skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, these "commands" are also quite vague. Instead of expecting the "help", they should just put (x) and show the menu where I can click on things and be done with it.

On voice interface, your best chanse is to connect to an actual intelligent being as soon as possible because getting the options is a frustration by it's own.
foolish and regressive. enjoy higher DUI rates, less service and less availability. for what its worth, i've been taking uber and lyft in quebec for years.
> I think Javascript suffers from this quite a bit. ES6 "classes" should never have made it in, for example.

Well, I'm really happy that the class-statement got in ES6 though.

Before that, whenever I needed something class-like, I had to search how do you do this in Javascript, and find five different answers, no but really which is the proper one for prototype-based inheritance, waste an hour (or more) and frankly I still don't know, there's just so many ways you can do it, which is the RIGHT one? and Javascript wraps in on itself in so many cool ways, but there were never any definitive answers, just more rabbit holes.

Now, there is the class-statement, and it's one less rabbit hole to get trapped in. I actually get more stuff done now that there is one right way to define a class, or class-like object with a constructor, properties, methods, etc.

Similar thing goes for the function arrow notation. Javascript, and the event-based environments it usually operates in, wants you to use anonymous functions a lot. But the relatively verbose way to define them, still held me back from using them freely as much as I wanted, trying to "optimize" them away if possible.
> 'Next big things' are never the next big thing

Counterpoints: web, mobile, cloud
Not everyone cares about cross-platform, some developers rather specialize in a given platform.

You can keep using sockets if that is your thing.
Eh, I hate flying and I have a ton of anxiety. But when I'm on a train in a tunnel, theoretically I can't see anything and it doesn't bother me too much.
> For instance if department leader's KPIs and bonus structure hasn't changed, they will continue to actively fight open source.

They did change, and quite radically when Kevin Turner (then COO) was ousted (or voluntary left, it's unclear).

> Also what happens to the devs who are there for 20+ years now

Today, the biggest focus for Microsoft is Azure. And incidentally Azure grew enormously under Satya, so they had to hire a lot of new people there. A lot of them wouldn't even have considered joining MS under Ballmer, and a lot of them were hired specifically for there knowledge of non-MS technologies.
Things might be different in older divisions, such as Windows, but at least in the division that now matter the most, the culture is dead-set on open source and the values that Satya promotes.
A joy of flying is to look and see the world itself directly in the highest resolution possible; reality.
I'm generally in favour of this, but "build more tall buildings in a World Heritage Site to satisfy the temporary demand of tourists" isn't going to be popular. Japan of course is already full of high-density housing.

(Edinburgh is building housing, but lots of it is suburban low-density)
Sad to see, but I've been waiting for this moment for years.

My first "real" job was as an intern on the Yahoo! Messenger team where I worked on both the Windows and Mac versions more than ten years ago.

Back in those days while I had been sad that XMPP never took off, I had accepted that if you wanted to make cool IM client interfaces and get them in front of a lot of real people, you had to work on one of the big popular proprietary ones.

It was an amazing experience working on it. When I went back to school after the internship, I observed people at school who I never met using features I wrote during my internship! How cool is that? Given that experience, I've always had a soft spot for Yahoo! and dreaded the growing inevitability of today's announcement.

In the years since, my passion for IM has been a largely sad one. I promoted Google Talk heavily when it came out due to it being based on XMPP, only to see Google bait and switch us. Then I resigned myself back to proprietary IM hell for a while as getting people to use XMPP seemed increasingly ridiculous as its user experience lagged further and further behind Hangouts, iMessage, etc, etc...

Then eventually the Riot IM client came out and I got excited about IM again. One of many clients built atop the new Matrix protocol which styles itself as a successor to XMPP, Riot was the first IM client I'd ever used that felt like it rivaled the big players in IM in terms of user experience.

While my career has moved on from coding IM clients, I am glad to say I've helped the Matrix/Riot folks a small amount with coding and localization. And most importantly I cheer them on publicly and privately every chance I get.
So, I'm pretty sure they are a fad, and we're just about reaching 'peak hype'. Any time I use them, it seems like an interaction that would have taken 2 minutes by filling a form takes 20 minutes instead.

I hoped you might prove me wrong, so I checked out boost.ai - is there any way to get a demo of your chatbots without booking a sales call?

That's some mad growth you've had, so you must be doing something right! Also interested to know how you went about finding your first customers? Are they mainly in Norway?
This comment betrays a remarkable ignorance of mental illness. There is, in fact, a link between the commencement of a course of antidepressants and suicide, but to claim that "...mental illness is created as a result of these Big Pharma medicines" is to ignore a tremendous body of research.

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about vaccines?
They also have much lower crime rates, much higher entrepreneurship, and higher educational attainment.

Skilled immigration is awesome for the US.
This is off-topic but...reading the article I wondered what happened to all that personal information we put into services like Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail?

At least in the US there is no guardrail that would prevent mining the data for any purpose its current overlords deem useful. That includes reselling it to others.
I don't really keep track of those things, but I can give you two attempts without much searching:

just this week I saw https://adamant.im

There was a thing called "my echo" (which appears to have failed/been cancelled).
Thanks. Seems to happen sometimes when Google Sheet isn't geolocating fast enough. Might remove the Google Script in the future.
I encountered a system that replied in the following way:

"I'm sorry, it looks like you want to talk to a representative. You need to answer a few questions first."

Very HAL-like.
And about virus protection? Am I missing something too, but this seems impractical in desktop apps or even production environment - you always can whitelist, but this a concern and trust doesn't come cheap...
Airbus revealed a similar concept a while ago. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2003052/Airbu...
Couldn’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find the real killer app for this. Even if a relatively upscale airline like Emirates won’t coat these with ads, what do you think a discount cattle hauler will do with this screen space if the concept catches on?
It's a shame these didn't sell in the numbers that Airbus initially hoped for, but I also think breaking these down for parts make a lot of sense considering that updating the customer interior of such a large aircraft for a new operator is so expensive.

I hope Airbus can continue making this model, if they can keep bringing the cost down as manufacturing of this continues to improve, that should be possible.
Yep but Sulfur compounds are not rare, ammonia, sulfuric acid many other sulfides and non sulfuric complex molecules like formaldehyde exist in space in plenty.
It's definitely not ideal, no wonder why GUI is so successful.
Consumers preferring point-to-point air travel killed the A380.
This does work, but I worry the AI's will hold it against me someday.
>> The only tasks these things are equipped to do, are the tasks that I can do via the company's online portal, and in a much less frustrating manner. I wonder who is actually using these things.

Old people. I'm not kidding. I used to do PCI compliance work with call centers. I've listened in on many a call to verify procedures. Call centers deal with an unending stream of older people who cannot or will not use "computers". They want to talk to a person on a phone. The people who are comfortable with the online interface only call when the online interface fails them. Old people go to the telephone first.

And there is a growing subset of old people who are functionally illiterate. I don't mean they don't know how to read, I mean their eyesight is diminished to the point that using the computer/phone/tablet is uncomfortable. Or their fingers don't move well enough for a keyboard/touchscreen. The phone is simple and reliable, not requiring either visual or physical dexterity.
They didn't mention the USSR/Russia at all, just Nazi Germany. Their position is quite obviously that the US having nuclear weapons and the end of WW2 was better than Nazi Germany having them.

It has nothing to do with whether or not they would have used them. The reason that it was better for the US to have them is because Nazi Germany was conquering sovereign countries through military action, not to mention engaging in the industrialized genocide of millions of people.

Their position rests on the fact that most people agree that the Allies were the "good guys" and the Axis were the "bad guys" in WW2, which is not a position that really has to be defended.
I do wonder sometimes that after another decade or so of housing prices people will start demanding internal passports to prevent people moving to their city.
Lyrebird: ultra-realistic artificial voices
Now I wonder if the warning suggested by Linus in the linked mail was ever implemented. Did also not know git would not even complain.

Does anyone know? (Am on phone, slightly difficult to check).
Imagine if yahoo had added web chat to the bottom of every yahoo, yahoo news, yahoo finance, yahoo sports, yahoo fantasy etc page, ala Facebook. No-matter where you go on yahoo, your buddies are on the right, and chat windows on the bottom. Page reloads would not disrupt chat.

Imagine.

Same goes for AOL. No other company really understands what facebook has done yet. They have a two layer app, that lets you use both parts simultaneously, independently, or together. Its a different form of window management. I can drag from the background news app to the foreground chat app to share a post in a message.
Your opinion on the fairness of the new order is immaterial to whether Airbnb is feigning surprise the rule is being enforced. They are not.
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According to the linked article, Threadripper 2 uses the equivalent of 4 Ryzen 7s, however they disable the memory busses on two of them which yields only a 2x increase in memory bandwidth. You're correct that Threadripper tends to clock slightly lower, but the cache is on-die so it shouldn't be any different per-core than in a typical Ryzen.
Well it looked like his wife was cheating on him.
Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub clearly stated that this wouldn't happen because GitHub's identity management is far superior to MS one.

However the opposite might very well happen: Use your GitHub account to sign into MS other services.
I'm really surprised this thread is so heavily upvoted here and on reddit.

The Linux Foundation is literally a lobbying agency for major coporations, why does it matter what's their opinion?

I mean The Linux Foundation president doesn't even use linux on his machine lol [1].
This should say everything you need to know about the foundation really.

[1] - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/09/17/2017204/linux-foun...
And without the PDFs on a shelf somewhere, you have nothing to throw.
i think that will give some solid base and we can live like that for a decade and then learn any minus points in that and again solve them using the same system one by one and improvize slowly.

But the current crap in crap out system has no hope.

Is the current system a good idea?
> managers who want to look like they’re doing something big so that they gain status.

The true currency in the work world isn't money it's status.

Money is only important as a proxy for status.

Having a lot of people reporting to you confers status.
It took some real talent on the part of Uber to get so many people to view them so negatively. I think most of us are at least a bit sympathetic to some of their early rule-breaking given how entrenched the existing cab companies were and how bad they were in many cases.

As you say, there are a lot of things to dislike about Uber as a tech company and I try not to use them. (And I don't actually use cabs/Uber/Lyft all that much in spite of doing a lot of travel.) But they've definitely made it easier for people to get around in many cities.

AirBnB's market, on the other hand, wasn't really broken even if the (legitimate) short-term rental agencies were more fragmented and less modern than they could have been.
A of of these projects/products come from the same place. An executive or manager has an idea. Some of these ideas have good intentions. Some come from somebody reading HBR and seeing an article titled "By 2020 30% of purchasing decisions will be driven by social media." Then the ball starts rolling with the PowerPoint decks filled with revenue forecasts. And once that ball is rolling you have a lot of people inside and outside of the organization who are all pieces in this machine to achieve the final goal. Since nobody has visibility to the whole process and the accountability is totally opaque, the ball rolls into something that checks every requirement (even if the requirements were the opposite of the stated goal) but is totally useless.
qv the other thread on meaningless work, sometimes people find value in living in a city and neighborhood that isn't completely focused on extracting the maximum economic value at any cost.
> Most of the important projects on GitHub are licensed under an open source license, which addresses intellectual property ownership.

This can be tricky in a legally messed up environment. In US, courts sided with Oracle about copyrightability of APIs. And guess who supported Oracle in that dispute? Microsoft. So how should open source projects feel about it, especially when they let's say implement MS own APIs?
As stated, no.
It will likely be the other way around: Use your GitHub account to login to Azure.
Windows Newbie:

“I need to find out how much space I have left on this machine.”

Now what?
Eh? I fly a lot and, with the exception of overnight flights, the windows are open most of the time.
If co-ops are any indication, yes. I like the Mars Trilogy model in theory, where corporations are gradually replaced with small co-ops that are all employee owned, and then they collaborate with other small groups on an ad-hoc basis to get things done. I don't think that's entirely practical, but I do think it's a great outcome to aim for and is far short of socialism.
Why don't we have enough cabs? Because Uber was allowed to use vast sums of private capital to back market-hostile moves and create a world where it had to exist. We've regulated cab fares for decades, because as a society through government, we've decided that it's exploitative behavior that is an ill, not "a slick/fair idea".

The part where this really goes off the rails is "id rather pay $200 than wait 2 hours". That's because you can time-price your time out to that level. The average american solider is earning $33K a year, I don't want to make assumptions, but I'd be mindblown if there is a choice to be made here.
Amusing, but still downvoted.
Marketing garbage.

The power of imagination unbounded by technical knowledge is a beautiful thing.
It's not unlike a programming language that attempts to resemble written English. Sure it looks like English at first, but really there is a rigid API there that you must adhere to, and that breaks any resemblance to natural language; at which point you wonder, why make it look like English in the first place?
As mentioned in the article, you don't have to get rid of all the windows. Regulators may be happy with keeping only the windows near emergency exits.
Sure, that vaguely makes sense and doing this is better than doing nothing. Maybe it's just the first step in training those juniors to one day work on the big fat deals.
if the tunnel was a tin can 3,000+ meters in the sky thats a different story
Firstly, Godwin's law obviously doesn't apply to discussions about WW2.

Secondly, your assertion that we can't know what Nazi Germany would have done with nuclear weapons is correct, but you seem to be interpreting that as meaning "all possible outcomes of Nazi Germany having nuclear weapons are equally as likely", which is absolutely not true and a common mistake to make in an argument.
The title of this html page is it's own html source. Is that intentional?
Any idea how much that is in absolute terms?
Good idea! Thanks krobbn.
Nevada already had a very high suicide rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/...
And a short term let business requires even more effort to run. It's a lot of work, and part of the reason why (even though I think it's a great business to be in), it's not one I really want to run.
Yes, you can attain statistical significance with large sample (N > 100,000). No, it's still insignifcant, because effect size is so small. Did you read the article? The effect is less than 1 point of IQ, whereas black-white IQ gap is usually quoted as 15 points.
Those representatives can still make counterproductive and economically illiterate decisions even if they are representing "the people". There is nothing in that article that shows that these politicians understood all of the unintended consequences of their decisions. You and I may think of these consequences, but that doesn't mean bureaucrats do.

These decisions should be discussed based on the merits of the decisions themselves, not simply assuming that the politicians took everything into consideration and understood all of the consequences. There are many of "the people" who will wholeheartedly disagree with these price caps.

If two individuals agree to a price, what makes the politicians brilliant enough to tell them what the right price is.
I read somewhere that suicide headlines increase the probability of plain crashes.
It's a misleading, but technically accurate marketing point for breeders. More specifically it's fissile material, which is converted from larger amounts of fertile material used in the reactor. There's no violation of conservation principles, just some fast talk. Read your own links - as at least the first mentions this.

The second link is junk. The average distribution of elements in the Earth's crust does not mean each every and every chunk of earth contains exactly that distribution. And while many types of rocks do contain trace amounts of uranium, it's nowhere near 13 ppm. Though so far as I can see even that site didn't state that.
> ...precisely because they're closed-source attempted-monopolists whose interests don't necessarily align with their users'...

As I asked a few days ago: "Do proponents of Free Software, on the whole, assert that the concept of intellectual property should not exist?"

If so then I can see why a closed-source supporter of open source is an abhorrent concept.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232778
Thanks for your post, I was not aware of the controversy around Hari.

That said, I found his book "Chasing the Scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs" [1] an informative resource that in some places touches on this thread's topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream
My old job was in advertising. Some of what I produced actually informed consumers about new products. But most it was vanity projects. One example: A chiropractor paid for a billboard with him standing next to a million dollar therapy machine, despite the fact that no potential customers would understand what the machine was. He just wanted to show his competitor that he could afford a shinier new toy. Since most of the treatments he offered were medically dubious, it would have still been bullshit even if we made an effective billboard.

Believe it or not, most of our projects were like this - the result of someone's vanity or stupidity. But even the good work we did, most of it just part of some companies advertising arm's race with their competitors. If the entire ad industry collapsed tomorrow, the only thing we would notice was the lack of junk mail littering our mailbox.

I'm happier in my new job, though it's no less bullshit. I run a social media product that doesn't have a measurable impact for 95% of my clients. In truth, they don't need social media in their industry. But they've been told "everyone has to be on Facebook nowadays" and that's how I make a living.
> We haven't yet learned the parallel with roads that more technologies help only temporarily, eventually leading people to use them and create more pollution.

This is a false equivalency. Traffic is very much the limiting factor in the use of roads. Pollution is absolutely not the limiting factor in the use of technology. The volume of pollution produced does not expand to some magical limit in response to changes in process in the same way that traffic expands to fill roadways in response to road expansion.
What a horrifying vision of the future. I want to see fewer chatbots, not more. Just give me a website that actually works instead of wasting my time chatting.
This idea is entirely alien to majority of American high class suburbians.

My sorries to people insulted by this statement.
It's a fairly easy number to check: Freight aircraft don't have windows or window frames. What is the delta on their empty weight compared to a passenger version?
Sadly, the scratches and distortion (esp. from the two layers of window) make this "highest resolution" a bit of a pipe-dream...

[Or: no, looking directly through optical system A is not guaranteed to have "higher resolution" (really, MTF) than looking at a display of a digital image captured through optical system B]
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That CPU draws over 250W when running stock.

They had a separate 20+ phase power delivery board that could pump up to 2000W into that cpu...
PR gives things a nicer wording, but they also push unjustified implications and flat-out lies. When people object to PR-speak, it's usually the latter. Or that an apology doesn't seem to actually be sorry or trying to fix anything. They're rarely objecting that the language is a bit less harsh.
Hype is nothing but unrealistic optimism and thats what the current world of tech is filled with. People see staged demo and the media start throwing wild speculations. I never ever get excited by any demo and thats what I suggest to people but I guess the whole stupid idea of "be optimistic" is so rampant in current culture that people just blindly start following anything.
To an experienced Python/Web developer I would most likely recommend Django. I personally spend my days writing Python, although my Python backends are Bottle+SQLAlchemy.

Rails has a large community with Gems that can solve most of a beginners needs, and also has full-fledged solutions for business ready to go (eg. Double Entry accounting systems, monetary exchange rates/handling, oauth/users, etc)

Perhaps I'm wrong and I should take another look at Django however :)
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