skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing happend to a friend of mine about 4 years ago. Lost ALL of his hair. His main pain point is the lost eyebrows and eyelashes. Did you lose them too? How do you deal with it / feel about it?
I wish you the best. One thing that really helped a lot of my peers is Ketamine and there are treatment centers available in big cities.
You could also choose to not leave junk in the street to yell at people.
I don't think anything can be said to fail unless you know what the definition of success is. If success is everyone and his dog having one then Pixelbook failed by a country mile.

However I believe that the Pixelbook is not really aimed at being a mass market seller, it is more of a reference platform for Google's own work as well as a useful machine for their own development in their own special way. The original Chromebook Pixel was cast in this mould and the Pixelbook fills the same shoes.

So if success is Google having a machine they can use to develop ChromeOS and their many other products then I think the project is a success.

Personally I am waiting for them to come out with an 8th generation i7 version with suitable ability to run a linux container for a LAMP stack and IDE. Money is no object for the right tool for the job so price doesn't really matter if Pixelbook is the only computer really desired.

I wrote this on that previous 'failure' the original Chromebook Pixel. This may be five years old but there is no computer with better speakers, screen, keyboard, touchpad and aesthetic appeal. I believe the Pixelbook to be better but not entirely so, the speakers and keyboard 'can't' be better.
Yet Github never creates octopus merges.
I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't this fall under "fair use"?
Just from reading the title you know this is a CA startup because the scooter threatens to call the police. If it were a TX startup the scooter would threaten to defend itself with force in proportion to the threat. (In case you were wondering, that's a joke).

The city has all sorts of tricks it uses to make life easy for people on it's side and hard for its perceived enemies.

If the city cared about resolving this it would do these (or similar) things because that's how government works. It makes a bunch of rules that are insane when followed at either extreme, normally runs near the middle and then picks and chooses which extreme to apply for situations it thinks warrant special treatment (when the government is bad at choosing this is called corruption).

They can impound the scooters without due process and then just say "oops" when ordered to return them. If you're a big enough jerk (as defined by the city's opinion which doesn't necessarily correlate with the truth) to be known to the traffic enforcement people this is probably exactly what would happen.

Alternatively they can just make a big show out of not prosecuting people for stealing them.

Clearly this isn't really a problem as far as the city government cares so they're just letting it run its course.
yes. it is. I don't mail anything anymore. I'm not going to bother with this.
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Maybe we should put AI in all the weapons. Then have them play Tic Tac Toe.

Call it the Joshua Project. :)
You do realise I'm Indian myself?! Not only that, I had to break away from the sham dev culture in order to become a good developer. Hence why I can see through the facade rather clearly.
They could likely be defensive patents. In a system where patents are abused by trolls and used as negotiation leverages by corporate lawyers (I'm looking at you, Oracle and IBM), its better to file a patent for everything and never actually sue anyone for using those technologies.

Of course this is assuming that Google management does not abuse it themselves.
That's because you don't view the police as a dangerous occupying force in your community.
The problem with dense linear algebra as a metric of supercomputer performance is that linear algebra tends to have relatively little communication compared to the computation. This means that the architecture you can use to really optimize linear algebra don't necessarily generalize well to different kinds of HPC code. China's architectures have definitely been accused of this in the past, but it looks like some of their newer stuff at least works fairly well on more HPC code.
Yes correct, requires MacOS 10.10+ and iOS 8+
forgot about that piece
Not all UNIXes have package management.
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Ask HN: Join forces or compete with big player?
We're a year into a project with moderate traction, and just found out that a big company in our industry is building their own similar system. It won't replace ours and they did nothing wrong (like copy us), they're just heading in the same direction.

Any experience with this? Did you reach out to them and join forces or stay quiet and compete? (If we wrote them a proposal, we'd be giving away our secret sauce.)

It looks like a side gig for them, but one they're investing in heavily. Not sure what a win-win arrangement looks like.
You have to be fucking kidding me
I think you are spot on; this is an MS Research Blog post and not a product announcement. The most interesting thing in the post IMHO is the link to the paper. The Tango paper is another good read.
That is the abstract of an application--it does not define the protection of a patent. It is intended to aide someone browsing patents to determine if this document may be something worth looking into closer, it is supposed to be quite broad and vague.
"and almost daily blue-screening on Windows"

Please just stop, that never happened, unless you're job is to write device drivers and then it's probably you're device driver that's causing it.
Pensions are not inherently a problem any more than any other form of retirement account is. HN should be above this kind of ignorant rhetoric.
The parser in text adventures got really, REALLY advanced.

Some of the current interactive fiction (as the genre is now called) would surprise you.
I’m pretty sure that if nations wouldn’t compete we would be at peace and we would put all that useless military money into much more useful things. So no, I think this is not a powerful drive.
There is a mythical internal document at Amazon that describes the Alexa vision. They want basically the Star Trek computer, and they are making good progress toward that vision. And the investment they are making to achieve that goal is hard to overstate.

Yes, it will take a few years. But consider that there are now tens of millions of Alexa pucks out there. The bot may suck today, but it’s getting better quickly, and consumers are receptive and ready to reward the tech giants when they finally succeed.
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I had this experience once and it was the result of finally getting a local call centre with better trained and empowered employees (most calls were being farmed out to overseas call centres which followed a very simple script).
I felt this for a while, but then I went to do something on my old 2011 MacBook Air and it was a breath of fresh air to just plug things in (DisplayPort! USB-A!) and not have to go hunting for myriad dongles.
pishpash is right folks, put down your pitchforks until claims are granted. Then decide if you want to be outraged.
There's no point in denying that the majority of cab drivers were more rude and scammy 10 years ago. They were, and in some places they still are.

But in my opinion, Uber was not even close to the top reason for the improvement you see. It was mobile navigation, more organized taxi companies, including internal rating systems and more often inspections, and job insecurity. Uber definitely helped with job insecurity.
Personally I'd rather have a somewhat annoying driver that talks on hands-free the entire ride over a smiling quiet driver that can't make ends meet and his livelihood depends on a couple of ratings. There's a good compromise somewhere between the two ends but it's not like we weren't in the former end for a long time. Taxi licenses were extremely expensive, fares were extortionate and you got scammed immediately if you looked out of place.
Y Combinator is actively looking for companies working on this. If you are working on this yoiu should consider applying.

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#carbon

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/y-combinator-is...

I'm the YC partner who wrote the RFS and have been pushing this. I also went to the first conference of Negative Emissions in world (I think) in Gothenburg, Sweden last month.

It's clear that much of what is needed for this to work is coming together 1) Research on underground storage is in a great place 2) Climeworks and Carbon engineering + Klaus Lackner are the pioneering companies/researchers working on Direct-Air-capture and they've shown the technology works. 3) California recently/are currently implementing legislation that will allow companies up to $180 per ton carbon removed and sequestered. This should be more than enough to build a business doing this at scale. 4) Perhaps the most important timing question is the fast drop in energy costs driven by solar. Energy is the number once scaling cost-factor if you want to scale this up to have a material impact on the climate. Solar is the obvious choice here since there is barely any scaling costs once installed. California incentives also allows you place your installations anywhere in the world. Mojave desert would be a good place.

What is needed right now is you guys. We need entrepreneurs and founders who want to start companies building both Direct-Air-Capture technology and sequestration technologies. I've met many investors over the last 6 months are looking actively to invest in these projects.

If you are working on these technologies you can email me gustaf@ycombinator.com

Two other great resources here are

http://www.centerforcarbonremoval.org

http://www.airminers.org

I'm convinced that whoever will build the most cost-effective way to remove carbon from the air will both have a shot at a $100B+ market while saving the earth at the same time. What could be more motivating?
Why has it not caught on for cargo? Too inefficient? Too much investment in support facilities, tooling, staff required -- and/or too insecure? (Regarding the latter, no one's going to buy a couple of bargain basement priced planes, in the face of support requirements.)
Those guys and gals creating Mac specific software are professional developers and pretty much the target audience of Apple's UI.
It will have to go to ministry of originality for inspection and approval.
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I always pay so I can pick seats, and I think I've had 2 out of 20 flights in the last 5 or so years where I was not sitting by a window.

Looking at the landscape through the screen would be like watching a live performance on your phone's screen (which is, surprise, a loooot of people do).

And people saying "What's the difference between a windowless plane and a plane where all the windows are shuttered, the people insisting on windows are stupid!" are... stupid. With a windowless plane I think my anxiety would cause claustrophobia. With a windowed plane I know I won't get that anxiety...
Which of the apis provided by the socket layer do you find to be unsafe?
A counterexample to the majority view in this thread:

The idea is cool, but I could never take a flight in a windowless plane. While I am generally only mildly claustrophobic, "artificial windows" have always induced an uncanny valley-esque increase in discomfort due to the lack of parallax; the reminder of what's outside while still being evidently not a direct view might well be worse for me than no window at all. Though I'll usually spend flights reading or on my laptop/phone, the presence of the window in my peripheral vision is essential for my comfort even on a shorter flight, and the concept of being trapped in a box with no direct view of the outside (and no guaranteed knowledge of if something goes wrong) for 10-12 hours is the stuff of nightmares. The fact that digital windows can fail or display false information only makes it more horrifying.

Several commentors have made the comparison of either nighttime flights or a train in a tunnel. Nights are never pitch-black, and between moon/starlight and the plane's own running lights, even if you encounter high-altitude clouds there is always some visible outside environment. The same goes for train tunnels, with the replacement of tunnel lights instead of moonlight, and significantly more tactile feedback on the tracks compared to an airplane.
> Why their machines had so much success since Jobs return was that they were making machines that were equally loved by music/video/content creators, developers, mothers/fathers/grandparents, students etc etc... If you aren't satisfied with your dev. environment go spin up a VM, rent a server or just get other machine that will fulfill your needs.

So Apple used to make machines that delighted all audiences, they now don't, so one of those audience (developers) needs to get in line and change. O...k?

Apple should actually go out and understand why developers are lukewarm on their machines, and if they're not or just ignoring one of those audiences, then they're doing so at their own peril.
Considering Microsoft is (and has been for some time) one of Github's most prolific users, I'd say if it's going to be open sourced, we should expect it soon.
Well, of course. They just highlighted the relevant aspect.
What's next? Fire and light?
open != copyleft.

go whine about your communist utopia products losing relevence elsewhere.
The screen size wasn't the only motivation. I like my laptop to be a portable server. This thing has 3 HD (2 NVMe & 1 SSD), up to 64GB / ram, 4 USB 3.0 ports, 1 USB-C, 1 Mini-Display/Thunderbolt, 1 HDMI, SD card slot, ethernet port, finger print scanner and a smart card slot.

Plus the battery is replaceable.

I love my beast of a laptop with all the interchangeable parts.
You can also code in a language with good cross platform network APIs like Go or use a wrapper library like boost::asio or libuv. The latter are likely to add support for this eventually if there is a strong benefit to doing so on MacOS.

I'm ambivalent about platform-specific solutions but I welcome any attempt to obsolete socket() and select()/poll() and friends. I absolutely loathe that API.
Not necessarily; the major claim in the original WaveNet research was that they were the first to have a neural network directly generate audio samples.

(Not arguing that these aren't extremely broad and problematic patents, but Google may well be the first in many of these areas.)
The point here is that when higher level languages were introduced, writing the higher level program was understood to be part of "programming"; and its compilation or interpretation became "automatic coding".

Another thing worth paying attention to in Grace Hopper's paper is this: higher level program code is in fact called "code", but specifically "pseudo code".

That which we call "pseudo code" today doesn't execute. But we sometimes remark that certain high level languages are almost like "executable pseudocode".

At that time, the task of the compiler/interpreter writer was to take "pseudo code", formalize it more precisely so that then the machine could "automatically code" from "pseudo code" to "code".'
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Exactly. Unfortunately Americans have been trained to believe that one party is right and the other is wrong. The concept that maybe both are wrong or support the same thing is foreign to them.

Same with surveillance: It's either Bush's fault or Obama's fault. They don't see the steady progression over the years independently of who is in power.
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I've heard a lot of bad things about the culture there. The main complaint I've heard is that the company sometimes organizes new projects in a directly competitive manner: multiple internal teams will be assigned the same project and given the set of criteria for evaluating the work. Then at whatever deadline, only the team that "wins" gets bonuses associated with that work.

It may not affect open-source teams though, only the finance side, and it could have changed since 2014-2016 when some of my former colleagues were there.

I also think it's telling that Wes McKinney decided to create Ursa Labs. I know Two Sigma is partnering in the early stages, but I read it as clearly a sign that he wasn't empowered with whatever he was promised by them.
> But that doesn't mean that knowing about syntax won't improve the result

this is likely correct, additional high quality input will likely improve performance, but creating such input for 200 modern human languages requires significant effort, much larger than allowing NN to solve this problem, that's why researchers invest this effort into NN improvement, not syntax tree creation tooling.
Indeed. The bot interface is being produced by the giants because they are the only ones with the budget for it. Just like google was the only firm with the budget to make self driving cars actually work, and will likely dominate that field for years to come as a result.

There will be room for startups to put the glue between the bots be everything else, but the core tech for the conversational interface is not going to come from startups.
Google Pixel 3 rumors: Huge notch and maybe wireless charging
Being a tourist and tourism is a luxury. Having affordable housing is a right.
This approach is also risky. We don't know what climate effects might fall out of very fast, very localized changes in the composition of the atmosphere. What's it going to do to the climate if we suck a bunch of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in one localized place? Could it change air movement patterns? Cause extreme weather events as the atmosphere moves around to remix itself?

I don't know if any modeling has been done on this (or if modeling it is even possible), but I'd be very worried about unintended side effects with the large scale, intensive application of this sort of technology.
These are not enforceable anywhere -- they are applications. If and when they issue into patents, those will be enforceable in their respective territories. A PCT filing such as these, however, can go national stage in any of the PCT countries, which includes pretty much the whole world.[1]

[1] http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/pct_contracting_states.html
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They were brought up all the time when Obama was in office too.
There seems to be no problem, however, with devoting a majority of most city streets to the abandoning of unoccupied passenger vehicles, and littering the sidewalks with signage of instructions to motorists regarding the lawful abandonment of their vehicles. That is more offensive than pay-to-unlock scooters on the sidewalk and should be addressed first.
> Also don't think I'm talking only about mousable GUIs. There's plenty of very good examples of keyboardable GUIs with very fast and efficient use-cases that also maintain good discover-ability.

Good point. GUIs of old were heavy on keyboard shortcuts; the web era seems to have forgotten about this concept.

Incidentally, the best keyboard-only-but-still-GUI I've seen is Magit - https://magit.vc/ - it's operated entirely via keyboard, but is very discoverable, with visual popups listing keys you can use and values of various switches. See e.g. [0] - the bottom part of the screen is the popup that shows when you press 'd' once. For operations you often do, you quickly learn the mnemonic - e.g. for typical diffing, you'd press 'd d' quickly. And the list of all command groups is available under '?', as yet another popup.

--

[0] - https://magit.vc/screenshots/popup-diff.png
Sounds like a lone drifter ambling about could kick down a row of these and execute a DDOS attack on whatever emergency lines the scooters are wired into.
Somebody at Alphabet or DeepMind decided that the research they produce wasn't tangible enough to justify their cost, so they have to demonstrate 'real business value' of their research. For bottom line business people, this means patents.

This is just speculation on my part, but from my experience, this is how/why this happens in a large org.
What's really sad is that this has come around multiple times. I remember hearing about intelligent agents coming anytime to MSN Messenger or whatever it was called at the time back in the early to mid 2000s. And people have had this delusion since ELIZA that natural language interfaces are just on the cusp. A good demo is very convincing, but reality creeps in as soon as you use these things for more than a few rote interactions. The only real innovation of the latest generation of natural language interfaces is their ability to somewhat reliably understand the actual words you use. But even that is highly context dependent and limited to straightforward constructions. And it's all built on just having huge massive datasets against which to compare what's being said. But "natural" language doesn't depend on having past analogues. "Natural" language is constantly finding new ways to say things. And I've not seen any evidence we're any closer to that now than we were in 1966.
I sort of understand this sentiment, but Summit in particular is fascinating technologically.

Half as many nodes as Titan, way higher power efficiency, NVLink2 interconnect between CPU and GPU, ATS unified memory between all GPUs plus CPU, etc.
Relevant: https://i.imgur.com/snLplqq.jpg
love it. great concept + execution.
There was a talk about tips regarding improving Swift and Objective-C build times.
> I don't get the complaints over stuff like HDMI and SD slots getting dropped.

Trying to connect to a projector is a fairly common use case, so is reading media cards from cameras and phones. Removing them makes them less portable, as they require lugging around a bunch of extra bits. It's basically going back to the 90s where you had to carry a bunch of random PCMCIA cards with you depending on what you wanted to do.

What about the "burden" of watching someone scramble around for 5 minutes trying to figure out how to connect their computer to the projector because they don't seem to have the right series of dongles and cables, because their manufacture decided that less ports was a better aesthetic.
$400 million is still a lot when you're just barely a billionaire.
"People rely on being in Google results for better or worse". Use duckduckgo if they don't like it. Google doesn't owe anybody anything. It like wanting to use Facebook resources but not wanting to use their sdk and tos. The entire conversation about AMP is pathetic. Don't like it don't use it.
Patents are a weird beast. They are written to be as broad as human language could possibly be coaxed to allow. The abstract matters for very little. There will be a list of specific claims later in the doc. These count for everything.

The claims will usually begin obscenely broadly, practically "I have invented a way to perform calculations with electricity." Each subsequent claim will add an additional refinement/limitation to the previous one, and then lawyers will play games trying to see how broad of a claim can be admitted. The patent attorneys will eventually let the applicants claim the broadest claim for which no prior art can be easily discovered.

Filing a software patent is a weird undertaking. You describe to a lawyer your idea, which takes like 2 minutes. Then they have you brainstorm for every possible extension of it you can think of for an hour or so. Then the lawyer disappears and comes back with a 60 page document that seemingly makes almost no mention of your actual idea. Then you sign that you definitely invented whatever the word salad says.