skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inefficient and bloated? They are putting out a ton of stuff. Have YouTube TV and an excellent product but just one thing.

They appear to be doing an entirely new OS and UI. Flutter is pretty impressive tech.

Beyond Corp is pretty revolutionary and can see it being the norm.

But so many more. The TPU 3.0. Google Home Max is a great product as well as Google WiFi.

K8s is on fire and growing like crazy. They have cars driving around without a safety driver.

So many other things. What in the world are you talking about?

Did you mean some other company?
> It seems like the jury is out

Ah yes, the jury is always out. Better do nothing and instead politicize the issue while pretending to debate the "science" for a few more decades.
It would be a false dichotomy if glyphosate hadn't literally displaced herbicides that were known to be human carcinogens and allowed anyways, but it did, so your logic isn't persuasive.
I have been trying to find that Spolsky article, please link it up if you can
Speaking of holding state in the display itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube

What the waiter is doing is kind of like a storage tube driven by markers.
That's right, and that's harmful to people who want to "higher up the stack" than EE. This new major helps address that problem.
Why though? I don't think globalization is the culprit.
Disagree. So many just incredible things coming from Google. The internet is a buzz on the Duplex demo but just one thing.
I don't. I was explaining why an comment lacking justifications wasn't being buried
I have used this mail forwarding service thrice and every time I have wondered what prevents me from forwarding my annoying neighbors' mails to Denali National Park. The answer is, fear of jail time.
Slack did the same thing with the ScreenHero service they acquired and it had the same effect: much more lag and worse quality.
Ask HN: Non-disparagement agreement that never expires
I have worked at a company for many years that is going through a merger. I have been asked to sign a new Employment Agreement that includes a strong Non-Disparagement clause.

The language states that the clause applies "During the Employment Period and thereafter", which seems to read as "for the rest of your life" to me.

When I brought my concerns to management, I was told this was common for the industry, and that they didn't understand why I was "asking for the right to disparage the company within a certain time frame"

Is this normal, am I overreacting to this?
It seems you missed reading about the royalties you'd owe for quoting my HN comments. It's all in my Comment Usage TOS. If you'd found them you'd know that there are fees associated with quoting my comments. But no worries, since you have such a clear understanding of things I'm sure you realize that you've stolen $500 from me and violated my Comment Usage TOS. Please pay up.

I'm really glad we had this negotiation, by the way.
On what planet is the jury out about vaccines and autism? There's not a single research paper suggesting a link between those.

You are falsely conflating scientific consensus with public opinion.
That's not how it works. Weeds don't somehow get into grains when they're collected. What they do is reduce yields of the crops we're actually interested in collecting. Lower yields for the same farming effort means higher prices. So what ultimately happens when the consumer sees two identical loaves of bread on the supermarket shelf and one is $2.50 while the other is $3.50?
Prolog, constraint solving and formal methods are pre-AI forms of AI.
Check out the book Good Calories, Bad Calories which looks at the subject in depth (specifically the role of insulin)
So when weeds reduce the food supply and drive prices up, what then? Then there’ll be articles about how only rich people can afford food.
Isn’t most AI work in research though? I think the problem most are having with this is we generally consider AI to be more prestigious than something like data science (which seems like it would be a better name for a degree in its own right).
Next challenge: Make that melody with only analog components!
Personally... I used to write Java and Python code (and enjoy it), but fairly straight forward code would just bog down on me. On the other hand, C and C++ code would always crash in frustrating ways.

Rust hits the sweet spot of not being a pain in my ass all the time.
The help button for the Google Cloud for Education Administrators Console is made by PhDs.
I haven't. I've heard of it but didn't know it also as good (or better). Adding it to my reading list. Thanks.
This is a strategy we’re pursuing but haven’t shipped yet https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-cookbook
This would still encourage people to buy iPhones though, it's just a bridge between Your Phone (the app on Windows in question) and your iPhone so you can reply to (i)Messages on windows as you do a Mac.

Don't really see why they would be vehemently against this.
Anything that promises to turn building software into "magic intuitive re-usable Lego blocks" is probably mostly full of [censored].
The Monsanto astroturfing crew is working hard in this thread. Really astonishing to see people claiming that glyphosafe has been shown to safe.
"only" as in trying to avoid local peering? Do you have an idea why they might do that?
Statistical analysis is generally universal and independent of a given discipline; nor does it require a PhD.

Society encourages everyone to draw simple, binary boxes around people, but people are more complicated than that.
And what you're proposing is letting perfect be the enemy of the good. No matter how sustainable and green your alternative is, "less productive" anything won't fly in today's world economy. Until we change 8 billion humans' economic motives, maybe we can start with getting the facts straight on one substance.
Yes, in fact asbestos is still mined and marketed today: https://youtu.be/cy3piCUPIkc
That's exactly the opposite of what happens to most graduates with specialized degrees.

They end up having to explain their degrees, which is generally not a good thing. It happens all the time with engineering. In the job market a degree in mechanical engineering is in general worth more than one in robotics.

You also run the risk of graduating into another AI winter, or just deciding you hate AI, and then you really have to try hard to explain that your degree is really just a CS degree.

Imagine graduating now with an undergrad in big data--that sounded like a good idea 5 years ago.
Well, Apple has a port of all of OS X above the Unix layer to NT lying around somewhere. iMessage should be a relative doddle to bring to Windows.
Yes.

Frankly, if the ADS have real value, and yes that is entirely possible to do, people won't block them anywhere near the level of concern.

Self selection will improve performance too.

An example I saw play out, and had a small hand in was an auto shop doing political ADS. They combined great advocacy and informed people, leaving their business info low key in there somewhere.

The returns on those were excellent. People actually considered them a part of the programs, and radio station identity.
If you stick with properly raised proteins, healthy fats (no trans fats), and low-carb veggies you don’t have to keep track of anything, the calories take care of themselves.

Limit starchy carbs and treats to one meal after your workouts.

People love to downvote me on this thread but that advice is essentially what people pay me thousands of dollars to get them lean.
Fujian is quite isolated from the rest of China. Until the modern era, the easiest way to get there was by sea.

And if Fujian somehow became a part of Taiwan

Parts of Fujian are claimed by Taiwan.
Couldn’t you say the same about Microsoft Office? And yet it’s on Apple computers.
No, but if you want to solve certain useful problems, ml works and expert systems don't. That's what I was getting at.
SO what about cell phone radiation and cancer, or maybe GMO food and cancer?
I think software designers underestimate how powerful this sort of muscle memory is. Even if something isn't technically one action away, if you can get to it with a sequence of actions you can perform consistently right after each other, you quickly start to think of that sequence as "one action".

This is one reason why old-school, keyboard-shortcut-driven UI can feel so good to use (and why animations that block interaction are so frustrating).
Computer Store Manager Predicts Future (1979)
You're assumption that Republicans represent intolerance already reveals your partisanship. It's comical that you can't even see the insanity of that equivalence.

>My argument is just that saying that lining up Texas with California as competitors for talent is... probably not as correct as

More preconceived notion crap. I suggest you lookup the city that most bay area residents moved to last year.
Apple makes a lot more money from Macs than iPhones.

And along with Continuity is a key pillar of the "Apple products work better together" marketing message.
This is so dumb. You cant be arsed to create a more secure form of this process so you made it illegal. All he did was fill out the paperwork lol.
What is evil about non-basic research?
I think this is the guy that gave me the gem.

If a source is known to lie then the proper weight to place on information from that source is zero.

AKA: You don't try and second guess anything that say, you ignore everything they say.
She didn't do the research. She was trumpeting research done by people with training in the field.
There's limited time and a lot of bullshit to wade through, and I'm busy enough staying abreast of my chosen fields. Credentialism is often abused, but it remains a useful heuristic. It's definitely not useful for people who are expert enough to evaluate claims in and of themselves, but that's not most people. I'm not an expert in medicine, biochemistry, or whatever, so I'm not qualified to sift out the genuine autodidacts from the cranks. Whereas, I'm qualified to sift out autodidactic programmers who dropped out of HS.
Personally I find WhatsApp having a better UX than iMessage. now the worry is about data being siphoned by Zucker zucker. I can hardly search for an old text on iMessage on mac or iPhone. have stopped using it entirely.
I gave up reading Infinite Jest after getting 10-15% into it. I decided to come back to it later but never got back to it. It was somewhat difficult for me (not American). But this was a few years ago. Will try it again sometime soon.
You're looking for some other forum, where this dumb debate about glyphosate (a-t-e) hasn't been rehashed ad nauseam 50 times before (quelle surprise, not everyone agrees with you!), and where you're actually allowed to accuse people who disagree with you of being "astroturfers". Here, on HN, if you believe someone is astroturfing, you quietly mail hn@ycombinator.com about and don't post it to the threads, where it is one of the very few arguments actually called out and forbidden by the site guidelines.
How to join siliconvalley.slack.com
>American honey bees are livestock, not wildlife.

Then if it's harming European honeybees, which are livestock as you say, do you not think it might be plausible that native pollinators and others insects might also be affected?

The "livestock" line is just a talking point, and the pesticide industry is pleased as punch every time we repeat it for them.
This is simply not true, there is ample evidence for Paleo diets, read the book and it references the studies.

What is your theory for why the entire western world is suddenly obese? Why were people not obese even 70 years ago?
Organic pesticides are nasty stuff as well.

"In 2010, a study was published detailing the progression of Parkinson's-like symptoms in mice following chronic intragastric ingestion of low doses of rotenone. The concentrations in the central nervous system were below detectable limits, yet still induced PD pathology.[31]

In 2011, a US National Institutes of Health study showed a link between rotenone use and Parkinson's disease in farm workers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone
That's totally fair, and you interpreted what OP was trying to say better than I did.
However much I'd like this to happen, it'll never ever happen.
Fujianese are also the most emigrant Chinese, it is rare to find one there who doesn’t have more than a few relatives abroad.

A special case to be sure.
Nobody has even figured out how to get cryptocurrency into the hands of the masses and make it easily obtainable. If I want to buy cryptocurrency, I have to use Coinbase and pay enormous fees, waiting 7 days to even get it, probably losing money in the end. There are no Bitcoin ATM's around me, what's my other option?

Also not to mention something like 85%+ of cryptocurrency is in exchanges, so "decentralization" is just a marketing word for cryptocurrency.
iTunes and iCloud were required for iPhones to work with Windows.

Otherwise you couldn't sync music or contacts etc. Having a Windows iMessages app isn't required for anything.
Every time I launch Skype, I recieve messages from some 2-3 contacts linking to malware (always different people). This has been going on for a very long time and shows to me the demise of this once beloved tool. It’s basically unusable. The only reason why I keep it is because of SkypeIn & SkypeOut (calling phones and having a German phone number connected to my account).
Thanks. Yeah am not really looking for dark themes but as you said, 'biting criticism' of society and 'the human condition'
I was told this was common for the industry

That is not at all common, at least not for ordinary employees.
How does that fact change the narrative? If anything, it makes it worse.

It does take away a bit of the emotional appeal of pristine, natural, innocent public resources that need protection from greedy farmers when the bees are owned by and grown for a different group of greedy farmers instead of being championed by people with purely altruistic motivation. But that they're declining when there are people with expertise and financial incentives trying to make more of them means there's a pretty serious problem.
If you want to justify minor UX improvements, you should give a copy of Steve Jobs' biography to your upper management ;-)
Monsanto SMMs rot in hell imo.
> Publishers will target Salmela’s software if it becomes anywhere near as popular as AdBlock Plus, says Nicole Perrin, an analyst at researcher EMarketer.

I'd caution about that claim. Google pulled AdNauseam[0], a uBlock Origin extension, from the Chrome Web Store since it was fundamentally disrupting Google's business model via click fraud. (It automates clicking ads in order to create noise in user tracking.) This was far, far before it became as popular as AdBlock Plus.

PiHole takes an even more aggressive stance against ads, blackholing entire networks. It poses as much as a threat to the ad industry as AdNauseam. So I'd wager that PiHole will get shut down long before it reaches the popularity of AdBlock Plus.

[0]: https://adnauseam.io/
Maybe for an intro course, but a degree usually means you are ready to work in that field. I’m not sure what ‘field’ that is but I assume they are looking at it for AI research.
I have been telling this story to UX designers since I first read it. Fun to see it pop up again, it's one of my favorites.

My favorite part of UX is getting to go on site to see people's workflows in action. An example that comes to mind was working on an early iPad app for EMS / first responders. They already had toughbook-style computers in the ambulances, but had lots of complaints. One thing we noticed immediately was that they couldn't use the computers when they were wearing latex gloves. They actually tracked vital signs by writing them on the gloves themselves and attempting to transcribe them when they got back to the computer.
All firings for cause will reduce hiring. It will create more illiquidity in the labor market, drive down wages and reduce mobility and efficiency. Look at the French labor market if you want to see how that nightmare plays out. 10%+ unemployment and a vast increase in time-limited, non-permanent work.

I don’t owe you a job. If I don’t need you any more, why the hell should I be forced to owe you?

Are you required to buy the same amount of groceries each week? Why not? Same for labor. When you need less, you buy less, when you need more, you buy more.
Perhaps move your mailbox to directly feed into your recycle can, with a transparent tube so the mailman can watch it go straight into the recycling!
If the terms aren't legally enforceable, then why is it immoral for the user to ignore the terms? We are certainly not talking about theft anymore.
It correlates a lot, actually. It even may be one of the best predictors (if not the best, I dunno honestly).
I think if we were serious about native wildlife we'd address habitat loss instead of fixating on comic book opponents like "the pesticide industry". Either way: reports of the impending bee-pocalypse are extraordinarily overrated.
Well, um, definitely yes.

https://www.pinterest.com/braytonpurcell/vintage-asbestos-ad...
They are in fact not declining. There is no indication at all that a reliable supply of bee-driven pollination service in the US is in any way threatened. You'd be forgiven for not knowing that, though, since the story is presented in the media as if farmers relied on wild honeybees (an invasive species eradicated several decades ago by the Varroa destructor mite) rather than commercially managed bee husbandry.
While you are right, that deep understanding of machine learning require graduate level mathematics, however I see the trend where big companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are trying to democratize AI and machine learning. Soon you will have people using machine learning tools and algorithms without understanding the underlying math.

Given the nature of machine learning, even if you understand the mathematics behind it, you cannot "reason" with a trained-model. I think now academia is catching up in this democratization effort, by producing engineers that can use those machine learning tools (even if they cannot design such tools/frameworks)
I’ve seen this reply from System76 over and over and while what you are saying could be correct having the same copypasta make it look suspiciously like a marketing ploy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/comment/ddvcx...
Skype died before the acquisition for me personally. Platform just wasnt closed enough to pull the types of things they were pulling. Nobody wants to pay per call for voip, or subscription model for a service that hasnt demonstrated any improvement.
Central planning is the culprit. The free market works when it is allowed to work.
It's because tech has a long tail. You have to remember that there are people who still aren't online, who are technologically illiterate, who don't use email or secure messaging etc. A lot of regulated companies (especially health care entities) are MANDATED to send and receive stuff insecurely so they can make sure that Jane Doe grandma in rural Wyoming actually gets the correspondence.
Is any of that money ever going to come back to American citizens or are we going to keep wasting it on military toys used to evade the laws of the USA?
I feel like that is an unreasonable generalization.

It's not remotely hard at all for the FDA to buy products off the shelf and test them for glyphosate. They need not and should not trust samples obtained any other way.
How is this not legal slavery?
Many apps (Office included) support a ctrl+alt+V operation that does a "paste special" and allows you to paste it as unformatted text.
Really? Was it an accredited program? Most of what I’ve seen before is that you get a CS degree but with a ‘focus in’ AI.
Oh please. big tall building is not innovation nor sign of progress.

Mobile phone payment? my credit card wipe takes 5 seconds. I don't need grandma to try to get my QR code for 30 seconds. AND it works most countries....except China. Foreigners can't even pay properly in China.

Every country (except US) has great public transportation. Asian countries. European countries. It's not exclusive to China (unless you count kids peeing in the train)

Cities are super safe and clean...where the tourists are. Why don't you try to go where normal people actually live.
I don’t see how building a web page is any different now than it was in 1998, if anything it seems like everyone has made it harder to build correct pages.
Very different world today. Back then windows was a lot more important
I think hueving just meant to say that not every institution is corrupt, and the medical industry is good when it comes to vaccines. The vested interests, in this case doctors, are doing great, and the anti-vaxxers are bad.
> this suggests ...

Not quite. It suggests that it’s possible that regular food has glyphosate residue. But samples “brought from home” may have been contaminated elsewhere. This is why we depend on rigorous controlled tests.

It’s also possible that the “official tests” were rigged, and suspiscions about that led the testers to go rogue, and that glyphosate really IS in our food in larger concentrations than we are led to believe. That seems more plausible.
so dumb though. though could own messaging, which would be way more valuable than whatever tiny bump it's giving to the iphone.
> Racket was renamed from DrScheme (IIRC), to avoid being directly associated with Scheme.

See: a laudably reasonable behavior.
I think it's time to say, as Arnold does, to break the rules and do this at work.
I assume in most places the cables are put on poles. Have you ever seen poles in some cities? It look like a 200 foot tall bird is using them to build a nest.
The Secure Data Act Would Stop Backdoors
To clarify, do you find that a non-disparagement clause is uncommon, or just the unlimited time frame?
I looked over the curriculum pretty thoroughly. Look through some of the other comments in this thread to see a more detailed look at the differences.

If you look over the curriculum and compare it the BS CS curriculum you'll notice there's nothing that couldn't have been done as a concentration.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...

Apple makes way more money from iPhones than Macs.
That seems reasonable to me. Real world test.
The first time my insurance company did this to me, the woman who called me (from a random phone number that didn't belong to the insurance company) sounded confused about why I wasn't going to give some random person my PII. When I called their 800 number, I was on hold for 20 minutes before they finally tracked down the entry in my account explaining why they had called.

Apparently, every time I order medical supplies they call me to tell me that they've sent a Very Important Letter, but they can't say what it is. When it arrives the next day, it informs me that they've approved my request for the supplies, which by this point have already arrived a week and a half ago.

It's gotten to the point where the calls now go like this:

Them: Hi, this is [insurance company], can I have your date of birth please?
Me: Is this about the letter you've sent?
Them: ...Yes?
Me: OK, I'll keep an eye out.
Them: Erm... right. Have a nice day!

I have no idea what the moral of this story is.
You are correct. Court documents have shown Monsanto has paid online commenters to advocate on behalf of glyphosate in a program called "Let nothing go" (including facebook). These individuals, importantly, did NOT identify themselves as being paid advocates.

[1 - actual court documents] https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGo...

[2 - summary article ] https://www.organicconsumers.org/newsletter/organic-bytes-55...