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I've done precisely what you are talking about many, many times. I lived near Englewood for ~12 years. I qualify by any measure as a mid-upper-class white guy. The worst treatment I got was being jeered at and called "Adam Sandler" by middle schoolers.

Further, many many people who live in those neighborhoods do it daily with hardly any criminal problems. Property crime is a thing, cars/houses do get broken into more frequently in those areas than other areas but the incidence difference is such a small difference that it is virtually indistinguishable from a human perspective than any other part of the city. Look at the numbers and see just how low the rate is even at double the average.

Person crime on the other hand is heavily targeted. Young poor black men who live in those areas are incredibly more likely to be shot than anyone else. The reasons for this are complicated (though easy access to Indiana guns mixed with gang violence describes most of it). But its not just mid-upper-class white guy tourists who don't have to worry about their personal safety that much, its also older black folks.

The gun violence problem in Chicago is very real and in need of solving. But its not because white people are in danger for wondering into the wrong neighborhood. The armed police problem is also very real and in need of solving. The CPD is literally one of the worst examples you could use as an example of appropriate use of violence as part of their jobs.
This certainly works with the IT department and top executives in my company. I have seen Watson mentioned in a ton of presentations and they are all super excited about it. In the last 12 months I have been trying to find out about anything concrete they are doing but so far nothing. It seems all talk.
Can I ask how old you are? Non-judgmental, I totally identify with you.
> Employers aren't stupid. If they could make more money by hiring employees, they would.

That's not so clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13017766
> The world used to have a way of keeping people who would otherwise be economically impotent engaged, and that is cheap service work

Service work is up over the decades. What we used to have was manual labor/manufacturing jobs. https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/images/... http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...
In the last 6 weeks, I have been called by two reporters (Wall Street Journal and Reuters) for background on AI. I talked with the Journal reporter for about an hour, covering 'everything.' However, the Reuters reporter only wanted to talk about IBM Watson - we just had a short talk.

I have seen a lot of negative press on Watson, but really, it can be evaluated like any other API to see if it meets your needs.
Federal Reserve profits are returned to the federal government. While that's still a step or two removed from being returned directly to society, it's far closer than anything in the bitcoin ecosystem.

Inflation is pretty stable and thus predictable. The profits from seigniorage are made by the Fed itself (and thus the government), not the member banks. Member banks can make money from having privileged access to the discount window, but that's still not seigniorage.

Coinbase, Bitpay, et. al. incur all the same kinds of costs as VISA, MasterCard, Paypal, et. al. on top of the Miners' power consumption. Traditional systems might be inefficient because they're running on old hardware or something, but that's a problem that can be fixed. Bitcoin mining is already done on bleeding edge hardware, so its power consumption cannot be significantly reduced. I suspect it isn't enough to be a major concern, but Bitcoin clearly has a higher lower-bound than traditional systems.
AMD has said they'll keep AM4 around for a while.
I had no idea Hass avocados were mainly descendants of one tree!
I'd take that bet, only cause I saw how your giant check bet ended up with `idlewords.

But, I'd bet the cost of his ammo to the cost of a nice dinner that he's more likely to be invited to a bbq than accosted in Englewood.

Further, I'd bet an even money amount that he's in more danger from the armed police in Englewood than he is from the people living there and thats knowing he's white.
Your logo is quite similar to Google's, enough that I was momentarily confused opening the website.
How did this get to the front page?
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Appreciate the kind words, but it's still much more complex then that.

Businesses get anchored to a certain wage cost. In the article, they mention businesses unable to fill roles at $9 or $17 per hour. Well, there may be unemployed people, but they're not willing to do those jobs at those rates. They're not the market clearing price for those roles. If you're offering a wage for months on end, and you can't fill the role, you aren't paying enough. Full stop.

Again, I want to stress that the curious macro nature of what we're seeing is because of a combination of poor statistics and business decisions. I'm sure we're not at full employment yet, and I'm sure business are not willing to pay more for labor until they absolutely have no choice, and I'm sure that time of reckoning is almost here. But not quite yet. Still more slack to pick up, as you mention.
If you're asking about my identity -- no, that's not me.
Why on Earth would you need to eat 3 avocados a day?
I have another gripe with these kinds of immutability / FP praising articles: The assumption that this must be faster, because multicore. As an example, many if not most of scientific applications (for which Haskell wants to position itself) are memory bandwidth bounded, not CPU bounded. These applications also deal with Gigabytes of data for each timestep, applied over dozens if not hundreds of kernels. So we're talking about thousands to tens of thousands of functional updates over data objects, each on the order of Gygabytes. The way this is dealth with efficiently in many cases is by doing pointer swapping - after each timestep, or even for intermediate kernels, the old output becomes the new input and the old input is overwritten by the new output. Swapping allows this to be an O(1) operation. Allocating new memory at each kernel launch for the output would absolutely kill the performance - we're talking one to two orders of magnitude here. Even if an FP compiler comes along that is able to optimize this, if this ever breaks I have zero trust that it will be a simple thing to figure out why the compiler doesn't do what I wanted, and at that point I'd rather just program it procedurally. To my knowledge, game programming is pretty much the same thing, so these usecases are rather wide spread.

I think there must be a (probably not yet invented) language somewhere that would allow me to write computations in immutable FP style, either as pointwise operations (i.e. stencils), or as matrix operations, but allows me to pass in some information that directly instructs the backend what it should do with the memory. I.e. I want to be able to program my own memory pools and link pointers to memory slots needed for the computations. Maybe that part could even be done using visual programming, akin to linking up GUI elements to properties in XCode: Let the compiler figure out where a memory slot is needed, do a dependency analysis for the memory slots and show graphically what slots are linked to what input and output. Then, let me add constraints to that linking and recompute a new solution whenever I move something around. The next step would be to do a performance model for each processor and figure out the best solution using machine learning, but let me actually see what the solution is without me having to go look at assembly (which, frankly, for FP frontends seems near impossible since it has even less to do with the frontend code than if you compile down something like C or Fortran).
You've absolutely nailed it

'This is the wheel of capitalism literally coming to a halt because the oligarchs are staring each other down waiting for someone to go first.'
My recommendation: Find another job.

Dishonesty is ESSENTIAL to IBM Watson marketing.
Specifically, IBM has taken a whole lot of different technologies and rebranded them as "Watson", so as to pretend that the Jeopardy-playing system is actually a big practical deal.

IBM's reputation over the decades earns it the benefit of the doubt on bold technical initiatives ... for a while. But when IBM doesn't deliver, the benefit of the doubt runs out. And that's happened now with Watson.
Some hyperbole was involved in that figure, but I could see myself subsiding entirely on avocado.
I'm not in sales, nor is my performance measured on any sales-related metric.
I do a feel a bit silly about not considering this. (Okay, the feasibility of solar depends on the local climate. But alternative local methods to generate electricity exist.)

It even also provides some form of resilience that I was calling for: assuming there is a backup system, less-electricity dependent functionality could be recreated if it's considered a worthwhile option.
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It sounds like you trolled some kids passionate about a subject to argue for a technology and industry that you don't really understand.

Were you prepared to compare the plight of the solar installers who fall off of roofs and get injured to the construction workers injured on the job during various nuclear plant construction projects?

Did you count the various victims at Chernobyl? (Epidemiologists project at least 4,000 deaths)

Were you ready to justify why states like New York needs to subsidize nuclear plants with $500M in direct savings because they are not economically viable to operate anymore?

In your case, those kids were being nice.
You say suffer, and you say pain tolerance, but really none of what I said is about suffering or pain.

The beer I drink, tonight, isn't going to hurt me. The gin the next day isn't, by itself, the cause of any real harm.

The cumulative twenty some years of drinking too much? That's the kicker. That's the one that's going to get me. Maybe. Maybe it won't. Maybe fuck what the actuarials say. Maybe I'll beat the odds.

Maybe, though, maybe I won't make it, and maybe I'll die young with all my dreams unfulfilled, a sad shrunken wreck of a man that achieved nothing.

Maybe all of those things are totally possible with and without the alcohol and life is all just one big shitshow that I enjoy living exactly how it is.

I'm not a fatalist. I'd just rather be an alcoholic than a power lifter.
Any ideas for a tax system that makes raising wages attractive?
> and let’s be real, things would look much worse if Google, Microsoft and Facebook were added to this table

Umm, so add them? And Nvidia, Intel, Baidu, Uber, Tesla? Anybody else? That single chart would actually be more interesting than the entirety of this article.
Wow, the offering seems fairly comprehensive, they even have 2 data ceters in US. Have anybody used them? how do they compare to AWS or GCP?
Good for you, man. You're clearly doing what you want to do and living your life how you want to live it, and as far as I'm concerned that's worth more than any faux sage advice that is going to be offered over the Internet.
You can insulate properly and still have air flow. It's not that hard.
I don't think anybody questions his character (aside from the BCCI scandal and the Bert Lance appointment), just his competence in that particular role.
It might be more honest if they said "IBM Data AI Division."
Ya, I agree that there is some stubbornness among employers to raise wages and that more jobs than typical are remaining unfilled as they hope to find someone at their $12 price point rather than just ponying up $14 (or whatever). Probably this is due to the unusually large recession we had. The fact is that employers could get away without raising wages for a really long time. No big surprise if it takes them a while to catch on that the end of that line is neigh.

But ya, mostly slack. Another 2 years or so. Maybe a bit more. The 2020 census could put the nail in the coffin. A shit ton of people get hired for those things.
If only he had made Rickover Secretary of Defense...
I'm happy to be harsh because I've had years and years of experience dealing with IBM.

Their tools are trash for the cost they want. The majority of their offerings are overengineered and prone to failure in a production setting.

They are pros at selling to non-technical management, all the while IT employees get stuck dealing with the aftermath.

We ended up getting stuck with the IBM version of work item management, called Jazz Team Concert. From the "source control" to the actual setup and configuration, the product was a nightmare. The worst part was when we looked at license renewal. They wanted three quarters of a million dollars for something that was essentially dog shit wrapped in cat shit.

In case you thought I might be on the fence with IBM, I'll add one final clarifying point:

Fuck IBM.
We've grown almost in line with the increase in applications in number of instructors. We haven't raised real money or anything, so we're limited by the number of instructors and cash we can pay them, but we're growing as quickly as we can without sacrificing quality.

We see hundreds of new applications per day and can only service a small fraction of them. Hopefully we can change that to some degree soon.
Of course people are scared. It's obvious to anyone paying attention that, in general, Westerners are infused with cowardice.
Help. My head hurts.
What part of US sells avocados for $2.50? Sounds steep. ...or are those AUD not USD?
Well damn they must be almost done then. /s
So if I understand correctly, there was dirty/malformed data which was difficult to interpret, and when sent to a ML algorithm not tuned by a domain expert led to bad results.

This applies to all ML work, why is Watson exempt from it?

Conversely if this the canonical failure case, why's everyone so harsh on Watson?
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This is so quintessential New Yorker
I agree with you. There is definitely some other factors that affect the ranking of stories.

Anyone know what these rules could be?
The build system is a bit funky but the opam package manager is actually one of the nicest I have used.
I would guess something like:

class Collection<T implements Entity> {
void insert(T entity) {
String vals = entity.props.map(escapeSql).join(",");
String qs = entity.props.map(x => "?").join(",");
PreparedStatement p = db.prepare("insert into %s (%s) values (%s);", this.tableName, qs, vals);
db.submit(p);
}
}
What displacement of natural selection? Hereditary cancers are the exact type of cancers that haven't been affected by natural selection since they generally are post-reproduction age.

Furthermore, eradicating hereditary cancer (and many other diseases) is technologically possible already (screening of embryos, genetic testing of parents) but it's socially and politically complex; we as a society currently don't want to e.g. enforce restrictions on procreation just to prevent these diseases.
I doubt the grocery stores carry many around here if they do at all. They probably blend in with all the other greens. I'll check for them next time I'm at the store.

Walmart's online stock search returns no avocados for the local store, so I doubt the smaller grocery stores have them: https://www.walmart.com/store/520/search?query=avocado
I feel like IBM markets Watson towards your non-technical business people through actual business applicable problems where as companies like google market their products towards solving hard technological problems.

As a software developer, I follow the technical solutions more closely so I love google, but actual business that results in revenue/profit points to other companies like IBM (based on other comments in this thread) making the actual money off of these technologies.

Whose strategy will pay off more in the long term is anyone's guess though.
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The italicized "even while driving" seemed a bit judgemental. My bad if I misread that.
The main problem I see in these discussions is that you can either conceptualize currency as a Thing (and therefore creating it out of nothing is "weird"), or as an Illusion/Social Contract (and therefore you're now beholden to the will of society).

Though the Thing conceptualization doesn't hold up too much when you realize that the practical value of BTC beyond the social value is zero. they're just numbers!
"The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."

:facepalm:
That was epoch! ;)
This is just the beginning. AI artists and designers are gradually going to be fairly common.
Why are you so fixated on the price?
> “If avocado toast costs around $8 a serving, you’d have to skip approximately 4,900 of those beloved toasts to afford that new home.”

Remember that journalists make an average salary of $37,720(according to a quick Google search). You're not going to get a lot of advice or insight into handling your money from someone who can barely afford his rent. I don't think his goal was to give advice(I'm not really sure what the article's point was, to be honest), but I suggest avoiding taking advice from journalists nonetheless.

To a first approximation, cutting a habit of $8/day for 200 days/year would immediately raise your net worth by ~$20,000 in my eyes. You can't pay your down payment in net worth, but nonetheless you could easily buy a $180,000 property with just that change alone after 4 years.
what use is the gold if the US economy collapses? Whose gold would it be if the gov't falls over?

It kind of works if you have a place to run off too, but nobody in the federal government can just go take the gold and hide for a bit. The incentives are aligned so that the gov't does "the right thing" (stem the fall)
Both prices would be AUD (about 75% of the USD). Median house price in Sydney is 1.1M AUD/851,000 USD.
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It's difficult for me to comment on those cultures too extensively since I don't live there; some articles like this -- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27775327 -- mention "ingrained cultural norms" though.

I get the impression from forums, articles, etc. that while open defecation does happen in China, it is "culturally" only really acceptable in their country for little kids. That's a big difference to the rest of the world, where nappies / diapers are more prevalent (I can't think of another country with open-crotch pants, eg kaidangku, for children like China). But my impression is nowadays that in China parents who use kaidangku are generally thought of as "peasants" / "old fashioned" / etc.

And yes I agree that it's possible that the hangover from the cultural revolution may explain a little bit about the "lack of manners" aspect of the Chinese tourist stereotype.
3 in the US. One in NJ, two in Silicon Valley.
I kinda think thats the point. Not exactly a software problem, but an information theory problem. If you need to tolerate 2 failures, you need 6 machines.
This cannot be stressed enough. Too many people on HN seem baffled by car culture, or think it's some kind of conspiracy, but the answer is right here. Savings on land prices for getting far from the center are massive, the costs of manufactured goods like cars are tiny, and the solution that urbanism offers is is only to raise the price on the latter.
> This applies to all ML work, why is Watson exempt from it?

I'm not following, Watson was most assuredly not exempt from it.

> Conversely if this the canonical failure case, why's everyone so harsh on Watson?

Because they were attempting to use Watson to help make potentially life-and-death decisions?
I am statistically far more likely than others to face alcohol-related-health-problems. Also, through an accident of fate and genetics, diabetes. And a family history of pancreatic cancer means that I'll be sticking a gold star next to that entry on the list. I occasionally smoke, so throw a pinch o' lung cancer into the mix. I eat too much red meat, not enough vegetables, too many saturated fats, and all of the other things that add up to heart disease. I don't exercise enough, but the exercise I do is too high impact. I have been known to partake of illicit drugs on the odd occasion, so who knows what kind of back-yard horribly contaminated meth lab chemicals I'm putting into my body, and what they'll do. I ride a motorbike, so all of my organs, low value as they may be due to the combination of all of the aforementioned, might calamitously end up splattered over asphalt any day now.

Life is a calculated series of trade-offs. I've picked mine, and I'm really enjoying where they're taking me.
I've had two encounters with IBM Watson that left me unimpressed. The first was using the IBM Watson Speech Transcription service (give an audio file and get text); the results were pretty bad vs. Google's, for example. The second was in their recent integration into Star Trek Bridge Command (which is an amazing game BTW!); the speech recognition results were pretty bad.
Yeah, I don't think you're an alcoholic.

It might be because I come from a wet culture. Which is to say one where having a beer over lunch isn't (or wasn't) frowned upon. But 4 beers a day is completely manageable.

Doctors have been trying to tally up how many beers it takes until someone is an "alcoholic", but IMHO they're far off the mark. Because as it is, it's quite easy to tally up enough standard drinks to become a medically defined "alcoholic", or to enter some similar classification ("heavy drinker"?), without ever experiencing any clear behavioral or physiological issues (e.g. not diverting money from needs to drink, not being a nuisance to yourself or others, absence of seizures upon cessation of intake).

Even the idea of a "standard drink" is rather lousy: 4 shots of vodka doesn't equal 4 beers. The amount of alcohol per volume matters, and the higher the relative volume of alcohol, the faster it hits you and the more easily one might develop dependence.

In short, you're more or less fine. Unless you're downing a fifth of vodka every day, in which case you might want to cut down a bit.
It looks like a great offering, but it also means that in all likelihood, you'd be sharing your data with the Chinese government - which may or may not be a problem depending on your business.
If you're interested in trying this out in a more advanced capability beyond the UI, Alibaba maintains official support for Terraform: https://github.com/alibaba/terraform-provider

(Note: I work on Terraform)
An IP-based monopoly can't exist unless the society enforces the concept of that IP, e.g. coerces anyone to not make the treatment without a valid licence.

The monopoly isn't made by the company, it's a conditional and time-limited offer given by the society to promote the creation of such things.
Shit. I revise my bet. Police violence does not count.
Anyone else subscribe to Pinboard primarily to support Maciej's writing/organizing?

It's like the fair trade coffee of online bookmarking services.
Hey man, you're not alone, even internal teams at IBM using Jazz Team Concert have been calling it "dog shit wrapped in cat shit" for years now.

Don't be so harsh on all of IBM, its like hundreds of companies under one banner. Not all of them have the power to influence other products and often times end up stuck with it and cannot move on to other tools (i.e git).

More often than not, customers have higher priority on bugs than other teams dog-fooding the product. Its insane.