skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd take that as a stance for rigor and agree, that isn't exactly rigorously laid out in the argument.
Man, is the Times trying their hardest to grind that axe...
The modern Bluemotion Golfs I have driven seem to want you to drive in 6th at 30mph. This combination also results in an annoying drone coming from the engine which I can't stand. You can't accelerate in that gear. Also, I don't take instructions from an arrow on a dashboard telling me what gear to be in. That's my judgement to make based on road and traffic conditions.

The "shift up" recommendations to me seem like an attempt to replicate the ideal conditions under which the official efficiency tests are done - and we all know about /those/ figures...
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Amazon.ca doesn't have the Pebble 2, and amazon.com won't ship the Pebble 2 to Canada.
>You get to the poinr where you can do QUEEN - OLD - PRESIDENT = GIRL.

That's very nice, but it seems to miss the difference between a monarchy and a presidential republic.
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You seem to think the grandparent deliberately used this term to demean women. I don't think so. I think the usage is common enough that you are being oversensitative.
I don't think there is one. One of the results of society being imbalanced for a very long time is that language is also imbalanced. It can be frustrating.
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Hi Sebastian! Thank you for the kind words! Yes, we have in plan to create a PRO version which will have calendars, datetimepickers, maps, vector maps, login/register/lock screen pages etc.

Best,
Alex
You still have to have the ideas as well, plus the means to make them real.
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> It was actually Steve Russel

I seem to recall reading that McCarthy was actually surprised to discover that Lisp _could_ be run by a real computer; he intended it to be a completely theoretical tool.
I'll admit this is purely hypothetical, but given that we know many people act on stuff they read on the Internet in an uncritical fashion - we cannot dismiss AI because it "doesn't have access to air gapped systems". A human has access to that system - a superintelligent AI could convince that human to "push the buttons".

I don't actually believe this will happen, but I'm not 100% confident it wouldn't. I don't know what a superintelligence would look like!
>Obviously I'm not a witness, but I tend to believe that these events took place more or less as the author describes them.

Why, though? Because people don't lie, exaggerate, or have strange ideas of what others are doing to them?
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The misfit has the best battery life of any fitness/sleep tracker I know.

Points 1 and 2 aren't met though.
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>Of course it was useful. Why would I be complaining about its removal if it wasn't useful to me?

Because people make cargo cult attachments all the time?
You're burnt out because of your company or because of the eco system?

Honestly not sure I want to go back into web programming and your comments about the new JavaScript World Order is how I feel when I watch it from the outside, hoping it converges soon onto some more stable tech.

Gomix looks pretty cool for sure, will look more into that, thank you!
This rings hollow because you are not using dispassionate and objective language in the majority of your posts.
The estimate has always (at least, based on my 2010 Snow Leopard MBP) been pretty good at telling you how long your laptop will last if you keep doing exactly what you're doing now.

Same as any other kind of estimate (yes, even the legendarily-terrible Windows file copy dialog). It's not misleading, you just have to understand what the numbers mean.
It occurs to me that the thing that will probably limit advancements in AGI will be the availability of data to feed these systems.

If you believe that Moore's law is only on life support and not totally dead, there will be more processing power to harness in the future. The number of researchers and investment are clearly growing very quickly. The models used can endlessly be improved.

But on the other hand there are so many things that even today just aren't captured as digital data. I work as a mechanical engineer and there are many nuances to mechanical design that appear nowhere in print (or youtube video, or blog post for that matter). Learning these things takes a complex combination of of sight touch and intuitive leap. Even unsupervised learning requires some input to feed the net. I just don't see where it will come from.

Anyone think I'm way out of line here?
"This is an indicator of the bubble you're living in. It may be common vernacular amongst all or nearly all of the people you interact with, but it is simultaneously highly disrespectful. It might be worth taking a step back and asking yourself what other things you consider normal might actually be disrespect"

You might want to consider that you live in a bubble - and that your finger wagging is condescending.

'Girl' is the feminine of 'Guy' - just as much as it is also the feminine of 'Boy'.

Consider those words for a moment and their common usage.

I'll bet that 'girl' is your vernacular as much as it is mine, because it's universally common.

"That guy/girl is smart" - both acceptable.

"The guys/girls are going out for lunch" - both acceptable.

"Guys/girls, huddle in, let's chat" - both acceptable.

"The guys/girls from marketing are in town this week" - both acceptable.
trump's a nice guy to meet with and listen to a bunch of self-important blowhards who publicly shit on him for months on end.
> I find it fascinating that lessons aren't being learned from build systems which are built in the enterprise

What specifically makes you think lessons aren't being learned?

> honestly, I'm disappointed one of those two wasn't just adopted by the Rust community - unclear but I think they didn't know about them?

Bazel had its first release in March 2015, and wasn't even considered beta ready until later that year. Pants had its 0.0.17 release, the very first public one, in July of 2014.

Cargo was announced in March 2014, earlier than both.

> Why only those two?

Well, those two are necessary. Other tooling is nice, but not the bare minimum needed. We need to stay focused, but more on that later.

> Why not learn from the whole Java build pipeline?

I have not dealt with the Java-specific tools you're talking about in a very long time, but pipelines have advantages too. A few slow tools doesn't mean the whole concept is bad.

> Why is clippy, like Findbugs, separate from the compiler?

Rust cares a _lot_ about stability. Adding new lints is extremely difficult, because they can break people's builds. Clippy being a separate tool means that they can iterate on lints at a different release cadence than the compiler itself, and aren't bound by our mega strict breaking changes policies.

> In the enterprise, you work with great developers and you work with not so great developers.

I assure you, it is very much the same in open source. ;)

So, we do very much care about Rust's usage in enterprise scenarios. For example, Mozilla in many ways feels exactly like an enterprise customer of ours. It was a huge amount of technical (and social) work to get to this point, and a lot of that involved negotiating how the builds would actually work. Our perspective is that Cargo is a world-class tool for building code, but that's only possible because it's focused on _Rust code_. So the strategy should be, how can we best integrate Cargo with these more generic build systems? We've already taken a number of steps forward on this front, and there's more to come.

Most of these features lacking in Cargo are due to a lack of some kind of champion to lay out the specific needs; we don't want to just build features and hope they're useful. In the past, we've had several people come to us with "here's my issue getting Rust in my workplace", and that experience has been valuable. We're a small crew, we need to focus in order to keep shipping quality stuff. We don't have the ability to just toss some people on it, for whatever value of it, and get it done.
It seems like bond rating services here are an obvious point of comparison. They got paid to rate bonds, which meant they got paid by people with a strong desire for certain ratings, which meant that they "competed" not on price but on laxity of ratings. Most of us know how that one played out ~8 year ago.

Independent investigation is great, but you're right to observe that "outside" is not necessarily "independent". I suppose there are a few solutions to that: you could break the financial link (in the bond case, get consumers or the government to pay raters), or you could establish a culture where inaccurate results destroy reputation.

I'm sure there are auditors who do objective work for the people paying them simply because they value being known as reliable (and who are hired because the auditee wants a result people will trust). Without some precedent, we probably shouldn't assume that rosy case is happening.
I thought it was like that, expect that instead of specific moments in time there were specific real-world locations using geo-location.

Pokemon Go meets Super Mario meets Fitbit...

I guess this game would really need very light-weight AR headsets though.
Oh maybe you're thinking I was talking about game play. No, all the different menus and screens especially the ones where it's just a single button for progressing to the next screen. Those buttons must be hit directly. On a 9.7" iPad I have to use two hands to do that when I see no reason tapping the screen in a large area couldn't progress to the next area.

I was only referring to buttons.
Bazel already does have Rust support, by the way: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust
Way to go Larry, direct DC power for everyone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
I think that would be more overhead, at least to the kind of people who have the native-code experience to be able to contribute to Firefox. (As more of the browser becomes Rust-based it will hopefully be more accessible for contribution, but once you're in the Rust world Cargo solves your problem a lot better than Docker does). And what do you do about the people left behind by Docker's extremely limited platform support?
Is a 10.11 machine encrypted with FileVault vulnerable to this attack?
Not to say that Microsoft hasn't done some good work in say Linux lately because of Azure, but I just don't see Microsoft as an innovator, it's very hard to see a company that makes 2 billion a year off android patent's as innovative...
I wonder how much of Microsoft in the future will be a tech leader, versus a patents company.
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Even though it's still used , still has a use, and will continue to have a use, the first version of it was neither made this year nor is going to come out in the future -- so it's old and for, (why not)-- beta males.

/Sarcasm

Grow a fucking brain cell dumbasses
They could sync those moments quite precisely (think NTP) so that everyone jump at the same time. Then it would also be fun to look at...
Do you have a link to the Baidu translator? I've used Baidu's Google Translate-like equivalent, but I don't recall it having voice to text support.
I think part of it is we're feeding in really small subsets of existing data. Someday we'll be able to feed in 4K 60FPS video, and it'll be able to learn patterns from that. Right now we can only access a subset of the existing data.
Throttling is far from the only sort of shenanigans ISPs like to play on their subscribers. A very cynical view might be that any (potentially innovative/interesting) network protocols that aren't easily productized will suffer from deprioritization to the point of becoming unusable. The ISP's response will be that you have no business doing that over a home connection, and that you need to pay 10x for a Business class connection.
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2 seconds to search for this.
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Google encourages mobile full page ads through Adsense. Seriously, it's just called 'Page-level ads/Vignette ads' - "Mobile full-screen ads that appear between page loads on your site and can be easily dismissed by your users."[1]

Certainly don't want anyone else getting better ad positioning than Google, no sir. That's a penalty.

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6245304?hl=en
"Honest question: what would be the equivalent of "guy"

--> "I don't think there is one."

No - the feminine of 'guy' is 'girl'. Point blank.

"The guys/girls are in town this week"

"Those guys/girls are from Facebook"

This is very common and normal language.
I get ~18 MPG in my Impreza, and even though my fuel mileage sucks I still take steps to improve my fuel mileage. Just because my commute is short and I'm flooring the car down the on-ramp to the highway doesn't mean I don't want to take steps to improve my mileage within the boundaries of how I want to drive my car. For instance, is it better to be in second or third gear when in slow but flowing traffic?

In the same sense, I'd like to know how my computer usage is affecting my battery life. Do the extra tabs I have open in chrome matter, or should I bookmark them and close them until I need them? Just because I value one thing over another, doesn't mean the less valued option doesn't come in to play when making a decision.
Very well said. This was my reaction, and in other comments here my objections along these lines are being interpreted as malicious and/or victim blaming. I do really want to understand versus being told how to feel about it.
Can I just say hell yeah! Original Quake was awesome, then Quake World made dial up tolerable when playing online. Quake was also one of the very early high rez OpenGl games. I remember getting my first 3dfx Voodoo card and realizing at that moment that it was a turning point in gaming.
The relevant parts of the LLVM toolchain could be ported to Rust. IIRC Rust originally bootstrapped with OCaml.
You're likely being downvoted for assuming lamentation is related to the party that was elected, rather than the person. We're in a unique situation here.

I do agree that we should wait and see when it comes to the new (FCC) administration, however.
I've been varying degrees of open to this over the months. At the moment I don't think I have the time resources to arrange something, but if you want to shoot me an email at my_username @gmail.com, we can keep the communication channel open that way and I'll ping you when/if it changes.
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Tens of billions of dollars of cash laying around, used well, enables a lot of pivoting.
I want to like MD because there are some great tool kits out there, but the animations come off as unnecessary, and often result in slowness and flicker on first loads from my experience.
I've been saying the same thing. My coworkers bring up the surface when I mention it, but I don't see it. Tech in general has felt low innovation lately. Its time for silicon valley 2.
Very well put. I find it very annoying when people declare something to be racist. Racism is the idea that some races are superior or inferior. Unless you literally declare that some races are superior or inferior, what you say is not racist. I do agree that some things might imply that you think some races are inferior, but by declaring something racist, you state that the author has that specific idea and is trying to convey it.

However, people usually see any non-positive comment about a cultural minority as racist (e.g. "Black people eat a lot of chicken.").
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Ruby have everything (maybe just most?) things be an expression. I always liked

x = if condition
something
else
something_else
end
How far back do we have to go to get to cars that just showed percentages, cause I have literally never experienced one in my life.

Even my model year 2000 clunker has instant MPG, average MPG, miles to empty and a gas gauge with actual gallons.
"The logic is equally weak when crusty old white bigots use it."

This comment is racist and bigoted.
What are you planning on moving to? I'm not currently aware of anything (except maybe OneNote, which can't be self-hosted, isn't open source, and doesn't work on Linux) that has a similar feature set to Evernote. Particularly for what I tend to use it for: capturing web pages so I never lose certain content, "scanning" documents into it, searchable OCR, and available no matter what I'm using (iOS, website for Linux, and desktop client for Windows. my use case is probably a bit more ecletic than a lot of people though...) being the primary things.

If you find anything that can fit what I use Evernote for, I would love to hear about it. At this point in time, I'm willing to trade the potential privacy issues for the convenience of what is offered. Especially since, right now, even if an employee of Evernot could potentially look at notes of mine, they've still said that my notes belong to me and they aren't selling off data mining rights to other companies.
Sure. Alas, I don't know a flex from a bison, so I won't be implementing it any time soon.

Seems like language implementors are like carpenters: once you're a skilled pro, you're not interested in making a plain simple bookshelf. It's got to have dovetail joints, beveled edges, countersunk fasteners with plugs over them, light sanding between multiple coats of finish... then it's great, but not affordable and I'm back to looking for a simple bookshelf.
You can view things like abstract concepts as information. You can create information by using energy and e.g. encode it onto a surface or encode it in a human brain. There is a minimum amount of energy necessary to store information defined by Landauer's principle for irreversible computation. So in that sense the idea of "Occam's Razor" really does exist encoded in your brain as information (a form of energy) manifested in connections between neurons or so.
Goes back to familiarity. I'd be comfortable saying girls to one of the social/professional groups in my office that's all women. But I know them. I wouldn't do that with women I didn't know. Our travel office is all women. I don't call them "the girls in the travel office" because I don't know them (in a familiar way). I use guy a bit more often despite unfamiliarity, but it's not a diminutive like girl is though it is casual.
Have you played with Azure or .Net Core? People tend to enjoy the Surface products too.

In this regard I would not say they are "back" but better than Microsoft has ever been. Are they the best at everything... nah but heck the fact that I am saying many of their products are compelling is a big improvement
OK, I tried searching "worker rights due to union" and "union worker rights" and only found pages about unions protecting the right to associate. What should I input into Google?
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Might not be explicitly legal, but chances are it'd go like this:

Police: Sir, do you know what speed you were going?

Driver: Yes, my wife is in the back and she's about to go into labor.

Police: Let me turn on my lights and escort you to the hospital!
Day today discipline and grievances are not handled at the works council level that would be done at the branch level.
You mean like this[1]?

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252958059_Ubiquitou...
You can wash clothes while you're not there. It's even possible to schedule the washing so that it's done near the end of the light cycle so they don't sit in the machine for long after they are clean.
Prototype-based object orientation, while it's conceptually simpler & cleaner, violates a lot of the design assumptions taught (and mandated to be taught) by computer science programs. People who learned computer science in high school or college in the United States from mid-tier programs were learning material mandated by a couple accreditation agencies focused on the AP curriculum; this material was originally constructed for C++ and was adjusted to be about Java in the late nineties, and it focuses on object orientation in terms of encapsulation and inheritance.

Someone who is self-taught or who learned to code via a different curriculum (say, one based around scheme like MIT's, or one based around javascript) naturally will think of object orientation in terms of something that a programmer implements, and will see prototype-based OO as easier to implement and easier to predict, since inheritance (particularly multiple inheritance) can quickly get complicated. But, this mandated curruculum based around strongly-typed compiled languages with class-based OO and a nearly ideological focus on the (mostly imaginary) benefits of inheritance has mass-produced students who are primed to think of class-based OO as the natural state of things rather than as a tool that is only sometimes appropriate.

In any prototype language, adding classes is trivial (it's just a matter of treating some objects as inviolate), and adding inheritance and even simple forms of multiple inheritance (if you have access to metatables / can override member lookup routines) isn't terribly difficult. The opposite is generally not true. But, again, this focus on class-based OO is largely not based on strategic thinking, but instead upon mechanisms designed to make sure large numbers of entry-level programmers are part of a specific monoculture. (This has succeeded: consider the proliferation of Java -- a language that is only very rarely an appropriate tool for any job.)
I'll throw my hat in: using girl in the general form during an impersonal discussion (such as anything related to facts, debates, etc.) should be discouraged. It sounds as out of place as saying "boys" to refer to men. Your argument that "girl" is the same as "guy" applies in friendly terms and informal conversation, like the examples you provided.
I'd love to see any numbers on how many "startup employees with stock options" there even are compared to normal salaried employees without any vesting periods.

And then compare that to other countries. Maybe that's my point. I don't see myself disagreeing with anything you wrote, yet you seem to take it that way :)
I've played with Azure and it's terrible. If a client wants me to use Azure instead of Google or Amazon, I literally charge a premium because it's so much more painful.
1. It's definitely an oddity.

2. I haven't bashed a whole field, I have merely stated my experience. Curiously, most colleagues I've talked about it share this sentiment.

3. I'm a big fan of RMS and always compare him to Socrates. :-)
When you are Google and Microsoft is seems you don't pivot you just try all the ideas at once
I don't think this is an accurate view at all. How can you say they aren't innovating when you've got Microsoft Research still going strong with the fruits of its labor becoming visible in commercial applications such as speech, augmented reality, etc.

Not to mention the open source efforts they've put forth with .NET -- which admittedly is still in rough shape but certainly seems to have a future.

I don't think it's quite right to discount Microsoft entirely and see them as the next IBM.
Whoops, I'm not sure how I failed to see the byline. Thanks for the correction!
Sure, but. Look at the state of the world 600 years ago, and imagine that the people at the helm were starting to hand over power just now.

I think the world would look a lot more like it did 600 years ago. Perhaps more moral by some standards, but probably also unable to replicate a technological breakthrough like the eradication of aging.