skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same. My guess is that a robot is waiting for enough sound before it starts it's pitch. So if you answer, don't say anything and little noise is passing into the receiver on your phone they don't detect enough sound to start.

Just a guess because a lot of others I get just start babbling away as soon as I hit answer. I guess those detect the pick up and don't rely on an actual voice answering.
How to setup your own Nebula mesh VPN
So after testing matrix and riot with friends for a couple of months, there're still a ton of work to be done. We all used the most common setup - matrix.org homeserver, riot and riotX as apps. (Also please don't point me to dev version, I am only considering what's in stable.) Random stuff not in particular order:

1a) e2e is a choice that affects experience in riot, a lot - you can't use search, you don't see recent images/files ...

1b) you have to verify each others devices, N:M; although they're working on a change

2) I hoped that riotX will be a lot better at the end of this year, but there're still lots of bugs, messages get stuck at the bottom, mobile - mobile e2e can't be decrypted sometimes, you have to have another device online; and you can't even zoom in or save an image that's sent to you which is infuriating

3) matrix.org homeserver performance, although a lot better now is still sometimes utterly slow

4) riot is still missing crucial functions like copy entire message, online status, jump to date, and lacking any good notification system(the current one is really simple/stupid) and you can't even enable notifications without sound e.g.

4) also it's still lacking custom emote support although many ppl asked, there's no option to pin/save messages...
https://rewalk.com/
Ending surprise billing: A moral test for physicians
I would say the vast majority of SASS where the primary product isn’t some kind of heavy compute/ storage.
No one apparently. $6,790 collected means you're losing money to collect it.
What does self-testing cover? RAM? That's something the OS could do as a background task, incrementally making memory available during boot after a chunk has been scanned.
I think it's good to keep in mind the concept of signal and corrective[1] when reading this blog post. This blog is a corrective assuming an environment where people don't speak up enough about things that are going wrong.

If you're in an environment where harsh criticism is regularly thrown out, to the point where everyone is constantly on guard and major CYA is the norm rather than the exception, this advice is not for you (you need another nice blog about when to shut up, and how to deliver criticism without being hostile, etc)

[1]: https://everythingstudies.com/2017/12/19/the-signal-and-the-...
Microsoft Removes Christmas Hat from vs. Code, Closes Issue Tracker
It's sort of funny that linus torvalds actually talked about why that sort of iteration is better: https://youtu.be/o8NPllzkFhE?t=861

I think he puts it pretty well (although he them also goes on to say dumb little snippets like that really don't matter in the big picture). Essentially, by making a doubly indirect pointer you get to treat the first element exactly the same way you are going to treat every other element.
IIRC Microsoft provided a full blown demo database ( either for SQL Server or from Access, I can't remember ).
https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2019/05/05/domain-rando...
Verizon informed me of a new plan to block Robocalls, I think you can pay $5 a month to block them or something...pretty ridiculous. That doesn't include text spam.
You can offset the deception classifier by 31.87% by putting in two bananas in front pockets of your jacket. Nobody knows why.
You can't roll your own TLS replacement using Javascript, because you need some way to deliver that Javascript to the browser in the first place. If you don't use TLS for that, you're doomed. Sure.

On the other hand, that's a pretty narrow definition of "Javascript Cryptography". The article overlooks a bunch of other useful cryptographic things you can do in the browser, like end-to-end encrypted messaging. You can't lose a giant database of customer data if you don't have a giant database of customer data sitting around. Javascript can encrypt stuff before it even leaves the browser.

If you build your service this way, an attacker would have to carry out an active attack that injects bad code into your Javascript bundle. That's much harder than stealing a database, and even if it works, it can only compromises the users who log in during the breach.

So, no, the right kind of Javascript Cryptography is actually quite beneficial.
> Cool. It sounds like money doesn’t matter to you because you’ve identified a really high margin business and time to market is critical. This doesn’t match how 99% of businesses work though.

Cost matters to all businesses. But you have to do proper accounting. Do I hire more people on my team to build automation to create our database clusters, or do I just punch a button and then pay the bill? There must be a point where it makes sense to roll your own, but that point is likely to be fairly high up.

Whenever I hear that someone 'can do it cheaper', I often find that the math is not correct.

By the way, if you are not big enough that the relative cost of a VM between cloud providers is the primary concern, guess what, some of the services mentioned are really cheap – in some cases cheaper than running your own in whatever provider. You don't have to maintain VMs 24/7 to store data on S3, or to make use of SNS, SQS, DynamoDB. Lambda is the poster child for not maintaining servers

If you are really tiny, go use those services instead of wasting any time spinning up servers.
True.

Don’t expect me to be happy about that, though.

I’ll even upvote your comment, as it does matter a little. Too bad C is what “we” settled for.
Appropriate to the topic, you handled that feedback very well!
Something odd happened there. I also graduated in '99 and, with a BS CS degree, pretty much did computer engineering. In just two years I paid off my loans, paid off my wife's loans (she didn't work), and bought a somewhat fancy new car. Since then, I've paid off a house and had 12 kids.

I guess things go badly if you paid full price for an expensive school, used private loans with high interest, never paid more than the minimum demanded for your loans, missed some payments, and gave most of your money to your landlord. None of that is required.

Somewhere, something went very wrong for you. Your situation isn't typical for a person with that degree.
"I said this is my background and this is what I have to offer and I am happy to do an unpaid internship initially. Eventually they raise money and then they can pay you."

This illustrates why a high and strictly-enforced minimum wage applied to new hires is a bad idea. It prevents people from getting their foot in the door.
Of course, they didn't go on to generate "deceptive walking" in the wild. They generate video or pictures as deceptive or non-deceptive and they are able to distinguish the generated stuff without labels once they'd trained a network with labeled data.

This might (or might not) serve to prove that these deceptive gestures do exist. The problem of even this is are that there may be a zillion cue characteristic of the subjects being given their directions.

But even if such gestures exist, it seems pretty given that this would be overwhelmed the complexity of images captured in the wild, where many other variable govern behavior.
Alternatively, analytics databases don't use indices by design, as for most queries they need to shuffle entire datasets anyways. For example, https://dbdb.io/db/vertica: "Indexes are not support in Vertica."
E-Book Resales Run Afoul of Copyright Law, EU Court Rules
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Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
Google Reader was a simple RSS facility free of ads and free of yet another login facility. It might also have been one of the few web based readers that required no client. Others came along afterwards using GOOG authentication and were web based. We've survived in the post-Google apocalyptic world.
>Lesson 2: We need artists

Disney-type artists, yes. Animatronic robots are getting better and better, and it is only a matter of time before they will be offering one-on-one interaction that is engaging to folks at one of the theme parks. In fact that is where I expect to see the next level of social robotics happening.
Yes. I bought a very nice gaming rig for my daughter a few months ago. It's a great custom-built machine, but expensive (by today's standards -- it's still cheaper, adjusted for inflation, than average PCs in the '90s). Clearly, these are niche products.

But I'm shopping for a general purpose tower to replace the laptop that is currently my primary machine. For half the price of that gaming rig, I can get a machine that is even gruntier (but lacks the things gamers want, such as a high-end video card).
An Email is a message with a subject line and potentially attachments. XMPP has the former in the core, can do the latter with XEP-231 (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html). A message can have one or multiple recipients, just like an XMPP message.

Email is really a simple form of messaging, where you put some content and expect the chain to route it to your destination; pretty much any IM system can emulate it, and XMPP goes a little bit beyond in providing the bits that different an email message from an IM message.
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitio...

Doesn't matter what is the product. They're ready to kick GCP to the curb if it doesn't perform up to expectations. I wouldn't host anything important on it.
>“If I may dare to ask those who initiated the amendment of the Fudan University charter, how do you expect our generation of Fudan people to face our ancestors?” said one Weibo user.

Is this the equivalent of linking a tweet?
> Minutes? That sounds exaggerated.

POST on a Dell M640 is about three minutes. Other Dell systems are similar. POST on the workstations that I use are in the range of 1-2 minutes. This is before the OS gets control (once that happens, it's usually 15-20 seconds to a usable system).

The ST was a pretty decent performer at the time (arguably a little faster than the original Macintosh, for instance). Both the ST and the Macintosh took about the same amount of time to boot from floppy disk (though the OS was in ROM for the vast majority of STs that were built).
Haha I personally would love it, but I cannot imagine car alarms going off would be tolerated on a daily basis! Great video if thats yours. On the flip side, I think about how we have tornado siren tests every week at 3p, and my office tower is immediately adjacent to a fire station with the siren on the rooftop blasting at my window for 2 minutes a week, we have to mute conference calls and whatnot during the test... its just a part of life.. I mean, surely they could test those things every month during tornado season and be just fine.
An interactive introduction to basic types in TypeScript
I grew up on boats and docks. I noticed as a kid that dogs on boats could differentiate people walking on a dock without seeing them. The dogs would become alert and start barking when they heard someone who wasn't normally there. I still wonder if they detect known gaits or the gait of someone who is not walking with a purpose.
* This is why the siren call of instant infrastructure is so alluring to you. While your depth of knowledge for startup infra requirements is there, it does not transfer to large enterprises/campuses/etc where demand is very predictable and involving another company (Amazon) in your operations is nothing more than a liability.*

Every large company has dozens of vendors that they “involve their operations”.
Whether or not it seems complicated depends on if you have nailed down the mental model. It's a bit like Git, in that respect.
You could've written the same comment without being so incendiary ;P
You didn't provide a source for your numbers, but let's have a look at the report listed as a reference in Wikipedia:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130513055956/http://www.iisd.o...

Which in turn references this:

https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/neconomics/weltstatu...

Which basically says they have crappy data but then proceeds to lump in a lot of historical costs, like the sum of all taxpayer-funded fission R&D, including things like weapons and nuclear submarines that have little to do with civilian power generation, "liability caps" even though there hasn't actually been a reactor incident in the US that reached the liability cap (and fossil fuels and everything else also has de facto liability caps because of corporate limited liability), and "stranded cost" rules in deregulated energy markets that also apply to fossil fuel generating plants but aren't included there because the numbers are coming from completely different sources. Moreover, even some of the legitimate costs (like the R&D actually used for civilian power generation) are fixed costs that stay the same, and thus decline per kWh, if you build more plants. And that's what I could find in a few minutes of glancing at it.

This is par for the course in these comparisons. People want nuclear to look bad, so they lump in every cost they can find to the calculation, even ones that don't even apply, without doing the same for competing generation methods.

And this is before we even count the massive subsidy fossil fuels get from carbon not being priced.
I believe it is up to the states how they elect representatives.

It's a little harder with the presidency, because of the electoral college (a state may be at a disadvantage if they used approval while other states use plurality...it does not good to pick a middle ground candidate if they can't actually win). However, changing the way we elect representatives/senators would go a long way.

https://www.electionscience.org/ces-updates/making-approval-...
The advantage over Vagrant is that it's a lot less complex. I've tried Vagrant on Windows before and really struggled with it, when all I wanted was a quick and easy way to launch lots of VMs.
Some days my call log is a solid wall of dozens of calls coming from (ostensibly) Chad or Nigeria or whatever that are pulling the one-ring scam. The number is different every time so there’s no blocking it. It’s out of control.
> I don't see your point?

My point is that C++, Java, etc. got established long before the hiring patterns and keywords changed. The employers will just suddenly start to expect (language age + 1 year) experience.

I think same will happen to Rust.

> Rust is not very stealthy at all :)

Yet it might appear like that from corporate point of view.
I always find this sort of thing to be a turnoff, and I work in robotics and have done stints in aerospace.
NIH-directed purge of those with China ties sweeps up Moffitt CEO Alan List
Nice breakdown! Just to clarify, in step 2 of your "Recovery of the secret (by the client)" section, the client is retrieving `split2`, not `split1`.
Perhaps the best new feature of iOS 13.

However, now I get a bunch of robocalls in voicemail, and iOS doesn't transcribe them properly because they're usually in Mandarin.
The Causal Theory of Views: A Conversation with Lee Smolin
Need to remember that some cables have common points where they cross over and share fate, identified as shared risk link groups (SRLGs). Good engineering and design practices involve ingesting detailed fiber routes in GIS databases (kmzs in some cases) to identify these and build diverse paths. Every now and then sometimes people get surprised by what is documented isn't what's in the ground (this is a bigger problem in urban/metro locations). Example where fiber goes under the same sidewalk, transitions from aerial to underground, etc.
> * The USPS, unlike UPS and FedEx, have a legal mandate to attempt to deliver every letter and parcel if it's in the US.

Fedex and UPS are common carriers and also cannot refuse a package without good grounds.

USPS can also refuse a package on good grounds, for example if you try to mail prohibited substances.
Indexes are part of the SQL standard, so they are certainly pertinent for "SQL database" discussion.
You missed the key part of the experiment: They basically completely changed the experimental setup between the two runs: The confederate changed how they were dressed, the item was on the floor instead of on the table, and, most importantly: they told the participant to hide what they were doing and otherwise act sketchy!

So yeah! No surprise! They told the participant to act sketchy, and they did! What did the participant do? They put their hands in their pocket and looked around a bunch more than normally. Why? Because they were basically told to! That's not "deceptive walking".

Where is the control for picking up the papers off the floor, or the money off the table? How do we know it's not just that people will walk differently when they are about to crouch down? Maybe that would be an interesting paper by itself, but instead the authors think that this type of research is capable of identifying "deception" with 93% accuracy? Absurd!

There is so much wrong with the experiment, that you could write a rebuttal of almost every decision they made.
Does the US care about other countries? I would be quite happy if they managed to enforce that worldwide by simply not working with the companies that don’t provide caller id.
I cycle when I can, which is a lot but I feel a lot safer in my car and that's not just an illusion, that's born from the number of near misses with vehicles that are straying outside of their lanes and onto the bike path and/or aggressively overtaking my bike when they have to wait behind it for a few seconds until someone from the other side has passed them. It has worked so far but I always wonder how the long term numbers work in cases like these.

20-25 Km average daily every day of the week, that's only about an hours worth of cycling on a slow bike or maybe 45 minutes on a faster one. That's on the order of a few hundred hours of exposure per year. Near misses several times per month at least.
So to some degree that's preaching to the choir around here; I still use emacs extensively and adore it, but I'd also never wish it upon anyone who doesn't value work efficiency over low cognitive load and nice aesthetics. In my experience, at least, that's most people.

In light of that, I think it's less that we've "lost" keyboard-driven efficiency as much as knowingly sacrificed it in favor of spending UI/UX dev time on more generally desired/useful features. The nice thing about being the type of power user who wants more keyboard functionality is that you can often code/macro it yourself.
Yep. This was my fault and I apologize.
Yes, everything about this "study" sounds absurd and circular.
The Evolution of the Normal Distribution [pdf]
Yeah it depends what question you are trying to answer:

1. Does my air purifier filter out PM2.5?

or

2. Dos lower PM2.5 make me sleep better?

For #1 there is no placebo effect (there is no human element!)
Even if it was the official article title, "Data Leak" is extremely misleading; the attack is called credential stuffing and is unrelated to any sort of breach on Ring's end.

Edit: finished reading the article, and the entire text is just as misleading as the title, credential stuffing happens all the time and really isn't newsworthy.
Firstly, our customers specifically have to enable it, and can easily disable if they don't want it.

Secondly, I don't see why the AWS returning 200s while silently discarding our stuff is the right way to handle this. If you want to block our numbers (which I aboslutely think you should be able to do) the API should return something that tells us that instead of pretending like everything is fine.
Yeah, if the primary economic model of a phone number is to allow 3rd parties to spam individuals, then the phone number needs to die.
Government study finds racial, gender bias in facial recognition software
Because it's so simple. I've been wanting it for YEARS. What's more simple than planning a trip? What else do you need a map for if you're not planning to go from point A to point B?

I hate when I need a restaurant or gas station ALONG MY ROUTE and yet years later no maps have this ability. It's insane.
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Here is a possible way to call from the native dialer in the event that data is not available...

One can prepend a calling card-like sequence, using hard and soft pauses, before the actual telephone number gets called so all calls get routed through twilio (or any VoIP carrier) for managing the caller id.

In other words, you are calling your personal calling card telephone number for every call so you will enter in your code and then enter the telephone number that you would like to call.
Implying that someone doesn't understand the what they are talking about is a little unfair. Headlight brightness is becoming a problem.

Those "smart" headlights definitely do not react correctly/fast enough to prevent blinding someone when they drive over a bump or crest a hill- which are things that are almost guaranteed to happen multiple times whenever someone goes driving. Adding the current level of smarts to a headlight does not fix the issue with brightness.

I think we've reached (or are very near) the point where a brighter headlight won't give you as much additional safety as they degrade the safety of oncoming traffic. It's cool for me to have lights that are brighter than the sun, but if oncoming traffic is blinded and hits something- maybe not me, they could be blind for several seconds after I've passed them and they hit a deer or something- then the overall effect is that my brighter headlights made the roads less safe. I have no personal incentive to get dimmer lights, but society as a whole has an incentive to find the sweet spot where lights are bright enough to drive at night and not endanger other people.
I see someone mentioned that further down in this thread, but shutdown and reboots are similarly quick for all of my pc's. Even my 12 year old laptop (with SSD) boots Windows 10 in _well_ under a minute, and shuts down and reboots much faster.

I also have hibernation disabled, and I've never noticed some obviously large file that might be a hibernation state on my drives (even e.g. removing a drive after a shut down so there was no restart where it could've been deleted).
Can't you just do that with a catch all pattern match?
"The United State is a better country than China because you are free to speak about how you would like it to be run!"

"Very well, I'd like to complain about carbon emissions"

"Fuck off to China, commie!"