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It’s not just sleazy advertising, the money IBM has taken from cancer research for snake oil is downright fraud in my book
Maybe I just never do anything complicated with Python, but I never have any the problems captured in this comic.

I install all my Python modules into the system's Python using my OS's package manager. I have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed but beyond having the same module installed in each of those locations, I have never found the need for multiple versions of the same module installed at the same time.

On the rare occasion where my OS doesn't provide a package I need, I use pip install --user. If it turns out to be something I'll want for the long term, I just knock together a quick package that I can install/uninstall using standard OS packaging tools.
pipenv doesn't solve any problems well, especially if you require multiple versions of Python, which is _always_ a problem if you're developing libraries. You still need something like pyenv to manage multiple versions of Python.

If you're using pyenv, it's easy to do virtualenv with the pyenv-virtualenv plugin, at which point you don't need Pipenv because it doesn't solve anything (except locking, see blow) that you can't do with requirements files. Furthermore, if you're testing under multiple versions of Python, you'd use tox to manage your test environments anyway.

_Further_ furthermore, they authors recommend _against_ use pipenv to manage dependencies for anything but development, so it's on you to have a copy of runtime dependencies isolated from Pipfile. And since you have to put your runtime requirements in setup.py anyway, there was never any way around the issue of duplicating requirements to begin with.

The one thing Pipenv does that pip and requirements files can't is lock dependencies down the entire tree... except it's abominably slow at that because it has to download dependencies and walk the entire tree. There's a debate ongoing about using pip's cache to solve the problem but there's no end in sight.

If you're really sensitive to having the entire dependency tree frozen to exact versions of you requirements, just `pip freeze` them occasionally. It's way less hassle.

Packaging in Python is far better than it was a few years ago. There's still a lot to improve but pipenv shouldn't be part of the solution.
Lab grown meat would be a real game changer I think. I would gladly be as early of an adopter of it as possible - and I very rarely adopt anything early on.
Yep, I see this all the time too. Buy a printer? Amazon thinks you want to buy a new printer every day for months.

Google too. I bought a Pixel 2 online, from Google, signed in to Google. Now I see ads on Google ad networks all day long to buy a Pixel 2. It has been 5 months of daily ads from Google to buy the phone I just bought. Ridiculous.

Ad networks are a clear financial win for AI - but they also show the ridiculousness and are clear windows into the failures so far.
Free will is about ultimately having control. If your decisions are randomly determined by quantum mechanics, you aren't any freer than if your decisions are the result of a deterministic process.
Surprised by all the skepticism in this thread. As someone who grew up in Metro Detroit, moved away, and came back it is very obvious that Detroit is on the rebound. I'm not sure what metrics show it, but it's real.
Non sequitur. Even if both are true, it doesn't follow that the reduction in population will cover the loss of jobs to automation. If you posit this, you're basically assuming that the people who remain will all be extremely skilled and talented people who'll all have jobs and not be in danger of their jobs being automated. It doesn't work that way. Much of the population, no matter how large or small, is going to be only suited for simpler jobs like truck driving where robots will be taking them over before too long. People not having enough kids isn't going to change that fact.
For AI and deep learning, hardware does matter. Specialized machines much more efficient than general purpose CPUs
What’s your thesis? Those top flight schools are staffed by people who are at best indifferent to the people drinking $3 beers in a plastic cup and on average actively despise them. They have very, very low rates of divorce but their hands aren’t calloused and they don’t get married in front of an altar.
OK, I see the requirement to pay is only for the binaries. It does seem like grabbing binaries from gocaddy.com is the preferred installation method vs. apt-get, etc for nginx.

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The "rank and yank" or 20-70-10 rule was always Big News™ where I grew up (Capital District of NY): GE's global HQ, R&D, etc was all there - along with lots of other business divisions (turbines, chemicals, etc)

It's really a secularization/inversion of [true] "Puritan thinking" - whereas the Puritans were worried about whether they stood or fell before God in their faith, belief, and practice, the pervasive inversion/misapplication of that line of reasoning into the secular world brings you the general New York & New England (Welch was born in MA; GE is HQ'd in Schenectady NY) mentality of:

- know where you stand

- rank others

- excessive competitiveness

It even show[s|ed] up in loads of college classes where grading would often enough be done on strict bell curves - didn't matter if you earned an "A", if you were the lowest scorer, you could easily be given an "F" (or "D")
Looks like it uses headless chrome for HTML to PDF conversion so its not going to support advanced print CSS like Prince.

Real issue is Prince is the only browser that supports full print CSS, none of the major browsers seem to care about better print output anymore.
OT from the headline, but I take issue with the author's claim that Bob Dylan's work doesn't relate to the theme "love fades". Dylan has had a vast career beyond his protest song days, and I'd argue that one of his best albums, "Blood on the Tracks" would be accurately summed up as "love fades".
As several people have already pointed out, there is almost no argument that can be made against giving it to him that isn't invalidated by Obama receiving it. That is the problem with turning everything into a statement of political ideology; the thing looses it's value. Instead of centering our identities around ideas, we have started centering them around people and parties.

People forget, but there was a time people would be members of the NRA and the ACLU. Where a person could support gay rights, and support religious objections...

We have reached the point we're, in politics, we don't care how we occomplish our goals; only that we get what we want from the system.
Maybe this is my experience biasing things, but it doesn't seem that complicated to me even on Mac.

- Install brew w/ the one-liner on https://brew.sh

- `brew install python3` (which includes pip) and any system dependencies you need: C libraries, etc. For example, `brew install openssl libpq libffi libsass libsodium ossp-uuid` and so on

- Create a virtualenv and install all python stuff in there. Doing `virtualenv -p python3 venv` in the root of your project works. But, if you want to get fancy, there's pyenv, pyvenv, and the like. Use one that works for you.

This seems to be the same as the experience with Linux, except you don't need to install the package manager. In Docker, you also don't need a virtualenv.

Or maybe people are using more difficult to install dependencies than I am? Even if you have to install from source though, it's not a huge deal.

Another possibility is people are using IDE's that want you to do things "their way". I don't know anything about this b/c I use a terminal-based text editor (not trying to start a flamewar).

And the final thought is just that people are not experienced with package managers or general terminal use. You obviously have to be fluent in terminal to use the workflow I outlined above.
That is a much better example. With the twist that believing it can get you killed.
Interested dummy here: You can get a 1% stream per user authorisation (sounds weird to me)? How do you minimize overlap?

I once had access to a 1% stream but thought it was a fire hose test version (and everyone would get the same 1% to avoid combining like you describe).
Hardware. That’s the keyword, and it might very well be true. Tesla doesn’t claim their software is capable of full self-driving yet and in fact the system will scream at you and stop the car if you take your hands off the steering wheel for too long.
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I'm interested in the original idea. Can you expand on how your ideal system would function?
We really don't all want to get rich. Some of us just want to solve problems, help people, or alleviate suffering. Some people want to achieve that by getting rich first (not me). A large proportion of even those who want to get rich for selfish reasons don't want to do that by screwing other people over.
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It sounds to me like the issue isn't that false positives exist (you aren't ever going to fully get rid of them), it's that the SA tools need easy "escape hatches" for those false positives.

Even something as simple as an editor plugin to let you click on a specific "error" or "warning" and click "silence" to add a magic comment or something to explicitly "allow" the line/function/file.

It reduces the amount of extra work from a false positive to next to nothing, it still can and will catch issues before they hit production, and it can make iffy-code more explicit (The added magic comment essentially saying "yes, i did mean to do that").
>But in the end, while Go had many advantages, there were too many factors that made writing Go frustrating and discouraged me from using it.

What factors?
Maybe you are referring to their paid service, Gnip? Yes, you need to pay for that one, but they have a free version that you can indeed access within minutes. Try Twitter4J.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime...
While there are domains where AI is having successes, the current general expectation is far ahead of where the technology is. People think (and in part due to the marketing like IBM is putting out) that ML/AI can do things that aren't possible yet.

There may be a reset in expectation soon which will lead to become more pessimistic at claims being made and the marketing. Once we are through that, it will be easier to get people to understand what use cases align with the available technology and implementing ML/AI will become more productive. Aka the Trough of Disillusionment followed by the plateau of productivity.
Suicide is the purest expression of the precautionary principle. Think about it.

Seriously, oxygen is a known carcinogen, responsible for the massive generation of free radicals in the body. Realize: look at how oxygen burns wood, it can even eat steel! And you're sucking this extremely hazardous and potent oxidizer into your body with every breath.
I think the bout of people getting sick in late 2016 / early 2017 dampened enthusiasm significantly.
"Recently they ran an ad featuring Bob Dylan which made laugh, or would have, if had made not me so angry." Wait, is Roger Schank an AI trying to convince humans that AIs are impotent and harmless? Pretty sneaky, Schank-bot.
Here's mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16959947

Oh! and another: We have a certain corner table in our lunch room where we traditionally put free food. Someone set their lunch item there while doing something else. I grabbed it and ate it. When we realized I apologized profusely(while other co-workers said "oops, she shouldn't have put it there"), then bought her a replacement.
So many comments pointing out the difference between luck and hard work, or saying it's all about taking opportunities when they arise etc. I can't compute.

The entire point of the article was to say if you work harder, your propensity for hard work is the result of luck (or 'the sum of external circumstance and genetics that led to your being a hard worker'). If you are good at taking opportunities when they arise, the thing that makes you be that kind of person can be described as 'luck' (because if not, what is it? Where does it come from? Intuitively people put it down to some kind of magical inner 'you-ness' but that's ill-defined and wishy-washy).

If you're using the idea that your success in life is due to your personal flavour of 'free will' being 'better', you're arguing for something supernatural, causeless and which originated somewhere other than The Big Bang. I'm not saying you're wrong but you've got quite a lot of arguing to do as philosophers have been trying to prove free will exists for centuries. The best argument for it that I've read is from Daniel Dennett in 'Freedom Evolves' where he suggests free will is a kind of emergent behaviour which while not being real is 'real enough'. Obviously I'm nowhere near doing it justice as it's an entire book by a proper philosopher but it's a great read if you're interested in this stuff.

I'm not saying I like the idea that free will doesn't exist (I don't!) but I can't come up with an argument for it being non-deterministic (and if it's pre-determined then it's not free will). It's essential to our sense of self. It seems like an obvious thing when you think about it in floppy ways but as soon as you start trying to define it properly as anything other than a 'ghost in the machine', emergent behaviour of a deterministic system, it moves further and further away from you. Hence the long-standing philosophical musings!
It's not that weird, software uses physical totems for all sorts of policy decisions. Look at the weird complicated nature of discs in videogame consoles this decade, for instance, (and which PCs did for a couple decades before). The game software is often running entirely from a hard disk, but if you bought the game as a physical disc (Blu-Ray), the console still wants the disc in the drive for a proof of continued ownership. (All to appease the pawn shop habits of many videogame players.)

It's all just variations on Two-Factor Authentication. Proper two factor is using a hardware device you own to be a physical totem as a factor to access an account.

Here Microsoft is saying that a proper license of the software for a given machine is both the license code (something you know) and a physical disc (something you have) as a simple two-factor equation.

Microsoft giving the benefit of the doubt to the average user that perhaps they might lose a disc for boring reasons like "It's in a box somewhere in the attic, I just don't know which one" or "I tossed it in the garbage not realizing it was valuable" or "My dog thought it was a Frisbee" (and these days even and especially "I didn't realize I needed that partition when I repaved my idiot OEM's install"), offers the rough equivalent to the SMS two-factor password recovery on their website (by interacting directly with them, and presumably only them, to download an "emergency" copy). Just like SMS recovery, it's not a great 2FA replacement, and is likely to have false positives from bad actors, but it is better than nothing.

So it makes sense that Microsoft would have problems with disintermediating that exchange, because A) they can't track it, and B) as it scales, it increases the likelihood of bad actors abusing it. Even if this particular recycler wasn't collecting and reselling the proper copies of recovery discs alongside the counterfeits, the next one might.

Returning to the 2FA analogy, there are somewhat equivalents to the "Forgot Password" flow for a system to remember its old License Code, both in the system itself and on the recovery disc in some cases, not to mention that there is also the Microsoft licensing hotline where you can ask/beg/social engineer a human representative to restore your license.

So concerns that selling machines without the original recovery disc is possibly someone selling both the original recovery disc and the machine to different buyers to "split the licenses in half" is a quite valid concern, whether or not that was the actual intent here.

(...and the actual intent here is so entirely muddied by the trademark infringement and effort put into the counterfeiting, it's hard not to wonder if there was a fire beneath all the smoke.)
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Is rustc still using forked llvm, or it's already switched to upstream?
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that's just auto generated... I saved the bookmark in 2016... could be even earlier. I don't see any dates. Wayback machine has its first saved copy in May 2016 which matches my bookmark.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160523070729/http://www.rogersc...
Indeed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916575
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To be fair to Mayer, I don’t think anyone could have saved Yahoo.

She presided over a (mostly) graceful decline which allowed a reasonable end to the company.

She wasn’t some genius but I never understood why she was considered that by some anyhow: she’d previously shown solid competency not amazing insight.
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Newsflash: a for-profit company takes actions that maximize profits.
Everything IBM says about Watson should be taken with a few tons of salt.

I don't know how much I'm allowed to say, but they couldn't even get it to work acceptably internally for some of the basic datamining and natural language processing that are among the things so highly touted in some of their TV advertising. This is with a gargantuan dataset compiled from years of relevant interactions to train on in the particular area of interest.
Hideho folks. I worked with the team on this, and am happy to answer any questions you have.
Unfortunately the real version doesn't have the videos to convince me why I need this.
> Interesting to see this comment here, and upvoted. I think it shows just how divergent the news.ycombinator community has diverged from ycombinator (the incubator). Or maybe the community is simply a reflection of what the incubator has become.

That quote above is a bit pessimistic, I agree with you there, but maybe you're replying to an individual quote that doesn't reflect the values of anyone else here at all? Is it really necessary or justified to project this negativity on the greater community based on one comment and a few up-votes? Are you certain you know why the up-votes were given?

The empirical benefits quote you shared is talking directly about YC and it's employees, not founders, and it's ultimately (and intentionally) a bit paradoxical. When YC is talking about the benefits of benevolence, they're implicitly talking about the long term private financial return of their own investments.

Their attitude here seems like healthy and forward business thinking to me, but maybe we should be careful about equating for-profit business benevolence with selfless humanitarian benevolence. Strong arguments have been made in both directions whether human good is served by business returns. I just wanted to emphasize that starting a company is almost always inherently partially selfish, and that it's hard to name many billionaires who's primary adjective is benevolent. Many are benevolent to varying degrees, but most are first and foremost good at profit-seeking.
It's deliberately deceptive, and I'm real tired of tech people tripping over each other to defend it. Technically correct? Sure. But deliberately phrased to obscure the fact that this is a hypothetical future capability that the product does not possess today. And please spare me your "well actually, the showroom attendants will clarify exactly what it means" -- they are framing this in a misleading way to generate public interest.
:-( I really hope Simone Giertz pulls through on this. I really like her videos and she has been an inspiration for me to make shitty arduino projects.
> Go compiles to machine code and I guess it should be way faster than Java.

Java is also not interpreted for 20 years already. JIT compiler compiles jvm bytecode into machine code.
Free software has always had two meanings. "Free as in speech or free as in beer", is a phrase used commonly in software development for a reason
> Now, it has become easier to train a model such as a neural net where you can provide much 'rawer' data; similarly you just provide it a 'goal' in the form of a loss function which it tries to optimize over the dataset.

"just".

Where is the mention of all of decisions on network size, node topologies, regularization, optimization methods, etc.. And you still have to do your first step.

Deep learning is way more complex than just choosing a loss function.
> The logic of how a CPU works is more interesting.

Maybe for you. I find silicon fabrication to be much more interesting.
Certain types of script really really really should always start with

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or similar. This has saved me from myself way too many times.
I think if anything you’re overly conservative for thinking somone rather than many people need jail time for it. I would look up the line of people who made and supported the decision for that kind of fraudulent marketing and drag them all into court.
I am thinking about it and there may be a way to do it using Pug mixins (like LaTeX macros).

Also, ReLaXed supports Markdown-it, which in turn has plug-ins for footnotes and citations, for instance. Not sure what you mean by auto-reference, but that should be possible, like in any other HTML page, wouldn't it ?
They may be trying to be those "mosquitos" ... but they're still - on average - "average"
Something feels wrong about the assessment of the second block of text being written by a human.

I feel some conflict in my head that someone would talk about Bob Dylan as "overstepping" a claim about his prominence and then conceding that he does belong in a "Top 10 Bob Dylan Protest Songs list." Of course he belongs in a Bob Dylan list he is Bob Dylan.

Does that sound human?
By the time that happens, centuries will have passed and the problems caused by population loss will have already been experienced.

Also, I've worked with and known Mormons, and I've never known them to be huge kid-producers, so I'm questioning this assumption. They have more kids than the current white American average AFAICT, but not hugely so. They tend to be higher income and put a lot of energy and resources into their kids; you can't do that and have 10 kids. In general, it's low-education people who have tons of kids. Mormons are not like this; they're generally very well educated.
I don't know how to become a billionaire but I do believe that the key to getting rich isn't rocket science but simple mathematics at least in the United States today.

Don't live outside your means. Don't get in debt. Don't risk things you can't afford to lose. Everything else is compound interest and mathematics.

"Whenever a really bright person who has a lot of money goes broke, it's because of leverage... It's almost impossible to go broke without borrowed money being in the equation. We should never risk something we have and need for something we don't need. You only have to get rich once."

Edit: Sorry, I am completely wrong. That sounds reasonable in an equal society but what happens in an unequal society where the odds are stacked against you and you can't even save with a full-time job? What happens when you can't afford an education? What happens when you're run over by a car and can't afford your medical bills? When your job is outsourced to a third-world country? I unfortunately don't know the answer to that. I wish I knew.
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Interesting that you consider the incubator to be less focused on money. They are extremely rich, of course they have better PR.

They are and have been stealing the future from the public and giving it to the 1%(accredited investors).
I know plenty of people who couldn't tell you the difference between hardware and software.