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By minimizing the role of the oracle, instead of relying on one entity, you can rely on the market. Anybody could be the oracle, they'd put their reputation/offer/price on sale and the stakeholders would select one as they wish.

You're still trusting the selected oracle to behave honestly, but they will be operating in a very competitive market which hopefully would lead to better behaviour. They might cheat once, but it would be trivial to switch to a better oracle next time.
Oh dear. That garbage came with Cold Fusion (before it became ColdFusion), IIRC.
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Because that would require opening up either the client or the protocol, both of which are anathema to people trying to make money from those systems.
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I think he’s (deliberately? Give him the benefit of the doubt) misinterpreted Hofstadter’s use of the words “processing text”.

What he means, which seemed quite obvious to me, is that the machine is not reading text, building up a semantic interpretation of the sentence in the way a human does. That’s because a neural net is a simple pattern recognition machine that does not work in the same way as the brain. It doesn’t have the immense life experience to draw upon (probably relatively easy to fix) but more importantly it doesn’t have a concept of what a sentence actually means.

A neural network doesn’t have an understanding of what “double” means. It just pattern matches a translation.

I think there’s some serious symbolic reasoning going on in the brain, which neural nets don’t yet perform. It all feels like shallow syntactic matching right now, rather than semantic reasoning.

Unfortunately I don’t know how the brain works, so you end up in an absurd argument where people say “the brain is just a neural net” and it’s impossible to completely refute their claims, just as if someone said “the brain is a very large lookup table”. Well, from what I see it does seem that the brain is much smarter than that, but I can’t be certain without knowing what that extra kicker is. So whilst such an assertion seems terribly simplistic and self-evidently insufficient, it is difficult to argue with.
This is the official narrative that is being sold to the people and being thought at school.

The opium wars are a very big part of Chinese history and current culture I don’t know who do you know In China but a few elites educated in the West are not a good sample.

Look at the average inner city population in tier 1-3 cities, look at the recent changes in the attitude towards foreigners in China this is definitely an existing issue.
Of course the programming language defines the architecture ...
Methods for Studying Coincidences (1989) [pdf]
I think Shallit is largely wrong. The Hof didn’t specifically cite syntax vs semantics but I think that’s what he’s saying and that’s what GT is doing.
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While I haven't driven a Tesla, does not the regenerative braking in Electric cars offer more accurate torque control during braking?
For interactive applications, reponsiveness trumps raw throughput. It's what made operating systems like AmigaOS and BeOS so fast: they didn't actually crunch numbers faster, but they always stayed responsive and quickly reacted to user input under any load, that made them feel faster.
> although Google Translate is extremely useful (and I use it all the time), it is true that it does not usually match the skills of the best human translators

I think it is safe to say that Google Translate almost never macthes the skills of human translators except for rare trivial cases. As a rule it's rubbish, and sometimes as an exception it can be OK. Nobody argues against its usefulness, especially considering it's free and that it's pretty much the only tool we all use to understand things written in other languages. Better than nothing for sure.

Further, the whole analogy with flying and birds completely misses the point. Airplanes do satisfactory job at transporting humans and cargo, they are not required to fly like birds or mate with birds. We have invented what seems to be a more efficient method of flying using engines rather than flapping. All in all, airplanes are not birds and were never meant to be.

Similarly, in my view the arguments regarding machine translation come down to two things today: firstly whether it's useful or not, and secondly wether ML improves translation or not. My answers are: (1) weeeell, yeah, it's kinda useful in a better-than-nothing kind of a way and (2) doesn't seem like a significant improvement to me, if at all.
Imho the main race will be against the car's DRM.
In line with your reasoning, software development methodology has significantly improved over the years. One does not write C++ in 2018 as they would have written C in 1980.
The Xeon Phi deal was pretty silly considering that Inspur just bought GPUs instead and Intel was allowed to sell Xeon Phis to Baidu in large amounts.
I don't think they really care about anyone knowing about it right now as a company, so the decision to open-source it right away confuses me a bit.

Maybe it's a subtle signal of their plans/capabilities towards competitors/dart devs?
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This idea is expensive to implement, but building some tracks, then put only the self driving cars on this tracks, then you could have very large speeds and since only this cars would be on tracks and no other obstacle it would be very safe.
I just tried the following, to German, and got the predictable result, which is completely wrong. Until the proper semantic parts of the text are identified, these sorts of mistakes prevent statistical methods from being trustworthy:

Sailing ships in rough seas is asking for trouble
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I haven't myself observed that motor sports telecasts capture the sound of the vehicles with any great fidelity, most of the time they sound quite muted.
It seems that the most useful OS/programming concepts have already been thought of, but all implementations are lacking in some ways, so I tend to agree.
it is a PR piece that rightfully talks about the "most underrated trick in deep learning": transfer learning.
Related heads-up: if you ever want to use or test Google Translate, don't make the mistake of assuming Gmail's translator would return its results. I have no idea what it uses, but it sure isn't the same Google Translate. I've seen it produce output far inferior to that of Google Translate for the exact same text.
Can this replace BriteVerify or Kickbox? It looks like this would have trouble scaling based on the comments. Is that at hundreds, thousands or millions of emails per month?
This amazingly misses the point. Shallit's arguments with birds are the kind of arguments a student has before taking an AI class and feels rather smart about it.

Even though airplanes are different from birds, airplanes still need to follow the laws of physics and aerodynamics. Birds too need follow the laws of physics.

With intelligence, no one knows what the laws are. That is Hofstader's point.
Yeah its amazing that his research is completely forgotten perhaps too conveniently.
Yes, it’s a relatively common SimCity reference, though I could swear I saw “Don’t Starve” say “Reticulating Pines”.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen another game than simcity give it a voiceover...
The rules are important: "As the trend of backyard flock tending skyrocketed in recent years, so has deadly infections"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/thousands-of-diy-foo...
Ho humm. Of course he is right but is that enough? This reminded me of a quote from Doctorow's Microsoft Research DRM talk which I remember well because I translated (hah) it to Hungarian as my last act as a Hungarian journalist -- I sort of resurrected myself as one because by that point I haven't written in years.

http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

> This is the overweening characteristic of every single successful
new medium: it is true to itself. The Luther Bible didn't
succeed on the axes that made a hand-copied monk Bible valuable:
they were ugly, they weren't in Church Latin, they weren't read
aloud by someone who could interpret it for his lay audience,
they didn't represent years of devoted-with-a-capital-D labor by
someone who had given his life over to God. The thing that made
the Luther Bible a success was its scalability: it was more
popular because it was more proliferate: all success factors for
a new medium pale beside its profligacy. The most successful
organisms on earth are those that reproduce the most: bugs and
bacteria, nematodes and virii. Reproduction is the best of all
survival strategies.

If you want the Hungarian one: https://www.hwsw.hu/hirek/40796/a-digitalis-jogkezelo-rendsz...
I count only 2 such comments; one already dead, and the other I just flagged. I'm for (and unilaterally supporting) site-wide ban for the "Wolfram narcissist" comments, as it's a tired cliché and detracts from the good points made by the author.
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Senior developer salaries in my local area (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) are £30k-£40k which is about $42k - $56k USD. On a £40k salary you pay roughly £9,500 in tax. Ive no idea what the tax rate is in America but the difference in salaries between the UK and the US is astounding.
Transcription factors are proteins that activate or inhibit genes, including the genes of other transcription factors. They form complex regulation network isomorphic to neuronal networks.

It looks like consciousness arises from what the brain does (processing information), and that DNA can do the same thing, so... why not?
Put a period at the end of the sentence and it changes from

> Segelschiffe in rauer See verlangen Ärger.

to

> Segelschiffe in rauher See sind ein Problem.
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Are people really making these salaries? I mean like mid-level, not god-tier type people.

I don't know if I am stupid or just don't say the right things but are there really mid-level devs not at huge companies making $160k a year? I mostly hang out at startups and it is normally around like 130k for a senior dev.
Isn't it better to improve at least a little? It is better to save some emissions, and it is better to kill fewer animals.

I still find the vegetarian chism of the past incredible - how can there be a conflict about advocating for less meat consumption by everyone vs trying to convert them all the way to vegetarianism? If you get 50% of the population to eat half of what they had before, it beats converting the 2% you can optimistically get in the short-to-medium term vastly, so just do both.

It's the Copenhagen interpretation of Ethics again - if you interact with a problem in any way, eg by improving it a little, it is now your fault and responsibility to the end. Meanwhile, if you had no interaction, you are morally free not to do anything.
Is it merit based? I would say it's capital based.
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That is a very similar concept and looks great in a frame. Glad to see others enjoy the same type of art ;)
By your logic then plants should have consciousness too.

Alternatively are you implying that human consciousness is meta physical in nature?
I heartily recommend Umberto Eco's text "Experiences in Translation" (full text here, a little long: https://archive.org/stream/UmbertoEcoEXPERIENCESINTRANSLATIO...), which perfectly describes the difficulty (and I'd say beauty) of the act of translation.

> In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.

The above short presentation of the book says it all, basically, but surprisingly enough is really hard to understand for lost of technical people who only think that translation is just "de-coding", as Hofstadter explains. We won't have proper translations until AGI is here.
“The brain is just a neural net” plus real life experience, in fact years and years of experience. Pretty much every example that automated translation gets wrong is when a real life context is required. Our language is not just a sequence of words and sentences, it almost always implies some contextual klnowledge. Where two humans have siginficantly different backgrounds they may have difficulty understanding each other for the same reason. A total lack of real life experience on one of the sides makes it even worse: it produces barely comprehensible near-nonsense.
No, not on a Tesla it can go fast in a straight line until you hit the power limit and your battery overheats but taking a corner in a Tesla at track speeds is well good luck the handling and breaking on a Tesla isn’t anywhere near any sport car or a luxury car of a similar price.

A Tesla weighs about 50-75% more than a BMW M3/Alpina or a Maclaren 650 and the suspension, breaking and handling on those is much much better.
Feel free to correct me since I'm not that familiar with Tesla, regenerative braking is more like engine braking rather than "pedal" braking. As in, while you coast, there's negative torque against driving axle which charges battery.

It's rather useless in racing situation. You want 4-wheel braking then, this may throw off your balance. I believe regenerative braking is not very effective when compared to full-blown racing brakes as well. It's great when you're stopping at traffic light from far away, but not when you brake hard.

On top of that, this is not limited to electric cars. Some regular cars have it too. For example non-e Golfs got it.
Trying the examples, for the French translation it just doesn't make the last plural mistake, correctly translating "la sienne" (but still missing the subtleties)

The German example is "better" I think, it kinda messes up but in a more predictable way.

"the most defenceless were young scientists from (before) their habilitation"

Also the last phrase is very, very tricky, it actually means "there were only few things people agreed on more" and it was translated as "there was little agreement on a few things."
Only if he's billing me for more hours worked. He can both say that he's working on it right now and go to the break room to read a newspaper and be truthful. Lunch breaks and small breaks before/after lunch are a thing in some workplaces.
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Competing options lowering demands? I think that only makes sense if something has lost market share to the point that it is not in use.
It's weird that more companies don't offer more vacation as a perk. Offering 40 days instead of 25 means 15 days of foregone work for the company - 6% fewer days worked a year. But, it looks a lot better than a 6% increase in pay on paper.

Moreover, you probably lose much less than that because you'll have better rested, less stressed, probably more productive employees and it will help cut down on employees making themselves critical choke points.

Something to think about the next time you read the phrase "war for talent".
Maybe - but it doesn't seem to me like the Linux community as a whole cares much about what Google wants.
And they don't have to: Google has their own capabilities to edit the kernel the way they want (they have done it before) or make their whole own kernel.

I don't think they're trying to push Linux anywhere.

Maybe they're trying to win over users from Linux, giving them some power in the software market & free contributions.
Searching for mushroom nutrition facts, it looks like you wont be getting any micro nutrients. Milk and eggs will add protein and fat, but you will be lacking in fiber, and I don't think you will be getting all the types of fats you need.
It obsoletes older browsers. For a while it used to be you could browse the web with almost anything, even a 10-year old Netscape. Now it's the norm that a 4 year old browser isn't supported, because of new APIs and JS syntax.
I don't understand the motivation of the article. Does the author try to justify the Opium War? Or to remind 1+ billion Chinese that the intepretation of history always subject to rulers' agenda, which is clearly stated in Chinese textbook? To show off his not-so-sharp observation to his readers? Or, to warn USA not to abandon the free trade principle?
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Interesting, I didn’t know that.
You didn't read the article I guess?

This paragraph provides answer to your objection. Plants learn to modify the response based on experience.

> Under poor soil conditions, the pea seems to be able to assess risk. The sensitive plant can make memories and learn to stop recoiling if you mess with it enough. The Venus fly trap appears to count when insects trigger its trap. And plants can communicate with one another and with caterpillars.
I have trouble seeing the connection between your reply and my comment - did you intend to post it elsewhere and did it accidentally end up with mine?

EDIT: My best guess is that this was intended as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292738 an referring to Charles C Mann and his book?
I am surprised that the article makes no mention of the many Chinese action movies made that are set in the time period of the Opium Wars and that make explicit reference to it.

Given that the film is made in China and received state support, it is not an accident.

By the way the story of Baghdadi Jew, David Sassoon and his rise in prominence as a result of profiting from the Opium War is quite interesting in itself.
I use deepl for work (native English speaker with fluent German). The EN-DE translations are brilliant IF you keep sentence construction simple. It also helps to write in a German 'style'.
Formula cars use regenerative breaking that isn’t an issue.

The problem with the Tesla is that the suspension, steering, breaks etc. aren’t exactly sport class and that it weighs more than a Ford F-150 pickup.....
Would you recommend reading it even if not particularly interested in web usability?
You think Google doesn't rely on deep learning?
This is interesting: I thought they had taken a lot of care to implement very clean concepts.
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Often times when I have an idea about something I dare not submit it on "Ask HN".

The reason for that is that I noticed that the tone of answers on Ask HN is mainly affirmative and definitive for the person writing an answer.

Which makes it up for good debates about stuff, but not so much for constructive exchanges about burgeoning ideas.

Wouldn't it be a good idea then to normalize some "Think HN" side channel, where ideas would be constructed together rather than assessed and answered ?
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Patents for what? Algorithms? I've heard similar arguments/excuses made before, I'd like to understand if there's any legal precedence for them, or if it's more of a hypothetical risk.

Lastly, with the 'supply of documentation' approach, does this (to your knowledge) carry the same legal risks?
I use Google Translate extensively to help write things in Japanese - considered (one of) the most difficult languages in the world.

I show the results to Japanese people who nearly always tell me it looks just fine to them.

I have also passed off translations as my own work on tutoring sites like Lang8 and had natives correct "my work". They often will give a slightly different wording, but I have never had an "WTF does this mean?" type response.

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I think it is important to distinguish the difference between a perfect translation with nuance, and a simple "I need to make this point" translation that is what we need most of the time.
The translating software can't distinguish between 'sailing ships' the noun, and 'sailing' (verb) 'ships' (noun) the act. The latter is what is probably intended. It is also missing chances of using idiomatic expressions in the translations.
I think that's bullshit. I think it's purely about trying to keep everybody in the dark about each other's compensation packages.

It's easier to keep employees in the dark about money because of the taboo talking about it. If Tom spent the last month sunning himself in the Maldives, on the other hand, he's probably not going to shut up about it.

Compensation secrecy is a fairly straightforward way of dragging down payroll costs, which are going to be the biggest drag by far on the bottom line in a software company.
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Agreed, this post gets a lot of things right IMO.

An idea I've had on 10x developers (or whatever the multiplier..) is not that they can code and solve problems this much faster, but in the long term they steer the code base as a whole in a direction such that the impact is that large. (But of course recognizing this, or being able to compare it to the other would-be ways the code could have gone, is a non-trivial matter :).
“Apple eschewed this for reason I don't know, and won't deign the idea they did it solely out of hubris back in the Lisa era.”

Just no. The command key based shortcuts significantly predate ctrl key based shortcuts.
Best practice has changed, but C++ does not enforce it. Did Samsung follow best practices with Tizen?

Languages like Rust and Haskell are an attempt to put such best practice into the language tooling.
The discussion from 4 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6537471

That's closed, of course, so if you have anything to add then you'll need to do it here.

There were also 4 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9607650

And a sterile submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502949
I like that I can clikc a word in the target box and choose an alternative translation while the system updates the result accordingly. Previously, I had to play with different translation alternatives manually in Google or Yandex translate. I think deepl also learns from such user choices.
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Thank you for making Compiler Explorer!

I was teaching some workmates a few things about how assembly programming works by looking at compiler output and this was a huge help. :)
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