skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related, but more trivial level, I note that a lot of places that used to have a nice little punch card or whatever for a loyalty program now have accounts you can log into. So I can, if I want, choose to have to remember a burrito password. Awesome.
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The MiTek people may be tech savvy, almost certainly Buffetts sign off for their purchases is cursory, if they think it benefits their business and purchase price was reasonable.

Berkshire recently bought Apple stock but I believe that was done by two young investment managers he lets manage smaller parts of the Berkshire portfolio.

Buffett is clearly more tech savvy than he lets on, but his objection to tech investments is he doesn't think he can identify durable competitive advantages there. It's certainly harder.
I think many people won't mind paying a higher price for a longer-lasting product. But there's just no way to know it will really be longer-lasting.
So we might as well paste the articles in the comments section?
Margaret Boden made these points previously. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/276

A fun alternative strand in AI research driven by these thoughts (I think) is typified by Rosie. Rosie is the proper job.

http://soar.eecs.umich.edu/articles/articles/videos-rosie

There is an unseemly comment in this thread that alludes to a genuine issue with the embodied AI arguement. People with other bodies are not lesser intelligences than those who have a socially cast "typical" body or sensors. And given that one has to question this line of reasoning. The answer is that intelligence is embodied outside and beyond your physical being - it's your body, your family, your tribe and so on. I find the philosophy difficult, but to prove that there is something in this view you need to hike out to a wood somewhere and spend a couple of weeks by yourself. Things happen and who you are changes (did for me) cut yourself off or be cut off and you are as less human (autonomous cognitive agent) as one can become.
It is a broken relationship that would be hard to fix. Uber doesn't even try to hide its intention to get rid of the drivers once it has its self driving cars fully deployed
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> The wrong bit is that "tanoshikunai desu" should really be "tanoshiku arimasen".

While it should technically be -ku arimasen, it's actually rarely used, and -kunai desu is more "mainstream".

> Past tense is "suki datta". To make it polite "suki deshita". Negation is "suki de wa nai" (seriously, romaji makes me cringe...). Polite negation is "suki de wa arimasen"

Trivia: all these forms are really variations of "suki de aru". "datta" comes from "de atta", "de ha nai" is really "de nai" with a "ha" for emphasis. "de ha arimasen" is really "de aru", with the "ha" for emphasis, and "aru" conjugated with the "masu" auxiliary at the negative form.

> Very obscure piece of trivia (that most Japanese people don't even know) is that "ohayou gozaimasu" is actually one of those conjugations -- it's actually "(honourific) o hayai de gozaru" in polite form. The "i" ending mixes with "de" to produce the "ou" ending.

Technically speaking, the -i and the de are not combining at all. The -u form (ウ音便) comes from the -ku form (連用形), where the k is removed. Then the preceding sound also changes (like in arigataku -> arigatou ; oishiku -> oishuu, etc.). The typical forms used in keigo are -u gozaimasu and -u zonjimasu (where there is no "de" to combine in the latter ;) )

I think the Japanese learn the ウ音便 in 国語 or 古文, so I don't think it's some obscure trivia that few people know. In fact, you can hear it in e.g. 時代劇 dramas.

Also, the form is pretty common in Kansai dialect (without gozaimasu). In fact, wikipedia claims[1] it comes from there and the gozaimasu was added in Kantou.

1. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%B3%E4%BE%BF#.E5.BD.A2.E...
> The best appliances today, by the way, are made by Bosch/Siemens and Miele. None of the other manufacturers come close, period.

> Interestingly, the high-end machines from Bosch/Siemens made in Germany are higher quality than the ones made in Poland, China, Spain or Turkey.

What's the price difference for a made in Germany Bosch/Siemens v.s. a wherever-it-comes-from Whirlpool? Does it justify shelling out the extra $$$ for it v.s. the expected life to replace the latter when it dies? (presumably sooner than the German one)
When applying for positions, I often decide that there's a 5% chance of being hired from a single application, and try to estimate how many resumes I need to send before I have a 95% chance of receiving an offer. The clear deadline helps with time budgeting, and helps me focus on avoiding making anxious spammy applications.
Thanks for the quick reply and the explanation!
And this is a very interesting point. How good is a similarly priced 2017 fridge compared to a 1950's when price is measured in real dollars.
> I don't get why people still keep giving them money for ships

It's the only game that allows you to be at the forefront of participation without burning time on playing. One step beyond "idle games" (that is something that actually exists). It seems to be an arrangement that somehow clicks with a small but lucrative group of people. They probably think that they will pick up gaming again "when it's ready", but most likely won't. Until then they can live the dream of one day being as excited about gaming again as they were twenty years younger.
I hope more game developers do the same.

And I hope if this time Microsoft comes up with a FUD campaign against Vulkan (like what happened with OpenGL) people can just uninstall Windows and try another OS.
I hear this so often... Do you think these would ever been written if the devs had to fight the borrow checker all they long?
The imagenet competition is a great concrete example. This is a massive dataset of images and the competition is to identify correctly the object in the image (truck, person, etc). The results the past few years look something like this: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0FLG_HLy-dHk5kPFIocPMHn5jc...

Prior to 2012, this was done using traditional computer vision algorithms with hand picked features. The accuracy was often around 30-40%, until the first deep learning model beat the 2nd place competitor by near half the error. Today, almost every single competitor is deep learning based and accuracy is equal to human classifiers.

Since deep learning has so many applications, it's hard to generalize what the "edge" is against all other approaches. In my opinion, other approaches often require handpicking features (where a ANN learns them) and struggle to recognize patterns in many areas (where a ANN does).
I see -- thanks!
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I used to sell these about fifteen years ago and maybe they have changed but they were no different than any other fridge brand and their washing machines... they were one of the first brands to have led control panels which used to always break after five years. But that's a while back now.
Came here expecting to see this mentioned somewhere, was not disappointed :)
And what does 'contrastive connotation' mean?
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Author lives in Hawaii.

I lived in Hawaii for 7 years. Everything rusts.
I was expecting an interesting read based o facts and figures but this article one nothing more than an opinionated piece packed with nonsensical apples-to-oranges comparisons and political petty bickering.
Yes, this clearly looks like Jones getting out before his reputation is sullied by further association with Uber's leadership.
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This is a strawman. We're not demanding red, but seeking yellow or orange or some other indicator that captures the impact. Absolutely not green.
UglifyJS takes about 5 minutes to setup, and it works.

It's impossible to reliably set up Closure compiler if you are outside of Google's infrastructure and/or outside of Google's Closure Library.

End of comparison.
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Would someone mind to provide a bit more context around what this is about? I'm feeling rather lost reading this.
Very cool. I really, really wish there was multi-repo PR support in Bitbucket and/or GitHub.
I really don't think he needs the money after being CMO at Target.

This is what having fuck-you-money gets you: The ability to walk away not care about the financial consequences.
If these observations are correct, it seems like all the other issues are just fallout from the first, "not enough competition."

Because everything else -- the push for higher efficiency, more bells and whistles, a proliferation of models that change all the time, lighter metal parts -- applies to automobiles too, and today's automobiles are significantly more durable and low-maintenance than those of my parents' and grandparents' generations.
Sorry that sounded ungrateful and came out like I had an entitlement because of the backing level. I may be just a bit disappointed it was dropped - however I trust that it'll be added back in due time.

The RSI team is doing amazing work, and I keep checking in - really love how they've improved loading times, and the detail of the models etc is just amazing, however as someone who's gotten quite used to head tracking I find it very hard to play sims that don't support it.

As such, I'm also a big Elite fan and now is a really good time to be playing that especially if an immersive experience is something you consider important as I do.
The loss of context can be dangerous and misleading.
Update 1:

>Travis Kalanick just sent out a company-wide email. It essentially says after Uber said it was naming a COO, Jones decided to leave.

[0] https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/843586902817099777

Update 2: Ex-president Jones makes statement

>"I joined Uber because of its Mission [sic], and the challenge to build global capabilities that would help the company mature and thrive long-term.

"It is now clear, however, that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber, and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business.

"There are thousands of amazing people at the company, and I truly wish everyone well."

[1] https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/843620240961368065
No – the article wouldn't make any sense if it were some other newspaper taking the NYT's market share, even thought the loss of power for the NYT were the same.

This isn't some selfish ploy to protect power by the NYT. Maybe their view of the importance of journalism is tainted by being the subject as well, but there are any number of non-journalists agreeing with the idea.

The political culture has significantly changed over last twenty years, and the changes in the media landscape are one of very few causal mechanisms that have been proposed (neo-capitalism destroying the middle class being among the others).

Looking at these changes, it's really hard to argue that the media of the past (or, actually, present) failed the people – at least in comparison to whatever instagram feed is supposed to replace it.I'm hoping there'll be a few powerful institutions left when the slaughter is over, but they all disappear, today's democratic societies will devolve into some bizarre pre-democratic dystopias.
I have been writing Haskell professionally for about 4 years now, and I absolutely love it. I'm constantly finding myself having to answer questions of "So, what do you mean?" or "what is this" so early on in development. Never before have I had a language that is so directly tied to my understanding of problems.

On the practical side, I love having types that let me refactor so mercilessly, along with a very mature compiler with a decent suite of warnings.
No it isn't. "Fake news" describes organizations that make up stories with no factual basis. It's been twisted to refer to organizations with bias or which don't cover the "right" stories, which is ridiculous.
Doctors are overworked as is and won't have their jobs replaced, they will only benefit. And doctors don't deserve to lose their jobs anyways. Lawyers on the other hand...
+1 for spaced repetition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
That's a cartoonish misapprehension of Japanese society.
Wow, this is why HN is awesome. Just wanted to say thanks for Art of Memory! It's helped me a lot, especially the discussion forums.
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Closure definitely has a steeper learning curve. I also agree that it's not always realistic to use it.
I liked your comment. Social media capitalizes on perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of being human: the need for validation. In the physical world, we build relationships with each other by validating and appreciating each other. I liked your comment. What do you think of mine?

Legacy media is a one-way street: they talk to you. In social media, it's a conversation. Even by clicking 'like' or 'dislike' you feel like you are part of the conversation, even if it is in some small, non-zero way. You get to be heard. This is what makes it so addictive.
Just wait, next they'll discover the trolley problem and claim that self-driving vehicles will have to be philosophers.
I’ve bought and sold refrigerators and freezers from the 1950’s that still work perfectly fine. I’ve come across washers and dryers from the 1960’s and 1970’s that were still working like the day they were made.

Isn't there an element of survivorship bias to these statements? What about all the 1950's fridges that didn't last until today?
Haha, from the follow-up tweets[1]:

> one or two back-handed compliments in there. but alas.

> (one imagines taking the high road would have been a better decision here. but hey, im not an exec)

[1]: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/843587293428375553
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Check out Dasher, it's like a text inference engine where you zoom through a 2D space to select the letters, words, phrases you want. It's agnostic to input type, you can use it with a regular mouse, or eye-tracking, or a touchpad, etc.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
Perhaps due to the article starting with discussing how AI might be overhyped, but I'm very much not blown away by this post.

Reinforcement learning for self improving robots is one of their called out areas? I've never found companies focused on tech or research problems first to be all that successful. In terms of a research projects it's not very interesting or socially beneficial compared to self driving cars or robotics applications in medicine.

It all leaves me wondering what YC's strategy is here. Maybe it's easier to establish a fund in AI, get smart people to apply, or that their expected future returns are higher?
Which startups are working on this problem?

Just in Amsterdam, I know of two [1], so undoubtly there are more out there?

[1] https://www.bundles.nl/ and https://www.peerby.com/
It's official. HN has disturbed democratization.
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The biggest real-world example is arguably Angular's codebase, referenced in answers to your comment.

What these comments don't mention though:

- Angular's build system is an unholy mess, good luck understanding how it works

- They had to build their own tools such as hacks into TypeScript compiler to make sure Google Closure Compiler understands their code

Other "answers" reference things like "a custom snapshot build of Angular".
Pretty damn good. You can still buy refrigerators built like a tank, intended for commercial environments, if you're willing to spend 4 figures.

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=329&year1=1952...

That household refrigerator that was $329 in 1952? $3024 in 2017 dollars.
If a manufacturer is confident that their product will last, they can convey this to the buyer by providing a really good warranty.
I own two fridges, an oven and a dual dishwasher from them. The fridges are beautiful to look at but the pump is rather noisy. The oven is the best oven I've ever had in my life. The dishwasher broke down more times than I care to say and caused water damage in my house.

I've had the lot for 4 years now.
I've often thought about leaving IT over the past 5 years but find the industry something of a vicious circle in earnings. Annual above inflationary increases in earning seems to cause something akin to "Short-term pain, long-term gain".

I can't personally reconcile how I'd go from $500k+ to an entry-level role in another field on <$50k and every time something frustrates me about the industry, the cold reality is it still feels smarter to milk these "golden years" and to sock away a lot towards quality of life in retirement.

No longer needing to work from 40-45 and having a house paid off with 20+ years to learn a new trade, do whatever is interesting, or travel, that remains compelling to me.

How have those who've left the industry managed with the substantial drop in compensation? Do you have families, retirement plans, all that stuff, and just decided you'd rather be A++ happy with less wealth, instead of B- happy whilst earning a lot?
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I'm a New Zealander who has owned Fisher and Paykel appliances, and was interested to see if they were still independent, as they weren't mentioned in this article.

Since 2012, they've been 90% owned by Haier, one of the "big four" he lists.
> that the Fed should wait on raising interest rates

I don't agree either. If the economy tanks again, there is almost nothing that can be done, being that one of the usual steps is to lower interest rates to spur growth.
Lyft's valuation is still 1/10th of Uber's. I don't think we need to worry too much about Uber going under anytime in the near future. Uber still has another 10B in the bank. As a consumer, I am supporting Lyft so that they might live another day to keep the competition going
Not necessarily. It broke within six months. It's believable that he didn't know anything about the parentage of Otto, and when the lawsuit hit, he realized just how screwed up of a situation he found himself in and bailed.

We can't say it is related, but we can't say it's not related either.
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Who is sponsoring all these anti-Facebook, anti-amazon, anti-ubber threads? I think I know.
There's been some work on using AWS spot instances for the course, which can save quite a bit:

https://medium.com/slavv/learning-machine-learning-on-the-ch...

http://wiki.fast.ai/index.php/AWS_Spot_instances
I'd say the learning curve is insurmountable.

- The official docs are basically non-existent.

- If you're lucky enough to realize that GitHub wiki has better docs, good luck figuring them out.

- Even though the support for node_modules is kinda finally there, it's still impossible to figure out how to reliably set the compiler in a way that recognizes them.

My old-ish rant about this: https://gist.github.com/dmitriid/7bd6f2c10d263bae40e0addc7ed...
I agree and think that this article needs an inflation-adjusted comparison of the cost of different models so we can see how much of the decline might be caused by a race to the bottom in terms of price.
you're implying the NYT has ever been the king of online media
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- Sphinx docs: https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/research#research-tools src: https://github.com/wrdrd/docs/blob/master/docs/consulting/re...

- Sphinx wiki (./Makefile):

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I think survivorship bias could very well be a part of it, but very rarely is there a "root cause" to something like this.

I tend to be a more optimistic person (feel free to call it naive!). While i'm sure there are brands/companies out there plotting to make a dishwasher that breaks 6 months outside the warranty, I have a feeling its much more likely that it's due to other reasons.

As someone else in this thread brought up, quality costs money. People are getting used to paying less up-front for their appliances, and in order to stay competitive these companies need to also drop their prices, which means cutting corners in some areas. If they make it look nicer "at purchase time" (like with fancy exteriors, easier install due to lighter weight, more features, etc...) and skimp on the reliability, they will sell more now and stay competitive (with a possibly intended, but also possibly unintended side effect of causing more to be sold in the long run due to failures).

Elsewhere in this thread, people are comparing prices of 1950's appliances to todays, and I'm noticing that in the 1950's they cost around 4x more than they do today about across the board! That right there could account for a fairly significant amount of the difference in quality.
It is disingenuous to compare the conditions of poverty in one place and time to another as if poverty is measured absolutely.

Adam Smith, coined the father of economics, had this to say about this sentiment in The Wealth of Nations:

> By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them. In Scotland, custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men; but not to the same order of women, who may, without any discredit, walk about barefooted. In France they are necessaries neither to men nor to women, the lowest rank of both sexes appearing there publicly, without any discredit, sometimes in wooden shoes, and sometimes barefooted. Under necessaries, therefore, I comprehend not only those things which nature, but those things which the established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people. All other things I call luxuries, without meaning by this appellation to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. Nature does not render them necessary for the support of life, and custom nowhere renders it indecent to live without them.