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No... maybe I wasn't clear on this, but the article doesn't claim those companies do what I asking:

- Edison Software: Their complaint is that engineers went some users' personal emails to "improve" a feature, and that this was a privacy violation. This is not addressing what I was asking. To me this means their AI really is doing the work by default, but that in cases where the AI doesn't behave well, they have humans intervene. Moreover, it's not clear to me that they ever claimed the work was fully AI-driven in the first place.

- Spinvox: Again, same thing: "The ratio of humans to messages and humans to number of users is very, very low."

- X.ai: I can't view the link behind a paywall so I don't know what their case was.

- Clara: same as X.ai

- Expensify: Again, same as Spinvox and Edison Software: "Expensify admitted that it had been using humans to transcribe at least some of the receipts it claimed to process using its “smartscan technology”."

- Facebook: Did Facebook actually claim M was entirely AI-powered? The fact that humans were used isn't enough to answer my question of whether they were "claiming to use AI but instead actually using human workers".

Note that I'm NOT defending these practices by any means, or suggesting that they're not privacy violations. All I'm saying is they don't answer my question, which was entirely about the use of AI, not about privacy violations.

To hopefully clarify what I was looking for: I was looking for examples of companies that are explicitly advertising that their services are AI-powered, but actually using humans to do the heavy-lifting. Meaning I'm looking for a company that does much more than have humans go through user data to improve its existing AI or handle edge-cases. That humans sometimes occasionally become involved at some points to improve service is not enough -- the company needs to be more or less pretty-much-actively-lying about their use of AI when the work is being delegated to human workers. (I asked for examples of this because this seemed to be the criterion the parent comment had.)
An interesting, and quite a bizarre article. Thanks for pointing it out.

It'll be interesting to find out how prevalent this indicator is.

"This new indicator – rather than looking at the spread between longer-term yields of two years and 10 years – is looking at the spread between short-term yields. It’s “based on the spread between the current level of the federal funds rate and the expected federal funds rate several quarters ahead derived from futures market prices.”

- The above is weird, this indicator completely flips the focus from 'long term' outlook, to the 'QoQ' outlook. That too derived from futures market prices.

So if I can spin up some 'projects' (on a large-ish scale) that look like they'll do well for the next 6 months, I can make this graph look great. That's brilliant, we've just avoided a recession for the next 6 months.

This is kind of the same model that corporations work on. But corporations have regulations enforced on them to keep them from running into everyone with a chainsaw (EPA comes to mind).
I had trouble with Fedora but got Ubuntu working
"... See recursion."
As a user I gave up on themes. I now just roll with the week's flavour instead of trying to keep up with tweaks, icons hunting, etc. :(
I think another big reason is people expect near perfection from a professional Human powered service but might be much more forgiving when the service is thought to be done by AI.
Just wanted to say I also went to CC in the Bay Area, and a few years out I am still very satisfied with the education I got. I’m now at my 2nd job as a Software Engineer... it’s not a waste of time!
The designer is were probably rewarded for what they did.
Working with retirement as a goal seems like a very bad idea.
> There is a sweet spot.

There is, but it definitely is NOT at one of the extreme ends of the curve where experienced bean-counters will negotiate down the engineering effort (and thus money) to the absolutely minimum necessary for the project not to implode 2 days after release.

Truth is, at one point in your career you have to start pushing back against those bean-counters. They will never get tired, and they are everywhere. At certain point you take a stand, put your foot down and say:

"No, this will NOT be done in 2 days. It will be done in 5 and thus it won't have to be patched 10 times in the space of a week. If you don't like it, my resignation is ready."

You would be surprised how often that works. Many of the business types and managers are bullies only because nobody ever fought back.

...Or you could take a more diplomatic, but still firm, stance. Like "the overall cost of this feature will be much lower if I work on this for 5 days instead of 2". But IMO that almost never flies so I became blunt with time and I simply don't care. I passed five job offers lately for similar reasons and I couldn't be happier about it.
Almost there! Have you seen Feynman talking that knowing the birds' names doesn't mean you know anything about them?

Let's see how the machine learns about the concept of transfer learning in the first place :)
When you do finally try macOS 10.14 you'll find that Apple has done an excellent job in ensuring that apps respond immediately to appearance changes. Dark Mode would be complete crap without that ability.
Rails is a deeply flawed framework, and we need to stop using Basecamp as the example of a well designed monolith. Basecamp is terrible software, and the crappiness of the user interface appears to be a direct result of not being able to build rich interfaces as its coupled to legacy Rails designs like this article suggests. Basecamp being fast while getting a trickle of traffic and working with very little data is not a selling point against SPAs (I'm not pro or con SPA).
Tell HN: Virail – transport metasearch – from side project to company
Hello everyone,

I'm Dario, an 30yo IT (both Italian and Information Technology) developer.

I'm submitting my own story of moderate success, hoping to contribute to a community whose guidelines and ethics I appreciate and share, and to get in touch with people like me, expanding my very limited network of contacts.

Around 2013 I was broke because I used my savings to sustain myself while working for free for another, failing, project, and I was in a long distance relationship, my girlfriend at the time lived in Rome: I did whatever I could to save money, including comparing ticket prices for the 2 leading train companies who were running the Milan-Rome route.

As many IT guys, I'm a lazy ass, and as the task of comparing tickets was a recurring one, I decided to create a little script to fetch data from both sites to quickly check which one was the cheapest.

The idea was useful, so useful I decided to build a little web interface around it. Talking with an ex colleague, I also got some SEO advises.

In the following years, while being an employee for other random companies, I kept working on my project, because it made sense to expand the coverage to different routes and countries, as the problem was just the same everywhere.

As the traffic was naturally growing, it made sense to add also other transport means, like buses, planes and BlaBlaCar, as it was booming and perfectly fitting.

I met some business guys and together we founded a proper company, hired some people. Now it is a sustainable business with headquarters in Berlin and Milano.

I'm proud to say that virail is competing with big players such GoEuro, who is funded by 8zeros digits and counts 200+ employees. They are bigger, but it's flattering to think about the fact we are still comparable.

Also, if anyone is in need to suggestions on high scalable infrastructures, I'd be happy to share what costed me countless sleepless nights and save someone troubles.

virail.com
> "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

If you can't replicate what a human do, it's not AI. The fact that we can only beat humans for very, very narrow applications/games and that we don't have a generalized model for learning is a clear failure of the AI hype.
It's compiled bytecode, designed to be compact. JS is "minified" but there's limits to how far you can go. JVM and WASM bytecode is designed to use as little space as possible.

Not sure about WASM but the instruction set in JVM bytecode is intentionally limited in a ton of ways to keep instruction length to 1 byte
We have a MailChimp account and have a couple of lists set up there for newsletters / marketing stuff. For "transactional" emails (account creation / password reset / etc) or anything that is done programmatically, we use SES.
I find HN to be relatively positive about Apple, in general. RE MacBook Keyboard : If things are bad, they should be called out
Another useful website on the same vein is "The Long View"

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

Contains histories about Photoshop, Object Pascal, A/UX, MCL, and many other Apple technologies.
I think an SMTP setup would be overly complex. I setup a Lua-based mail sender in nginx for a startup a few years back that just sent to gmail iirc. But that now seems a bit too much effort. SendGrid seems interesting as you can setup templates and then just make a Rest API call.
Can you give a practical example on how to encode invariants explicitly in a more popular language?

As for contracts, basically 99% of the languages have some form of the Java interfaces, or Elixir behaviours/protocols, or LISP's several ways of doing it. But for invariants, I would appreciate an example if you are willing to provide one.
While deceiving your customers is maybe just wire fraud, deceiving your investors about this is securities fraud.
I think that’s a great use case, but what if you wanna watch with 2+ people? I am missing multi AirPod support!
To add to that...in the country I live in (a developing country in Asia), 5-2 is NOT the standard.

If you work for a western company or have a skilled white collar type job you work either 5-2 or 5½-1½. That is, you work a half day every Saturday. It is so common that every commercial lease I've seen covers it. e.g. "we provide air conditioning from 8am-6pm Monday to Friday and 8am-1pm on Saturday".

Everyone else -- which is probably 90% of the country -- works 6 days a week. That is, they only get 1 day a week off. 4 days a month. (And it is common for people to work 10 hour shifts.)

As you say, 5-2 only became the standard because originally it was 7-0, which then became 6-1, which then became 5-2. Each of those transitions took decades. In Australia, the 5-2 work week didn't become a thing until 1948. It took a 2 year court case to change from a 6-1 schedule to a 5-2 schedule. At the time employers said, "Australia is committed to an unnecessary and dangerous experiment".

Hong Kong only implemented the 5-2 schedule for government workers in 2006. Before that, they were expected to work on Saturdays.

In Saudi Arabia, I believe that government workers still work 6-1 schedules.
The paper says that there are ways for users to find out their own access tokens and then "impersonate the app". That might be a valid threat model once the machines take over, but for now my access token identifies me and not my app.
If black-on-white is painful to look at, your monitor is too bright. Sadly, this is the case for the substantial majority of people, and so as web developers/designers/implementers we have to take it into account.

Laptops tend to have the ability to conveniently adjust brightness, but then everyone went with ambient light sensors, and because they’re really pretty terrible at getting it right, laptop and OS manufacturers opted for erring on the side of excessive brightness, and so laptop screens are normally somewhere between too bright and way too bright.

Desktop screens tend to be hard to adjust the brightness of, because the physical unit’s OSD approach to changing brightness is awful, and OS vendors haven’t hooked anything helpful into it for reasons that quite escape me. So most people still have their screens set at the default brightness level, which is way too bright for anything but direct sunlight.

I remember with fondness CRTs that had a physical brightness dial that you could turn. So much better than what we have now.

Phone screens… yeah, they’re normally too bright too for similar reasons to laptops. Again I criticise ambient light sensors.

I went to quite some length to get the screen brightnesses for my Windows laptop and the external displays I normally use even vaguely sane, involving obscure freeware from ten years ago and deep diving into Windows APIs; there are basically two different APIs for working with display brightnesses: laptops’ internal displays use one, and external displays use the other (the internal display is also available through the other, but it doesn’t actually work for changing brightness). Said other API which external monitors need is exposed absolutely nowhere in any UI at all. (Windows basically lies about being unable to adjust brightness of external displays in its Settings app.) Screen-brightness-adjusting keys don’t seem to be interceptable (no hooking onto XF86MonBrightnessUp and XF86MonBrightnessDown as I did on my previous, Arch Linux, laptop), so your only recourse for linking the external displays’ brightness would be detecting the internal monitor’s brightness changing and effecting. (Incidentally, the jump from 0% brightness to 10% brightness is consistently massive on LCDs; I worked around this on Linux by making a logarithmic scale wrapper around xbacklight, but I can’t fix that conveniently on this laptop.)

At present, I just type “b 0”, “b 40” or whatever into Command Prompt and it invokes a CLI-based external-screen-brightness-adjusting program.

In my home office, my external displays normally operate at 20–40% brightness during the day, though I’ve gone up to 70% on occasion before, and 0% brightness during the evening (and I’d prefer −20–−10%; most screens’ minimum brightness is unreasonably bright).
Imagine a site where we load a list of blog articles with pagination, now I go to page 2 which fetches the API again. Now handling the back button is really hard here.
If your CV only contains jQuery…
I don’t see how wealth should effect an individuals ability to survive a medical emergency. In the US they really try and brainswash people with nonsense like this
Hosmer, Applied Logistic Regression.

Lots of applied stats problems are based on categorical data, and this book really helped me to understand the theory better.
This confusion is made more prevalent by Windows, which has consistently claimed the UK is in some variant of "GMT", or even "UTC", during summer, often with a timezone name like "GMT Summer Time" (the UK uses BST in summer). For example, right now, the Windows 10 timezone selector is claiming London is at UTC+00:00, even though it's at UTC+01:00 for summer, and earlier versions of Windows would claim it's in GMT.
Another example here is Leverton, which is basically outsourcing all their "AI" work to sweatshop paralegals in Poland. It's apparently great to get funding though.
You missed one feature, most of the IDE ideas related to the work done at Xerox PARC languages (Interlisp-D being one of them) and Lisp Machines. :)
If you look only at the stated (=named) departure and arrival times, the plane looks much faster (nominally). If you consider that you need to be at the airport at least 1h before departure, and frequently airports are outside the city centre while train stations are in the city centre, that nominal advantage shrinks considerably.

The usage seems quite right here.
Asks me to sign up or login with an annoying pop over every time I navigate. It isn't making me want to sign up if it's going to prevent me reading public threads.

Quota prevented me from reading the rest of a post yesterday too. Wouldn't let me continue without installing their app.

If they made consuming the content enjoyable without annoying me, I may login to contribute where I feel I can. Otherwise the desperation to track just turns me away.
There's a site guideline specifically against that:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As a German this rather doesn't make any sense to me. ICANN is not allowed to offer the whois service, but I have to publish my full address on my website according to German law.

How can this be?
I don’t agree with this speaking from experience in the tech industry, which is the focus of article. I went to CC. I work right along side folks with all kinds of prestigious backgrounds, and we’ve earned eachother’s respect based on performance on the job. My education label hasn’t hurt my ability to get the jobs (or salaries) I’ve wanted, either.

The trend I’ve noticed is that the more senior of a role we interview for the less and less we even look at their education. Much more comes from their work history.

While the study is possibly applicable to the jobs they studied (lawyer / business roles), I’m not sure it holds up in all sectors.
unless this is ready now it's not being used, they are apparently going to mask and dive with the children at this point
It’s a dig at startup equity.
ICANN is relevant for email-only.
> but I'm no expert cryptographer either.

You don't have to be, as you would not implement any cryptographic algorithms (ciphers, hash methods) yourself. Solid experience with software security in general is a requirement of course.
> eg, if I have cleaning work that requires 1hr of labour and generates value of $10, it theoretically will not happen under a minimum wage regime of $11/hr

True, but I think the far more common scenario is this: I have cleaning work that generates value of $25/hr. Since the labor is unskilled and there is ample supply I can pay my workers the minimum wage and still find plenty of applicants. If there was no minimum wage I could pay them $5/hr and would still have plenty of applicants who would be even more impoverished.
> The fundamental question is: is that right? Is it worth it? Should we spend 40 years trying to make as money as we can so that we can then do nothing?

Consider that 100-200 years ago, you had to work your entire life just to stay alive. There was no retirement.
Warning N = 1, but I went to CC and there were plenty of Top 5 graduates working there. There are lots of reasons someone with a PhD from a top program might want to work at a community college. Passion for teaching, proximity to family, and much more flexible schedules are all reasons to choose to work at a CC over a 4 year.
in the most fundamental way - you operate a web page by looking at it.

I highly disagree with this. The most fundamental aspect of web design is that style is a layer that can be disabled, and that content is accessible to all, even if their access method is different from the norm (for example a screen reader presenting the information as an aural experience to the user).
1. True, but "visited" is much less use on dynamic sites, where you may have visited the page, but the page itself has changed since then.
I am not fishing for drama but I want to speak my mind. On that note, the most blatant form of hypocrisy in my opinion is pro-"life" supporters whose main argument is "think of the children" yet they also ignore the thousands of children that die every day.
> This author doesn't seem to understand basic security.

This seems like an overly broad (not to mention hurtful) way to disagree with a technical assessment.

And really, I'd say that part of "understanding basic security" is understanding that there's value in multiple layers of security. OAuth1a+TLS provides two separate defenses against impersonation attacks, while OAuth2+TLS only provides one. There are many ways that TLS can fail in practice, and only OAuth1a stops impersonation attacks if that happens.
My experiences are pretty much the same, the important distinction was when we added support for mobile apps, the API design problems had to be solved anyway, and significant differences between the interfaces for both mobile and web made it a pain to work with, we shifted to full API driven back-end and ember front-end and I cannot be happier.

I think the author is missing the fact that it it hard to justify Rails only approach if you have to support mobile interfaces and HTML is not only medium you are working with.
> Elon doesn't care about PR

From recollection, that does not seem true at all. All of Musk's initiatives have benefited from his intuitive ability for hip and technophilic branding. See the naming of "Tesla" and "The Boring Company". He also likes to frame his companies' activities in the context of techno-utopian contributions to civil society, and this is nothing new. Outside of the obvious main electric-cars mission of Tesla, they have also built a battery power reservoir in Australia as well as dabbled in solar panels.

As SpaceX, sending a Tesla into space was great PR.

As the Boring company, they sold overpriced flamethrowers as great PR to the technophile crowd.

Whenever a safety incident regarding a Tesla car occurs, Tesla issues a heavy-handed, highly defensive piece spinning their cars to be among the safest, with a constant undertone of shifting all possible fault elsewhere. The April fools tweet sends a sort of "haters gonna be haters" message to his Tesla fans.

So Musk is indeed highly aware of marketing and branding, and this proposal is highly consistent with Musk's branding and strategy. It has the Musk elements of proposals that

1) seem prima facie simple
2) seem prima facie feasible
3) solve a longstanding big or deep problem, that
4) the layman does not think has been seriously considered before as a solution to the problems it tries to solve,
5) where the problem is currently being addressed by a very different solution that seems technologically uninteresting or costly.
If you're a dev, my impression is that boot camps have changed this a lot. 10 years ago, someone without a bachelor's had a larger chance of fitting the 'lone hacker' stereotype than they do today. Of course, work experience trumps all.
A very enjoyable read, but it's a shame there was no mention of Digital Research GEM, which did ship in 1985. I remember trying it on various Amstrad PC machines in the UK and being very impressed. I never saw an Apple Macintosh at that time, even for sale in a shop, probably due to its price. A few years later GEM starting shipping with Atari ST machines. I presume the fate of GEM was ultimately tied to that of DR.
Valid definition, why not. My point is that talking about AI without defining what you mean doesn't make sense.

Honestly, that's also the problem with most articles about AI. Articles about AI are either praising the great mystical AI for recognizing cats or blaming AI for not achieving X, but humans can.
Things you are ignoring:

1- We're talking about kids who haven't dove before and probably don't even know how to swim

2- The visibility is 0. Some would be uncomfortable walking through tight dark spaces, let alone having to dive through them.

3- They're kids.
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I have the same story. Except, I'm attending Harvard instead of Berkeley in the fall. Guess what, the credits still transfer. It's pretty jaw-dropping that the credits that cost me about $2k a semester will be used as a replacement for credits that cost $38k a semester.
I’m not sure about the quality of my linked article but it seems like that humans becoming good at chess does not noticeably improve their other skills. They will simply be better at chess.

So our expectations might bee too high against AI getting vastly better only by doing better transfer learning.

http://theconversation.com/does-playing-chess-make-you-smart...
Given all the lying done by this administration and Trump appointees can the Bureau of Economic Analysis still be trusted to put out accurate job and unemployment reports? We might already be in a recession.
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