skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> compared to locating a company in some retrofitted space in NYC.

Speaking of that, Bell Labs' old NYC HQ [1] is an impressive set of buildings too! It was converted to the Westbeth artist live/work community in the late 60s [2], and they typically offer tours to the public during Open House New York weekend each year [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Laboratories_Building_(Ma...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbeth_Artists_Community

[3] https://ohny.org/place/westbeth-artist-housing/
We seem to be in violent agreement.
> - Frontend JS minimalism. Any stories about people ditching transpilers, build tools etc appeals to me immensely. My spicy take is that React is not an abstraction above the DOM, it's an abstraction parallel to it.

Been going down this path recently via Svelte & SvelteKit: It's been really fun seeing the network responses of the first load being full HTML for any page (SSR), with JS responses handling transitions in between pages (CSR).

I've even managed to get my SVG image generator to run server-side first before passing over, with any changes handled client-side & with URL changes. Refreshing with the changed parameters renders the newer SVG. :)
Thank you very much - That was very concise and informative!

How does one go about learning more about this kind of programming?
Economies of scale and the collapse of complex societies
For anyone else wondering:

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1587515910046220288...
I am curious about Rust + WebAssembly. I haven't thought enough about if it is really that powerful or useful.
Agreed, though fortunately it silences quickly upon “Alexa, shut up”
Some further feedback, not specific to your tool but because I've seen a few of these recently and would love to find a tool that meets my needs, it's maybe worth saying now-

When I see responses like this, instinctively my internal reaction is: "Okay, so they don't have this and say they're working on improvements, but I don't know how effectively they build new features or when this might be released. Will it be a week? A month? 6 months?"

I don't know the best solution, but having some more information to answer this would keep me more engaged with products that are being actively developed. I don't want to get bought in to something that iterates at a snails pace, but I could commit myself to trying tools that rapidly iterate and improve..
But this is something that enterprise customers keep asking for. I think the "pain point" is well known: companies can easily spend $10 million or $20 million customizing their Salesforce implementation, but then the salespeople hate it and refuse to use it. And then, if you are the VP Of Sales, a lot of your job becomes an endless cycle of harassing your salespeople to record their interactions with customers. This is how I explain it in my book:

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I asked him to run me through the pitch, and John gave a practiced recital:

Most salespeople are human-centered and enjoy talking with other individuals — but they hate dealing with computers. If a salesperson is selling shampoo to Sheraton Hotels, the best part of their day will be talking to the customer; the worst part will be when they have to go back to the office and deal with their company's reporting software. More likely than not, this will be Salesforce, the most widely used software for tracking sales.

Salesforce is ugly. Their interface is clunky. The poor salesperson has to sit down, bring up the website, click on a bunch of buttons, and navigate through a bunch of forms. The worst day of high school math was probably more fun for them.

Celelot aimed to change that. Instead of dealing with Salesforce, the salesperson would simply pull out their phone and send a text message to the Celelot system. For example, "Spoke to Carol. I just sold 1 million bottles of shampoo to Sheraton Hotels, rev 500,000. Contract August 1. Delivery September 1." We would use a set of computer techniques known as Natural Language Processing, or NLP, to take a message like that and pull out all the fields that were significant to Salesforce:

Contact: Carol Harrington

Customer: Sheraton Hotels

Product: Shampoo

Quantity: 1,000,000

Revenue: $500,000

Close Date: August 1

Delivery Date: September 1

Celelot would automatically identify who sent the message, connect it with their Salesforce account, and log the information in the system. Salespeople would never have to interact with Salesforce directly.

Apart from streamlining the reporting process for Salesforce specifically, Celelot could potentially become the default interface for all sales-reporting software (a category officially known as Customer Relationship Managers, or CRMs, of which Salesforce and Pipedrive are two well-known examples). That would be game changing.
> I really wish there was an easy way to just put python scripts onto the device or something.

Doesn't https://mycroft.ai fit this purpose?

Looks like you can ssh in: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/mark-ii/advanced/ssh-access

and has python running on it:

https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/skill-development/introdu...

Has anyone got one though?
Is the work two hours a day and go home/eat lunch for the rest of it still a thing there?
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The other problem here is that if an average user can't easily discover those other options, then they might as well not exist. In comparison, "Clipboard" is exactly what you'd search for and is exactly what you think it is.
You're misinformed. Citrix has plugins for managing aspects of GUI rendering, video/audio playback and GPU pipelines local on the client, which are a key part of the "secret sauce" behind their success in industry.[1] This is a product which is being used today for remote CAD/CAM workflows in the largest firms, whereas afaict applications of Mighty's product to this problem sphere is nothing but idle fantasy by HN posters?

1. ie. https://www.citrix.com/solutions/vdi-and-daas/hdx/what-is-hd... Whether they do
these things well is another question entirely, but they've had more success than any of their competitors.
It already is having a big impact. Even in California they cannot find any qualifying (under the new rules) inventory available by year end, which means those people who need a new car and were counting on offsetting their federal tax burden from this year are screwed. I’m actually a fan of industrial policy (check out the book Bad Samaritans), and would generally tell the WTO to stuff it, but this was designed extremely poorly.
It might be odd but I find Python so disrespectful to embedded devices. It pains me to think of all of the excess work those tiny things will do forever because of a very poor language choice.

More seriously, I think the long term effect of this will be truly catastrophic. There is an unfortunate effect whereby a tool's simplicity is able to attract newcomers to the space - which is great - but then severely limits progress by boxing them into this very small, simple, framework. It's very awkward when smart people and even professionals spend a lot of time fighting against the simplicity of Arduino or using weird, esoteric hacks as if it makes them a guru, just because it's all they know.

There needs to be an offramp. Micropython is the opposite - it's a one-way freeway to the middle of nowhere. It should be banished. So much human potential will be capped and wasted by this move.
Under the Evidence Act, the NIH Could Do Much More
I interned at Lucent in 2000 and had a desk / cube in this building:

http://www.extropia.com/hacks/webcal/WCfacility.html

It was my first “real” office job and I just assumed all office buildings were that grandiose! Only later did I realize how fortunate I was..

Anyway I occasionally visit it now as Bell Works and am glad it has found a second life - hopefully one that lasts at least as long as its first incarnation.
These companies are all quasi confused about what these devices are.

Voice isn't the thing, it's a mode of interacting with the thing.

The thing is: the digital home.

Amazon is comically dropping the ball here. They have the tablets. They have the TVs. They have the reach. They have the home security division. Integrate, integrate, integrate.

Alexa is just a mode of communicating with the digital home. It's a feature of the digital home, not a monster profit product by itself.

It's like thinking a stylus is where you'll make money on a business tablet. No, it's a way to input.
UUIDs are a vast improvement over integers for preventing simple attacks like +/-ing the id and seeing what happens.
FWIW: If you are a person skeptical about wine or trying to understand the world of wine, the Somm movie series is really pretty good. There are absolutely objective differences in wine, in the same way as anything else - beer, whiskey, coffee, free range organic grass fed vs. CAFO. The person below who mentioned acetone taste in whiskey for example, is spot on - you teach your palette one thing and suddenly your whole perspective changes.
Neovim: Plugins to Get Started
I've turned off all my Google Home devices. I hated that they were basically teaching my kids to memorize Google as an all knowing brand. Organized religions at least have a more charismatic idol than Sundar Pichai. Plus, my kids would basically fight over replaying the same song over and over again. And, of course, that's not even talking about the always-on surveillance aspect of it all.

I have a Mycroft device that I'm playing with, but for the life of me, after years of using these devices, I cannot imagine getting a lot of utility in my home life.

I do think voice activation is great in certain circumstances, like when I'm driving, or riding my bike, but the rest of it does not offer much to me.
It has to listen to detect the activation word, doesn't it? -- therefore, it's listening all the time.

The speaker also starts recording a few seconds before a command is issued, meaning there’s likely more private information in the recordings than customers are aware of. from https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/12/18089090/amazon-ech...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/business/amazon-echo-murd...

Those two links are from two different murder cases for which Alexa/Amazon data was subpoenaed. There are probably others.
A customer of mine has a product based on DragonNaturallySpeaking that medical doctors use for dictation. They are doing a brisk business. It's all software.
No fancy hardware. For this use case, it's almost flawless. And way faster than typing. The only commands you give are related to the recording -- stop/start/playback-type commands. Not sure how sophisticated it gets beyond that. But the speech-to-text technology is pretty damn good now.
Just looked up, an hectare of (10,000 m^2, about 2.47 acre) is 1,102,000€ in the Champagne region

If what you’re saying is true, then an acre in the Napa valley is more than twice as expensive as its counterpart in the Champagne region.
Which is weird, I’d expect the Champagne acre to still make you a lot more money
Modern good ones are great and reliable, but there is a lot of cheap trash out there.
>Until we reevaluate the entire modern idea of "work", the discussion of "burnout" will continue being fruitless. There will only be yet another temporary solution to sell you on, another form of therapy to attempt and then feel guilt over, another career change you don't want to drag your family through.

But think of the productivity hacks that are possible! We're just not telling ourselves the right thing. Cognitive worksheets. The Secret. Microdosing. We'll get it eventually! Musk and Jobs got it. We just have to hack it.
Wireproxy can do similar stuff: https://github.com/octeep/wireproxy

(Disclaimer: I am a contributor to Wireproxy)
I absolutely concur. I think these are the creepiest pieces of spying one can have. I've never seen one do anything useful. I don't mind walking to my radio to play music and I like using my computer with keyboard and mouse to buy amazon stuff.

Plus everyone's mobile device is already this anyhow.
It's kind of out in the boonies but well worth the visit. Awesome building.
If I could have a smart house that worked like I imagine it could, I’d absolutely pay a monthly subscription. Unfortunately I don’t think the technology is there yet.
> More reason to have small teams, cut out middle management, hire good developers, and trust them to make decisions.

Well, that is until the senior engineers or managers burnout from being "responsible" for keeping product from crashing, performance issues, and/or technical debt but without authority to change things! QED
Cheers for the comment, what do you suggest I do with this information?
Perhaps you could make a case that the DOE-era national labs, collectively, have a similar basic science mission, and their rise coincides with AT&T's decline.
A Utopia in India Fights over Future
No, "they" don't, because consumer operating systems are designed to not leak identifying data back to the OS vendor, only anonymized instrumentation data. There is no (useful, de-anonymizing) data held on Apple/Microsoft/etc about these devices (except what they're given intentionally by the user, by the user explicitly enabling certain cloud features.) That's been proven by security researchers examining OS network traffic, over and over.

My point was that "security researchers examining network traffic" won't reveal de-anonymizing information leaks, if those leaks are not enabled on 99.99999% of devices, but rather only become enabled on specific devices when the OS vendor distributes those specific devices a "special" update.
I think burnout is not about the amount of work, or conflicts at work. It is about lack of meaning in what you are doing that leads to burnout. We humans can do tremendous things if they are meaningful. In case the work is less, but its meaningless, can lead to burnout rather quickly. Doing meaningless work is basically not being mentally aligned with work.
> Not many people want to trust an AI with spending their money or buying an item without seeing a picture or reading reviews.

I wonder how much the decline in quality of Amazon's marketplace has affected other parts of the company's business including Alexa. I remember a time when, if I wanted to buy something online, I'd just buy off Amazon without shopping around. They almost always had the best price, their shipping was fast, and I trusted the quality of what I received. In that world, I could see myself saying my shopping list out lout to an Echo to make things easier.

But in Amazon's current free-for-all marketplace, I would never do that. Now I typically check traditional big box stores first, and only go with Amazon if I can't find what I need elsewhere.
NJ is expensive as all hell but it is also a safe, enjoyable place to live. Lots to offer.
I can't add anything to this that your link doesn't get into. I think my only position in this thread is that Rayiner's earlier argument, claiming that Blair "gutted the country" by reducing industrial capacity, is a little too pat. I think? the article you have here would agree with that! (Particularly interesting, from a nerdy perspective, is the way the increase in service sector output messes with the Blair-era stats.) I defer entirely to this article; even if it's not perfect, it's more perfect than anything I can say.
When I think "Alexa", I think "an AI to serve Amazon's interests".

I don't trust it in the slightest.

I don't feel inspired by the awesome potential to allow me to creative and fun things.

That's why its failing.
p.s. I wrote that code in about a day, and then spent a month trying to figure out how to deploy it on the IBM-managed Windows NT IIS machines with only some ancient Perl available (5.005 maybe?) and no option to upgrade.

IIRC it involved printf-over-email debugging where the IT folks would try and deploy it, email me the errors, I’d iterate and we’d repeat.

Was a pretty valuable experience in some ways - good taste of enterprise computing realities…
Generally, the subject tokens (short-ish, human enterable tokens) should only be active on a fraction of your accounts at any one time.
Thanks! That's pretty cool. I will definitely have to try that. I could think of some sweet applications. Especially in a secured Kubernetes cluster.
"We should not define women by their fertility"

Not all women can be pregnant, but a person who is pregnant is a woman.
> For me, the quality improvement from 480i/p to 1080p is huge and I wouldn't personally sacrifice that.

Heh, for me the quality of VHS (not bootleg) was good enough. The main reason I eventually switched to DVD is because DVDs don't need to be rewound, were cheaper, and seemed more durable.

Second or third generation bootleg VHS was often quite poor, as were worn out VHS from rental shops. Plus SD digital encodes from the 00s internet were very low quality compared to VHS, but I think that's the source of reference for many younger people who don't remember VHS well.
According to the original report on Business Insider, Bezos has now moved on to backing "Astro," the $1,000 "home robot" that is supposed to patrol your house. I am not sure there will really be that much interest in this product.
I enjoyed the explanation very much. Even though I don't use mesh VPNs (yet), the architectural discussion of the vulnerability entailed numerous useful bits of background on browser and network infrastructure. Commendable work!
Illegally assassinating a foreign official on another country’s territory, in a place where any military activity is prohibited, is not only ill-advised, it’s extremely unimpressive. And we all know very well whose help was involved.
Maybe fleeting but the building is maintained and put to use. Maybe we can see some software companies come back to Holmdel? :)
It’s a low margin business, and Amazon have focused on growth over margins.

The popular perception that Amazon rakes in massive profits is some sort of folk wisdom.
Really sketchy paper doesn't mention topiramate at all, which is in widespread use to aid weight loss. Topiramate specifically reduces activity in all NMDA (sodium-sensitive) vasopressinergic, glutamate-based neurons throughout the body.
Thanks for posting this talk. Are all videos on this YT channel from the Nov 2022 Stanford conference, https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordcli/videos? Some quotes from the video:

Do you think the DMV or CIA is better run? Obviously the DMV is better run, because people can see what they are doing.

If we say that the flatness of the new iPhone is such a large hedonic adjustment that Grandma should be happy to eat cat food ... probably wrong.

Choose your enemies well, for you will become like them.

Is [university] egalitarianism an excuse for failed elitism?
But this is the point though, UUID is the wrong tool for the job. You want a cryptographically random blob of entropy and you reach for a UUID because it happens to contain some of that in a specific implementation.

UUIDs are for uniqueness and involve implicit trust. Cryptographic libraries are what you need to generate entropy blobs without weakening security/confusing the next developer etc.
The direction of the story was railroaded in the original, but the player's flexibility in how they approached each mission was definitely not.

HBomberguy did a whole video about how DXHR failed to achieve the same level of freedom of problem-solving that the original did. It's quite good, but also very long. Worth it, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJazjz9ZsA
We're crazy to allow any program to talk on the network by default. Then when we run js we allow the browser, a user executed program, to decide what level of network control it will exercise. This laissez-faire attitude to controlling communication paths, or even awareness, makes lateral movement so much easier.

The lack of integrated authentication services is one reason why so many things are completely open. It's too hard to set up and manage user credentials, and in any case, programs shouldn't have access to user credentials, they should get delegated permission. AD has made everything too hard, we need a TOFU like dynamic machine identity exchange, which then allows individuals users to execute programs with particular network capabilities.
For those who don't read French: that construction could roughly be translated as "the following game was supposedly won [or: 'is said to have been won', etc.] by Einsten against the great physicist Robert Oppenheimer".

The conditional tense here in French is used to report that something has been asserted by someone, without taking a position one way or the other on whether the assertion is true. I don't think there is an exact grammatical equivalent in English.
Hey, sorry for the new account, i just like to try my best to keep my online identity separate. this for better or for worse has my real name on it. Hope this is interesting!
Perhaps a silly question, but can somebody describe how they might lose $10 billion on Alexa in one year? I don't understand the math. That's enough to pay 33,000 employees $330k a year, or some recombination of such. I don't think the real numbers come even remotely close to that.

So it presumably has to be hardware costs, but Alexa is software, and they have vertical integration of all servers which presumably would drive voice processing costs to negligible levels as well (and that's assuming 0 on-device caching/learning ability). And this is all assuming that the gross revenue generated by Alexa is $0, which also certainly isn't true. So I don't see where the numbers are coming from?
Apple’s analytics can personally identify you
Pretty sure that most of the wine's "taste" is actually flavour, and so involves nose way more than tongue ?
I actually started sorting price from low to high and have found the real price that way. It's interesting to see promoted items $5-10 higher than a similar product thrown randomly in the list
But it’s a great analogy because a layman looks at an airline operation and thinks “yeah I can do this without the crew”. They’re wrong, just like all the people who think they can run Twitter with 20 good men.
I think there is something to the idea of a beacon in common rooms rather than a cell phone.

When i'm at home I rarely have my phone with me. If I am in the kitchen and I need a timer initiated it's simply easier for me to speak the command out loud than it is for me to traipse to the next room for the phone.

Now, if the argument is "I don't know why we need so many competing services that do the same thing." , I agree.

I wish that there was an Echo equivalent that just acted as a dumb thin-ware style client connected to my mobile phone via wifi or whatever that was there only to act as a microphone bridge, with all the heavy work being accomplished by the mobile phone.
It does weaken the e5 pawn, and that is where things begin to collapse for Black.

Not sure it's unsalvageable at that point. I am curious about supporting from the other side with f6.
And bad junk food. Try making a high quality chocolate truffle with really nice dark chocolate and put it on the plate with snickers bars. You’ll have all the good stuff left at the end.
So it looks like they finally released it in June this year, but only as a $120 limited edition. Before that it was only available as part of a $290 Columbia Classics box set. Think I'll pass.
Alexa, print my CV
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