skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DC is a pretty good counter example. As you say the type of work matters, and DC has never an industrial town. It was also a planned city. It was intended to not be dense from the start. Something like 40% of DC is federal government land.

DC also is doing a decent job at using mass transit to re-densify areas. The orange line corridor is making suburbs become dense. That is pretty unique in America.
Yeah I have a 4770K in my home server, except ECC and h265 deciding, it meets most retirements for me.
Property taxes for my house are $3000 a year. In the same area, my rent for a much smaller place was about to be $1800 a month. On disability, I could scrape up $250 a month fairly easily.

I don't have to worry about rent increasing every year or a change in management.
> Carbon Taxes, EPA regulations, etc

few countries have effective carbon taxes. the EU emissions trading system isn't doing its job for example because they handed out too many credits which deflated their price.

Regulations also apply to renewables. especially wind and the necessary cross-country powerlines suffer from nimbyism.
Unfortunately, it's not an easy problem to solve.

I live in LA and I have to drive to work because there's just not simply a viable alternative to where I have to commute to (West Adams area to West Hollywood.) The bike lanes across LA are spotty at best and there's a good chance you're going to get hit/brushed by a car because the closer you get to Beverly Hills/West Hollywood, the more impatient/asshole-ish drivers become.

LA is trying to solve this right now with better public transportation, but even then the line that runs into Beverly Hills/West Hollywood requires me to take I think a train and a bus before I can even get to it (also it's not complete for another 4 years, I think.)
For #1, I would suggest the answer would not help sales....I think it would look like this (apologies to Apple's old "good, better, best" computer labeling):

Server: expensive, more expensive, you can't afford it

Desktop: nicely priced, expensive

Mobile: nicely priced, expensive, pretty expensive

Of course, if they made it that simple, then this would happen:

Cheap server: buy ARM

Cheap Desktop: buy an older PC

Cheap mobile: ARM

REALLY cheap mobile: buy last years' ARM

For #2, the performance isn't really much different for most people. Running office and surfing the net probably are more limited by typing speed and internet connectivity than the speed of your CPU.
I think most people pay those prices because they want the simplicity (either real or imagined) that Apple has over the other options.
That there is more that exists than the physical universe.

In short, God. If God exists, if God is someone rather than something (a "he" rather than an "it"), and if God made humans in his image, then human personality can be real. It can be more than just a property of the atoms that make us up.

This may sound like a bunch of mystic woo. But I argue that it is the only thing that explains our observations of ourselves. No matter how much our theories say that we are just matter, that our personality is just the impersonal plus complexity, we still live - cannot avoid living - as if we were persons, not just machines. Why is that? I assert that our experience of personality is evidence that materialistic theories are inadequate.
Prolog is an old language from the future.
The 3 problems listed are (in my experience) not the most important ones you need to know about when you're making a bot. I'm not sure how this got to +100 points here on HN so quickly, since there are plenty of more informative bot articles that would better serve the HN audience.

The article describes:

1 (scalable architecture) : but the common solutions to this problem are not unique to chatbots

2 (a conversational agent must converse) : actually, that's a design decision for each individual bot, there are alternative ways of thinking about it.

3 (users will get frustrated) : this is actually a not a tech/AI problem, but a UI (user expectation) problem, see below.

The actual top 3 problems chatbot makers face are (in order):

#1 Discovery (!!!) : people don't know where/how to find bots and Facebook does not have their shit together in this regard (almost a year after launching their bot platform, there are still crucial errors. Result: most bots that could make a difference in the real world never get any traction, or enough users to train or iterate.

#2 Onboarding / setting expectations : the majority of (non-test or -product hunt) users of your bot are having their first chatbot experience with yours. Guiding them in the correct way is your #1 design priority. Result: a dissapointed general public.

#3 Inflated expectations : Mainly a problem for those who try to sell chatbots in B2B. Its' almost the opposite problem to #2. Most people and media conflate AI with chatbots. But the recent advances in machine learning (which are the reason for the current attention the term "AI" has been getting) are not (yet) applicable to chatbots in general. Add to this expectations of a Jarvis, Siri, etc. but then "for x". Result: dissapointed clients and an even quicker deflation of the hype.

And this is not even going into monetization!

All in all, I'm just frustrated that everyone involved in bots seem to assume that we already know how bots should work. I work in bots and I have yet to see one really impact user's lives. I wish for more humility and experimentation. At least we're all sharing what we're learning, so there's that.
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They seem trivial now, 20 some odd years after the fact.
I switched to Python a few years back mainly for Django, but Perl still does a number of things better (regexes, interacting with the filesystem for example).
Your nice blanket statement can easily apply to anything without even trying.

If you have a problem with apple hate, don't comment on it. There are thousands of other threads to reply to instead of adding to the existing dribble.

My last 3 jobs, I've been issued an MBP. I'm not really given a choice, it's just considered standard issue at this point. Should we all just accept things we'd don't necessarily like, or is it alright with you if we have a collective conversation?
> 1. Why doesn't Intel and actually name the chips to make them clearer?

Because it makes more money this way. "Cheap", "Expensive" and "Middle ground" is the optimal marketing strategy.

It feigns transparency but really it is just an opportunity to exploit a common bug in human-brain logic. Specifically, Decoy Pricing.

The i5 and i7 are both quad-core CPUs clocked at no more than 100MHz away from each other. But the i7 is $100 more to make the i5 look like a good deal. When consumers buy the i5 they "think" they got a good deal, when in reality, Intel priced the i7 to make them feel this way.

Read up on Decoy Pricing to learn about this effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricing_strategies#Decoy_prici...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoy_effect

Also, don't complain about marketers taking advantage of human psychology. That's their freaking job. Instead, you should take advantage of it too.
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It's the Dollar Van concept as below. The difference between it and a bus is that the dollar van doesn't pick people up in between, speeding up transactions and ensuring limited stops. The speed of pickup/dropoff is a large issue.
The problem is this isn't a PC and a can of Red Bull; it's an entire data center and a case of Red Bull.
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>Don't forget the refrigeration system ...

WHICH refrigeration system?

I cannot find any mention of it:
"Every unit comes equipped with a renewable power system, internet connectivity, basic farm tools, micro-drip irrigation system and water pump that can be adapted to fit either a groundwell or municipal water supply.

Every Farm from a Box unit can be customized with optional components including sensors, water purification units, and even remote monitioring technology."

And it would IMHO have merited an icon in the picture here:

http://www.farmfromabox.com/about
I disagree.

With AMD no longer contentious, Intel has, quite literally, stopped trying.

Look at Netburst era Intel vs modern Intel. Behind the 8-ball Intel can show you what Intel looks like when it's trying.
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The premise is wrong, read the POODR book.
We're in unprecedented territory right now where the best price/performance for an Intel chip is found via overclocking something obsolete from Ebay and then hanging a fast modern GPU on it.

I'm partial to the 2500k myself.
Could not agree more, both in the desktop and server markets - the naming / models are annoying as crap. I.e. As a server CPU it's not clear weather a E5-2660 v2 is better or worse than an E5-2640 v3 etc.... its just... not clear.
Well, yes, "pro-west" is usually used to mean "compliant with US foreign policy", not "liberal". Regardless of whether this is a good thing by other standards.

By your metric, even large parts of the "west" and United States aren't "pro-west". Sadly.
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>but I can't imagine that there is a reasonable economic case to be made for it

Median net worth of a retiree is $210,000. Many have saved for care in retirement and therefore will be able to 'demand' it in the market. And I don't believe that includes income from Social Security (which is just a forced savings plan).

>It seems to me that what is needed is alternative industries that are booming because they create new economic opportunities in a generative fashion.

This is word soup.
Not really. There's a maximum value on the worth of programming work, as defined by the demand for the product the programmers are producing.

It's the flip side of why high minimum wages cause more unemployment. Some work activities are just not worth $15/hr.
I once wanted to build a system, and decided to browse through patents. I realized that my system would easily infringe 100+ of patents. Many of them were actually very recent.
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The only reason to upgrade today is watts, either for heat or battery life. Oh and crypto I guess. Although Intel ME cancels all this.
It is an issue for Java programs that complete in a few tenths of a second. So these do more work than a few tenths of a second.
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The kit is for 2 acres. Probably no brush hog, log splitter, hay equipment or tractor.
This, and making it harder/more expensive to develop inefficient uses. I'm surprised this is so hard because the increased public expenses for car oriented development over car optional development is large. It's mostly a revenue now vs expense later tradeoff cities almost always have taken in US.
You know AMD exists right? And with Ryzen coming up, it's looking pretty alright for them on the desktop front.
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> If you can't collect until your sixties, you still have some thirty years or so to work through.

...so?

This whole thread is in response to the claim that "I doubt there's even one pension plan, public or private, in the U.S., Europe, or Asia which [provides 100% of salary as a pension after working 25 years for eligiblity]".

So, having a pension which provides more than 100% of salary as pension after working only five years for eligibility is very relevant. That's far more generous even than what OP described.

Oh, and that income is tax-exempt in many places, to boot. It's an absurdly lavish benefit.
Even with Sierra?

I've just had a ton of issues with the mouse becoming unresponsive... and then having to do a restart, whereas on El Capitan and Yosemite I could basically leave my computer on for forever.
The premise is the introduction is wrong.

"so before we have written a single program in our
language, before we know whether shared behaviour will be
important in the applications that will be written in it"

read the POODR book, or watch this

https://youtu.be/OMPfEXIlTVE?list=PL5s3t9kPeAN6aDxaSywIbeFJO...

it explains how shared behavior works without code duplication and why people tend to mess it up.
I'll add elisp there.
The article doesn't link to the study. Here it is:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/01/01/1611675114.full...
For fun, I was looking at cheap (compared to San Francisco) land with no infrastructure in Wyoming. 1 acre of land, $10K USD. Drilling a water well that might work, $5K to $30K.
Same here though I only use it for side projects. During my day job it is pretty much Java and SQL.
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Sure, but I think we'll see MacBooks using Apple SoC's in the future:

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/15/iphone-7-faster-than-mac...
Check out https://github.com/rabidgremlin/Mutters

It uses ML to figure out the "intent" of what the user has said (using a document classifier) and named entity recognition (NER) to extract data from the text (date, location etc).

That is actually the easy part. The harder part is the conversation scripting and state handling. Mutters uses the Ink narration engine (originally designed for dialogue heavy games) for this.

It works pretty well. IMHO :)
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That's all well and good, but in most urban areas of the US, business owners can't even choose whether they want to cater to you as a customer— instead, all new development is required to have a certain quantity of parking by legislative fiat, effectively outlawing the classic 'main street' that's the anchor of so many communities.

http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/Trouble.pdf
> You can get the same hardware at a much lower price point

Sometimes yes. A lot of times though, the chipset will be different on the "lower-end" boards, ie. 990FX vs 990 chipset, etc.

Just be careful when selecting your board, as it does often determine the maximum performance of your system - and you don't want it to be a bottleneck to your other expensive components.
Not exactly a book, but Yale CS hosts a set of notes from a course of theirs, almost 500 pages.

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/465/notes.pdf
Abandoning general purpose computing is too crazy, as it amounts to throwing away software. The anonymous internet is a dead-man walking, but silicon valley is as complicit in this as the government will be.

However, software engineering will change into a much more regulated environment. Writing software for the web will eventually become like writing software for the space shuttle: slow, rigorous and very expensive.

It will also kill the hacker culture, as hacking together a piece of software will become like hacking together a bridge: illegal.
"Induced demand" is the bane of attempt to reduce congestion in the history of automobiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
I don't think there's anything 'new' about it.
From the article it sounds like the idea is to distribute these through schools, NGOs, aid groups and the like. Those organizations would presumably provide the guidance on how to use all the stuff in the kit.

I could see that being pretty efficient, since the trainers would know exactly what tools and materials trainees will have on hand to work with, which should make it possible to create generalized training systems rather than having to build up a new curriculum for each trainee they work with.
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Are you really familiar with the industry?

I ask because in the steel industry the opposite happened. Minimills started by making limited easier to produce steel goods. They improved their process and mills to be able to offer more difficult types of products and could compete against the larger mills.

My assumption is that as the technology improves and gets cheaper, the ability for someone to enter the market will go down. Getting higher yields with less expense will lower the cost, and will allow smaller plots of land in/near the city to provide for a more local customer base.

People around the world have phones because the tech has become so cheap. If micro-farming tech continues in that same path, then around the world, micro-farms can be installed by local entrepreneurs at a much cheaper star-up cost with an higher yield. Though I suspect government regulations will play a more limiting role in a lot of countries.

As a side note one of the things I've always wondered is how cheap does crop production need to get before the food can just be given away. If it gets to where it costs $0.05 to produce a head of spinach on the city lot down the street, is there a point it's free.
Every state has a university extension system that provides free information for farmers and the general public.

For example, here's Oregon State University's page for small farms: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/sorec/farms
I actually love it when sites have chat solutions.

Usually it seems there are real people and it provides the fast respose of pgone together with the asynchronity of email. Fast but less awkward when kids are screaming in the background.
It costs around 500$ to get similar performance. So ~500$ / (0.20$/kwh * 0.102kw * 2/3) that's ~37,000 hours or 24/7 for 4 years.

So, no lower power is not a solid reason to upgrade.
SQL, sh, awk, and javascript (cscript).
I once designed a system that, I latter realized, would infringe over 100 patents.

Am I supposed to make my design worse just because other people thought of these things first?
Mixed reality attractions making use of real-world locations
I guess the model for that is an interest-bearing loan.
Like the guidelines ask, since there's nothing wrong with the article's title we've reverted the submission title from “The Intel Core i7-7700K is what happens when a company stops trying”.
Also farms usually have a store room attached to keep the equipment. It's also cool in there cause it's made in a traditional way - thatched roof, wood, mud, thick walls etc. So it makes for a nice resting place when it's hot.

Why would anyone want to lose a piece of their farm land to keep a container and also pay for it!
Which is why they mention in the article that they've built it to be modularisable, so it'll be adjusted for whatever is appropriate for your area.
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where are you getting WWT containers for $2k? Last one I was involved in was about $8k for WWT + shipping and picking, which was about another $2k with some minimal site prep (pea gravel and railroad ties). Prices were slightly lower to buy them in Seattle instead of the closest port, but the lower purchase price was offset by the much larger shipping costs
> Most companies aren't interested in investing the resources to retrain employees unless training lasts a few months at most.

> Even market solutions will require a lot of gov't interference to work imo (things like job "mortgages" i.e. student loans for adults).

Ah, so more socializing of the costs, privatizing of the profits.
I don't know about that. Among my peers that went into engineering there are concerns of a shrinking job market for specific specialties like civil engineering or chemical engineering...
Serious question: How does one get into this C embedded stuff?

I'm addicted to low-level "embedded" type work. But all I hear back from are Django, RoR, $HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK, DevOps teams/recruiters.

Is there some buzzword or special topic to know and do a project in? Any suggestions for projects to display on GitHub, topics to know through and through (domain specific knowledge)?

I sit at work thinking all day about RasbPi sensor projects sitting on my workbench collecting dust due to job+young kids.
They used to, loooong time ago... At least I think so? I seem to remember Netscape on Linux bundling the fonts, not sure what they did with Arial/Helvetica on Windows 3.1.

However good fonts are a massive undertaking and only make sense for OS vendors, at least the fonts which include many languages.
> Yep. They probably don't realize how big of a part "Word of Mouth" marketing plays in their sales.

I'm not sure who would know better: Apple's marketing team, or a group of developers chatting on Hacker News.

Depending on the level of sophistication in Apple's marketing department, they might have a very clear, well-researched, quantitative model regarding just how much impact our word-of-mouth carries.

I wonder if some of our angst comes from the nagging fear that we (professional developers and photo/video editors) hold less clout than we thought, and that as a result, our tools in upcoming years will be more expensive and less useful.
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Ford says electric vehicles will overtake gas in 15 years, Announces New Models
Why would I buy this over Dell's 2n1 that I have with a Core I7 for $699?

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-In...
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the average IQ in the US is just below 100

This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of IQ as a measurement. IQ is defined as a normal distribution with a median of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. The average IQ in the US is 100 for any IQ test calibrated to measure the US population. No absolute statements regarding intelligence can be made on the basis of IQs; only relative statements about how an individual fits into the normal distribution measured by the test.

This ignores the flaws in Flynn and Vanhanen's study when it came to calculating IQ scores for different countries. They used incomplete data sets collected at different times using different tests. For 104 out of 185 countries, they had no data available at all. Instead, they averaged neighboring or comparable countries - for instance El Salvador is an average of Guatemala and Colombia while Kyrgyzstan is an average of Iran and Turkey.

I think it is fair to say that the average IQ for $COUNTRY is 100. This is a meaningless statement when it comes to discussing macroeconomics or comparing countries on the basis of IQ.
This viewpoint is exactly why I like Rust. It has syntactic sugar to make things look like traditional objects, but everything is really a bundle of data with a set of associated static functions. (v-tables only appear with trait objects AFAIK, which are uncommon compared to templates.) And tagged unions are built in, with pattern-matching!