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Robots can't taste. Something that no one really wants to take on for a number of reasons the first being that we haven't a clue how it works.
Variables in a Caesar Salad occupy wide spreads. Blending taste is still an art that most Chefs have trouble achieving as will the machine intelligence that conquers taste.
Wondering how machine intelligence will handle hunger pangs caused by the sudden thought of a Caesar Salad, ensconced with Pain au Levain Croutons, shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano and salted Anchovies on the side. Even the selection of the right sea salt affects the outcome of this wonderful concoction not to mention what mustard and Worcestershire Sauce is best used.
The other problem stems from the camaraderie that such a meal requires (haven't even got to the wine pairing yet) to be wholly satisfying. Some people have problems with the origin of the language that really counts as in "companion" - stems from "one whom with you break bread with"...,
Not to mention all the not-USA developed countries...
That was my first reaction as well. Monitor and keep him near the experts.
The simple argument is that you can buy back shareholders and not increase wages or pay people more in the pursuit of greater innovation and/or productivity.
My hypothesis was always that all the simple, nice tie patterns are "taken" as symbols for various old boys' clubs (Universities et al), leaving only ugly designs "meaningless" enough for general use.

The same thing is true, IIRC, of Scottish tartans. All the nice plaid represents some clan or another.
Not affiliated with Keybase, but I’d love to get your perspective on those things. I don’t see a way to contact you in your HN bio. Send me a note? https://alanhogan.com/contact?reason=corporate%20IT%20dept%2...

(Anyone else with relevant thoughts on what IT needs around encryption, recovery, key backup, etc, please feel free to write me, too)
God the internet provider racket could be my least favorite thing about NYC. The infra is terrible, ping is pretty terrible, price rates are terrible, providers are terrible and you probably only have one for your building. Its a real shit storm. There are too many people for the current infra there and I'm sure no one want to foot the bill to improve it.

I had Spectrum when I moved from NYC. I probably got 50/50 out of the 100/100 and during times of high traffic (dinner until 11) it was probably more like 20/20. I called, they said eh, you can pay 250 to get a better connection put in.
The Clean Power Plan was only published at the end of Obama's 8th year and never took effect.

Most people use the term "roll back" to refer to a reversal of something that was actually put into effect.
Yeh it's a coprocesser arrangement for sure these days. Probably the only way to do it remotely safely, sure doesn't provide a ton of flexibility though and definitely adds to the total BOM cost for the devices.
So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that for the last several years, spot instances have provided a mechanism that give you 2 minutes notice prior to shutdown:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-inte...

Learn something new everyday. :)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-spot-instance-termi...
Nope. Stock buy backs are a tax efficient way of giving dividends. The stock rises in price instead of issuing the dividend. So for me the owner of the stock I don’t have a tax event for holding. The whole reason to own stocks, is to realize profit from ownership.
A non-profit is still legally structured as a business entity (be it a corporation, LLC, whatever).

Non-profit status is given by the IRS, allowing the entity to avoid taxes. It doesn't change the underlying entity's structure.

NB: I'm not a lawyer.
Gillette doesn't own Walgreens. That's the big difference here.
Ask HN: Web tech stack?
I am changing my career to web technology. I have no experience in programming. What web technology stack should I learn?
I'm probably being overly cynical, but this is (indistinguishable from) a "growth-hack" submarine article by the author to promote their tool. There is hardly any substantiation to support the assertions. Tucked right at the end:

> If you want a beautiful monitoring solution for your machine learning project that includes advanced model comparison features, check out Losswise. I developed it to allow machine learning developers such as myself to decouple tracking their model’s performance from whatever machine learning library they use
> A decade of experience kicked in and delivered a great idea.

This reminds me of that quote from Monty Hall about it taking twenty years to become an overnight success. Great read.
I have pondered this and have decided what my standards are. I realize I don't have the authority to set those standards for everyone.

GAI is, to me, when machine is able to be given a problem and then, without prompting, decides which data to consume to learn how to solve that problem. It could be told to optimize an automotive design for a 5% efficiency increase without a loss of safety features and while keeping the performance the same - and then go out and figure out what data it needs to learn so that it can solve that task. It would assemble and process that data and then come up with the answer, which might just be that it is impossible with current tech and here is what is needed and this is how to do it.

That's rather verbose and I'm absolutely not the person who gets to define it. But, when someone says AI, that is how I think of it. More so when they say general AI.
You are both right. But both wrong. If you want better consistency, use either object storage or a database. If you are mutating multiple entities and need consistency, now you need a distributed transaction.

But ALL cloud providers provide warning before an instance is shutdown. There is absolutely no reason, other than a crash for an instance to have a hard shutdown.
>”hey, we frequently have very large directories/files that we don't actually want to search, so let's not by default”

>Was this a thing back when the BSD and GNU greps were being developed? Was it common for people to have huge directory trees (e.g., `node_modules` or `.git`) lying around that were causing significant search slow downs? Not sure,

Sure, actually. It was called “build” and it was moved out of source code hierarchy to not interfere with tools. Pretty clever, and you don’t have to patch every tool each time new build-path appears. This should lead us to some conclusion, but I cannot figure out which. Do you?
My theory is that ugly ties are there to sell the nice (simple) ties.

I've had similar experiences with dress shirts as well. Plain nice shirts end up costing more than elaborate designs because that's the one people actually want
Maybe something like "BusyBox": a single multi-use executable, would help with adoption. If you like one executable you get the whole useful package.
I have learned that when I load a site on my mobile and it pauses like this, it is going to be as fat as fuck and eat my data cap. I cancel that shit immediately.
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Grinding wheat left byproducts of the stone burrs in the wheat product. This ground the enamel off peoples teeth leaving them nearly toothless by their mid-thirties. It wasn't till recently that "milling" became the norm in flour production. The wheat berry is not crushed in the milling process but is first burst and torn successively into every finer pieces. Some people have never tasted freshly milled flour made into bread. Total pity that...,
What's different is that the button was being pushed by a human.

That human gets paid a salary and earns a living.

And that human could presumably choose not to push the button if the expresso machine tries to become sentient (in theory).
I think you're romanticizing the concept of food preparation a bit much. You don't need to be able to taste, or feel hunger, to cook a good meal or choose a wine. I fully expect that a machine could not only do so, but ultimately do so more consistently than any but the most skilled of humans.
Any way to change the title a bit? Calling something, "girly" communicates the idea that anything effeminate is somehow weaker than its more masculine counterpart, and therefore less desirable. Which is sexist.

Is HN better than that?

Edit: given how many downvotes I've received, I guess the answer is no: Hacker News is not better than this.
Either of our preferences aside, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is clear:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
If there is one thing that a robot can do more consistently and better than a human is tossing salad using pre-sorted ingredients.

However, figuring out what makes a delicious recipe is something machines can't do. yet.
False.

The inflow counts included only adult Mexican nationals known to enter (e.g. legally or known illegal entrants). The outflow counts included everyone: adults, children, and non-Mexican nationals crossing the border southbound (even if they were from Central or South America), plus some US-born children who are likely to return).
What? How could any protocol requiring a trusted setup be considered close to Satoshi's vision?
Rust is somewhat of a special case: I bet some people mention their software is written in Rust just to avoid a bunch of comments proposing to rewrite it in Rust,
How much are you personally willing to pay in tax for your refrigerator/freezer, your dishwashing machine, and your laundry machines?
Screenshots was added to documentation, sorry for delay.
The Simpson’s mayor at the Bahamas?

btt, there’s a nice product for that, a screen that goes in your chair adding a white background.
The key word was "over-engineered" not "unnecessary". There are alternatives besides having someone place cones on foot.
The journals published by the Royal Society, where modern enlightenment science was born, was informally peer reviewed by the mid 1700's, and peer review was systematized in the 1800's. The explosive growth of the industrial revolution, the reordering of society in the enlightenment, and everything we call modern and progressive is associated with a sequence of events that is also tightly correlated with the birth of peer review. Most philosophers of science don't consider this a coincidence. Science gave birth to exponential progress, and science itself is dependent on peer review.

Maybe the integration of peer review into practical industries, medical studies, and government regulation came later. But those were cases of taking something that worked astonishingly well and apply it to other domains. It's hardly fair to say that peer review "started" in the 1960's or 70's.
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> Germany is a great country for stuff like this. They have a relatively high share of Linux users, OpenStreetMap usage, etc. I feel like they're very critical towards their own country and don't take things for granted (not the "we're so proud of our country" idea).

This is especially also the case, because of the post-WWII history of East Germany. The Stasi managed to subdue the entire population, mainly with surveillance methods.

And this was before the internet. When they still had to actually go out and infiltrate people's homes in order to place down bugs (microphones).

The worst part about this for me, is that this is not just an unfortunate fate that Germans in particular have to be worrisome about. The only reason other nations are less worried, is because they're collectively less aware of this having happened, of it being entirely possible for this to happen, again.
To add to this, I have a strong prescription requiring kinda special lenses to not be crazy thick, and even with that I got a really expensive frame with the special treatment for ~$150.

In France, the "not 2-inch thick" lenses alone end up costing that, with me ending up paying over $300 + the habitual 2 month waiting period just to go to the optometrist...

So even if you have some special needs, they'll often be able to accommodate (though sometimes you need to wait a day so it won't be same day)
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I thought as much. I'm mostly curious about any possible "inter-op" issues with GnuPG and U2F functionality (for example, I have heard reports that gpg-agent would "reset" after a U2F auth and so would require a PIN on next use regardless of any timeouts; that's not a problem for me, just something I'd like to be aware of beforehand). Thanks!
Lol, houses for 3x your income? I take it you don't live in the Bay Area ;-)
CryptoNote coins (Monero and Aeon) are leagues closer to Satoshi's vision.
i think the other (turf-like) segmentation strategy is pretty common in earlier work. i wonder about the relative efficacy from a VM implementation standpoint. particularily wrt grant/revoke on a byte range rather than a segment.

the other thing that struck me as really strange was a bit in the question period where he says that 'smart devices' (DMA?) are different from simple devices (pio?) in that they are expected to be first-class multiprocessing citizens. doesn't that imply that high-performance peripherals need to be specially designed for the Mill? (likely with a Mill core attached)
Don't they make most of their money online?

If Google opened up a retail shop I'm sure their profit per square foot will be quite high....
Outlier, had her in my mind her when I was writing my previous response. That’s why Basecamp(37 signals) stopped doing graphic design.
hey david, you can omit the 'static lifetime in the root directory string declarations if you want!

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1623
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MLB has been very well known in streaming circles for a long time.
'Little known tech company' aka a multi billion dollar company. The only reason it isn't well known is because MLB while it owned them did not attempt to differentiate the branding or make it a standalone entity.
The blog indicates this quite clearly and is speaking of only the formal, modern and monetized usage of it. Science itself is basically useless without some type of peer review in whatever form.
It is, it's not nearly as radical or innovative as the HN crowd would like to think, probably because it's mostly software people with a limited knowledge of 1990s era computer architecture research.

As for peripherals, I presume that would have to be handled in the drivers.
Your article is informative and thought-provoking, only the analogy to cancer is a bit hyperbolic and unnecessary.
We gotta stop with this "little-known" story for tech companies that actually look like real companies (have customers, make a profit, etc). Just because a company doesn't land on the frontpage of TechCrunch doesn't mean it's not a legitimate contender for our attention.

I live in SV and it's amazing to me how myopic the world is here, and how it gets projected into the mainstream.
For sure, with the added instruction "Hey dude if your legs blow up like balloons and you come out in a weird rash call this number, k?"
> It's the same size as Firefox (160MB) despite offering significantly less features.

Part of that is because of Electron.

From the day Electron was released, I knew somebody will build a Web Browser upon it. Now that day finally came, again. LOL
Could you cite a source for grinding wheat leaving sufficient stone burr particles resulting in enamel damage? I could not find a source via Google.
The vending machine still has many humans involved: building it involved humans, maintaining it involves humans. The difference is that the button is pushed by the customer. That's the same amount of human labor, actually, it's just that the customer isn't paying someone else for the button press.
I try to be understanding and say that I don't know if all regulation is beneficial. I have no problem with regulations being changed to reflect new information. I don't feel qualified to opine about specific regulations but I am not arbitrarily opposed to examining existing regulations.

Laws should change with the times and I don't know enough about the specifics to unilaterally condemn efforts to examine the status quo.

I try to be charitable, after all.
Take a look at Tufte's book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
I've never seen a cable company offer 100/100, it was 100/10 or 200/20 or 300/20 (mbps) last I checked.

In my experience, the internet available in NYC is way better than most suburban or rural places in the US. 50/50 is actually pretty good, if that's what you were getting - that's like 5 high-definition video streams both up and down.
The term "peer review" has gained usage relatively recently but the term "refereeing" has been in usage much longer. The practice itself, as noted in kobeya's comment, is 100's of years old.
What I'm taking issue with is this:

> But even if peer review is ancient, "peer review" itself is quite new.

Google charts about the history of usage of a particular grouping of terms is not definitive evidence about the history of the underlying activity named by that phrase. Peer review is indeed ancient and fundamental to science and scientific progress. It just may not have been talked about as broadly or referred to under different names before then. It's hard to draw more than linguistic trivia out of that. It's especially bad to make policy suggestions based on that.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a long way along.
Dental health and disease in ancient Egypt

http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v206/n8/full/sj.bdj.2009.3...

I got there by googling [wheat enamel damage -gluten stone], there's lots more than just this one article
Before I submitted it to Lobsters, I checked the "Source Code" part of the link, allowed a few scripts in NoScript, and got this page with .v files that at least looked like the source code:

https://x86proved.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/

I'm a guy that tracks and reports on progress in this specialty but not a trained specialist. I don't know Coq well enough to tell you if this is the source code to the CoqASM paper with the quick skim I did before work. I do know it has a bunch of .v files going into detail about x86 and some other things with some overlap in aspects I thought I read about in the older paper. Hence, the submission claiming it was probably the same thing.

While we're at it, here's some other links on this sort of thing all of you might enjoy:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/

https://project-everest.github.io/assets/vale2017.pdf

https://github.com/project-everest/vale
Was really looking for loading time stats and similar instead of just CPU and GPU benchmarks. The user experience is what matters, brute hardware performance is immaterial. A crappy device with heavily optimized software can work much better than a more powerful device that has a bloated software stack with no optimization.
I think if you're just trying to learn React and want to get started with the fewest steps possible, yes.

However, I think knowing (JS) build configurations is highly desirable and you're way better off understanding how to set up Webpack and understand what its doing.
Even without the money angle, you still need to convince people that your idea is good in order for it to have "real" value (as in: be used).

Ideas are mostly worthless without proponents.
The Threat of Big Tech Is Real
It depends on what you mean by a task. Machines are not universally good at object detection because they fail in cases where there is too little data. We can't magically wish for non existent data (yet humans would do quite well on those data-scare tasks).
Tesla has officially replied to this and denied the WSJ article accusing them of being wrong and purposefully misleading along with images of the production line.
https://electrek.co/2017/10/08/tesla-model-3-elon-musk-image...

Thanks for the downvotes, god I hate HN karma.
Using better CLIs
I'm scared of owning a smartphone, precisely as my self -control is poor. Currently I have a dumb phone and check that a couple of times a day. I'm a member of a Facebook forum - the content of which is interesting. That is the only use I have for Facebook. The notifications are handy as they indicate new and active threads.

I follow only a small number of people on Twitter. I'd love to bulk that number up if I could manage it, but scrolling through my current feed is already quite a time waster.

The web still sucks me in without the reward trinkets mentioned in the article, and it has done for hours a day since I discovered it. I will say I am an addict. It prevents and impedes me from doing things that I really should be doing.

It's very useful but mostly a distraction, but I always assume that's my problem.
It worked on me, I'm looking forward to buying the book. Is this the first time you've come across an excerpt teaser on the internet?
> is aimed at reducing the risk of food-borne illness

Given it's sell is solving a problem that doesn't need solving I'm guessing it was made to be cheaper but it's not hence the pivot.
from the announcement:

"The EBS root device and attached EBS volumes are saved..."

Some instance types don't support an instance root, but require an EBS root.
Slightly OT, what do people use for U2F, Google Mail and Firefox?
The trusted setup is not as bad as those two words make it sound without any context:

1. All people present in the trusted setup would have to be colluding or be compromised to cause an issue.

2. Some of these people have reason to make the currency succeed, because they own large amounts of zcash.

3. Some show the lengths they went to to prevent compromise: https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust...

One of my own opinions on collusion:

If collusion was suggested by one or more of the people present in the setup it would be quite likely that another one would have come out and said something about it. This would have made zcash and the person itself very untrustworthy. This makes it likely that it wasn't worth the risk to the person thinking of collusion in the first place.
The first time I learned of reification was when c# added reified generics as opposed to the type erased generics in java. Made type information easier to see when doing reflection. No need for "super type tokens" etc.
Be prepared to pull and replace the Yubikey when switching between applets. I currently use a key configured with U2F, gpg (and ssh via gpg-agent), and oath totp. Usually it switches between applets seamlessly, requiring pin entry for gpg any time I switch back to gpg.

Occasionally whichever applet I'm attempting to use will appear unavailable, requiring the token be pulled and reseated.
I disagree about categorizing TV as "the safer half" of the comparison, in the same section as books or movies. If anything, TV is an earlier iteration of the same stuff.

Flipping through the circular loop of cable TV channels predates scrolling and refreshing webpages, but people exhibited the same addictive novelty-seeking. It was so common it became a cliche to say things like "N channels and nothing [good] on."

In addition, they share same emphasis on advertisements as a funding stream, whereas movies and books are typically paid for up-front.
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