energy density to make sense as an energy source for aircraft that depend on thrust for lift.

I don't know how I can say "no" strongly enough.

If you only need 500km of range, it does not matter a single bit that jet fuel would increase your range from 1000km to 5000km. (Or 100km/180km/5000km respectively, if you want to talk about more contemporary batteries.)

Two things matter. Is the range good enough? How much does it cost? Jet fuel should not even be considered when answering the first question.
Google adding more news content to ‘top stories’ in search results
No, the custom builds aren't much more work than the vanilla builds, it's getting the build environment set up in the first place that's a pain, since you have to build against a different SDK for each version of macOS you support; and the custom builds are what he sells to customers, since with a custom build it can be installed and updated independently of the free-as-in-beer version that is used for things like SSHFS and might be updated out from under you in a way that breaks your application. Updating with your application means that you can test each new version and fix any issues or report back to him before shipping it.
Does it still work as a tap if the WiFi is down? :D
Funny you mention CSV because my mind immediately thought of that as relatively easy, compared to dealing with Excel. Fortunately a good chunk of users don't even understand the difference between the two.

A lot of these items, like photo cropping/resizing, aren't hard per se. They're just harder than they should be, particularly to nail every detail. And it's often tangential to the core business.
Some people do. Dress them the same, even.
How much of that is the cost vs. the idea that they are funding product enhancements that the vendor will profit from with other customers.

If there was an investment model in which funding feature development would yield a return from future sales, i feel more companies would move forward with these requests.
Mobile provider O2 chooses Huawei to build its German 5G network
“Hey we came up with some new ways to try and solve the kinds of problems this tool is designed to solve” isn’t worth a note? “Hey the version you’re using now won’t work with the new version of the OS you’re using but we fixed that”? “Hey, we fixed a pile of long-standing bugs”? You don’t wanna know about any of those?
Even if you think the current usage of deplatforming has been positive, it poses a huge black swan risk. If our major communication platforms expose a centralized censorship mechanism, that becomes a deliciously tempting target to be leveraged by authoritarian regimes.

Even if I trust the Twitter mod team, what's to stop tomorrow's jack-booted thugs from shooting the Twitter team and seizing control of the servers? I'd much rather we as a society move to decentralized censorship-resistant networks while we still have the freedom to openly build and advocate for them.

I really doubt that banning Hitler's social media accounts in the 1920s would have done anything to stop the Nazi rise to power. Whereas in the 1930s, rest assured that centralized platforms would have made the Gestapo's life a hundred times easier.
I know several attorneys, and man, I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
If they did the voice recognition locally, there wouldn't be a privacy issue. And that would arguably be far cooler technology.
Exact cell site locations would be considered competitive strategic information by most carriers, who spend a lot of time, money and energy selecting the right cell sites to cover the right markets at the right cost. Also, they change all the time, eg when leases expire, when customer traffic patterns changes, when there are upgrades, etc.
I have never been a fan of learning at work. It seems to impose a sort of group thought where employees learn by following patterns in place under the shadow of work culture and procedure. That has always struck me as highly uncritical and non disruptive.

Instead if you need new skills or want to advance your current skills my recommendation is to write an original application that solves some problem. Then you are forced to make original decisions and own the resulting consequences under risk of failure.
After reading a few blog posts and interviews with Peter Woit, I think I can say he's definitely a little bit "fringe" as far as physics is concerned. He does try to stick to the science (of sorts) but using some philosophizing he makes critiques like here:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-string-...

"This is however a straw man argument: the problem with such research programs isn't that of direct testability, but that there is no indirect evidence for them, nor any plausible way of getting any."

Sure, we might not have a plausible way of testing it today but that doesn't mean there won't be in the future. 2000 years ago people were on the right track that the Earth is round but couldn't "test it" but going around it. I'm sure the prospect of going round the earth back then seemed as distant as testing a multiverse today.

He also calls other reputable physicists "pseudo-science", which is aggressive and over the top.

All in all, he doesn't seem to present a logical critique beyond "it's not testable", all while using circular logic that "not being testable" is sometimes beneficial:

"Many ideas that are "not even wrong", in the sense of having no way to test them, can still be fruitful, for instance by opening up avenues of investigation that will lead to something conventionally testable."
Hell, no need for a record update: just multiple A records for the same hostname, with a short enough TTL that two different URL instances could conceivably resolve differently.
Simple answer: No.

Anybody who says yes is selling something. "Maybe" is not necessarily dishonest.
Speaking as someone who has spent his fair share of both time and money going through the correct legal process to reside in the US, I am fully in favour of the vigorous enforcement of US immigration law, but... if they’re so often present there and have only managed to arrest 77 people in an entire year, it seems like the same law enforcement effort would be better spent elsewhere.

It would be trivially easy to arrest 77 illegals in a single day with a single raid on a single sketchy farm, or by trolling outside a couple of Home Depots.
> The argument against it is basically that abuse of powerful surveillance technologies is inevitable precisely because the technology is so powerful.

What would be some examples of an abuse?

What would be some examples of a powerful surveillance technology?

For instance, what "surveillance technology" isn't already an internal diagnostic tool for day-to-day system administration for a telecom/service provider?

Only difference is who picks the target and them having oversight (likely having to provide a predicate/rationale). Why is this so bad?

If there's a lack of oversight, what rules and systems would you suggest to prevent abuse, as you define it?
Well, there's one difference. You're not getting inferior pizza by ordering online. The vast majority of Bluetooth speakers are marketed for convenience to people who don't understand the difference in sound quality that you get from full sized speakers. And this isn't some audiophile voodoo snobbery - it's physics, you simply can't get both good volume and good reproduction without size.
Yes it says in the article they got a master warning. That's a big red light in the center of their view accompanied by an alarm sound.

The terrain warning system comes on after that if you still continue and will keep making the "too low, gear" announcement continuously on a loop unless there is a higher priority problem (engine on fire)
Find someone who's already building a useful SaaS product that they're willing to take the responsibility for, and help them build it. If it fails, at least that person takes the brunt of the negative feedback?
That seems like a pretty generous interpretation of

>Software should be free of bugs. At the very least, updates should not introduce new bugs.

But sure, who wouldn't agree with you? Who doesn't strive for that? Bugs happen, even big ones, to the best of us.

If the clause

> Thou shall not push any major bugs

appeared in your employment contract, would you sign it?
Paid features come with shares? You bet more companies would go with it. I can’t see the developers being thrilled with the idea though.
You're right, that's so pedantic it's really not worth mentioning.
In 1995 having a domestic phone call, placed on a wired line, drop due to line issues was effectively inconceivable -- it simply would never happen. In 2015 we were in a time when it happened all the time, people simply accepted that voip was often unreliable.

In 2019 the idea of a vehicle around you simply stopping because its driver doesn't know how to handle a situation is extremely rare.

I suspect that by 2039 it will be far more commonplace, shrugged off as just a fact of life that electronic drivers fail on a regular basis and need to pull over and wait either for intervention or conditions to change.
Physical laws work only in the physical realm. They break down the moment you get into the realm of "thoughts and feelings". There are other deeper realms too which advanced buddhist meditators have experienced and talk about.
The real driver of health benefits tied to employment was that businesses were not allowed to give huge wage hikes during World War II. In order to compete for very scarce workers, businesses added a variety of benefits, including health insurance. Around this time, medicine actually started being effective, which has led to an ever increasing set of costs (now we use million dollar machines and whacky drugs by the bucket load, when it the past they just tried to keep you comfortable or stop you from bleeding to death).

As the cost of health benefits increased, corporations lobbied for tax-exemptions providing this benefit. Congress gladly obliged because it seemed to be an effective way to get everyone (who mattered) insured. This really cemented our current system in place.
Yes, Dell and HP sell perfectly fine workstations.

No, there's nothing like the current Mac Pro.

A quick look doesn't show a Dell Precision desktop workstation that goes beyond 48GB RAM, for example, while the Mac Pro goes to 1.5 TB.

I also didn't see anything like the MPX Module:

The MPX Module starts with an industry-standard PCI Express connector. Then, for the first time in a graphics card, more PCIe lanes integrate Thunderbolt and additional power provided to increase capability. With up to 500 watts, the MPX Module has power capacity equivalent to that of the entire previous-generation Mac Pro.

Didn't see a way to have up to 8K streams going at the same time or the ability to attach up to 12 4K displays on the Dell site.

It goes on and on. You can approximate a lot of what Apple is offering, but you can't duplicate what they're offering at a lower price.

There's so much Apple-designed silicon in this box, it's literally impossible for Dell, HP or anyone else to compete with off-the-shelf, commodity components.

For the target market Apple is going for, the cost of even a tricked-out Mac Pro is a rounding error.
You can add some examples for different cases it was able to detect. This would help us better analyze the website.
$530 to turn on a faucet with your voice? What?
The more exposure I get to folks way “above” me in business, or riches, or whatever, the more convinced I am that very few people at any level are really much good at what they do and most of what goes on is just very serious role-playing and play-pretend, which realization is at least as horrifying as it is comforting.
I'm talking about best practices. I can always create a div hell but I believe there is an art in creating proper UI using HTML/CSS.
I'm not doing the math, but I do recall that time on those phones was _very_ expensive. Dollars per minute.

And, in those days if you didn't press the 'end' button to terminate the call, regardless of the other party hanging up, it kept an open line. I remember my dad getting several hundred dollar bills related to saying 'bye' and tossing the phone onto the passenger seat.
I'm not arguing they are "ridiculous" asks. But many of them are certainly expensive asks. I mean, just take one simple one for starters, "Works with the database and version we use". Depending on the size and complexity of the software that can easily be a multi-million dollar project.
So the part that this doesn't cover is any sort of earnings multiple/discount. For simplicity assume the $10M was earnings over the last year. Your EPS is $10. After your buyback, assuming all things equal, your same $10M now makes your EPS $11.11.

The point there is the mechanics of buybacks make more sense when you think of how they behave marginally, and what it says about how the company's future earnings are being discounted.
>> and the $9.7M in shares you didn't sell which are still worth the same amount

"Worth the same amount" as what value? 10 million? If so, then doesn't that also create 10.3M in value (ie created 300k from nothing)?
It's surprising how much convenience and novelty trumps everything else.
I’m just happy they have a monthly option :) most services seem to only consider wanting to give once.
Strengthened protection for patient data.
Sooner or later, drones will start plying across aerial routes too for transportation of goods. That will be perhaps both cheaper for ebay/amazon and also leave the roads free for people to walk. What do you think?
My dog goes crazy with this frequency generator
Using particles-bg-Vue with Nuxt.js
I know a number of germophobes who would want something like this to avoid touching the knob/lever while preparing meals etc.
It is interesting...

Makes you wonder if the things they are claiming to have working, and the accomplishments, are actually true, or just smoke as they hope for a high flying payday by a cash flush competitor hoping to buy advancements.
Keep in mind, some people literally can't get off their butts to turn the lights on.

And if you have lost your sight, being able to play a tune on demand via an Echo voice command is a miracle. So is being able to listen to a podcast or audio book. Or being able to ask how old Tom Brady is, how many tablespoons in a quarter cup, what's the weather next week and how far it is between Dallas and Austin.
Agreed, but consider that the internet, and state of HTTP hosting, was a very different place in 1995. Was the Host header even a thing back then? (And if it was, was it widely deployed?) This is clearly wrong in hindsight, but I could see why it was naively designed that way in the first place.

Regardless, given all Java's warts, this doesn't even make my top 10.
Greece, Germany and India have higher IPv6 adoption than USA
Got to be careful there, when someone pointed out to Einstein that his theory of Relativity predicted wacky singularity things he scoffed ... we call them "black holes"
In reality, that is the only reason IBM is still floating around $100. It isn't worth that, and if they didn't buy back their stock, they'd crash their value.
"I have nothing to hide wizo geeko, here take this middle finger" is the answer we get when we try to inform people about privacy. Even large scale privacy breaches of sensitive information have had no impact on people's privacy awareness.
i have this weird theory in my head that tim is allocating financials internally to either

A: save money and try to let a product die (mac mini, mbp, ipod)

B: invest to signal hope that a product is in fact not dead (mac pro, also mbp)

both approaches will eventually lead to an iphone-ipad-only apple because in case A things just fade away with the occasional life sign as to not lose too many customers.

case B, on the other hand, gives people what they were yearning for for years and keeps „professionals“ and press stimulated but at a ridiculous price point so that, b/c of low sales, the product line can finally be killed.
That may be true, but mine were half the price of a similar sized speaker and has good enough quality for my kitchen, plus all of the other things I use it for.

For simple ambient noise it does just fine. If I want better I have a Klipsch home theater system.

But I don't generally listen to a ton of music regardless so its not the primary reason I purchased either of them. If thats the reason someone picked up a smart speaker, then sure, they aren't getting the best for their dollar.
Well PR loans are derivatives in a lot of other other loans, and there is too much spread around that if it failed, all the other investments would too.
Behind the One-Way Mirror
Obviously it's enforceable through the voluntary code of conduct!

What could possibly be more enforceable than a voluntary code of conduct?
He didn't say anything was auto played. Just the next recommended video. YouTube always highlights one, it's at the top of the list
Working toward securing PyPI downloads
How to Step Up as a Junior, Mid Level or a Senior Developer?
I did read the thread. It was about the irony that ASCII doesn't even cover English. Then you start to talk about a loosing battle. Still unclear which battle. Are you referring to the evolution of the English language into a language only using ASCII? Because if so that's completely off topic for the thread.
The real reason you can’t throw it out right away is because if somebody reports a security issue to you, no matter how bullshit it is, you can’t just outright dismiss it at the risk of a snarky blog coming out attacking your security integrity. Even if the blog is complete nonsense, not everybody who reads it will know that, so the risk to reputation is too high. Bug bounties are almost completely full of incredibly low-effort scanner spam. A company can easily end up wasting huge amounts of its precious security budget getting report spammers to leave them alone. You absolutely never want to do anything to attract those kinds of people to your business, unless you have very carefully weighted up the costs and benefits first.

I honestly think most of the effort that goes into bug bounties and things like security.txt is just busy work for security charlatans who don’t know any better way to be spending their time.
USA is good at creating systems but not improving them or adapting to newer tech.

Even their credit-card system is the worst in the world. In India (and even in Europe), they follow the VBV (Verified by Visa) and 3D Secure (MasterCard) standards which means a one-time password will be sent to user's mobile for verification before every card transaction. But in USA, they still follow the old system of simply using the card number and CVC (which is a static credential and easily lost) which results in a lot of credit card frauds.
I stayed too long in a job at a company that was turning / had turned toxic. It takes that experience to be able to not only recognize it in the future, but also know to act on it before it goes too far.

The combination of these two statements in the post give me the "chills of recognition" of a bad situation:

> In a company of a thousand, everyone knew me by name. I've created dozens of tools that are still used in the company to this day.

> I was assuming a position of leadership, I was very popular, yet I had no power.

If this is you, you need to evaluate your situation coldly and logically. Why do you have no power? You're either delusional about your level of influence and utility within the company, or the company is a boys club (I believe the term 'lifestyle company' was used to describe a previous place of employment of mine) and you're not a member.

And fundamentally, do your "network of influence" research before you tattle on ANYONE. That's a primary school lesson.
Debt is the mechanism that fiat currencies use to create money. If there is no debt, there is no currency. And since we need debt to pay off debt, then you get where we get now with the FED injecting QE and pumping the Repo markets up. The main difference between now and 2008, is that the repo market helps the traders more than the banks. The traders are too big to fail, because if they don't trade and there is no liquidity because Repo fails, there is no stock market. Which destorys the full faith and credit of the USA. Which is what gives money its value. If the Government is not credit worthy, everything falls, look at Japan and their zombie banks and markets. They are no where near their boom.
In a move that surprises literally no one, angel.co recommends investing in startups across the board. Shocking I know.
It is private. I don't think they would really care and would more care about link clicks.