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I can't speak for your work, but in my experience most web-based administrative tools are often poorly implemented by the company using them, no matter how good the design. Quite often they're designed for corporate efficiency and not worker usability (ex: This framework has a shitty interface but generates nice looking reports! We're going with that one!), leading to frustration to those on the ground.

A good example is my company's Mantis ticket usage. There's nothing wrong with Mantis, but if I file a ticket odds are it will never get looked at for hours or days, whereas if I walk over to our DevOps team and make the request person-to-person it will often get addressed immediately. It's also worth noting that it's less effort to just have a conversation with someone vs filling out a Mantis ticket which then has to be filed/processed/marked as done, etc. The ticketing system actually adds unnecessary overhead in our context.

If all formal workflows were as reliable as, say, Amazon shopping and customer service, I think we'd see mass adoption after some initial resistance. I have no knowledge of the organization you work for, but I'd look for problems in execution before seriously questioning the design. Most corporate leadership types consider (wrongly IMO) infrastructure to be a cost center, and that attitude tends to trickle down no matter how good the design.
My wife switched to a Mac not that long ago, and her biggest complaint by far is that there's no start menu. There's no single source to visually scan through all programs and options and settings and menus available to her like there is on Windows. She's actually scared of using her computer sometimes in case she closes a window and doesn't know how to get it back.

It doesn't bother me as much since even on Windows I was used to hitting Win and typing my program name, but not everyone works that way.
Sure, but phrasing it as “abstract/can’t abstract” seems reductionist and arbitrary.

By and large, the overwhelming majority of humans will bring you a cup or bottle of water if you ask them for “water”, rather than bringing you water in their cupped hands. Clearly all these humans can abstract.

If this conversation is to be meaningful in any way, it’d be helpful to use well defined, measurable properties (“can count to 10 without using their fingers”) rather than fuzzy things like “they can’t abstract” which is clearly plainly false.

Otherwise, these conversations merely devolve in “10x programmers are real and I only hire 10x programmers!” vs “anyone can be a 10x programmer given the right environment” and it just doesn’t go anywhere.
Sigh. Slackers gonna be slacking.

Why are we regressing back to the horrible world of vendor lock in and single browser sites. Chrome is the new IE6?
This could go really well or really badly. Scientists are good for making good scientific decisions, but they might (probably?) not be the best at managing a country. I think the best thing would be more people with political experience to run with the position of having lots of scientists as advisors.
Not high brow but I loved the Once Upon a Time in China trilogy.
Given how much effort it is to compile and maintain 200 different compilers just for Ubuntu (not to mention some closed-source compilers), this probably is not as simple as you'd think :-)
LoL. Son, you must be new at this.
I think it's a good thing. Just because scientists are running doesn't mean they'll be elected, meaning it will weed out the people who can't manage, especially over time. A larger pool of potential elected officials means that the government is more likely to reflect the people. Plus, having these smart-yet-non-politicians available for election would be very good for times when trust in typical politicians is faded.
Don't go on a tangent.

The main point which I am making is that better user experience trumps everything. As we have seen time and again, once users love your product money will get figured out.

This is starkly different from your opinion above where all you care about is money and why ff doesn't fit into that narrative. Strong companies don't operate or think like that.
They also might be bad at politics.
Also "good luck sorting..." makes it sound like such sorting is impossible. It's just slower. https://madusudanan.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-sort...
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Without the heated tone ("entitlement in tech conversations") there's often no response to a valid complaint.

We only get clear explanations from a company's engineers after a discussion is raised.

> In this case, clearly there are material differences in video chat performance across browsers, or else why would Slack force Chrome support?

I look forward to a post on https://slack.engineering detailing the challenges. I'm not demanding a response, it's just a wish.

My decision to use a product takes certain principles into account; Slack is the kind of product that is often chosen for you by your company/open source project/community. A bit of "entitlement" — not meant as scare quotes, I just don't share the viewpoint – makes sense here, because sometimes you can't just choose not to use it.
Hinton himself did just fine in terms of academic popularity in the '80s and '90s. We can look at his citations on Semantic Scholar:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Geoffrey-E-Hinton/169...

Citations to his papers have been rising steadily from between 88 and 107 in 1987 to between 685 and 826 in 1999. That's hardly an unpopular researcher.

And for a bit of comparison with other machine learning researchers, here's a link to a data set of family relations from a 1986 paper by Hinton:

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Kinship

At the bottom of that page, in the Relevant Papers sections there's two links to two papers using the data set, one Hinton's own paper that introduces it and one by Quinlan.

Clicking on the [Web Link] links for the two papers, I can see the references to those papers. There is a single reference to Quinlan's paper. There are 43 to Hinton's, of which all but 6 are from 1999 and earlier. And those are not self-references, neither references by Bengio, Le Cun et al. If there is a clique, it is hard to see it.

So there was a lot of interest to Hinton's work even in the years he was supposed to be "exiled to the academic hinterland" as another article said.
Count me among those who think a pause or dip is necessary now and then.

If prices keep going up it's hard to buy, as Warren Buffet once said.
Well, "scientists" isn't a uniform population in terms of people management skills, and scientists who self-select to run for office are already in one important way outside of the norm for that population. So while it makes sense not to assume someone would make a good politician just because they're a scientist, it doesn't make sense to assume a scientist who runs for office will necessarily make for a poor politician.
A blatant ad for UpCloud.
The context is car companies.

Mazda: <9B$ Market Cap and 50k employees

Ford: 40B Market Cap and 200k employees

Volkswagen: 100B Market Cap And 600k employees

Tesla is already at 30k employees...

It’s very well known that on the scale of international car brands Mazda is a “small” company
Thanks for pointing this out to me!
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Not good enough. The compiler is entirely within its rights to optimize that out, since signed integer overflow is UB in C.
Various RISC-V emulators are available, e.g. you can run Linux on a simulated risc-v processor in qemu.
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Why wouldn't un-disable-able OTA updates be vulnerable to large-scale remote hacking? Sounds like Teslas can already be hacked.

By far the simplest way to prevent this vulnerability is to prevent automatic connections to the outside world.
Toyota has 8 times more revenue, nearly 8 times more employees.
This is such a cliche criticism of scientists running for public office and frankly I’m tired of it as it detracts from the fundamental truth.

There is no reason why scientists cannot run for public office. Reason, logic and strategic thinking is what we need - doesn’t matter if it’s a scientist, engineer or an accountant.

Compared to the shit we have today, this would be a huge step forward.

Plenty of scientists have leadership and political skills. It’s not like scientists are just completely incapable of dealing with people - that is the cliche and we need to objectively think about this.
As we have seen in recent elections, replacing politicians with non-politicians has been a disaster for the country. Why is a scientist running better than a science-aware politician running?
Polish PM would probably disagree it's better to have imperfect auto-translation than none at all ;)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/translati...
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Highly politicized article.

If it were balanced, there should be some mention of medical scientists who have concerns for humans in development. Science has made tremendous progress in this area, but they are not covered in the media often.
Many countries have laws that prevent media conglomerates like that.

Specifically, here in Norway, no entity is allowed to own more than 33% of a media company like a news paper etc.
My prior data said most designs were being done well above 28nm (even 90nm) with mask costs increasing as the feature size got smaller. eASIC even still offers 45nm S-ASIC's (Nextreme-2's) for those who can't afford ASIC's at that node. So, I'd be surprised if 28nm cheaper. If 28nm has gotten that cheap, then I'd love to have references on that to give to CompSci folks I've seen doing semi-open or FOSS designs from 90nm-32nm.

Note: I'm also talking for complex designs like a CPU or SoC instead of Bitcoin-mining primitives or something.

Edit: see my response to wmf as I partly answer thoughts on your other question about volume or eating up costs.
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That’s what the Obama administration did, but it didn’t yield political dividends. American voters seem to view all career politicians as equally suspicious regardless of who their advisors are. Hence scientists running for office themselves.
I agree that the cookie law was a mistake, but I don't necessarily agree that it has any bearing on the GDPR's effectiveness.

I won't wade into whether the law is better for certain businesses, that's a complicated topic that I don't have the cycles for.

But what I will say is that the requirements[1] sound like really good benefits for consumers.

Being able to go to Facebook and say "delete everything you have on me" is a huge plus.

Being able to go to Whatsapp and download all of your contacts and messages in a 'commonly use and machine readable format' is awesome.

Now, of course, the devil is in the details. If 'machine readable format' is poorly defined, that provision is useless. If the consent provision requires 120 pt red font legalese on every page you enter data into, that's ridiculous. But since neither of us is going to go read the thing... at least the goals are good.

1: https://www.eugdpr.org/key-changes.html
> consciousness is a matter of degree

That's true, but that doesn't mean that thermostats are conscious. Shortness is "a matter of degree" too. Nonetheless, Danny Devito is short (4'10"), and Michael Jordan (6'6") is not. We can argue about Tom Cruise (5'7") and Johnny Depp (5'10"), and with regards to consciousness, we can argue about dolphins and dogs and maybe even cockroaches. But not plants and not thermostats.
WordPress powers almost 30% of the others, and could also switch to WASM whenever they feel like it.
That and breaking the article into 6 pages. If NYT, WaPo, and Medium can fit longform text into one page this site can too.
According to https://www.geni.com/people/Geoffrey-Hinton-FRS/600000006697... , yes:

Geoffrey Everest Hinton → Howard Everest Hinton → George Hinton → Mary Ellen Hinton → George Boole
That was my intent in mentioning them. My understanding, though, is that we don't have a solid foundation on why it works. Just that that is the direction we are moving, and neural networks are good at it.
See http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm which lists various examples. I've got to admit that I'm struggling to come up with an example that "improves user experience" that would genuinely not be allowed.
Scientists are running because they feel their class interests are being threatened. Typically, scientists are apolitical because they feel they get more benefits by maintaining the status quo (e.g. military and civil funding). In the face of a bald attack on the EPA and climate science, scientists are attempting to show class solidarity.

Unfortunately, many of the problems we have are not technical problems, but are clashes between left and right. The favored positions of both sides have long been established. Science will help implement an ideological solution, but will not replace ideology. To the extent that the scientists running are leftists compared with centrist democrats, this will be somewhat significant.

However, I suspect that many established scientists are ignorant of politics and see the current struggle as some kind of surface level fact vs fiction debate. They will be disappointed.
Gahh ad that forced me to close the window on mobile "Amazon Gift"
Our JIRA is kinda our external memory and our input for external teams.

For team members, it's easier and more effective to bob a post-it onto the right white board and explain it during standup. Hosted JIRA is just infuriatingly slow for that workflow, tbh.

For everyone else, yeah. Put in a JIRA ticket, one of us will put in clarifications there. If it's something weird, we'll document steps there and convert them into a runbook later. It's good enough for that.
For automobile insurance, I don't find the idea of the insurance company getting detailed information about a collision disturbing at all.

There's probably reason to make sure that policies don't contain weird provisions related to that data collection, but there isn't really a strong case for hiding driver information, there is enough variation in drivers to justify varied premiums.
Yep, i recall trying to get a game demo going that required Win32s and WinG installed. Ended up taking up so much of the old HDD that i barely could get the game going, and it crawled.
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That is somewhat silly. Especially when you can't investigate using the tools of the day.

Be clear on that. He was not able to see the success using these techniques on older hardware. Period. People weren't dismissing him. They were doing better.
Could not have said it better. Hinton is one of the most important contributors to the field, but giving him all the credit is a disservice to others who made important contributions. Probabilistic modeling was popular way before DNNs got big. At that point it was already clear that logic based inference was only so powerful, and different methods were necessary.
This has been discussed a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387052
While my Pi isn't gathering dust, I too don't have the budget for a 1k dev board... I get that they probably have a lot of cost to cover, but at this point only investors can really buy this hardware (i.e. a company needing open CPU hardware for research or future products might invest in a 1k board)
I guess I can understand the argument but I don't see what kind of world view thinks that you can go out into the world r have privacy. Roads are what connect the vast majority of all land. It's not like you can just trespass into other people's land and expect privacy either
What stops Google from presenting users with a large popup with lots of legal notices mixed with sweet talking marketese? Most people would just click "Okay, I agree" having never read anything in that popup.
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I'm assuming people are trying with Bayesian methods. Any good research it practical examples showing advantages?
Doesn't seem fishy at all that an ad company would develop a product that blocks ads. Nope. Couldn't possibly be used to further it's own business. No sir, no how.
Even further ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274335
I’m not confused because communism does not exists in a vacuum a communist society will be a state.

The “abolishment” of the state under communism does not do so in practice but rather in principle when everyone belongs to the state there is no state but it’s an empty and meaningless starlet.

Communism also outside of some fringe Marxism and anarcho communism is not anarchist at all but rather very centralized.
I'll second this one. Very easy to read and flows really well in my opinion. He builds up ideas very naturally with just the right balance of academic and colloquial.
I have 4:

-Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography - you can download it for free

- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - A bit simplistic but it opens your eye to the fact that talent is a small part of being successful in whatever you want to achieve.

- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - You need people to succeed. Making enemies or just treating people indifferently is a bad move.

- 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey. People put it down because the advice seems to be common sense but it's only common sense if you know it but not everyone knows it.

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius- this is a lifelong guide. Read it until the pages fall apart and then get another and do the same.

All these books can be read multiple times and you'll learn something new so get hard copies if you can.
What is the supporting evidence of “scientists are bad politicians?”

I am genuinely curious.
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It seems that both of my observations are well-trod territory!

Anyhow, the book "Brainwave" by Poul Anderson has the best description of what more intelligent characters would be like - they spoke with fewer words, as the rest of the information was more obvious from context.
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Actually coming up with an example is quite easy. Consider website with huge catalog that customizes recommendations based on your previous activity on the website. This makes user experience better, but it is not strictly required for the site to function. None of the exceptions on the page you linked apply to this case.
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> An ad/script blocker has blocked the ability to view your public IP.

This is BS. :-(

Googling "what's my IP" is pretty memorable as well.
Building an ecosystem. Slack's a business-- not some initiative to build cross-browser web apps. There's a lot to prioritize. When is the last time you've heard a company avoid Slack due to poor browser support?
Bill Nye is a science "presenter". I think he was a mech eng at Boeing.

Degasse Tyson is a trained scientist but has a tendency to espouse opinions on subjects he's not an expert in, but with the authority of his professional background.
This is remarkable - I've never heard of Compiler Explorer before now. I wish we had something like this back in university! Thank you so much for making this incredible tool.
One(debatable) example is internet.org.
Ask HN: What advise would you give a 16 year old today?
The kind of advice that will help them throughout their life.
Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover were the two engineer POTUS's. Take from that what you may.
This is a great learning experience for my 11 yo son.

He wanted me to buy him bitcoins because it was cool. Initially he wanted to put all his savings, I talked him into just a bit. He invested 13 €. He got the double.

He wanted to invest all his savings again. I talked him into just a bit. He invested 30€,got 50€.

He threw in 80€ (of a total of 137€ of savings) when the rate was 12k.He now lost almost half by, and learned a lot. About being careful, what a rate is, how money works (at his level).

Now I hope that it will be 12k again so that he gets the money back :)

But not something like 100k because I did not actually buy the bitcoins but merely acted as the bank...
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I, for one, could do with a lot less "people management" in government, and a lot more liberty.
After three service packs, and all this time to get the drivers in place, be disappointing if it didn't.
They just want people to watch the ads man. That's their only intention.
there is still _some_ activity going on, and an attempt to reboot the initiative, like with Solid (https://github.com/solid/solid with Tim Berners Lee behind it, i believe)

also 'semantic web' has become a bit of a loaded term.. 'linked open data' is now more commonly used (though this is a broader defined concept).

--> i don't think blockchain will be web 3.0 (or higher version numbers for that matter)

Web 3.0/4.0 might be The Decentralized Web, though
Don't you think that if it would be that easy they would've already done it?
Define scientists...
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before es6 anything added also did not break existing implementations. eg you could run es5 features in a es4 engine using polyfill and progressive enhancement/degression. maybe its time for ES to add meta and overloading - although with a huge cost of complexity !?
Ohhhh, ok. I think you're totally right for lowish volume runs like this. My information was in the context of where you have enough volume to amortize the mask cost out.

Maybe SiFive is eating the cost here either with the hope that they can sit at 28nm for a while and treat this chip as gravy train money in the long term? Or maybe they just want 28nm experience for higher volume runs in the future?
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Previously I built a url shortener https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673137

But a bunch of people used it to send spam links... I'm thinking to build something else for this domain or selling it...
The entire exercise is then predicated on the assumption that adverts actually solve some problems that users have.

That is not my experience.
That parasite website is so weird. It sounds so negative, like a piece of satire, but then you read the actual text and it sounds like a serious award whose goal is to encourage rigor in scientific research.

Whose stupid idea was it to call it the Parasite Award
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> People mostly install adblockers to block really annoying ads.*

Many people use ad blockers because they want to block all ads. There are many reasons to block them, including malware, privacy, and brainwashing.

If ads works to manipulate behavior (and they do, otherwise people wouldn't buy them), and you don't want to be manipulated, you shouldn't let professionals attempt to hijack your brain (whether those attempts are done via ads, Facebook-style feeds, or other ways).
They both use the term Carl Sagan used. "Science communicator"