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So how would you falsify “the population with his wife’s allergy often get it from sources other than a too clean environment”?
> "...crack pot theories like dark matter"

Out of genuine interest, do you have any citations from reputable physicists who agree dark matter is a "crack pot theory"?
I recently switched from being an iphone user to a pixel 2, and I can say that the difference between siri and the google assistant is signifiant. Enough so that I rarely used siri and I use the google assistant every day.

It isn't that the google assistant is more featured packed, more so that it just works much better. Especially with slightly more complex queries.
I still have a working HiFi in my home gym. It’s a solid piece of engineering, especially for its time. I don’t know why people love to hate it so much.
That was my first thought too. Xero is quite good and very large, and it's absolutely in the "modern era". And it's growing a very large ecosystem of accountants and consultants that are building on the platform to offer the exact service that Pilot is (apparently) offering.

Launching a Xero killer is ambitious but doable. Launching some new bookkeeping software (or...service? what even are they doing?) seemingly without being aware of Xero seems...deeply myopic. Xero is big, their product is solid, and they're able to move a lot quicker than the legacy vendors. And this:

> When a company starts working with Pilot, the actual core experience on the customer side doesn’t really change all that much: they still work with a human on the other end. But the bookkeeper from Pilot is working with the internal tools they have built to bring in the data from the company, organize it and structure it, and produce a set of books that are more accurate than someone might have produced than just doing it by hand.

That's a bizarrely accurate description of how stuff works today. That's not new, that's standard. I'm not sure if the article is terrible or the product is terrible, but something is clearly not coming through.

Similarly, all the stuff about categorization of expenses? Again, that's just a core feature in modern bookkeeping software; Xero allows you to configure very detailed rules. And then since the rules can't be 100% accurate in all cases, your actual bookkeeper (the one who uses the software) is going to ask you about the ambiguous ones.

I'm just mystified as to what the value prop is. "Bookkeeping firm raises $15m to provide the same services everyone else does"? How is this tech news? Or even news? (Caveat: My experience is outside the US, maybe this is less common/standard in the US?)
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How about continuity of communication between Google Home & Phone.

In my kitchen, I can ask Google Home "how far is X" .. and it responds with a distance/time and pops up a notification on my phone to initiate Google Maps navigation to the target. Useful if I'm in getting ready to go there.

Does Apple's HomePod have any such continuity with an iPhone?
Evaluation of Generic Convolutional and Recurrent Networks for Sequence Modeling
Right, drivers no longer have the barriers to entry that prevent competition. The ones that don't bear the brunt are new drivers.
How about not having to wear a phone?
AA filed chapter 11 in 2011. They are doing well now, but they are very vulnerable to things they can't control well, like fuel prices, unions, etc.

In fact, the bankruptcy is part of why they are doing well now. It allowed them a free pass to invalidate all union contracts and start over with lots of leverage.
"Novel Cells" are combinations of existing operators.

It's entirely true that these are combinations that humans haven't (and probably wouldn't) come up with.

I don't want to underplay this. "It's similar to hyperparameter search" makes it sound like it isn't interesting or novel, which is untrue. I completely believe it is a revolutionary way to build software (so much so that I quit my job, raised funding and are working on a similar space of problems).

But it isn't doing something like inventing a new math operations similar to the other operators which humans put together to form cells/layers. It is rearranging and choosing those operators in new ways.
> Wait for bitcoin to crash.

Don't need to do any manipulation at all for that to happen.
I've had similar confusion based on the anecdata: none of the android users i know (including myself) ever use the Google Assistant. Or if they do, they don't do it in public. most iPhone users i know use siri at least a little bit. So is Siri actually better? Or is there something else going on that makes it more usable even if it's technically not as "good"

And the quantity of articles complaining about siri would seem to back up the idea that siri is getting used a lot more - Google Assistant is certainly not perfect, it's got some glaring flaws [1]. If people were actually using it, they'd be complaining. The lack of press coverage about Google Assistant's weak points is not a good thing.

[1]https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/14/10-stupidly-simple-...
You're talking about the tech industry like they're the government. It's the government's job to focus on the public good, not profit driven corporations.
How/for what do people actually use Siri, or Alexa for?

I mean I can't think of having seen anyone use them for a long time for anything but to either test them out for curiositys sake, or for demoing their new Alexa controlled drapes.

Hopefully this wasn't too off-topic. Maybe HN should have an ability to create a poll and attach them to a thread. ;-)
I could be able to write the git internals code from memory and it wouldn't help me know what `git checkout` was going to do.
It's what happens at large orgs, esp ones with leadership problems - they can't move fast to improve products, even when something is obviously not working.

The only thing I use Siri for is on the desktop for starting apps - I've hooked it up to a keyb shortcut. I find its a bit faster than fumbling around spotlight or the dock. Alfred would possibly be even faster.

Google assistant has the best knowledge graph for generic questions, and much better machine learning models for voice recognition and language parsing. I primarily use it for route finding, finding out opening times, currency conversions, sometimes calling people.

Alexa for almost only music, and timers, since it's hooked up to my kitchen speakers. It's terrible for general knowledge questions.
Using the threat of force from the state to try and make someone prostrate themselves to authority is absolutely an injustice.
This is what I experienced years ago when I last had an iPhone. Google's voice recognition is exceptional. I can mumble words and it still seems to contextually figure out what I was probably trying to say.
Thanks. Apologies if I broke the rules. I did not consider the comment empty, off-topic, flame etc, and tried to keep it non-personal but factual. I actually deleted a bit that was on re-reading possible to construe as an attack. Perhaps saying "Good times" at the end might have added too much personal edge?

Anyway, I've discovered that learning to gain self-awareness from listening to feedback and observing your effect on others seems to be a way to reduce the risk of being the cause of failure. Some people do this better than others and it's a valuable skill.
While it is true that startup founders tend to come from upper middle class or wealthy backgrounds, not all of them do.
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I don't know how many committers have been on the average project I've worked on, but it's probably 25+, and I've worked on several with 50+ - and I don't know how you'd even make Git work at that sort of scale. Obviously people do actually do this, so I assume it must work somehow; I just don't see how it's going to work particularly well.

The larger projects I've worked on have typically used Perforce, but I used Alien Brain (which is pretty terrible) for some of the older ones. The check in/check out workflow, which is the same in each case, is basically what makes it all work once you get past a handful of people. Just simply being able to see who else is working on a (almost certainly perfectly cleanly mergeable) file that you're contemplating modifying is a big time-saver.

(I've used SVN, at a much smaller scale. It has similar Lock/Unlock functionality, which is a good start, but the performance in general of that seemed to be really bad. Locking a few hundred files might take a full minute, for example. Meanwhile, Perforce will check out 1.9 gazillion files in ten seconds, and that's only because it takes nine seconds to change NTFS permissions for that many files.)
That's a classical cartoon sketch of a black hole, it's not how they work in relativity. Black holes (specifically event horizons) are phenomena of space-time. They are regions where space-time is distorted in a way that leads to no space-time trajectories that leave the event horizon (in fact, all space-time trajectories that start within an event horizon inevitably have futures which go into the singularity). They incidentally trap light, but it's more accurate to say that they trap the future.
Have you flown Spirit? I know tall people that literally do not fit. Their knees are either in the aisle or in their seat neighbor's space.

Their seat pitch is truly awful.
I've been long familiar with that poem, but for the first time today I realize that its connected to our nature in how we're brought into the world. The long succession of mother and fathers springing forth new life. No human has ever just sprung up independent from prior human life or some lesser organism.
As did the first implementation of apple maps
A taxi driver does not to know how an engine. But I'd be amazed if a professional race car driver didn't understand their car.

We all expect software engineers, regardless of specialization, to understand operating systems, networks, databases and hardware at a better-than-layman level. Try saying "that's just a tool in my toolbox, I don't care how it works" about one of those topics in an interview.
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Let me show why I believe what I said. I'm no expert, and I would like it if you could clarify my understanding of why you think seizure of assets is not likely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
Siri is frustratingly bad/limited. It’s been kind of impossible to deny for a while now. I wonder what they’re going to do, because they had better do something. And the Viv people are at Samsung now so they can’t just buy that.
I think he was being sarcastic. The point is the basic law of gravitation is being violated here, and it's like, zero point energy or something.
I work for Cruise. Our software is a bungled mess from top to bottom.

For example, we have loops in our ROS node graph. Any student can tell you that the variance of the sum of two independent gaussians is the sum of the two variances. What this means is, variation in delay accumulates and the scheduling of the system is unstable.

There are people problems too. For example, the head of perception is a pathological liar. Another example: one of our founders jokes in private (when he's drunk, as he often is) that he's a "fraudster" and everyone knows there's a grain of truth there.
That's probably true but it seems so easy for people to forget.
I disagree. Their core feature is rapid, reliable delivery of the ordered item. Other sites are cheaper than Amazon, but I don't trust them to actually deliver what I order in a timely manner.

When I do shop elsewhere, I don't mind entering payment details as long as I'm not required to save them (I don't trust most sites not to be hacked and leak my payment details). But if I ever get a delivery time over a week or a 'back ordered' status, I cancel the order immediately, because I know that they don't really have the item on hand and are just gambling that they can broker the sale at a profit. I've had merchants outright admit that they can't fulfill an order unless they can add some high margin accessories to an order. Not a game I'm interested in playing.
In case you find the alphabet too small, there's a variant called ls47 (https://github.com/exaexa/ls47) that runs on a 7x7 tile with ~128 bits of security. It also suggests a key expansion algorithm.
> in git, for example, why can’t i switch branches with uncommitted changes? it makes no sense why i can’t do that, but yet, there it is.

Except you can?

[stouset:~/Development/some-project] some-branch(+8/-4)+ $ git status
On branch some-branch
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/some-branch'.

Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

modified: path/to/file1
modified: path/to/file2

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
[stouset:~/Development/some-project] some-branch(+8/-4)+ $ git checkout master
M	path/to/file1
M	path/to/file2
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

> i don’t think the reasons have much to do with usability or even capability. i came to git from perforce, where the latter was much easier to use, reason about, fix issues, and has much better tooling, in particular visual tools. it’s also amazing how slow git is.

Perforce isn't free. git's popular predecessors were.

That said, I've found in my experience that way more people seem to hate Perforce than seem to hate git.
My wife and I have an iOS and Android phone, and an Alexa home thingy.

- Android definitely reads our voice better. Alexa is a close second. iOS has to be helped in loud or non-ideal situations.

- iPhone maps/GPS are way worse too.

Often times I'll just hand my wife my phone in the car because Apple maps is taking forever or, giving INSANE directions that take us through tons of backroads to save .12839083 minutes on our drive when the highway is a clear direction that any human (or good AI) would have recommended.

As for the Alexa, we use it every day and it works great. "Alexa set alarm for 5." "AM or PM?" "AM." Boom. Done.

And I'm NO Android zealot. I have tons of problems with it. The app store seems to be way less damaging to your phone for iOS. Like, the first result for any phone problems for Android is "delete some apps." Ugh, the entire point of having a smart phone is apps. So if "removing all your apps" is the solution to the only advantage of having a smart phone, then your entire phone architecture is insane. That'd be like saying "Hey, my car keeps stalling." "Well, it only stalls when you drive, so don't drive it then." "Okay."
Even for BBQ charcoal is the traditional way, with propane grills only becoming a thing in the last decade or so.

And then mostly because of a combined effort between stores to try to sell the "American" BBQ experience.

Honestly hearing the "extreme" right fretting over the nation clandestinely going Muslim i point to things like the above and Halloween themed stores each September as an indication that we are already going American.

Damn it, for the last year or so there have been a "non-permanent" presence of US Marines on Norwegian soil, something that was never the case for the whole of the cold war.

I am honestly not sure what is going on with the nation any more...
Android's voice typing has been weird for me. It used to work pretty well offline, then a few months ago all the punctuation stopped working. Now it's working again and the overall recognition is better than ever.
throw20180315 , regarding your most recent "dead" comment, is there any chance your account has been flagged? I don't see a problem with the 2 comments that you wrote here in this thread, yet they are both "dead".
This is strictly anecdotal but a friend of mine is an exec at Facebook and we were recently discussing phones. He had an iPhone for a few years and has now had an Android for a couple years. He said that by far the most drastic difference between the two platforms is Siri vs. Assistant (or whatever Google's assistant is called in the phone). He said it is no contest how much more useful and functional Assistant is, compared to Siri. We did not dwell on this discussion and I otherwise find him an objective, un-biased user of the two platforms, so there you have it.
Okay multiple generations of people who will do whatever an ad or authority figure tells them to.

Not sure SEC is a good example, since they are a corrupt organization focused on prohibiting class mobility. Their propaganda works better than ads on the same people.
Also not a physicist. At the galactic scale gravity forces are too weak to take into account any non-Newtonian considerations. At least for myself, most things observed so far at galactic scale, like flat disk star orbital speed for example, can be easily explained by straight 6th grade Newtonian physics.
It's a matter of "Just Do It." I started my blog on December 4, 1999 [1] and now I find myself going "Oh, I wrote about that already! It was that long ago? Eeek!". [2]

[1] http://boston.conman.org/1999/12/04.1

[2] http://boston.conman.org/2018/03/06.1

Edit: added additional link
Is a voice assistant the killer app for anyone? I haven't ever used them, and I've only ever seen someone use it as an ironic 'look at me' at a party.
There should be an open standard to use whichever assistant you want, not limited to OEM one.
What topic? Basic geometry?
Well from my experience my wife never uses Siri on her iphone and always tells me to ask Google on mine even when she has her iphone in hand. I always tell her just ask Siri and her response is always, "you know Siri sucks". I honestly know this but only tell her to ask Siri to annoy her for interrupting me to ask Google something on my phone.
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It's not that it can do it.

It's how reliable it is when it does it. I use both iOS and Android, and Google Assistant is so much more reliable that I find I use it. With Siri I find I end up having to intervene so often it isn't worth it.

I do have an Australian accent, so maybe that is a factor.
Given the opportunity, I know I'd rather be ten seconds further from a nearby stack of bricks or possibly-unsecured bookcase when an earthquake hits...
Maybe I should have said Feynman but Musk definitely has done great things and is making people think that Mars travel might be a reality. He is making us look up, making people dream and working to make it a reality.

The booster rockets returning to Earth in unison and on the barge originally, both were amazing moments that were almost as impactful as the space race accomplishments during the Apollo program. Definitely exciting that it is a reality that is happening not just hope, Musk has amazing teams and funding but he is using all that to accomplish these things instead of just getting richer, risking his personal wealth many times over for these goals.

Sagan would probably be thrilled with SpaceX.

Then you have Tesla electric cards rocking the electric car / battery industry and making it business ready today.

Nikola Tesla would be thrilled with Tesla and battery power to lessen reliance on the electric grid.

Then you got solar homes and batteries along with the SpaceX accomplishments in rocketry, that you can start to put together and see the uses for interstellar travel and harsh planet settlement.

Hawking would be thrilled at the interstellar travel part as he has been warning humans to look for other places for years and thinks we must be interstellar within hundreds of years to survive.

Musk is more of a business focused guy but he is making people look up and is accomplishing these tasks by challenging big competitors and ultimately his products will be good for Earth. That is amazing in my book.

Feynman liked making everyone interested in science and talked to people with the aims of understanding not just being smart, he'd be thrilled that Musk is bringing amazing scientific achievement to regular people's lives.
Once you plan for any delay then the ethical/financial discussion then goes to why not 0.1s or 1 second or two? It might be more ethically balanced, and less of a PR nightmare if a hedge fund were satisfied with maybe matched parallel feed and the advantage they get for just having the infrastructure to respond to a richer signal sent at the same time as the public warning. The public warning is a yes or no to send, but the feed might have added data such as uncertainty, or initial locations.. etc.
no, the point is that it follows from basic algebra, and high-school physics defitions of velocity.
Oh, I agree - but I already know git fairly well. IME those people who have been using TFS solo for a decade have a much harder time seeing the benefits, because they're totally alien to the development workflow that they have become used to.
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I used to think I had changed in the same way you did. Now I realize that the majority of (male) teenagers are narcissistic, manipulative and impulsive. Fortunately most of them grow out of it sometime in their 20s. See "A Clockwork Orange".
Jobs screwed up plenty of times. Look at the whole history of NeXT Computer for example. Software so far ahead of everything else at the time, but totally screwed up getting it into the market.
It charges pretty quickly. Leave it on the charger while you're taking a shower in the morning, and you're set for the day.
The other day I went out for a 10 mile run (from Brooklyn to Queens) with my Apple Watch and wireless earbuds. I was running to my mechanic to pick up my car which had been serviced.

I listened to a couple of podcasts I had downloaded offline with Watch Player. Then I switched to streaming Apple Music. About 5 miles into the run I got a phone call from the mechanic which I answered, to confirm that I was still coming to pick up the vehicle. I also stopped in to a pharmacy and bought an energy bar using Apple Pay.

When I got to the mechanic, I picked up the car, and used Apple Maps driving directions to navigate home, while listening to Apple Music, connected to the bluetooth stereo in my car. I was also able to make a phone call to my girlfriend to tell her that I was on my way back and make dinner plans.

So yes, people actually use them, and download and use apps.
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> Fair, but how do you continuously put people under stress using only words on a screen?

Once someone has become afraid of something, it doesn't just vanish after the event that caused it is over.
But make sure you engage the quarter-turn valves on the input and output. If the main water source gets polluted you don't want it to contaminate your drinking water.
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