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Ask HN: Real-world implementations of word2vec/doc2vec type algorithms
what are some successful real-world products using word2vec style techniques? Curious to learn how businesses are using this approach outside of research.

edit: changed "implementation" to "products" as my question was regarding commercially deployed products.
I feel for them having to deal with SF regulations - so no beef there.

My main niggle is a UX one. They really need to communicate the coverage in the signup process (especially if you're outside it when you sign up).

To their supreme credit - I contacted support asking clarification. They got back to me with an answer in minutes. Plus they refunded my initial payment.
> Right, and african americans have had many more generarions to accumulate it compared to irish americans or asian americans, right?

Slavery, sure, but also lots of post-slavery policy, especially Jim Crow laws in the South.
I used to eat banana flowers lol its not difficult to find in the market here. Its interesting because the bananas we eat don't develop seeds and the flowers are downwards and the species that does develop seeds the flower is upwards (like musa velutina) its like the common bananas are not "strong" enough, so don't even bare seeds.
Now all we need is a port of progman.exe that's compatible with newer versions of Windows.
Fish farming. Growing fish meat from stem cells. Finding substitutes for fish meat, e.g. via synthetic biology from fungi.
This has become a nightmare in Sydney. I see broken bikes everywhere, in piles, up fences, down in canals.

I’m hoping for regulation to come soon.
A bit more obscure for some, but hugely useful to others: if you're a newsreader (Usenet) kind of person, there's Gwene, by the same folks who did Gmane. While Gmane took mailing lists and made them available as news articles, gwene takes RSS feeds and makes them available as news articles. You need a newsreader (Thunderbird will do, or emacs/gnus, knode, pan, slrn, alpine etc.). Start here: http://gwene.org or just point your newsreader at news.gwene.org. There are millions of RSS feeds, each submitted by someone. (Or you can submit your own). It's managed by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, the guy who wrote gnus. I find it hugely useful.
This is what is happening in Phoenix metro. Ofo and others are littering sidewalks and business courtyards with their bright bikes that no one uses.
I mean, it should be pretty obvious that isn't the case, as the person you form the strongest bond with in your life is an unrelated "stranger." That would be your spouse, of course.
It's as "native" and "desktop" as... well... ekhm:
"Signal Desktop is an Electron application that links with your Signal Android or Signal iOS app."
Can't wait to have my laptop dropping frames while running at 90°
I've seen that removable battery style before in an ebike, and a friend that had a DIY version of that said vibration eventually caused heat problems that caused something to catch fire. Does this bike deal with that? Do you latch the battery to avoid vibration problems?
Ah I see. Sorry for misreading you, but it's unfortunately almost always the correct interpretation, unless the comment was packed with enough flame retardant to disambiguate. Intent doesn't communicate itself, so the burden is on the commenter to do that.
The problem with your logic is that if applied consistently, it turns motivations and root causes into a non-actionable mush. If it disproportionally affects women, it must be misogynist, and we mustn't ignore that. If it disproportionally affects people from Kentucky, it must be Kentuckiest, and we mustn't ignore that. If it disproportionally affects people with red hair, that's hairist, and we mustn't ignore that. If it disproportionally affects rural peoples, that must be ruralist, and we can't ignore that.

The problem is, in the real world, everything correlates with everything. Why are there potholes in the road? Institutional racism, sexism, and ruralism (and everything else). Why is there acid rain? Institutional racism, sexism, and ruralism (and everything else). Why is there a plastic patch in the ocean? Institutional racism, sexism, and ruralism (and everything else). Why are governments everywhere going dangerously into debt, running the risk of defaults? Institutional racism, sexism, and ruralism (and everything else).

You need no more stretching for any of those examples than the gymnastics you exhibited in your post.

If everything is caused by the same cause, nothing is really caused by that cause. It has no information content. You can't fix anything if you assign everything the same list of root causes without distinction.

In trying to do a favor to the victims of racism, you are working very, very hard to ensure that only ineffective methods of solving their problems are deployed. Is that really helpful?
When you buy ads programmatically, and define those purchases with parameters instead of through a GUI, aren't you arguably buying access to an API?
Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion
It seems like OpenAI's Human Feedback research (in collaboration with DeepMind) is targeted at this sort of thing. They try to use human feedback to create more nuanced and aligned objectives.

https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum...
Don’t answer. It’s a trap!
Same...I'm thinking thats the point? That url must have some kind of SEO-related optmization that isn't obvious?
Ask HN: How do you usually deal with toxic co-workers?
- in the case where you have little or no choice to make them (or yourself) leave the job
Do they have the same problem other bike rental companies have had in SF where users ride them to the bottom of the hills where they just stack up?
I assume they mean the radius was a parameter in the URL so changing it was easy, e.g. replace &search_radius=5 with &search_radius=1.
Sure, but the world population of chickens probably still crashes...
>6. A truly hyper-intelligent AGI will see that existence is absurd and truth is the only objective worth seeking. It will choose to pursue deeper truths than humans are physically capable of obtaining - humans will be no more important to a hyper-intelligent being than a rock, galaxy, atom, etc...

You might as well assume a "truly" hyper-intelligent system will study Maimonides!
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I remember these other things we used to put on the wall and use to control the lights. We called them "light switches", and they didn't require secondary devices to have apps installed in the middle. They were also incredibly difficult to lose track of.
"Tech is the center of our modern lives. But it's broken."

on a page that doesn't properly render without running Javascript from 2 third-party services. There are also multiple third party javascript includes explicitly for surveillance/metrics. I agree that the system is broken but I don't trust these clowns to help
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They get piled up against buildings. They exacerbate the problem that many US roads have no place for cyclists, and alternatively, cyclists incorrectly will use sidewalks. All said, in the current state, more cycling is creating a bigger problem and not solving the hard ones.

Cycling is awesome. Let's fix how they coexist on roads.
Many of the vendors we partner with (tourism industry) live in countries where the main communication channel is WhatsApp. There's a lot of communication we want to automate in the near future—eagerly looking forward to seeing this progress!
My friends switched from whatsapp to signal for day. We switched back after a matter of hours. We couldn't find a way to quote messages to reply to them, which is critical for group conversions where multiple threads are happening at once. Also there was no ability to @user to direct a message at a specific person. As for the app, there was unnecessary whitespace between messages--even using smallest font size. Usability vs unauditable security is tough calculus but I think technical people weigh security more then their less technical friends.
Unless that was the mission.... to try and launch an un-trackable satellite.
UK has almost 20x less guns per citizen, Sweden 5x less...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...
I'm an avid biker, and I also make heavy use of my city's shared bike program. I go more miles on my own bikes, but I ride shared bikes more often.

I think you're overlooking many significant use cases for shared bikes. Here's a few:
- It's well below freezing out and you just want to quickly get from your apartment to the train station, drop the bike off and forget about it.
- You won't be returning to that station to pick the bike back up later.
- Bike to the grocery store. Walk back carrying several big bags.
- Take the train into work in the morning, bike back when you have more time or energy.
- Getting from one point to another where a cab would be overkill but walking take too long.
- You want to bike to places, but don't want to deal with lugging your bike up 5 flights of stairs several times a day or don't have room to store it if you do.

The summary is that shared bikes let you ride in situations which you normally wouldn't. (And of course for many casual riders it can easily be their only bike.)
You have to lock Jump bikes to bike racks after use and are liable if you do not and it gets stolen, so it's "semi-dockless" in that sense and unlike other bike sharing companies.
short answer, no
> "I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter,” wrote a young Mark Zuckerberg. “I definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light.”

More like the Non-Apology Tour.
Can you teach freshman Medieval French? No of course you can't. If you had a masters would you then magically be able to teach freshman Medieval French? No. You just haven't done the subject yourself so you can't teach it.

You can't say 'you have a masters you should be able to pick it up yourself and teach it to these school children'. Can you not see how unreasonable that is?
Cars need to pay tax to be on public roads, which then is used for maintenance costs.

These bikes are using public land for free.
Lol welcome to post Citizen's United. Anyone with an LLC can spend unlimited money on an election legally. No need to hide foreign money, just spend $50 and make a new corp based in the US.
It's Apple only for now. Once that market shows it's worthwhile I'll expand into Android. As for Sengled hubs, if there's IFTTT support or custom URL support, then it's in there.
...and the reason why prostitution is criminalized would be?
> But if you want to fix the problem, running around looking for the non-existent racists is going to be less effective than finding the real root problem and addressing that.

On the contrary, if you want to fix the problem, actively ignoring the real and existing racism that caused and is contributing to maintaining the problem is going to be a lot less effective than acknowledging and addressing it and it's mechanisms and effects.
Austria here and I am very satisfied with my "socialist water" experience. Exposing basic requirements for survival to free market forces seems like a recipe for failure.
As the author points out in the conclusion, the state space blows up very quickly as the grid becomes larger.

There is a large class of algorithms for finding approximately optimal solutions to MDPs[1] that are model-free or stateless, meaning you don't need to enumerate all of the state-to-state transitions to get a good policy.

If you google 2048 reinforcement learning[0], you'll find lots of implementations of such algorithms.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=2048+reinforcement+learning

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process#Algori...
Manage your HOSTS file with a UI because idek
>with Zerotier you already have ip4/6 connectivity - what's the benefit of burying down below that?

LibZT [1] provides a socket-like programming interface without requiring the full ZeroTier software and its system-wide virtual interfaces. I could see wanting to use something like nanomsg on top of that even though it's not an actual socket implementation.

[1] https://github.com/zerotier/libzt
Actualy I almost don't use WhatsApp. Saddly I settled on Telegram (sigh) but it's the only remotlely sane solution to having desktop client that doens't require mobile phone being constantly on.
I would love to have XMPP more popular, but while I love the protocol it had quite some shortcomings (carbons only getting popular recently for example)
> At my school social media contributes positively to most people's self esteem because it is a constant source of positive feedback from friends on personal activities and memories

But that's the problem. People get a "like" or equivalent on a photo or post and they conflate that with self-worth. They then see their friend (or worse, enemy) get more likes and either feel unworthy or a need to compete. I get the short-term self-esteem boost from a popular post, but the long-terms effects of chasing such positive affirmation are not healthy and will likely to lead to deeper issues later in life particularly once you enter the workforce.

Disclaimer: I went to school pre-social media so insert appropriate dinosaur reference.
I leave. Any workplace that tolerates (and often even elevates) such people is beyond salvage.
Efficient encoding is very important for WebRTC and video communication in general. And AV1 is proposed for it. So hopefully some major improvements are planned.
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It would probably help if you spelled out what you mean by toxic in this circumstance. There are some grades of toxicity that go from mildly annoying to police involvement.
Ok, so this would lead to restricting initial access to strong AI to a few well funded corporate and government groups.

Very briefly though, because it's way easier to leak code than to obtain source material and tools to weaponize a deadly virus.
Homo Sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago
There's no possible way to build an un-trackable satellite that's large enough to make useful Earth observations. The basic limits of physics still apply. There's a difference between rocket science and magic.
> The vast majority of people who sell sex do so to feed an addiction, or because they're being coercively controlled.

That may be true for the vast majority of sex work in general. But I think it's pretty unlikely to be true for the vast majority of sex work advertised online, particularly in places like this. This is an empirical question, of course, but the sexworkers subreddit is some decent evidence in this camp.
But vats can still support bacteria colonies, just like cows can.

Ideally, they'd be sterilized between batches, in a way that left no residue on the product. In practice, though, I wonder if they won't need to use antibiotics (or something like them) in order to ensure a safe product.

The advantage will be that all those antibiotics don't run off into the soil... except for the plant's wastewater. Still, it ought to be more localized than the current practice.
Mandatory xkcd comic strip ;-) https://xkcd.com/927/
As long as Windows machines sit on employee desktops, there will be a compelling need for things like Bit9/Carbon Black. I helped with an enterprise deployment a few years ago and -- except the rule tweaking that required quite a lot of trial and error* -- it works as advertised.

* There wasn't really any "error", per se. It was really just a trial in deciding how much the CIO/CISO was willing to deal with knowing about, versus remaining ignorant by choice since that was far less work. Given where they ended up, I'm not sure whether the millions spent on the software was a smart business decision. <banghead>
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Should I get a degree in computer science
Am a 23 year old self taught web developer and A.I enthusiast, with a diploma in marine engineering, and have tried sadly to no avail to get a software engineering job, as most companies in my country require a bsc in computer science or in other related courses for position as a software developer, and due to this barrier, I recently started my own startup; a Saas app that generates German style question from pdf files.
But I have of late had this fear that I am wasting my time and should instead go back to school to get a bsc in computer science.
And I would like hacker newsers advice on this dilemma I find myself in.
There used to be no sidewalks. Streets were for people and the occasional horse. Then Henry Ford started making cars. Let's all be glad that we didn't decide to just let pedestrians be mowed down by cars because hey man it's just too hard to start over
US roads are paid for by income and property tax dollars. Gas taxes and fees barely put a dent in the TCO of the roadway.
Literally nobody has ever been killed by a shared bike ridden improperly upon a sidewalk. Meanwhile people are killed every day by cars on sidewalks, and we're all headed for extinction from climate change caused by cars no matter how operated. Don't tell me I am supposed to care about the infinitesimal imaginary harm of someone who chooses a bicycle, especially if that person would have normally chosen a car.

As for "piled up against buildings" just give me a break already. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&q=car+crash... The aesthetic argument is by far the stupidest argument against bike shares.
We need to be aware of the problem that's happening in China with bike sharing [1]. There is a large saturation problem. Ofo seems to be one of the main contributors to the issue. In Seattle it seems like I see more and more Ofo bikes on the side of the road, and rarely do I see anyone riding them.

[1] http://time.com/5218323/china-bicycles-sharing-economy/
Exactly. Since this article is meant to repeat Trump's rhetoric, how about we look at his companies and their history of avoiding taxes, or his (presumable) avoidance of paying taxes?
Are we actually experiencing a syringe shortage because there's not enough plastic to go around?
Most cities aren't as hilly as SF.
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The part where he takes the human sensitivity into account has grabbed my attention. It looks a little suspicious to me the way he simply just multiplies the normalized relative sensitivity measure with the spectral fluxes.

The way it is calculated now, the only way for a spectral flux (SLF) to be optimal considering its spectral luminous flux (LF) is to be entirely concentrated at ~550nm, laser-like. However, such a light would leave many of the cones in our eyes unsatisfied, hinting that this shouldn't really be the optimal.

I am by no means an expert, but I would expect a LF to be optimal when it matches the relative human sensitivity in shape, instead of the one focused as an impulse at the peak of the relative human sensitivity.
That's not really a response to my comment. You said Backpage made sex work more dangerous. I, and this lady, claimed otherwise. What does Backpage being used to traffic minors have to do with that?
Skilled consultants are to some extent mashed together with unskilled labor in politics and law and there has been a very long campaing now to basically make hiring contractors extremely unattractive.

So now you hire an engineering consultant, train him/her for a few months on the job and are forced by law to let that person go after 18 months to repeat the cycle.
I think it's kinda bullshit to claim that most PhDs are bullshit.
Those are also horrible.
Well, there's this and there's this Buffett quote I think about every time I want to start/do something new

> The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. [0]

I've always attributed Buffett's success at least partially to his razor-sharp focus.

[0] https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/warren-buffett-says-thi...
No, at least not for a fair amount of time before it comes out. I want to wait for real (independent) data on health effects and nutrition. I want to wait for data on long-term health effects.

By independent, I mean not just independent of the grower, but perhaps also of the FDA.
A counter (somewhat) : http://yosefk.com/blog/fun-wont-get-it-done.html

Its not important, but I happen to agree with most of it.. :)
There's more to it than that. C++ is designed for implementations to produce fast code. "Leave no room between C++ and Assembly" has been a guiding principle of C++. This is not true of Python, and thus the engineering effort required for an implementation to reach the same level of performance is huge, if at all possible.
It's always interesting to see how local startups succeed internationally (especially the ones founded in such rural areas as Carinthia).

Also I just recently was at a talk with one of their engineers and learned how they scaled their monitoring services; quite fascinating...

Keep up the great work (and see you at the next OpenTechTable).
Proud 1st time home buyer in Houston :). I could barely afford my rent in NY. And that was with a room mate!
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To what extent are the set of intrinsics used for VP9/h265 decoding unreusable for AV1 decoding? My guess is that there is large amount of reusable intrinsics.
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This article touches on it a bit, but I would love a piece like Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs [1] for color spaces. The history of RBG, XYZ, CMYK, sRGB, etc. would be pretty interesting on their own.

[1] https://medium.com/actualize-network/modern-css-explained-fo...
>I have no idea why people complain about bike shares, dockless or docked.

You like the bike shares you’ve used, or you don’t know why people complain?

Because if it’s the latter, the main reason is they can easily become a nuisance:

https://www.twitter.com/hashtag/DocklessBikeFail

People abuse them, and when/if the programs fail you end up with stories like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/25/chinas-bike-...
Building Real Time Analytics APIs at Scale
Maybe you assume that an AGI would be totally uncontrollable but in this highly speculative exercise I don't think you should assume your position is the only valid one.
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To kill killer robots, a brief boycott
The exact details on how to make a Thermonuclear weapon are classified, do you think that is done so improperly?