skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speaker is installed to capture audio according to a set of established and generally understood rules – i.e. not listening all the time, and sending audio when being interacted with by a user.

This establishes some reasonable privacy expectations with users – I can be reasonably confident that an Amazon speaker in my home is not listening to me all the time, assuming that Amazon or a malicious third-party is not lying to me.

It is possible to accept this set of trade-offs, and yet be unhappy with some other set of potential tradeoffs (like this new feature). This is not an inconsistent position and nor does it mean that a person who doesn't want to use this new feature is dumb.

Do you have the same objection for anybody who carries a smartphone (i.e. literally billions of people worldwide)? They mostly offer the _exact same feature_ – does carrying a smartphone mean that none of those smartphone users are able to object to some privacy rules that they do not like? Obviously that would be ridiculous.
Zulip [1] is free/open source and arguably has better usability. Bubble [2] runs our day-to-day chat on Zulip and it's worked really well.

[1] https://zulip.org/

[2] https://git.bubblev.org/bubblev/bubble
Content creators criticize amendments to UrhG (German)
>If "blue" states just didn't like guns, then they would simply ban all CCW permits.

There's a pesky amendment that prevents that so they settle for restricting "undesirables" (a definition which is a moving target over time).
Oh hey, it's an actually good example of using an external buildroot tree. Often vendors will ship the whole of buildroot from about 4 years ago with their patches on top (of course, with no source control so you have to diff it yourself to extract their changes)
I can only agree. It is also notable that pretty much the entire repertoire of debugging techniques from programming land are useless.

Attempting to implementing a paper from scratch is an interesting experience. (1) implement what they describe (2) it doesn't work (3) ... well, that was fun. Project over.

Very different experience from trying to implement quicksort, even though the extensions to a basic neural net often aren't conceptually much more complicated.
You're right. This is why not cars, but fuel - you know, like the source of the carbon - should be controlled/taxed. I also think that any car can be driven in an inefficient manner. The 1.7t PHEV I use has been amazing in terms of fuel economy, but I know people that burn more fuel in their hybrids than in V8 ICE sportcars.
It's the inequality that correlates with poor outcomes, not absolute wealth (per capita or median).
The only place I know where a lot of houses are made of wood are Scandinavia and North America. In the rest or Europe most houses are made of bricks and/or concrete as far as I can tell.
Vulkan Update: We’re Conformant
Thanks for the write up.

A few thoughts:

1. Build a “live status” dashboard for your processing system so you can see the profile on the IPs or customers being affected, so you have more visibility into the issue when it happens

2. Can you just put the system behind cloudfront and process CF log files instead of having to invoke lambdas?

3. Identify the affected customer and put their lambda results in a separate queue, to help limit blast radius if it happens again from other customers

4. Double check there wasn’t throttling because downstream services were throttling lambda (you mentioned SQS?)

5. Make your lambda even faster (if it’s 100ms make it 10ms or less); can you move your logic out of lambda? Can you instead of inserting into SQS log to cloudwatch and then read its data? Or ensure no cross region lambda <> SQS invocations, etc

6. Consider replacing lambda (that cannot batch process invocations) with app servers that can absorb and then batch send many requests to SQS (let them absorb and coalesce a large amount of requests into aggregate SQS messages at the edge); going a step further eg even uploading aggregated data files to S3 for later processing then put a single message on the SQS queue pointing to that file
From the answers:

> FIPS 140-2 Level 3 is more than just encryption. It requires the device to be tested by a cryptography testing lab that is certified to perform this testing on behalf of the US government.

So, this will likely contain backdoors for the US government, so I should NOT buy this item after all if I want my data to be really secure and instead go for software encryption...
That sounds interesting. could you tell more about that, or point me to a good article/video about it?

I never got into 1v1 fighters myself, but they were a big part of my childhood.
Newer Unifi products use the correct standard 802.3af/at PoE, but you are correct their older gear uses some non-standard 24V (I believe).

I have been using their "Dream Machine" and a mesh node for about 6 months now and have had 0 problems, but I have not tried to tinker around too much yet!
This is likelier than the alternatives
The ability to deny something is very powerful. Gives others great power over others.
Financial Data Risk Report Reveals Every Employee Can Access 11M Files
I keep telling this to friends who complained that hard disk manufacturers are plotting against them by not lowering hard disk prices long after floods have damaged hard disk factories. You have to consider how absolutely incredibly cheap this stuff actually is. Take a high-quality wooden shelf. It's just a couple of wood boards, right? Yet it may cost ten times more than a USB stick or even an embedded development board. It's crazy.
This is misleading at best and disingenious at worst. The spread of most of these diseases is neglible. I compiled numbers:

Marburg: ~ 500 cases [0]

Nipah: ~ 500 cases [1]

Hendra: unknown, seems low though. [2]

H5N1: 861 cases [3]

Ebola: ~ 35 000 cases, according to [4]

H7N9: ~1200 cases [5]

MERS: 2500 cases [6]

SARS: 8100 cases [7]

SARS-Cov-2: 60 000 000 cases, ongoing [8]

H1N1 ("Spanish flu"): 500 000 000 cases [9]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus#Recorded_outbrea...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus#Outbreaks_of_disea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendra_virus#Emergency

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H7N9...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndro...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1
Why do Apple guards need to carry guns in the first place? Those guards should just be monitoring and alerting real law enforcement if a break-in happens. If someone goes postal, then I guess there should be several normal folks at Apple already carrying and able to protect the general public.
Isn't that a good thing? Anything implemented in software puts some burden on the user's side ("are you using the right OS with the right program and the right options in the right way? Just one misstep and it's all for naught"). Offloading more of that cognitive load and operational risk onto dedicated hardware is surely a good thing (if uneconomical) in practice.
I think that it serves to show how used the left-leaning crowd is to such baseless attacks and how patient they are.

As far as biased sources go, this one offers an interesting view and brings up the point made elsewhere, that the people who struggle daily to put food on the table may not have the bandwidth to think about global solutions to systemic problems.

Also, it prompts me to remind people that neither Engels nor Marx told anyone they should sell all their material possessions and give to the poor. That would be Jesus and it's surprising that they are so often confused.
Thanks! You answered all my questions in one time
I would think it is easier to develop a Lisp-like language in C, because Lisp usually is executed by means of an interpretter, due to the dynamic behavior of Lisp where you can redefine functions on the fly. See https://github.com/rui314/minilisp as an example of many available implementations.

Because Lisp is primarily a functional language, it would be kind of hard to emulate C-like behavior.
Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to be world's second-richest person
Sycco - Nicotine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTtJ5JFjI30
But the issue in question at the moment isn't about whether we get to rub things in the face of apple-loving posters. The question is about whether this individual wields the supposed power Apple has in this situation.
I fondly recall an article in APC magazine from 2003, a review of Lindows OS, with a Live CD of it attached. “Combine it with a cheap-as-chips 128MB USB disk for $70” [that’s AUD], it said—

Now here we are, 17 years later, selling a thousand times the capacity at half the price.

(I also wondered, then and now, where the author sourced their fish and chips. This incongruity is why the phrase stuck in my head.)
Interesting. My whole family is on iPhone and I remember that my mother had an Android phones years ago (Samsung), and she never fully understood it. Nowadays I have no "support cases".
That wording is brilliant. I struggle with this a lot in a regulated industry. Everyone wants to do The Right Thing, but doing it "The Right Way" and documenting accordingly is so much work!
The important point is in 'as we know it'. Industrial Capitalism is not an option for the future, but a different economic system that puts less emphasis on growth and more on sustainability can still work.

Rather than trying to save the current system with dystopian technologies, the ideal would be to give it up and start moving to a new one, preferably in an organized manner (e.g. Starting with the Green New Deal), instead of waiting for an otherwise inevitable revolution.
I'm not in your country, whichever it is, and I think we're arguing past each other at the moment.

I am in favour of masks and agree with most things you've said about them.

I am also in favour of holding all your social and business activities outside, because masks are not enough by themselves.

In your original comment, you said that it would be simpler to wear masks than to take into account airflow differences between the open air vs indoors. I disagree with that: masks are not a simpler alternative to socialising outdoors, they are a necessary prerequisite. You must do both, not pick one or the other. Additionally, you should consider socialising less often, with a smaller group of people, and any other steps you can take without putting your mental health in jeopardy.
Nixpkgs also has a lot of generated packages that cannot actually be built successfully, such as a large number of R packages.
> medical doctors
> healthy eating

Wrong example, lol
Perhaps the reason you love it is because you've spend a great amount of time using it to the extent that its use has become completely automatic to you.

If you read my other post above you'll note that I use many editors and that constantly swapping from one to another is a bit of a pain.

When I was using CP/M, almost from the outset I had three editors at my disposal, specifically Ed, WordMaster and WordStar. Of the three, it was generally accepted that WordMaster was the easiest for a novice to learn. WordStar was harder to learn but much more powerful. Thus Ed was reserved for when setting up a CP/M system as it came on the 8" floppy along with CP/M. On the other hand WM and WS were third party products and came on a separate floppy. If they'd been always available then I don't think Ed would have been used at all.

Ed always had the reputation of being a bit of a PIA and no one wanted to use it if the other two editors were available. It was always looked upon as being primitive by comparison.

As WS was more powerful and flexible, Ed was thus confined to editing when only CP/M files were available. Today, that comparison would be like comparing Notepad with say UltraEdit, which, incidentally, is my current text-based editor of choice (it having both Windows and Linux versions).
Causes of a Tight Jaw, Plus Tips to Relieve the Tension
The masthead of this site starts with:

> Filling the Void Left by Modern Higher Education. Too many college students feel isolated or attacked for questioning progressive orthodoxy and the ever-narrowing range of debate on campus.

Love to see anti intellectualism spread around HN, and again not surprised.
excellent comment

agree completely with you

The only LOGICAL reason to go from a format that works to such a terrible format, is that it can make ads work better
I think the used market is going to become quite interesting in a decade or two. Right now I could buy a reasonable runner for as little as £1K. It might not be that desirable but if you were on a really tight budget it would get you to and from work.

I don't see that being the case once we shift to electric. If you look at old Nissan Leafs now the range is abysmal but the cost of a new battery if £5K.

I have a feeling the bottom end of the market is going to disapear.

>1500km drive in 1 day or spread to 2

That's got to be hell with kids or even just as you get a bit older.
Return of the Obra Dinn is probably one of the best detective games out there and I'm really sad there is no replay value in it - it has been the only game to actually make me feel like a Sherlock Holmes persona, while deducing things.
Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy
You might want to check Forest Admin in that case. It creates an extensible admin REST API on top of your Postgres.

Comes with native CRUD routes for all your tables but you can also declare your own to refund a transaction using Stripe's API, send an email using Twilio's API...

Here's an explanatory video - https://bit.ly/ForestAdminIntro5min
Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes
-> is a dereference operator.
On line 65 (function ppm_create), f is declared as a pointer to a structure of type ppm (a reference to an object of type ppm).
f is the actual structure/object.
(f).w is the 'w' member of the structure. The brackets are needed for operator priority.

f->w is another way to write (*f).w
Not that I necessarily disagree, but is Coca-Cola priced at cost + 15%?
Funny that you use "we" as in who exactly would that be?

With OSS contributors getting burned out by maintaining stuff they don't get paid for, you propose that "we" build and support something from which people participating in network will get benefits from. Then maintainers have to deal with all the requests and other stuff, it is not just writing code, you also have to run some servers and it is costing money as well.
I understand and appreciate your argument, but I would like to point out that those limitations are no longer an issue. I find it more annoying to help someone in the Android world to so basic things like finding an app or changing settings, because the UI is so bizarrely inconsistent across versions of Android and models and makes. To give a recent example, a friend could not figure out to toggle WiFi on/off on his Lenovo, because when swiping the screen from above, only other things appear. One has to swipe twice, then the status bar grows and shows the WiFi symbol.
Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
I've noticed that now some timestamps have a full stop at the end. Like some of the submitted articles on the front page now say "2 hours ago.". What does that mean?
Yes, of course management firmware is everywhere. Having keys in special memory that is literally only connected to fixed-function crypto HW blocks is what makes something a "hardware" security thing.
Can you "download" trained neural nets? Aren't there popular formats for those?

For example, if I want to recognize pictures of animals, with reasonable accuracy, how much space would such neural net take?

I'm not very taught about ML, but in my mind, since ML is generally heavy on computation, it should be possible to distribute neural nets for specific applications and re-use them.
Saving potential people from being not-born leads to very bad extremes as well (maximizing reproduction). This is not a useful model of thinking.
Engineers will surely build you a bridge, if you pay them to do so, it just will not be your dream bridge. As they have to adhere to physics.

Maybe our problem is that most rules are not physical and thereby easy to break.
this is a common pattern I see in discussions, the idea of "going to the hospital and not worrying about bankruptcy" is just unintelligible and so you end up with discussions like this, about how "pregnancy-related-costs are often covered by Medicaid" which completely ignores the conditioning and fear and logistics that means that loads of people in the US simply don't go and get routine preventative care, even if they have what they consider to be "good" insurance.
Static forests are a buffer. Expanding forests are a sink.
Would doing regular, small ramps on gas taxes over multiple years solve that problem?
I actually find the European custom more logical.

If we are having a casual conversation and I’m referring to a previous event that happened on the 14th, you can assume from context that I mean the 14th of the current or previous month (eg the 14th of November as of the writing of this comment). If it isn’t the current month (+-1 based on context), I can instead specify that I meant the 14th of September and you will understand that I mean the 14th of September this current year (again +-1 by context). If I meant the 14th of September, 1987, I will say the whole date. But since most date-based conversations have an implied context, being able to simply truncate dates for brevity is useful.

ISO 8601 is big-endian, European style is little-endian, and US-style is just kind of pointless.
You missed this line:

>"The BMW X5, Volvo XC60 and Mitsubishi Outlander emitted 28-89% more CO2 than advertised when tested by Emissions Analytics on a fully charged battery in optimal conditions.

Hybrids are designed by manufacturers who want to pass emissions legislation, and bought by customers who just want a car (in my experience, here in the UK that means "I want an oversized car so I feel safe as I blast around small roads at excessive speed).
When Tom Morello (RATM & Audioslave guitarist) is interviewed the tension between rich rockstar and firebrand anarchist usually provokes some sort of political exchange that ends in "if you're such a communist, why do you X?" To which, he normally responds "I live in capitalist... when the revolution comes..., I'll take part in however music works then."

I've seen him have this dialogue several times. My guess is that he's done it hundreds of times. That's the definition of the word "trite." The obvious champagne socialist firebrand dialogue has been had, in the same way, for generations now. Oscar Wilde. etc.

This article does mention "champagne populists" as a type example from the political right. The other obvious comparison is "champagne religion," preaching chaste poverty while indulging like epicurean hedonism.

Despite being trite, I think there genuinely is something to "if the shoe fits." Engels like other socialists & epicurean hedonists (eg chris hitchens) "get away" with church marriages or baptisms. It's hypocritical in theory but no one cares. Priests get away with greed, but not with hedonism. Hedonistic hypocrisy sticks to religion in a way that religious hypocrisy does not stick to epicureans & socialists. Neither wealth nor hedonism generally sticks to the "populist," but failure does.

Anyway... I do think that champagne shaped socialism in a negative way, personally. The position of Engels, Wilde and others pushed the ideas in certain directions. They tended to see communism as an indivisible. A slice of communism had no value... otherwise why not use their resources to create a slice of it themselves. Total revolution, or none at all. Seemingly unresolveable conflict at every turn breeds "singularity" thinking.
I can think of two examples, only one of which is me being a smartass.

Emacs has a feature called org-mode Babel that lets you write scripts where you pipe the output from a block in one language to a block in any other language, but I don't think you could write a sizeable app this way.

The slightly more smart-alecky answer is the command line. I work in node, and it's trivial to call an external program and then operate on the output. There's nothing stopping you from writing a program that is a single function in the language of your choice and calling it wherever you want.
Clue about possible location:
https://twitter.com/philgray/status/1331161276689522690
I mean I guess this depends on how one defines waste but under definitions I generally come across, if you could get the same level of security for less electricity in a new scheme, then the old scheme is wasting electricity.
There's a lot of countermeasures listed here in the responses, including this. :)

Good to know but the default experience matters. I have a beef here and I want the author to know that they need to switch blog host if they want their articles to be out on the open web and not behind logins or whatever.
When I see "symbolic AI" I immediately think of Gary Marcus and immediately feel disdain towards the topic because of his behaviour on Twitter and other places.
I experienced exactly the same. I suspect that since they're optimising for engagement, already having watched a video is some indication that you'll engage with it again.
> Ripping people off with high prices is actually very rare nowadays

Apparently you have no idea of the audiophile market. I have someone swear that music doesn’t sound as nice when converted losslessly from WAV to AIFF/FLAC on whatever $$$$ gear he uses.
>It also doesn't matter who initiated the bribe.

What a silly thing to say.

Whether or not you initiated a bribe does not defend your participation in it. True

But ignoring the balance of power for, what appears to be, a reason to hate on Apple is just daft. Shockingly so.

A police offer demanding a bribe is not the same as a police officer accepting one. Just ignores the entire social dynamic of humans. Power dynamics are the central theme of human relationships. This is just a weird form of victim blaming, though not for a moment am I suggesting anyone is innocent here.

The Undersheriff should be crucified as a means of deterrence. You can't have positions of power occupied by those seeking to corrupt them. Which, I think, is not far off your argument, you just want to seem to needlessly drag Apple into this.

They weren't involved, beyond their employee basically stealing their stock. Is that somehow their fault? Should we charge them with criminal negligence for trusting someone? That's not going to have long term consequences for whistleblowers at all
Point taken! (although it seems the author is very serious in their anti-capitalistic stance)
Yes you can. The "universal" format is ONNX. You can even do crazy things like this: https://blog.owulveryck.info/2018/06/11/recurrent-neural-net...
Not the ToS, but the "guidelines" [0] states:

You may not use self-bots or user-bots to access Discord.

The API is explicitly for bots, so this pretty clearly bans using said API for accessing user accounts.

Adherence to the "guidelines" is accepted as part of the ToS, "you agree to comply with the restrictions and rules of use set forth in these Terms and our Community Guideline"

[0] https://discord.com/guidelines