skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (could be only 10, or 5, or probably less)

I don't know when, but I can guarantee it won't be within 5 years. The reason: digital hardware improvements are slowing down. Today's best hardware can only run a model with the number of nodes in a human brain at 1/2400th speed, and probably with an oversimplified model: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10567942/Supercomputer...

I don't think we will reach human level AI on digital hardware; it just doesn't really make sense with the Von Neumann bottleneck. Parallel, analog computation is the way forward and that has yet to be commercialized, so we probably have a ways to go.

That being said, AI is getting very impressive on the software side, and with the use of TPU's, GPU's, and FPGA's, we can definitely look forward to compelling use cases where these algorithms have apparently creative intelligence, but only within an extremely specific category (when compared to the generalities of biological analog brains).
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No, you can do a lot more and still have it fast. But there are also a lot of sites that have basically the same content as HN or DF and load way too slow due to crud.
I have such immense respect for the kind of people that made GOAL. From the powerpoint, it states that it was made by one developer over a year-ish, and solely supported it through the development of Jak and Daxter.

It's the kind of confidence like that, in a very aggressive market, where delays are killer, but knowing that you can make a tool that would help make an even better product.

Apparently the team had difficulty picking it up and using it for a while, and lots of issues that would run the development machines into the ground. Through all that, they still produced a very refined and high quality product on a tight deadline.

Anecdotally, introducing Angular to a group of seasoned developers, more experienced in RPG and JCL than anything web-wise, over the course of a month was enough to lose sleep on. Heavy respect for that developer and the team as a whole.
>Asking because India offshore support peeps used by Dell, Walmart etc are all give white christian names - like Mary, John, Adam etc - and also undergo 3 months of rigorous 'American Accent' training.

Yeah, like that would really help with 20+ years of speaking an accent.
Agreed that whatever they do to scrolling is awful. On my phone (android, firefox mobile) I can't use Google News anymore because I can scroll down, but can't scroll back up.
This is absolutely the fault of the publisher, not of anyone else. If the people running that site wanted to offer a slim and fast experience, they could absolutely do so without including additional Javascript from god-knows-where and whatever other “features” AMP requires.
This guy should have went down to the DMV to get his questions answered. He wasted more time going through all this mess.

Being self employed, I hardly have time to sleep, much less make a trip to my local DMV just to ask a "30 second question" so I tried to call my "local" DMV office by calling calling the only phone number listed on the internet for my local DMV.
disks have hit 10tb per 3.5" disk, which means you could have petabytes in each rack. I think we're at the point now where the materials are almost "free" compared to the amount of information you can fit on them.

Plus, they mine the shit out of that data. Even if they're not earning ad revenue on it, they're tracking location, usage statistics, I wouldn't be surprised if their user agreement includes the ability to have AI "watch" the video and try to mine data about what's happening in the video the same way they mine your email to build smarter and more effective consumer profiles about you. So even with nobody watching your video, I wouldn't put it past the "G-men" to find a way to eke some profit off it.
> Google has fixed it so the site name header finally goes away when scrolling.

Well, that's an improvement at least.
That happens after the stomach.
> One should just assume that people already know C/C++/Java etc coming to learn rust.

It's not so simple. People coming from different languages know different things. Folks coming from JS may not understand the stack or how to operate in a non-GCd environment. Folks coming from C may not understand what a closure is. Folks may not come from a language with generics. Folks may not come from a language with a static type system.

All this piles up, and you effectively have to teach all of it if you want a document that anyone can use to learn Rust.

The "guessing game" tutorial is only an intro to the language. It can't explain many things without getting too large, and it's part of the book, so it expects you to continue. You don't need to read the whole book, just the first few chapters (and each chapter is pretty small, not the size of a "chapter" in typical physical programming book).

If you want a different way to learn Rust, try http://rustbyexample.com/index.html
In middle/working class urban homes?
That "Steve" must look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlOkKskBqU
>... fatuous self-exculpating emails

I think the author is on point, but i sense the article will be a litmus test of reader's perception of what Harvard Business School calls 'bullshit' in modern business.
I'm attempting not to pass judgement. Can you explain why it's helped?
Translation for SI users:

6' ≈ 1.8 m

55 °F ≈ 13 °C

90 °F ≈ 32 °C
It appears in the drop-down under "All topics".
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I'm still not seeing the exploitation here. Does he even own a business?
This Firefox add-on helps with one such issue, navigating tabs:

* Single Key Tab Switch

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-key-ta...

I configured mine to use Vim navigation keys (h for left, l for right). As long as the focus isn't in an input field, it works great.
Seriously? I would bet that there are more Indians speaking English and willing to work a call center job than Americans.

The whole "Hire Americans!!1!" kind of viewpoint smells like Trump and honestly: The world deserves better.
That's true for west coast cities, but not for east coast cities like Boston and New York, which experience terrible temperature extremes.

How much water do we need? I wouldn't try to affect large regions, just specific urban areas. The water doesn't actually have to go anywhere, it just sits around storing heat. All we have to do is bubble a lot of air through it. As a nice side benefit, this should clean the air.

(This is my version of the Reber Plan).
Did the previous poster edit his comment? I realized after the fact that you appeared to be responding to something different from what the post currently states.
Rust does, by the way.
Twitter and SEO: How Is Google Indexing Twitter?
Actually, a lot of the Japanese car companies are built on vertically integrated companies where a parent (usually a bank) company owns both the primary company (Honda) and a set of complementary companies that provide things like Windshields or Tires. It's called a Keiretsu.
yep cars too, in fact there were many quite stylish cars back then.
I've also reached the nesting limit, so this will be my last comment if only because the conversation is already difficult to follow.

Fair point about the creation of Skunk Works. I guess I was thinking more about the SR-71 and B2 which were wildly ambitious.

I guess history will tell the story of X as it's just too soon to call at this point. I'd love for them to be successful.
I absolutely hate AMP. I don't understand it at all. In fact, I completely ignore the benefits – this is simply due to the UX. Any link I see with AMP in it makes me want to not tap on it on my phone. It's seriously a horrible experience on iPhone. The entire navigation is uncanny valley territory. I don't have a detailed reason why, but I know that when trying to use the browser I'm frustrated and want to leave. This feels like a poor move.
Adding the year does nothing other than let people know when it was published and gives it some context. You're reading too much into this. The practice goes back at least 2½ years.
Does Opera collect data on users?

Also, what about Brave?
Translation for SI users:

80' ≈ 24 m
I live in Austin, in an area google has designated "the rest of the city", and it's been "coming soon" for a couple of years now.
Is there a standard way to get to the original page from the AMP page? I've ended up on too many AMP pages with no way to get to the original link.
It's interesting how they try to make him relatable at the end of that with the 'Rambunctious' kids and personal endeavors bit. Maybe I am just nit-picking.
Any chance you could recommend someone to finally get us different logins for the different profiles? It's kind of ridiculous to have parental controls when they can just change the profile to watch whatever they want. I also don't really like sharing a main account password with kids.
How much did you make?
add me as one of the duckduckgo users because of AMP hatred.
It should be opt-in then. The UX is lackluster.
> One look at the source code for most popular sites shows this isn't true

Although I reject the idea that popular websites are representative of the web in general, let's investigate that anyway. Currently on the HN homepage:

1. Netflix blog post scores 73/100 and 85/100 on Google PageSpeed Insights.

2. Flickr post gets 67/100 and 83/100 on PageSpeed.

3. Google's own post gets 61/100 and 79/100 -- oops!

4. gatech.edu gets 66/100 and 82/100.

All bad, decided to stop there. Even many/most popular pages are bad (careful reading shows that I didn't say all) . This jives with what I've seen as someone who looks at Google PageSpeed Insights A LOT.

> average sluggish site the bloat is mostly JavaScript rather than the HTML source

Someone "drawing pictures with HTML editors" as I said is still going to add JavaScript, images, css, etc. They'll also specifically add tons of unoptimized images that aren't even losslessly optimized, let alone put through manual lossy optimizations. I bet the average webmaster can't even define lossless and lossy.

FWIW I think AMP is just awful. In contrast, Google PageSpeed Insights is amazing. I adore the PageSpeed website and recommend it wholeheartedly. It's been a huge help to me.

The solution to this mess is competition, not centralization. Make speed a major ranking signal and let the ecosystem say goodbye to those who can't hang.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
AT&T moved its HQ to Dallas back in 2008/2009 - https://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsar...
That's the absolute opposite conclusion from what the author intended.
The belt's designed to be easily compiled to (register coloring is NP hard) but it requires the CPU analyse data flow somewhat to optimize in a way where there isn't a bunch of data copying. Godard frequently explains that the belt is conceptual, that the hardware should be doing optimizations underneath

Whereas for a simple architecture registers are simple: they index into the register file. This only breaks down when we bring in out-of-order & register renaming in order to have more registers than the instruction set specifies
Apple Maps already has this feature (you can plug in Open table etc as well). Assuming people still use Apple Maps :-) -- actually I do which is why I know this feature is available.

I had assumed android google maps had this support already and that iOS was behind the time. Not to insult one platform or the other (I'm an iOS user myself) but just you'd think Google would favor their own platform.
great work! I've wondered if NMT models could be used with other types of data, like music notation (midi or ABC). The use case I had in mind was "translating" a monophonic melody input to a polyphonic ouput, ie. auto-arranging melodies.

Of course assuming there is an available dataset of input-output pairs to train with.
I'll add a comment here so DanBC sees it.

You have a point, I am easily trolled when people lack arguments and start discussing person.

Regarding earlier comments... I got mainly upvotes, until an hour ago.

I have argued, a year or two ago, that this subject have to much emotional attachments and doesn't work on HN. It is twice as true today, it seems people now often have secondary accounts used for trolling when they lack answers about soemthing they find important.
It all comes down to the difference between a job and a career.
Not as far as I know. My response was to "tolerance or intolerance boils down to how the microflora react", which does happen after the stomach, so it seems unlikely that it could influence stomach irritation.
Completely agree even if it's downvoted
I love this insight. I have often experienced in my life seeing someone come up with something really useful in the midst of spouting complete rubbish. Oddly it is about 50/50 internal and external, where half the time they stop in the middle of what they are saying and realize they have a really good idea, and half the time someone else stops them and says "hey, that could really work." or something like that. The common theme can best be described as "fearless thinking" or perhaps unconstrained thinking.

I suspect that the personality trait most closely associated with creativity like this is a lack of fear of embarrassment. When someone tells me something I have suggested is wrong I respond by asking questions to understand how they understand the topic so that I can learn from them. When you tell someone who has vested their self image in being right that they are wrong they take it personally and respond dismissively. They fight to have their point of view validated rather than understand a counter point of view. But this makes them unwilling to share partially understood topics because it could expose them to being 'wrong' in public.

Other times people self censor their own thinking. I get so frustrated when someone says "Well I thought that might be a solution to the problem but assumed it would be too expensive." That is an example of someone who had a creative idea, self censored it, and it had to come out through someone else in order to reach the collective consciousness of the group. I try really hard to have people not self censor but it is so ingrained sometimes.

And all of that then feeds back into the genius/hero narrative where the narrative of a person includes only their noteworthy accomplishments and so the perception is that people like that only do noteworthy things, and then they are impossible to live up to.

Dare to ask stupid questions, it could make you the smartest person in the room.
Scientific value != value. I view theology as a study of how humans characterize their relationship to that which is beyond logic: god, infinity, existence, whatever. To me, this study has individual and collective value even in modern times, despite the fact that it has no scientific value.
> they've been using it for six years, and it hasn't improved things

Citation?
Check out the link in the comments about the addictiveness of Angry Birds, too. Good additional read:

http://www.mauronewmedia.com/blog/why-angry-birds-is-so-succ...
Ptolemy is likewise revered by astronomers as one of their founding fathers but they conveniently ignore the fact that in astrological circles he occupies a similar position due to his seminal work, the Tetrabiblos. Scientists can become very selective when dealing with alternatives to their world view.
It does.

Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/policies/terms/
Many of them probably have been speaking English, if not their whole life, from a very young age. OTOH, that probably doesn't make making them sound American easier, as Indian English is quite different from American English (or even British English, to which it is much more similar.)

And it's matter of far more than just tone use and accent, though, IME, plenty of big companies are not succeeding in doing much about those two elements in Indian call-center staff serving US customers, even if they are some song lots of money on it -- and I'm not talking about disguising the fact they are Indian, but even getting them to the point where they accent and tone use isn't an impediment to communication with Americans.

But then, plenty of companies with US-based call center staff aren't doing much to select people that are great at clear oral communication with other Americans, either.
Sorry if this is obvious, but what did you actually build? I know its a chatbot for FB Messenger, but what does it do?
Not bad. Reminded me of the internal arrangements in the MSI Nightblade MI2, a pleasant small desktop gaming machine. You can buy some of them for under 1k USD.

( https://www.msi.com/Desktop/Nightblade-MI2.html )
Ive never quite understood that stuff. Monster Hunter, Fire Emblem, etc, all have seeded RNGs. In some cases, with fixed tables to make it even worse so that grinding for something for months will never get you what you want without restarting in some cases.

Are those devices really unable of anything better?
That would be a great day, when no humans will need to program any more. But I don't think it's anywhere near.
The main expense is digging the trenches. If this is done before the house is constructed, i.e. you've already got the backhoe on site to prep the site, the cost should be minimal.
I wouldn't call it horrible, but starting from their promised solution (IE without all the crap; lightweight + innovative) not much is delivered. The browser feels buggy and slow and I do not see much innovation.
The guidelines ask us not to complain about downvotes in the first place, but it's definitely not OK to attack and accuse other users like this here. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mostly I'd agree, but Emirates ICE system is pretty decent https://www.emirates.com/au/english/flying/inflight_entertai...
If that's how pages are now, Evernote should just write a custom renderer that uses the proper css. (or I guess they could write a bunch of print drivers but that seems hairier...)
Basically I saved a $4k investment into a platform for creating chatbots and it lead me into another market I am building a product now.
No RAM/Memory specifications? Surely it ought to showcase at least 64GB DDR4 RAM.
Agreed. That made me think of how statisticians 70 years ago were often good at doing all kinds of tests by hand. Once the doing things by hand part was abstracted away by modern computing they just focused on other parts of statistics.
I agree that the ad hominems are unfair, but bad design is bad design regardless of authorship.
cool but if you can upgrade the gpu and storage, than you should also be able upgrade the cpu, ram and psu? at that point, it's just the old ATX mac pro design
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The idea that necessary education is 12 years goes back a century, AFAIK. Perhaps it's time that we extend that to 16 years (I'm not the first to say it) and stop making it an issue of ability to pay. Certainly the job market values college degrees much more than high school diplomas; an economy full of more productive workers will make the tide rise for all the boats - people selling to those workers, hiring them, those workers' kids, etc etc.

That doesn't solve the abysmal K-12 education so many people receive, of course.
The singularity is far.[1]

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=346
I think my question is now answered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383171, in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383211.
Who has time for that?
Golang slice and append
Thanks to abundant wasted resources you hardly need any money to get a much better lifestyle than what 1929 had to offer, in Western societies at least. Some folks even go completely moneyless for a while.
If the air temp is below 55, you use the ground to heat it to 55, then other means to heat it the rest of the way.
Much of so called software engineering is about assembling/wrapping other API/libraries anyway.

I don't see how ML change the scenario, instead of querying some db, you are now querying some trained models. Until we have an algorithm that could write correct code given requirement specified in natural language, the demand or prospect of software engineer as a profession will not be affected by ML/AI too much. However it is hard to predict when such technique will emerge, 10 years? 20 years? maybe 50 years.
It helps you to keep up with personal expenses and set up reminders.

Can be tested here: m.me/peegi.me
Heh—similar to this gem I found the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightmare_Chess
The Singularity Is Far (2008)
They're already on Ceph-based Cloud Object Store, which uses 8/3 erasure coding: https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/116391291701/yahoo-cloud-ob...

Erasure coding isn't something new, unknown or unique to Minio, it's built into Ceph, GlusterFS and Openstack Swift, the largest distributed object stores.
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Please stop posting like this and instead comment civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Every pharmacist and, moreover, every consumer capable of conducting a transaction with said pharmacists is also capable of spending the two minutes* required to evaluate the difference between these two auto injectors.

Evaluating the distinction doesn't require anything close to an advanced degree but it's not legal for anyone who isn't credentialed to vend/dispense/trade/exchange/grant/supply/provide the still-very-effective, much cheaper alternative based solely on the customer's informed demand--doing so would be "illegal".

Yes, if your highly-trained, well-payed, in-demand pharmacist has the time and interest; they can work through the call tree until he reaches your highly-trained, well-payed, in-demand doctor; who would've wrote a more general prescription in the first place if it didn't increase their chances of being sued, and get the prescription changed. The problem is, apparently, that hasn't happened often enough--probably because it doesn't happen for free. Someone ends up paying for it e.g., the doctor and pharmacologist, other patients, the insurer and their other clientele or the tax payer--multiplied times however many epinephrine injectors are sold in a given year.

There are few incentives to economize in the chain of payers because health-care is an unlimited 'right' that should be provided for by someone (everyone) else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

* Link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRgqwgCh4Fs
Monitor DNS without code instrumentation