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Feynman lectures are excellent for physical intuition but if someone doesn't have a few years of practice with physics it will be difficult to get much out of it. Feynman also doesn't have a lot in the way of problem solving, even with the companion problem solving book.

With that in mind, Landau/Lifshitz is an entirely different class. I'm a practicing astrophysical theorist and I would never claim to have grokked these volumes in anything nearing completeness. A serious post-PhD program of study can be undertaken to understand to the finer points of those books; this is a pursuit that would challenge any practitioner. (I place Physics of Shock Waves and High Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena by Zel'dovich and Razier in the same category of extremely information dense Soviet tracts on physics.) They are incredibly valuable, although I do think there is a bit of an element of "if you don't know L/L, you aren't a real theorist."

I think that recommending these texts is great for someone down the road, but if someone hasn't even had a full year of intro physics recommending these is not appropriate. Intro-level textbooks exist for a reason - not all of them are cheap, watered down versions of the "real stuff." (Some are, of course.) There are also some texts I've found (but don't remember, unfortunately) in the computer vision community that introduce some physics that would be great for someone with a computer science/engineering background.

edit: "cheap" as in "cheap feeling" not inexpensive, as most of those intro texts are more expensive than the graduate level
Is that not the problem that the threshold theorem solves?
Yep, California instituted 2-term limits for most positions and it has basically meant that in the first term, they are learning the job, and in the next, they are often jockeying for their next gig, and not serving their current constituents.

A 2-term limit on a position with a 2-year term can be pretty hard. A 2-term limit on a 4-year term is a different matter.
Why were digits ruled out? Like "100"?
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Give me a decent HUD setup and something that plugs into OBD, and I'm sold, too. I want to have some kind of conky/rainmeter/ubersicht for my dashboard window.
I think people who make and collaborate on strategic technical decisions need up close and personal perspectives on in the trenches technical work. I think non-technical managers have a very hard time detecting when someone is blowing smoke. I think former engineers can turn into non-technical managers fairly easily if they aren't proactively contributing actual patches and reviews to their projects.

Collaborative, blame free technical culture is ideal, yes, but it requires technical leadership and some amount of technical strategy. Someone (or some committee I guess) has to be able to decide when a project costs more than it makes. Only someone technical can actually estimate the projects. You can collaborate in and delegate that estimation, but there still needs to be a decision somewhere.
Yours is a very anti-social point of view.

Motorcycles are unsafe by design. You want high acceleration, great gas mileage, and awesome maneuverability? Well then, you don't get the same protection that a car gets. It's basic physics.

The fact is, the vast majority of people choose to drive 2+ ton metal enclosures (with much larger total cost of ownership, mind you) and you choose to drive something that actively puts you in danger. That choice is entirely on you as are all of the consequences because, let's face it: no one but a few psychopaths want to be responsible for someone's death. Your argument that drivers don't give a shit rings absolutely hollow.

As for entitlement, if a horse buggy or low speed moped gets on the freeway and gets obliterated because they can't function like the cars that the roads were designed for, do you blame the cars or the person who decided to get on the freeway in an entirely inadequate vehicle?

I'm all for motorcycles on the road and I'm all for designing safety systems (that don't make life worse for everyone else) into them and other cars on the road to reduce accidents and fatalities. You, a minuscule minority, however, do NOT get to noise pollute our environments far beyond what is reasonable in a dense urban/suburban society just for your own enjoyment. The vast majority of drivers have long ago voted with their wallets and ballot boxes that the quiet, safety, and size of cars is what we want.
Did you mean this becomes a combination problem not a permutation problem?
I am not sure I understand the proposal, it seems that you’ve categorized managers into 2 buckets:

1) Managers who add little to no value.

2) Sr. Managers who do add value (big picture roadmap, headcount balancing, etc.

I don’t think you are suggesting (or even can) automate the tasks managers from bucket #2 are performing. As for bucket #1, if they aren’t adding value can’t you just eliminate this unnecessary layer from the company? Fire the manager and the team will presumably be just as well (or better) off? What is there to automate / produce tooling for? The non-value added tasks?
Serious question: Why would it? Isn’t “Moore’s Law” just an empirical observation about late 20th century technology that is trotted out in front of undergraduates, confusing them about what a “law” even is? There’s not a theoretical reason to expect it to apply to any other information systems is it?
The iPhone's hardware is great and it has good bones in the OS but Apple has placed too many artificial restrictions on the experience.

To name one current example, both Android and iOS have the concept of a global password manager for third party apps (and the web-browser). Both Google and Apple offer a password manager that hooks into it. But on Android third party password managers can also utilize the system APIs, whereas on iOS they cannot.

Meaning password managers on iOS are stuck with copy/switch/paste/switch/copy/switch/paste for username and password respectively. On Android you get a popup next to the input box, press it, and it is populated.

This is just one current example but if you look at the history of iOS Apple has been doing this forever. NFC locked to Apple Pay was a previous good example.
That Sharp alarm clock is the very one waking me up every morning. Nice and loud. And I like the "tick-tick".
I usually buy a $900 iPhone, sell it for $600 after a year, and buy the new iPhone for $900. So I spend around $300 to upgrade my iPhone every year.

I used to upgrade my phone after 3 years, at that point the phone becomes very outdated and it's worth is hardly $100. So it costs me around the same if I buy an inexpensive phone every year, buy an expensive phone and use it for few years, or trade up a new iPhone every year.
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You still have nothing more than a system of systems of optimization algos. If you think this is what intelligence is, I'm not sure what to say.

Until someone comes up with a better definition of intelligence that's what I'm sticking with. I think you're looking for an elegant solution right out of the box - the "one algorithm to rule them all" and I don't think that is feasible from an engineering perspective if for no other reason than no singular system has anything near the data collection nodes needed for specificity on the range of tasks that would suffice any definition of "General."

Having raised three other humans and observing them while building DL systems myself for a living, I feel more strongly everyday that human intelligence is a hodgepodge of "weak AI" systems glued together with an exceptionally efficient executive function. AGI is as much a community building and humanity wide input collection challenge as it is a math problem. We need to think about it that way.
Not if the claim is to have Berkshire-type success, which is more consistent success over very long timeframes compared to innovation and inventing new markets.
I'd rather like to have a service that allows me to construct my own dictionaries. There have got to be some standard OpenSource/GNU-like tools that give a budding lexicographer the things they need to construct dictionaries - does anyone know what these tools are, and how effective they are at creating custom dictionaries?
Not comparable at all. Protecting Taiwan has been a foundational element of American foreign policy. A Chinese invasion would signal to the world a huge shift in power and would effectively be the end of US dominance over the world stage.
I have experience of both, having to use IPhone for work. Android phones are infinitely better. I was actually surprised to find so many stupid bugs in IPhone. I'n my imagination they were solid phones for MAC users. Turns out, as they are the only option, they don't exactly focus on quality.
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I have only just read the Damore legal filing : Google is much crazier than I had imagined. Keep in mind this is not the regular 100k company : it is a highly networked company with its own 'Facebook'.

No conservative views allowed.
AMP at the end of the day is an open source javascript library. The pages accessible on AMP via the cache, can also be accessed directly if you want. I don't see this as a walled garden - having a cache does not mean the content is not available outside the cache.

Google does not do this out of altruism of course - their margins on web search are much higher than on mobile, and if more and more content exists only in mobile apps and walled gardens they will lose revenue.
I love seeing projects/tutorials like this. Too many developers treat too many layers of the stack as "magic", and this is great to show it's not so.

We should change the definition of "full-stack developer" to "given a computer, an opcode reference sheet, a way to enter bytes into a computer, and enough time, is capable of making an operating system and a bunch of applications" :)
WiFi is an example of an almost everything interface that mostly works, though. But it's a different approach because it leaves application interfaces variable, so less big design up front. Its main functionality gap is, of course, low power and very low cost hardware.

That said, I still don't understand why Bluetooth is still flaky after over 20 years of opportunity to improve it.
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The only such ones I've found have been under 1000 W, which is too low for me. I appreciate the speed of 1200 W or more models, but those inevitably cheap out on the UI.

Commercial models have a dial and high power, but I haven't found such a one where you can control the power, which is a must for oatmeal and such.
It might seem that way if you don't fly often, but pricing is pretty normal across the board when you look year over year. For the most part, prices are higher when you're less than a week from departure or when flying on a holiday or business heavy travel day (Monday morning/Friday night).

Also just use the new google flights interface and look at the price trends chart. Makes it way clearer whats going on.

The part that IS annoying is airlines selling basic econ seats so you think you're getting a good deal but realize you'll end up spending more just for a checked bag + reserved seat.
Well, sure, but the standard model also says it does. If string theory plus whatever additions are needed to make it "save the phenomena" (predict the observed world in quantitative detail -- which hasn't happened so far) turns out to be simpler than the standard model, then at that point it'd make sense to move from talking about new predictions. Otherwise we're talking about predictions that aren't really predictions at all, in the sense of separating string theory from competing theories such as the standard model.

I think I'm using a well-accepted understanding of science which I'd taken for granted, instead of moving any goalposts. A theory retrodicts some of the same phenomena as its parent theory, as an assumption: that's not evidence that the new theory is more true than the old theory. What I started the thread with was an operationalization of "what if string theory is not true?" It's not a perfect one: string theory could also become accepted as true by finding a way to make it retrodict only things already observed, but with a less complex theory than the standard model. But come on, we're very far from there.
Having been with Samsung since the S3, my current S7 will be my last. It is THE most fragile phone I have ever owned - replaced 3x already, at $150/pop even with the insurance. I've never had to get a case for any other Samsung before, but this is unacceptable. My next phone will be a Purism.
Halimah Yacob is the President, not the Prime Minister, very different positions. Look up "Minister Mentor."
I tried unbanning you the other day, as we often do with banned accounts that seem like they may have stopped breaking the site guidelines. Usually this works out. In this case, unfortunately, it led straight to the kind of flamewar we precisely don't want here: nasty, brutish, and long. So I've rebanned the account.

If you (or anyone) don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
It seems like instead you need to manually replace all redacted text with a fixed-width placeholder like `[REDACTED]`
> It is cheaper than hiring a full DevOps team which is a better apples to apples comparison.

My experience is that it often is more expensive when you actually account for lost development time.

> By spreading the load across the dev team I can automatically get a high bus factor and 24/7 hour on-call rotation.

... and my experience of this is that I'll never do it, ever, because of how it affects retention.

> Obviously once your company is large enough it's different but for small teams/companies it is an important factor.

Most of my clients have been small to medium sized, and I see the cost tip in teams with as few as 3-4 people at times.
My current phone is iphone 7+ and ios feels like getting slower and worse every update. I am really keen on trying out galaxy s9
requests does much more on top of urllib3 than this new requests-html does on top of requests + pyquery.

It greatly simplifies the most common patterns in doing HTTP requests; things like authentication, passing headers, retry logic, etc.
Notice happens after the offer is on the table. Otherwise, you can interpret various signals such as refusing a raise, career progression is not aligned with the expectations of an employee, etc...
Alternatively they could make it dead-easy to recover from such situations. IMHO the MediaTek platforms have excelled at this --- all you need to do is find the right software (the harder part for unbranded/generic devices, but Samsung could certainly provide downloads) and you can do a reflash, even if the internal storage is completely wiped. It's the same process they use to put the original software on them at the factory.
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BigCo gets hacked. Everyone loses their mind for two days.

Google sunsets one of their services. And releases something that copies a service from one of their competitors but in an incredibly tone deaf way.

YouTuber does something terrible. Everyone is disgusted. Gains 10 million followers.

Apple releases an iPhone. Nothing new about it. Calls it the best/greatest iPhone to date.

Bitcoin gains x%. Loses x%. Is outlawed in country X. Regulated in country Y.

Redditors discover that reddit is not the bastion of free speech it pretends to be. They get angry and go to another site only to return the next week under a new subreddit.

I can go on.
Would not recommend BeautifulSoup for this type of thing.

lxml.html is much better in my experience. If you want to use CSS selectors, there's pyquery.
I wasn't talking about cloud providers, as for that kind of scale you're paying 3-4 times easy vs. hiring someone to prepare a cage design for you and wire it up at a suitable colo provider. And finding colo providers that can take a sufficient numbers of racks to be worthwhile is easy.
Should be easy to game though if they offer "bargains to induce new users" as per the article.
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I think you're talking about a different kind of optionality than the parent post. That was talking about option to expand/contract capacity, change infrastructure, or all the usual "elasticity" that they tout.

You're talking about vendor lock-in. Which is a totally valid point and something to be aware of, but basically orthogonal.
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Is there any useful feature in bs4 that is not available in lxml.html?
The s8 is slippery as hell and very fragile. My screen cracked after just a month. Replacement is crazy expensive.
Unless s9 changes that, don't buy it!
I think it was much of a things 15 years ago. Same was dynamic pricing on Amazon (flushing caches would lead to 30% off).

These days, less of a thing I imagine. People would use things like skyscanner more, up to the point of not going to airlines' websites, ever. I don't think they want that.
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It's highly disingenuous to portray
the researchers in machine learning as some sort of sell outs . Hinton was working in neural nets even in the time when they were uncool and fringe area of research. They didn't sell out AGI for some profit motive .

The thing is we don't have any clear path laid to follow to achieve AGI . Various paths proposed earlier turned out over optimistic and dead end.

The current "weak AI" you disparage is an achievement expanding generalization of problem spaces using unified methods way better than past systems.

So even if our current progress seems disappointing , please examine what's happened and why research has taken the current path before tarnishing researchers with unjustified quips.
Yes, the whole thing seems transparently dystopic.

Set aside the notion of "rich". Perhaps in a few decades it will be impossible to ever "get ahead" because with each dollar you earn, cumulatively all of your vendors will find a way to charge you another $0.99.
This doesn't surprise me at all, considering storage is what Dropbox does and AWS has not really been competing on storage costs lately (as much as it's great when instances get cheaper, EBS has been 10 cents a gb/month for awhile now which is really problematic considering most of the new instance types are EBS backed).
Orbitz and others have already differentiated on user agent, right?

IDK if this will make a huge difference for airlines to do. Most folks shop travel sites, where (1) they have to report a consistent price, at least to the agency (2) airlines are side by side compared with their competitors.
Uplevel and its ilk is related to the Lisp FEXPR and NLAMBDA mechanisms. Mainstream Lisp discarded these things decades ago; they didn't surive into ANSI standardization.
Will this make travel agents valuable again? They would essentially have an arbitrage position by buying bulk tickets early and selling them to customers at a discount compared to the airline price. The airlines win because it reduces risk/uncertainty for them, while the customers win because they pay a lower price. (Unfortunately, the travel agents also soak up nearly all the risk, exposing them to large losses in the event that all travel goes down. All it would take is one event like 9/11 to depress tickets sales and bankrupt the agency.)

> Experts say such technology (dynamic pricing) is most likely to be used to offer discounts to customers with loyalty status and to generate bundled fare offerings that fit the customer's profile.

They don't need AI to do that--the airlines could do this already if you log in to their site. But they don't change pricing based on loyalty; instead, they often give "perks" that are not very valuable. And because of the inflation in airline miles, it is harder and harder to get those perks in the first place -- to get a sky lounge membership through Delta requires 47,000 miles, or the equivalent of 10 roundtrip flights from LA to NYC. So, it seems disingenuous to claim that airlines will give preferential treatment to loyal customers. If anything, it would do the opposite: customers who are loyal (and trying to get the next "perk") are more willing to pay a higher price, not less willing!
I think that's an extraordinary stretch - but okay, if that's your point that's your point.

Edit (added): Sorry that's probably a little uncharitable of me. We've rather been talking past each other. From my perspective I've felt I wanted to discuss the science and you've been saying no, we can't discuss it, it's not science. But that's just my perspective.
Oh fuck off with the trophies. I never wanted them. I got a 6th place ribbon for high jump, a "most improved shooter" trophy in the range club, and a "participant" ribbon in an elementary school basketball league where they explicitly didn't keep score during games. I knew I was a terrible athlete and the ridiculous trophies and ribbons were humiliating. I certainly never got the idea I was a winner.
Real interest rates are a monetary measure, to be contrasted with nominal interest rates [1]. I believe you are referring to the rate of interest absent a central bank.

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/30/The...
Until one vendor figures out they can take the market by charging only $0.98 for each dollar.
This looks like pure speculation and borderline false.

What is happening: Many airlines are moving toward a better pricing system. If you look at United's recent quarterly earnings call, they talk about how their previous system (age old system) constantly under-forecasts demand leading to lower pricing for tickets. Their new system is said to do a better job leading to better prices realized.

There is no way to dynamically price as shown in the article as a large fraction of the tickets are purchased through third party sites. Except maybe Southwest (which requires people to book through their site), I don't know how any airline can accomplish this. Also, if you show a higher than normal price to a repeating customer - they he will either switch to browsing in incognito or take his business else where.
My point was that quantum cryptography doesn't solve anything that classic cryptography doesn't. (And yes there is classic cryptography that isn't broken by quantum computers.) I'll defer to two of the world's leading cryptographers to back me up:

- https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/10/quantum_cry...

- https://cryptome.org/2012/09/bernstein-qke.htm
> given a computer, an opcode reference sheet, a way to enter bytes into a computer, and enough time, is capable of making an operating system and a bunch of applications

Yeah, as long as “enough time” is measured in years I could still be a fullstack developer under that definition.

There's still a good reason to treat layers as magic though. Mental working space is limited and abstractions with minimal leakage are the only way to get things done at ever increasing speeds.
In the example shown, it's obvious it's four, since you can see the right edge of the letter sticking out past the black mark.
All: please don't do garden-variety partisan flamewars on HN. It's at best off topic and typically leads to much worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
maybe there's some standard style guide that rules that out?

I would be interested in seeing how many "matches" digits would yield
Most of the times I saw that,they did it because in-house pricing was insane and in IT they wanted to cut costs.

Fire team, comeback a few years with a new cheaper team and in-house pricing.

Job done
Couldn’t help but think of this quote...

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
-Carl Sagan