skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speakers are always-listening in exactly the same way that most smartphones are always-listening: They are always passively listening for the wake-word. Without the wake-word (or at least something that sounds like it) they do not record or transmit audio data. All the major smart speaker brands clearly indicate when they have been activated with lights and/or sounds. For the truly paranoid there is generally a switch to disconnect the microphone.
> Still, wily narcissists can sometimes evade detection until they’ve been in place for a while. Using 360-degree evaluations from a wide range of employees can help surface self-absorbed leaders, Chatman notes.

I honestly doubt this. The whole credit-stealing blame-shifting will inevitably put the blame on those with less power and status and set them up for retaliation. In all the years I've been working, I've honestly never solved a problem writing a peer review, ever. Many times, those don't even end up on a review or are shown to the person being reviewed, unless the person's manager wants it to be.

I'd also like to reference the 'fish rots from the head down' - while the meaning is true, I find this to be such a strange saying. I heard a better one that I've started to use from now on. "The house leaks from the roof on down"

What side is down on a fish anyway? And do they actually rot that way? Seems suspect to me. Perhaps an experiment is in order.
Which means there's a network request involved in switching channels, which is not a great design.
The article says:

> The UK's health authorities missed 16,000 coronavirus cases

> Article says they counted 11,000 and revised to 16,000 which means they missed 5,000.

No... It's 16,000 unreported between Sep. 25 and Oct. 2, of which it's 11,000 unreported between Sep. 30 and Oct. 2:

> Our analysis now shows that this issue affected a total of 15,841 cases from the period between 25 September and 2 October,

> Of these, over 75% (11,968) relate to cases that should have been reported between 30 September and 2 October.
Few thoughts:

1. Regarding Pricing may be it could be bundled with Teams and get price per user from Microsoft.

2. If it works only with Teams, my concern is I am coupling my solution with Teams. What if I decide to switch to slack or Discord?

3. All the security concerns others have brought are going to block me from going for this solution.
Like most people, my first thought was "how do they restock those machines?"

Turns out the summit of Mt Fuji has civilizational amenities, and there's actually a vehicle that goes up to the summit via a trail.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/182302882@N05/48439659072/
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Then don't. If you can do it without the 200k, then you have a market niche you can exploit and make lots of money that way. Lead the way.
It's useful in showing the project is maintained and how old it is.

I regularly have to shop around for libraries. Seeing a copyright 2017 doesn't bode well for the documentation or the project being maintained.
> that the evidence for community mask wearing being a net positive is quite strong

(genuine question) please could you provide a link to that? I've seen one meta-study that people quote, but I've not seen any evidence that community mask wearing is a net positive in practice.
None of these really apply in this case. In data oriented programming, the data would not be stored in heterogenous lists but each element would be stored in a different, homogenous array and you would ties these together using the same entity ID.
Yeah this doesn't seem significantly different than what police can already request of your Internet traffic and search history. It's obviously a privacy issue, but not one of an increased scale...in the way that say, having the devices be switched to always-on-always-transmitting would be, e.g. akin to the FBI breaking into Tony Soprano's basement and planting a wire in his lamp, but being able to do it remotely.
Microsoft Teams had a major outage just last week. Every major service like this has issues sometimes.
An actual few years, or a "fully self driving cars are a few years away" few years?
“ I'm all for data privacy, but in the event of a crime being committed we need to allow every tool available to find the truth.”

What kinds of crime do you think this is appropriate for?
u can use virtual environments for that
>Or Apple stops making as much money in hardware sales and might actually have to lower their prices?

That already was a threat, in 2018 they removed their total unit sales numbers for a reason. The number was falling. Now they only report total revenue which they are boosting by cutting corners where they can.

And they are still clamping down in the walled garden to further cement their position.

Blocking xcode from running in darling is just a question of when.
I find it interesting that the operators are buying from Sam’s club rather than a legit wholesaler. $0.50/unit for soda is ridiculous

I looked into this a few years ago because someone on reddit wrote a long post about I couldn’t find. The ROI looks amazing until (as the article alludes) you look into how much labor is required to keep the operation going. It kind of works if you have capital and your time has low opportunity cost.

I think the smart way to do it would be to start a franchise that provides machines with financing, acts as a wholesaler, etc so you can take a cut of the operation with less capital investment and less driving around to actual machines. But then that starts looking like an MLM...
Pour one out for the SREs.
I'm always awe-struck thinking about the fact we know this. For example the ATP synthase motors in the Mitochondria— we have figured out ways to discover these sorts of things without seeing them, just by chemical analysis, computer modeling, trial and error.

Moreover, this is just what we know, but there must be so much more we don't know. It's astounding to think just how much more might be hiding in these very complex systems.
You can tell it was built for Silicon Valley. The marginally lighter gray tone on unsent messages is only noticeable by design-aware people on fancy IPS monitors. Messages are reordered semi-randomly.
Marketing director of one of the largest travel firms in the UK at 27! Such talent at such a young age (teeth grinding intensifies)
You should know better than to test a slack bot during an outage. The ideal time is 2am on a Tuesday /s
Well, in their defence, you can't really know how much the uptime is going to be affected by until the incident is resolved.
If it was a live counter then you'd see the uptime go up as the month progresses!
Yep, as I said, it’s a very specific part of France and not a “French” thing in general. Anecdata is anecdata, but I’ve had a lot of friends (some French, some not) agree that this is common in this specific place, so I know I’m not alone.
What about a commitment to providing customers with proper hardware schematics and detailed datasheets? (yes, even if the board itself isn't opensource)

I lost faith in using raspberry pi 4s because the foundation is very tight-lipped. Want to know why your board is behaving weirdly, or whether the behavior is expected or a result of a defect? TOUGH LUCK. You'll have to rely on outdated forum posts, SO answers, and (if you're really lucky) the good mood of the engineer monitoring these sites.

I'd rather stick to building for a well-understood but expensive platform like x86 than undocumented black boxes.
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This is sometimes the case. Not always.
I don't know... look at ATP Synthase, it's basically an electric motor made out of crazy nanotech from the future. Seems pretty efficient to me.
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The latest news is that apparently this was a problem with Public Health England's internal processes anyway, not NHS Test and Trace or any other kind of outsourced service: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54422505 I don't think that even falls under Harding's responsibilties.
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I remember a couple years ago reading that to get roughly of 1080p of at VR headset distances would require the equivalent , from a pixel perspective, of several (I believe it was 8) standard sized desktop monitors. The implication of this was that we were a LONG way off from having that level of resolution so I would be very interested to know current state of the art.

Also, this article about how different distances between eyes, pupils etc could affect VR was fascinating: http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BVR%20op...
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What a Karen.
> The message is in a light grey colour until it's confirmed.

This morning alone, I've had multiple messages start off black, then turn grey after about 10 seconds. And that's not just true today, but other time Slack has been down as well.

"If it's black, it's confirmed delivered" is not an invariant.
I am interested to know if this will have any impact on a person’s sleep. It’s my understanding that the laying down position is best reserved for sleep and sex, else you risk disrupting your circadian rhythm.
Since it looks like they hit the spreadsheet row limit, this is a friendly reminder that the "Data Model" or "Power Pivot" mode [1] of excel scales far beyond [2] the spreadsheet mode.

[1] https://support.office.com/client/power-pivot-powerful-data-...

[2] https://support.office.com/client/Data-Model-specification-a...
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Apparently, The Telegraph[1] provides a bit more context with links to details[2].

Upd: BBC also updates on this subject[3] now, the facts will come later ("Investigation launched into coronavirus test error").

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/10/05/excel-erro...

[2] https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1313055411285774336

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54422505
If you don't opt in, they shouldn't have the data to release. At least until they swap it to an opt out quietly.
Right. Cost of building a new road on empty land: somewhat high. Cost of re-building it: really high. Road building didn't get wildly more efficient in the intervening years, now you have to pay both to build the new road but also demolish the pre-existing road, you have to do something about the hugely increased traffic loads which probably means you have to rebuild it whilst the road is live, which makes it far slower which increases your manpower costs, and lots more pipes and cables were laid below the road in the intervening years which have to be rerouted or handled in some way.
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...most didn't know about the Intel ME chip. A designated onboard black-box chip for transcriptions, that doesn't rely on an a server, would seriously benefit tech corps

Would it really be the first time we were lied to/surveilled?

When will we stop giving the hyper-growth oriented Silicon Valley startup world the benefit of the doubt?
The article is about the importance of keeping your code clean. Do you disagree that it's important to keep your code clean?

I'm sorry, I don't see how your analogy with computer architecture applies. Like with all things, knolling can be taken to an extreme, but as I understand it, the idea is to keep shared work stations clean and ready for the next person or yourself and to keep things organised while you're working, in such a way that you don't have to go looking for tools that you need.
I like to call this, "speculative complexity". I've seen many cases where speculative complexity was added, and persisted for a long time, for reasons that fundamentally mispredicted the way the system would evolve and actually inhibited that evolution.
UK wise there's about 10,000 positive cases a day from 250,000 PCR tests

E.g.

01-10-2020: 255,915 PCR tests processed, 11,988 cases dated then

Obviously the testing cockup hasn't helped, but we're still on the order of 4% of tests coming back positive

Scotland specifically hasn't had the cockup, Oct 1st was 762 cases (668 reported) from 14,316 cases, or about 5%.
Good reminder that I needed to do this. Docker for me had gotten up to 13GB even though I have it supposedly limited to 8.
Covid case backlog in UK because of Excel column limit
Woah, that's really interesting. I was wondering if something like this had ever been explored.
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Your comment gave me good bellyfeel.
It was a joke, not a real call-out. I was just making the point that as programmers we should be careful about naming things in code, because one day they might be taken out of context.
Yes, because both you the employee and the company have to make active steps to structure the equity grants in a very specific way to get the favorable tax treatment, and if you screw up or skip a step you can get hit with an unexpected tax bill.

But there IS a process. AFAIK there is no such thing in many European jurisdictions, like Germany.

> And in case you assume the shares are going to be worthless, just sell to cover taxes when they vest.

...how? Sell to whom? On what market? I think you’re missing the point. These are pre-IPO shares with explicit sale restrictions that prevent you from selling.
> I desperately wish git had a "group commits" feature that let me manage a cluster of related commits as a single commit for the purposes of history-viewing, reverting, and cherry-picking.

Merge commits work fine for most of that, you just have to adapt to merge UX/commands:

--first-parent (to git log, git annotate, etc) gives you clean history viewing of just your "groups" (your merge commits).

--first-parent even works for bisect allowing you start by figuring out which merge commit brought in a change (and then dig into the merge branch itself if needed as a second bisect).

You can revert or cherry pick merges if you provide the -m (mainline) flag to tell it which parent to consider the mainline (usually the first parent, but not always depending on your intended revert/cherry-pick; it complicates what you need to know about the revert/cherry-pick, but if you are in the process of revert/cherry-picking you should already be figuring out what your mainline is and expecting some possible complications).

I think sometimes the only "problem" with Merge commits is too few pretty UX tools default to a --first-parent view of the git graph and don't themselves provide good tool for picking that -m (mainline) for revert/cherry-pick.
Initially, I learned by experiencing working with such leaders first-hand. After some time, I noticed repeating patterns in their behavior and I started to ask if there is any scientific explanation behind these patterns.

After much search for answers, I stumbled upon the timely publication of "The Laws of Human Nature" by Robert Green in 2018. It opened my eyes to the toxic narcissism around us.

I started to read articles, quora discussions, books, selected research papers on the topic. Working with those leaders and coworkers in my day job helped me to digest the content and reinforce my understanding of how they think and act. At first it was difficult not to be emotionally affected in the "Devaluation" phase (Lookup "narcissistic abuse cycle" on Google Images) but as time passes, I approached the problem as rationally as I can, I learned not to take it personally aka Grey Rock Method.

To help you folks to quickly get started, assuming you can only read one book, I highly recommend "Don't You Know Who I Am?: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility" by Dr. Ramani Durvasula. It was published in the late 2019 and in my opinion, the best book by a licensed clinical psychologist.

The "The Laws of Human Nature" book is more of a heavy-read as it covers not just toxic narcissism.

For those who prefer more practical book and especially if you do not have the means to leave toxic relationships and workplaces, I recommend "How to Handle a Narcissist: Understanding and Dealing with a Range of Narcissistic Personalities" book by Theresa Jackson.

To add to the article, the overconfidence mentioned is actually just a fake display of what the narcissistic leaders want the world to perceive them. Behind the fake display is pathological insecurity or low self-esteem. The fake display is a form of defense mechanism. Those leaders are addicted to having "audiences" for their reality show or drama in which they are the center of everything.
Thanks! Curious, as a lawyer, how do you feel about what I said in the second paragraph? I like to ask whenever I get a chance, most agree, some don’t, so I’d love your perspective.
This sort of sidesteps the issue, IMO, of how hard it is to isolate a problem. Yeah sometimes things collide, but pretty often in my experience there has been one change that needs reverting or patching, not six changes that interleaved. Or rather, interleaving them at best increases the difficulty of the blame game.
My take is that it is not about whether the employers have a right to do background checks or not, rather it is about the effect that practice has on society.

If few employers do background checks that ex-convicts have easy to access alternatives it is not a problem, if enough employers use that a new social class of unemployable people is created it becomes a serious problem.

I like the idea of forbidding discrimination based on unrelated offences, but am not particularly informed on the topic.
> Using this current article as an example, I love the way that they're storing the intervals to guarantee that they can't overlap. That's awesome! What I would likely end up doing, though, is use that as the underlying representation but still return individual interval objects through the query API with a start and end date on each interval.

The article addresses that concept:

> It is sometimes still useful to represent the periods as a sequence of start and end dates. It is trivial to project the set of dates in to this form. As long as the canonical representation is the set, the constraints will still hold.
Not saying it's efficient, in the way we would think of "coding" things.

One way I like to think of evolution is how long it takes to get from one state to another. So it took hundreds of millions of years for the first "life" to evolve-- perhaps close to a billion. This includes RNA, DNA, ATP, etc. Then it took about a billion-ish years to go from prokaryotic to eukaryotic life. Then about another billion-ish years to get multicellular eukaryotic life. Then it only took about a quarter billion years to have dinosaurs. It only took about 10-20 million years to go from the ancestors of all apes to having chimps, gorillas, and people. (!!!) And when you have people directing evolution, like with dogs or crops, you can make things happen very "quickly".
I don’t understand why it has less RAM. I would have expected a 4GB and an 8GB version.
Alan Kay and Rich Hickey discuss the merits of data vs data with interpeters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722
I'm afraid I no longer have any part of either of those setups except for one of the monitors, the bike maintenance stand, and the monitor arm. I looked through the oldest photos I have online, and it looks like they are all after that setup, or at least don't include any photos of it.

With the exception of the two monitors, which were $1,100 each, the setup boiled down to roughly: $300 for super duper monitor arm, $250 for the entertainment center (close out from fancy furniture place), club chair I already had, but was $350 from a going out of business furniture place. Also $50 for a couple USB hubs I sticky tape mounted conveniently located on entertainment center (computer was back behind entertainment center).
If you are on a Mac you are probably looking at virtual memory because that is what Activity Monitor displays by default.
Not even close in terms of complexity. I used many of the "Driver Drowsiness" detection from Toyota, BMW and MBenz on my previous cars. They always had false positives, inconsistent and pretty rudimentary. What you're implying is akin to saying Nokia/Ericsson/Palm had smartphones before the iPhone 1 came along. Therefore the iPhone is a non-event. ️

The "hacker" mentioned in this article discovered these detection labels on the Model 3/Y "selfie" camera:

BLINDED

DARK

EYES_CLOSED

EYES_DOWN

EYES_NOMINAL

EYES_UP

HEAD_DOWN

HEAD_TRUNC

LOOKING_LEFT

LOOKING_RIGHT

PHONE_USE

SUNGLASSES_EYES_LIKELY_NOMINAL

SUNGLASSES_LIKELY_EYES_DOWN

Maybe I'm missing something. But it seems like an apples to oranges in comparison to me. Correct me if I am wrong, but Comma.ai's driving monitoring feature is currently the only one in production that is comparable.
'I saved $50 on printers while taking up 2x of my employees time at $20 an hour' oops.
It's not an implementation detail, it's a whole (controversial) UX design pattern: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/true-lies-of-optimi...
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Sure but there's probably provable ways to look for hidden stuff as well unless they are sending empty data.

You can do multiple runs of feeding pre-recorded messages into say multiple speakers and do the trial over many days. Then on a series of other speakers you can do a robust sequence of pre-recorded conversations followed by the same pre-recorded messages at the same time and then do statistical analysis on traffic volume.

I just presume these things are listening to everything and recording everything. I think that should be the general assumption if you bring essentially an "internet microphone machine" into your home.

If not by the company who sold it to you then by 3rd party hackers, clever app developers, or some other group. Every marketer wants to know what their customers are saying in the privacy of their own home.

As a tangent I've long wanted to have fun with this ... start a campaign to start collectively talking about a ridiculous product (say a vacuum cleaner with elephant ears that flap in proportion to the amount of dirt it picks up) in private conversations and see if a company releases it by listening in. "There's significant consumer demand for the dumbo-vac!"
Maybe the thing you are daydreaming about is an "inversion table"?