skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if wages collapse enough to justify ramping up industry while also still having the competitive advantage of being where the money buying products is. If wages have fallen that much, it may not be the case that just the American elite can prop up many industries to justify reinvestment.

Also, practically, this is all long term thinking. Right now the US is still #2 globally in manufacturing, and we only got dwarfed by the immense growth of China. We are still significantly ahead of #3 Japan, who is ahead of #4 Germany, etc. All the way down to a few percentage points of global supply chain, which all these doomsday scenario third world nations are apparently competing in.

There absolutely has been a shift as the US outsourced demand for goods to China, but it hasn't precipitated elsewhere at nearly the same pace, because very few countries have what has effectively been China's governance for the past 30 years - since Mao, it has been mostly a corptocracy, ruled by an insiders club of the wealthy and elite. That alone isn't special without the general attitude the Chinese have that their culture promotes, that has enabled them to rapidly educate and modernize and create great industrial capacity effectively overnight.

It was a special case. And the US still has more absolute manufacturing right now than it did 30 years ago back in its "glory days". The difference is that market saturating volume can be produced from the labors of dozens rather than thousands of people. Many industries are relocating back to the US now, not because of slipping wages but because the technology to automate got cheap enough to justify the opportunity cost.

A lot of hyperbole surrounds accusations of a doomed US in the face of third world production capacity. Per-capita Chinese production capacity is still behind a lot of the nations this article grouped with the US, when really they are all still producing a lot of goods - they just aren't being made by many humans, much the same way food production in the US pushes historic highs despite employing fewer people as a percentage of population than any point in the countries history.
I assume you mean "weight gain linked to diet soda" and I think the main thing is that it's still inconclusive. As much faith as we may have in science, I think in terms of dietary studies, most of them have not been able to control a bunch of outside variables. And the food industry also has a shitton of marketing noise to confuse the general populace.
Story time: I was playing with the kaggle lending club dataset and getting really high accuracy (high 90s) predicting default with an out of the box sklearn model. Just for fun I ran it through LIME and discovered that every single default was strongly predicted by the "recoveries" feature. I looked into the data dictionary (yeah, I should have done so first...) and discovered that this feature indicates the amount of debt recovered by collections agencies...
Why changes in phoenix 1.3 are so important?
> which could potentially shut them down in the long run

Yes, if we ever possessed the technology to pirate movies, everyone would watch them and the industry couldn't survive.
Nice to see Graphcool in HN and doing such great things in the GraphQL space. For those interested in hearing more about their back story, I did a podcast episode with their CEO on JAMstack Radio. http://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-1...
So you're trying to tell us that your feeling of uncomfortness is the only thing stopping you from growing a spine and standing up for such an inhumane treatment, that apart from you nobody else can witness?

Have some decency and confront your so-called friend. How can people be rich and not have the decency to give the person feeding you and your family a freaking room.

And I really had to constrain myself from using expletives in this reply.
One interesting aspect with the consolidation of hospitals is that they are generally buying smaller hospitals, it isn't some massive merger which gives them immunity from anti-trust cases.
Hangout's encoding also it's a real performance hog because most devices don't support H.264 in hardware. Every time I'm in a hangout the fans come on and the battery rapidly drops towards zero.
The NI is loaded into a biomechanical interface that provides sensory inputs, locomotive actuators, and environmental manipulators. Typically, only one researcher builds the entire device, and collaboration is not useful for that part of the project. (Unfortunately, as the network heavily exploits subtle implementation details in the mechanicals, it is very difficult to perform upgrades after the first stages of training are completed.)

From there, the researcher has to continually upload conceptual primitives through the sensory apparatus, and the NI prunes and rebalances its own neural network to establish basic foundation concepts such as object permanence, the acceleration of gravity, thermodynamics, ballistic path prediction, etc. Eventually, when the network is sufficiently trained, researchers may begin to input additional data through a natural language interface. Due to variations in the biomechanical devices, it is currently impossible to use standard bootstrap code to accelerate that process.

In order for the NI to be useful as a music recommendations engine, it is essential to expose it to music that you already like through its audio sensors, during the initial training phases. After approximately 8 years, the NI will begin to autonomously seek out music samples in the wild and recommend that you purchase copies of promising collections. The system is not perfect. It will occasionally issue recommendations for music that was already present in the training corpus, or for maliciously-formed music files designed to hack uninoculated NIs into recommending them. And it should be noted that these NIs have been known to abruptly diverge from preferences implied by the training corpus, producing wildly inaccurate recommendations thereafter.

It's probably just cheaper and more reliable to use an AI, but as long as this thing still works okay, I'm going to keep refueling it.
Yes, but I think the idea was that The Machine was a constellation of technology projects for memory-focused computers. Although the memristor portion did not live up to their claimed expectations (unfortunate but unsurprising), the overall project of a memory-focused computer continues under the brand of The Machine.

(My outside-in interpretation. Maybe someone from HP can add more concrete detail and insight.)
Hey folks — this post got a great reception on the reactjs subreddit yesterday. Someone suggested I post this as a Show HN, and I think it's a great idea. I'd be happy to answer any questions or talk through our approach if folks are interested.
Actually even 1 bit might be enough.
All this raw compute/parallelism is great but it does not really help the algorithm output in terms of efficiency. The CPU/GPU difference is much smaller than nvidia would like you to believe especially for more complex networks which are becoming more and more common now. Of course if you want to just do convolutions (which the TPU paper claims is only 5% of their google workload), building a hardware around it may work well for specific algorithms.
The point of the SQL layer now merged into Spanner is so that people don't have to run F1 or something like it on top. I'd expect continual improvements there, especially if enough folks say "I'll move if X"
We have one picture of the pods. You prefer to believe they are in windowless prison halls, I prefer to believe that most will have adequate natural light from windows. We'll soon find out who is right about that.

If Apple was Facebook or most modern web companies, the extra expensive of pods would have been spared to cram employees to stare at each other across tables in massive noisy rooms, usually with adequate natural light.

In this case Apple clearly is putting employees and their productivity first. At least they didn't choose Bella Hadid to design it, or god knows how much more impractical the inside would have been.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/27/zaha-ha...
The recruiter encouraged me to read it to (which I've been mentioning in these posts), but when it came to the interview they seemed to be checking that yes, I really had read it, and yes, I still liked the idea. Rather than seeing if I could memorize it all. That was just my experience.

Companies have culture, but it's learned through word of mouth or trial and error. Writing it down and sharing it in public before you join the company is really beneficial.
This is pretty much dead on why I avoid reddit
Stunts.fm: Building a serverless chatbot
If that's the case, I feel like saying it induce's hunger / impede's satiation would be a more accurate title.
I think even 128GB RDIMMs using TSV and 8Gbit DDR4 is expensive at this point. Interestingly, I have not even seen any 16Gbit DDR4 announcements.
I grew up in Subic Bay Naval base. Every military family had a local filipino house keeper, and I remember one of ours vividly.

I had to text my mom and find out if we paid her--I couldn't imagine my family owning a slave.
Applying population results to an individual is the parallel fallacy to applying individual results to a population.

While the net effect on you may not be significant, you have to decide if you want to consume something that does not demonstrate heal benefits.
There are many shady tech company practices:

* Open sexual harassment culture

* Building spy software for the government

* Selling censorship tools to governments

* Selling your private data to advertisers

* Allowing advertisers to target a person's emotional state

* Profiting off of fake news and click bait

* Tracking people across the web

* Using monopolies to limit competition in other realms

* Strong arming third parties to keep them from using your competitors' products

Somehow, limiting streaming to 720p on non-supported platforms seems pretty benign.

Edit: Tried to separate list from closing comment.
“Turning NATO’s Words into Action After the Brussels Meeting”
Yes, I replied before you edited your post, I get your meaning now. Thanks for clarifying.
Most serious issue facing the US - period.

Why? Because without economic growth, serious economic growth, the near insurmountable entitlement debts facing Municipalities, States and the Federal Government will result in massive tax increases, huge cuts in services, social unrest, and perhaps the largest sale of public assets to foreign investors - ever.

While Democrats and Republicans in Congress allocate 99% of their time to undermining each other, the new President, and infighting in their party, the US hanging by an economic thread. They do this because its the divisions that stimulate campaign donations, not common ground.

Our political-economic system is broken because the short and medium term incentives are aligned to rhetoric and action that tears people apart - on both sides of the isle.
Your special login shell would not allow you to do anything except provide your secret, after which you are simply disconnected without having the opportunity to do anything else. A different process not under your control would mount the volume. At no point would you get to execute arbitrary commands or open any files. You would only have to be trusted not to hold your secret for ransom.
I stopped after reading the first few sentences. Why is this guy mentioning that he brought her ashes in a PLASTIC box in HIS car? Oh my god...
It's not more convenient for Linux/FF/Chrome users to pirate. It can be a "better" option for those users to pirate if they absolutely need higher quality, but that's in no way more convenient than using Netflix.

Personally, I would rank convenience in this descending order: 720p Netflix on Chrome (my browser of choice); 1080p Netflix on a supported browser; piracy.

Maybe for the HN power user demographic the current DRM methodology is pushing users away, but for average joe (many of whom don't even know this is a thing) will happily plug along using Netflix.
Email wasn't a proprietary protocol though. Xmpp wasn't a proprietary either and that 'present' wasn't that long ago.
Economic inequality, duh
Thinking about this a bit more, I think it would have to be a show where the hosts were in on it. The scam artists would learn of this show if it became popular, and avoid renting to folks seemingly associated with it.

A format like "Diner's, Drive'ins and Dives" would make sense with personal tours, instead of these 'virtual tours' found on VRBO (now owned by Expedia) and AirBnB.

Anything too dramatic won't scale, or it will be fake (like most 'reality' tv).

Edit: I guess one could do it surreptitiously, and save up the content, only to slowly release it ("maximizing revenue"). This might come across as "hit-piece journalism" funded by the AirBnB and VRBO. Change the cast of the show so they are not known associates of the show before the content is made public.
This is pretty much correct. It has to do with linotype keyboard[0].

http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/name.html
So, since it's spring - what's the good apples that are ripe first? Because basically I only buy Galas rather than figure out the complicated list of apples that are good for each season.
Manufacturing employs people, not brand value. How many ad agencies do you think Nike needs? You are tragically ill informed.
Read page 6:

"To extrapolate the study on humans, ghrelin levels were
measured in male subjects after drinking any of the
aforementioned beverages, in addition to CW (no caloric
content, no sugar)."
Comment above suggested it triggered by pressure on the stomach, caused by the CO2 gas as it transitions out of bicarb, which seems reasonable.
As did I. In fact, because of how to felt about Red Delicious apples, I thought that I just didn't like apples until I was in my 30s and tried Granny Smith apples.

With the realization that I just hated Red Delicious apples, I tried a few other varieties. I really like Fuji apples too.

When a new variety is on sale, sometimes, I like to buy a bag and try them out.
Would be nice, but at the same time it's a lot simpler to just do it once.
I meant 'higher' as in 'larger', sorry.
> because what on earth do you say?

For starters: Why is a woman sleeping on a mat in your kitchen?

you need new friends
Occam's Razor says: p is low but magnitude of effect very small.
Well, I love Slack https://www.slack.com too and I use it every day. I also referred it to hundreds of my friends and colleagues all these years and they've thanked me about that many times.

I try stuff that give me value and I am not ashamed to share my experiences. If that sounds like a Slack advertisement or whatever I can only say that I've used WebEx, Cisco Spark, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Hipchat, Zoom.us, Gotomeeting and other collaboration tools as an early adopter (sometimes in the first alpha and beta versions) searching for something that could stick with my needs.
I love this stuff (collab s/w) and I used screenhero at least a year+ before slack bought them. I was not impressed back then, but I am ready to see how they evolved.

Slack is great but sometimes all these large companies are doing stuff the way Microsoft did with Skype .. took them ages to evolve the product after they bought it.

I like having options nevertheless :)
Modern day Robin Hood?
> It's nuclear weapons that nobody wants in space

I should have been more specific - isn't the fear that nuclear power generation in space could be utilized as part of a weapons program.
I ultimately cut out caffeine completely and have been trying alternative methods of improving my concentration (meditation, etc).

I noticed that while using caffeine, my energy levels would go down pretty hard after the effects wore off, and my tolerance caused it's effect to diminish.

Since quitting cold-turkey, I've noticed more stable energy levels throughout the day (not a surprising conclusion).
Tizen CWE bugs
So, What did your mom say?
It makes perfect sense if you consider that the reason stuff like Graphcool and GraphQL exist is because the need of decoupling the front end stack. And the need to decouple it is because it's becoming increasingly complex.

> Why do i need to lend a machine that only builts another machine on his own premises?

You could just spend money/time to build the machine yourself. Right?
> Victory begets cultural decay by sparing the navy the rigors of future combat, the truest test of martial adequacy.

Reminds me of a fiction quote:

> The general was only warming up. [...] "You infants who've come up in the past decade and more have no concept of combat. These long periods of unbroken peace weaken the Service. If they go on much longer, when a crisis comes there'll be no one left who's had any real practice in a crunch."

> Miles's eyes crossed slightly, from internal pressure. Then should His Imperial Majesty provide a war every five years, as a convenience for the advancement of his officers' careers? His mind boggled slightly over the concept of "real practice." Had Miles maybe acquired his first clue why this superb-looking officer had washed up on Kyril Island?

(The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold)
Really! I have had no success escalating lately (with offshore call centers). The standard tactic is a 2-5 minute hold then an apology that they couldn't secure anyone.

A good tactic is to be able to voice your displeasure and frustration without making it personal. It's normal for a person in an agitating situation to be agitated. Just don't take it out on the helpless.
Using the linux subsystem on windows for building libreoffice for windows
I think part of it depends on what you call "personally saw". I've been here 4 years, and I can name a lot of people that were let go. But it's a biggish company and there are just lots of people you know "of" without really working with that closely. In Silicon Valley 4 years is about how long it usually takes for complete turnover at a company, when you look around and there's nobody left that was there when you started. It's nothing like that for me, though, I'd say about half the people I interact with typically have been around about as long or longer than I have.
I have to imagine he wouldn't be going back unless he felt he could do something to improve the company's fortunes. It'll be interesting to see if he does have something up his sleeve.
I don't get it... first it was fats, burgers and pizzas. Then a study came out claiming it's sugar. Now carbonated beverages! What do they want me to do? Eat grass and drink water?
Right, so we'll make it stupid simple for people to do. A giant, unencrypted library of movies, that can be saved and redistributed. Pirating exists, but if I asked most people how to do it, they still wouldn't know how to download a torrent client, find the torrent, unpack the movie, get a movie player, etc.. You know how locks on your front door keeps the honest thieves out? Same idea. I've never understood the complaints over DRM. At what point in your lives does it provide some type of hindrance? I load up Netflix, I start playing a movie until it's done. I don't give a shit if it was encrypted before I viewed it. All I care about is that I can watch it. What's the issue here?
Nope: some companies, such as Chase, have programs to retain employees and find them other roles within the company when there are layoffs. Chase specifically gives their employees 6 months notice before eliminating the position to give people time to move around.

Netflix's culture involved letting people go when they were away on short-term disability: that's not business as usual, that's a particularly harsh and unforgiving culture.
Ev Williams started Medium, so this is completely unrelated.
According to the article, it's only available for the Mac and Windows desktop apps.
> I wouldn't expect all codecs to come with their own container format!

Huh? That seems totally wrong to me.

I wouldn't expect a codec to develop their own, unique, incompatible container format, and I would hope very much that they would not (!!), but it's a real mistake to develop a codec and not specify at least some sort of preferred container format.

Otherwise, people are going to do what is often done with FLAC: not put it into a container format and just treat the raw output from the codec as a distribution format. And then complain that the whole thing sucks because there's no support for multiple streams, metadata, lyrics, subtitles, album covers, cuesheets, whatever.

The way to avoid that is not to set users up for failure by releasing the bare codec without some sort of preferred container format that's used by default. If the FLAC encoder had always used OGG containers (or Matroska or Quicktime or AVI or whatever) by default there'd be a whole lot fewer bare FLAC files floating around, convincing everyone that "FLAC sucks because there's no metadata".

That said, there are some issues with container formats as they are frequently implemented, which tends to drive users towards not using them and just exchanging bare codec output: if you separate the user from the codec with an intermediate container layer, you can create a ton of frustration when users get files that they think they can use, based on the file extension, but then get an error because they don't have the codec du jour... but there was no obvious way to tell that when they were looking at the file. The codec used is far more important to the average user than the type of container format, most of the time. (And yeah the ideal solution would be for filesystems to stop sucking so badly at metadata; MacOS and HFS was better at this stuff in 1996 than most modern computers are today -- at least it had the idea of both a file "type" and its "creator" as distinct things from the extension.) But in our world, the result is some containers being perceived as "unreliable" or "fussy" because they're used for a diversity of codecs that not all implementations have.

I don't have a great solution to that second problem, but at the very least I think that the file extension should follow the codec combination used inside the file, and not the container format. E.g. an AVI container with AVC compressed video inside shouldn't have the same file extension as an AVI container with Sorenson Video inside it; those two things are not interchangeable as far as a user is concerned. Since file extensions are the only metadata users get, they need to somehow represent the combination of both codec+container.
I was put off apples throughout childhood because of the taste of the Red Delcious, my mother only bought those, and I only returned to apples after working at a software company that supplied free apples (of various different types). Until then I had not known how tasty apples could be, now I eat a couple everyday.
Data Anatomy by Ryoji Ikeda
There goes Lync and Skype Pro down the drain...
I think he meant hollywood could withhold license to big name movies.
It's not a high-traffic area at all (I'm at the other end of his row, and I've got a high-traffic seat w/ high walls to block visual "noise").
While I would prefer an office (solo or shared with a few), we're given enough options that in general, it's not bad at all.
> streaming services' main goal should be to be more convenient than digital piracy

That's a sensible goal. But Netflix is more convenient and has DRM.

They aren't mutually exclusive. They probably are for purchases of media (in fact... I'd say certainly are) but for streaming it's not.

The big thing with streaming is speed of access to the content and Netflix/et al are much better than piracy at that (it's instant vs waiting, even a short while, for a BT download... once you find it).

Streaming services main downside vs piracy is the catalog - piracy wins there, but by less in practical terms than you might expect.
Well, the hope would be that it would allow read-write-read sql transactions, which to my understanding will never be implemented in Spanner.
Its not. Gucci? BMW? Sony? Smirnoff? But brands don't deliver employment... manufacturing does.