skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899

The app is working differently because it solves a different problem. It actually need a deeper understanding of the language as you just wrote.
They routinely put their other products on top of the search pages, such as Google reviews over Yelp or Google maps over OpenMap results.

The issue isn't even so much as Google is dominating search, because they have been providing a better product in almost all cases until recently. The issue is that they are using their dominance in search to try and dominate other markets
Also, the suburbs of Chicago was the area I was harping on before.
Technology often leads to a natural monopoly as it has high fixed costs and low variable costs.

One way I can see changing this dynamic is using open source services. That way anyone is able to clone, improve or change them. Provide consumer choice.

However businesses are aiming for monopolies. Crowd funding and open source might change the dynamic.

It's probably too late for search as the lead is too far. I also doubt most people care to solve a problem before it happens.
When I was growing up in New York (worthy of note since they have far more resources for these things than small towns), the library I attended had partitioned areas for children and families separate from the rest of the library.

While this didn't mean adults couldn't go in these areas, it just wasn't set up in a way any adult would rather spend time in compared to other sections. This sort of a problem can certainly be solved.

Also I'd add on to the fact that the sorts of people who spend their day in a quiet place like a library, even if they are homeless, are almost certainly harmless. The strong economy has lead to an increase of rent seeking behaviors that have put working class people on the street.
It's a beautiful profession too. There's several librarians in my family across 3 generations, and they all love their work. I think it's something about helping people, in a calm, welcoming environment, the work is a real good fit for bookish but social people.
I actually really liked my high school(s)... I just don't like the cities vibe. Not to over generalize, but the whole place felt really ironic to me. A hippy town from the 70s turned rich kid playground. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty well off myself, it's just not my scene.
This paper proposes a web_view facility for the C++ standard library.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p110...

Yes, web view and standard library are being used in the same sentence. How on earth a web view might be considered for inclusion in a standard library is beyond me.
TLDR:

1) When the ALCU tested mugshot photos VS congress member photos, the ALCU set it to use an 80% confidence level threshold, which should result in a 5% false positive rate. There are 535 members of congress, which from this setting should have resulted in 26.75 misidentifications. The ALCU got 28 misidentifications, which is pretty darn close.

2) The ALCU use a comparatively small dataset of photos. Using a different, 30x bigger dataset, and a 99% confidence level resulted in no misidentifications.

3) The police are only supposed to be using this system to narrow down choices, and then have a human sorting out possible matches, which this should do very well.

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My thoughts: The system appears to be functioning exactly according to specifications. The eternal problem of systems is that the specifications do not match what users are actually expecting/needing the system to do. If the ALCU is confused about how it works, the police probably will be as well.
The author jumped from an experiment he did which suggests that our brains can't pull different objects from our memories at the same time to "There is no unconscious thought."

I think he needs stronger evidence
CPUs, cases, screens, memory chips, radios, antennae...none of the other parts of phones are standardized or swappable, and unlike batteries they are already expensive. Why would batteries suddenly behave differently when they become expensive?
That seems to be implying it is inherently a bad thing. Is trying to stop innovative companies also a hindrance to technological progress?
As joshgel said, a black swan isn't a rare event. We can model rare events.

A black swan is an event that is by definition unimaginable. Sometimes a baked in assumption being flipped on its head creates huge effects that change everything.

If you can name it, you can give it a probability and account for it in your models. Those aren't black swans.
When YouTube and Android was first launched, Google was not nearly as big as it is today. There were even questions about Google's viability back then given that most of their revenue came from online advertising.

It would be interesting to see how many of these acquisitions are still around. I think survivorship bias is strong here.
I guess they could, but the domain is mine and I could transfer it to another domain registrar. Some government organization could seize the domain, but that's not something I worry about.
My unsuccessful forays into foreign language learning have convinced me also that none are as simple and logical as our own beautiful language, English, innit?
I believe the same is true for anyone in Los Angeles as well.
Thank you!

Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899

The app is helpful if you want to quickly save expressions you want to remember later while you are watching the movie and you don't want to distract yourself.
I find these stories really disturbing. Are there any services (I'm thinking mostly of email, cloud storage) that explicitly say they will

- provide a reason if they ban you

- always let you take out your data (unless not legally possible)

- have decent customer service ?
I didn't get to that stage, for now at least. I am still thinking of just starting a new Microsoft account, which unfortunately will not be my namesurname@hotmail.com this time, that was priceless.

Another $80 is still less than many other cloud providers for 4 years, and going down the Linux road is way too rocky for my preferences, though, may change.
Their competitors?
These were the politicians that techies voted into office. The politicians that techies voted out of office opposed all development whatsoever - they were the folks that opposed the San Antonio Center development as a whole, and that blocked the North Bayshore redevelopment for over a decade until Googlers actually did form a voting bloc and voted the supervisors opposed to redevelopment out en-masse.

There are a surprising number of tech employees who actually do favor smart urbanization, community engagement, and mixed-use developments instead of holing themselves up in their employers and writing code. Tech (and particular Big Tech) has become a lot more extroverted than the days when it was kids who got bullied at recess because they spent all day playing with computers rather than learning social skills. (And IMHO, this is one reason why the industry has become less innovative lately - there are fewer programmers willing to hole themselves up with a computer for years until they solve a hard technical problem, and fewer managers willing to sponsor that kind of work. The Erlich Bachmans are outnumbering the Richard Hendricks.)
AMC doesn’t show 12 different movies in a month. At most, they probably have a turnover of 5-6 movies per month.

As I said earlier, the price they pay for the studio for each movie a subscriber sees is around $4-$6. They still make a lot of money on high priced concessions.
I am not really interested in machine learning.

I am more into industrial application in C++, not ECU programmers. I just want to do something interesting.
Thank you!

How much time did it take?
If you're interested in this topic, you might like this podcast: http://historyofenglishpodcast.com

It's a very interesting version of history as it relates specifically to the english language.
Thoughts on NetSpectre
twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net."

Facebook alone has two orders of magnitude (2 billion) more users than 1998 had in its entirety.

Crazy.
Another problem is that librarians themselves sometimes don't have the technical (in the sense of computing literacy; "technical" is a bit of loaded term in libraries because it can refer to collection maintenance [0]) skills necessary to do well in their jobs. Sometimes this is due to the era the librarian started in (a lot of librarians got their MLIS degree before computing was as prominent as it is now and haven't adapted to changes brought about by technology), other times this is due to curricular shortcomings in library schools (anecdotally, the University of Michigan, University of Washington and University of Indiana-Bloomington library schools seem to be exceptions to this).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_technical_services
To prove you didn’t forget it?
> I always advise turning on all warnings and maybe disabling them selectively, and using any static or dynamic analysis available

I absolutely agree. I actually frequently compile with both GCC and clang as they tend to find different issues at times. Same goes for valgrind and address sanitizer.

> but I don't want the noise from things like intentionally elided code from compile-time constants

Not that I'm in any way familiar with GCC internals, but shouldn't it be possible to only print warnings for problematic cases, and not things like constant folding, unreachable code, redundant range checks etc.

> On my first workhorse systems, reading past the end of an array, as in the SPEC case, gave a hardware error if you didn't disable that.

That sounds like a better outcome than a program that runs but computes something entirely different because of a missing loop. Depending on the application, that could be a subtle bug that can go undetected for a while. Yes, the same could be true for just generating the according unsafe stream of instructions (depending on platform, mempry layout, moon phase), but I'm not even suggesting the compiler should just generate that broken code. In the past compilers did, because they weren't that elaborate yet in general. What I can't wrap my head around is this: Any such "optimization" basically breaks the program already at compile time, guaranteed. When can this possibly ever be wanted? I'm not saying it's worse than just emitting code that might or might not crash the program because it reads or writes past the end of an array. But it's not better either because the compiler already has the knowledge that your code sucks, and the GCC devs decided that instead of aborting compilation (my preference, obviously with override switch) or printing a warning (by default), they'll just render the program useless in a different way. I feel like it's just not a good choice how to handle that situation.

Or maybe look at it this way: in the past, code like the SPEC example almost always compiled to something that still worked as intended. This isn't great and shouldn't be encouraged but that's just how it was. Now with the new compiler and the same compile flags suddenly everything compiles and runs seemingly fine but produces the wrong result. And the compiler perfectly knew this would happen.

As for ifort, I've never even used it, but it sounds rather user hostile.

In general, I still like and use GCC. I think it's good they revised some of those more aggressive optimizations, and I really like how they also improved the readability of the compiler warnings a lot, following clang.
Slack is just another case of closed-source software getting enough market-share to compel the rest of us into its user-base.
Not really, because libraries have headers that have to be textually included into your source. Because they're pasted in as far as the compiler is concerned, you have to pick one version of the language to compile your app and all the included headers with.
Turkey could be the next emerging market crisis
CUDA is HPC, I have worked in this, in Germany they don't care if you don't have a PhD.
> If the ALCU is confused about how it works, other people, and police, will be to

Potentially, although big volume customers like public bodies are almost certainly in contact with eg. AWS solution architects, who would hopefully guide them around pitfalls like this.
If you required Google to license either their algorithmic search index or their search ad marketplace to other companies, it would have a dramatic effect on the competitive dynamics of the search market worldwide.
> English is the de facto lingua franca

The fact that the idiom you picked there uses Latin to tell us that English is like French tells you everything you need to know about this status. It's ephemeral in the long term.

I don't know what our grandkids' children will be speaking. It certainly could be English or Mandarin. But languages change, even on this scale. Certainly there's economic value in having a universal language (and a social loss when languages fall into disuse, for that matter), but IMHO that's as far as it goes.
> I hope you realise that the C++ design committee also doesn't add things for the sake of adding them.

There was a years-long effort to add a 2D graphics library to the C++ standard library.
I agree.

But going to Mars in the next decades is a useless horrific suicide mission that only serves to make a few people famous.

IMO persons will colonize moons, planets and space ships once their biological body is replaced by a machine body. In a biological sense, the human race will die on Earth.
Thanks, this is helpful and informative.
I would be even more worried about DNS/domain hijacking if the HN stories I hear are true. Not only technical issues but social engineering of the domain ownership.

Whatever you do (custom domain or not), you're always exposed.
I'm saying that for $20 per month, an AMC A-Lister can easily use $40, $50, $60+ of premium tickets at full opportunity cost. The terms of the A-List program encourage users to reserve the company's most valuable inventory. It would be like an all-you-can fly program... if users were restricted to economy seats on low-volume flights, it might be profitable for the airline. But AMC is encouraging its customers to reserve first-class seats on the busiest routes at the busiest times, displacing other customers who would pay cash for those premium seats.
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This is sort of like Amazon's tactic with ebooks and such. Lose until your volume is high, then when you've cornered that particular market, negotiate a workable cost per unit.

I really hope it works out -- but in all sincerity, I don't see why the theaters themselves aren't just copying this for their chains. MoviePass has already demonstrated the market.
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If the Earth were a grape, how far would the stars be?
> There's Android, YouTube, 510 Systems, and the constellation of acquisitions made to create Google Apps, at a minimum.

Buying Android hardly would have triggered anti-trust investigations given Apple's significant market share at the time, and the many other significant competitors (BlackBerry and Nokia just to name two).

Same goes with YouTube - Google bought it before it was a smash success, and before people thought that sort of thing would be a major viewership center.

510 Systems and their self driving car really still isn't a money-making center for Google (nor is self-driving technology for anyone at the moment).

Google Apps is a hard sale against Office 365, etc...

I just don't see how any one of these acquisitions, on their own, would have caused government Anti-Trust inquiries... unless your point is Google operates in too many different markets?
That's good to know, thanks for the context, didn't mean to assume just wasn't sure, been so busy at work today so hadn't read the whole article yet. That does sound pretty awesome! I hope more companies do contributions like you guys do. Facebook kickstarted the project, doesn't mean they will run it forever, eventually the torch must be carried by the community.
Uber and Lyft are facing a major crackdown in New York City
I think it's important to mention Sanjay Ghemawat is very likely just as important to google as Jeff Dean, just Jeff has been made the public figure for a variety of reasons.
You don't think anyone can tell what you mean?
Anyone who has done their research would have known IBM Watson is a scam. IBM has become a complete different company the moment they discovered that they could make far more money just by providing extended consulting service to many governments.
Because of having 90% of the search engine market they have a uniquely comprehensive view into the human mind. I would not be suprised if these huge data aggregation companies lead the race into sentient AI.
“Our big picture for shared scooters and bikes is to create a culture, together with the community, where people view scooter and bike sharing as their own," said Caroline Pruitt, Lime Spokeswoman. "But not too literally, as they need to keep paying us."
Except Moviepass is skating by on VC money with only vaporware monetization through data mining, and AMC can afford to wait them out.

Nash equilibrium here is Moviepass dying off regardless of communication/collaboration. Introducing a competing service will only speed that up.
Considering that English has basically emerged as a "pidgin" languages, taking elements from the languages of various peoples coming to the islands -- Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, French etc -- and being simplified in the process, it's only logical that it is adopted far more easily than other languages with even more speakers -- Chinese, Hindi, Arabic -- or that were expanded around the globe in a similar fashion -- French, Spanish.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17625033
Email the office of Attorney General of your state with a grievance - you paid for it, it was yanked from you, no one is picking up the phone. This is what AG is for - protecting consumers from all kinds of snatch-and-run, big and small.

Now you might think the AG won't have time for you, but the AG is not sitting there reading the incoming email and deciding to act. The AG clerk on duty will check that basic facts and dates are present in your email (make sure to include them), and ask the BigCo for their side of the story; all that before anyone even looks at the merit of the case. The BigCo will now face a choice - continue corresponding with the office of AG (which is billable lawyer time plus a drain on management brainpower), or shut you up by giving you back your stuff (which is free).
This has been the case since at least the 1980s.

https://www.thenation.com/article/transcript-breakdown-are-a...
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Or you could just use DOOM Emacs. Starts up in 1 second, gorgeous and built around evil.
I absolutely hate people using my name in conversation. As you say, it feels patronizing, and to me it also feels fake and manipulative, especially in the context of customer support.

It's interesting to me how much advice about communication involves using a person's name. Do most people like hearing their name dropped frequently in conversations with strangers or near-strangers? Or is this one of those weird unproven "truths of the business" that get repeated because they sound good rather than because there's hard data backing up their effectiveness?

(I am not saying no hard data exists; I've just never seen any and the anecdotes I've heard indicate the opposite, so I'm curious.)
I really want to see Slack and Discord compared directly
English grammar has a lot of exceptions. Personally I think Spanish is much simpler than English, and has a much more logical spelling system as well. The main complexity Spanish introduces over English is the subjunctive mood , which is less complex than the many fine details of the English language, IMO (such as learning how to use the word "do" as a helping verb). The English language actually does still have the subjunctive mood, but it is used in a more limiting set of circumstances (If I were you...)
I work for a contractor, my work is mostly use ECU services to build GUI application for cars. Work is interesting, but I have lost interest due to working for a very long time.

I just want to come out of this and work in something which is more visible and pay is decent.

* Qt is too boring, there are too many old programmers and legacy apps.
* C++17, TDD, CMake in job description, but work is in C++14 and BDD, with plenty of legacy code. I don't want to work.
* I heard future belong to autonomous driving. So , I though I will go for OpenCV or OpenGL
The government allowed it, just like any monopoly or pseudo-monopoly. Anti-trust laws apparently are not in vogue.
Twitter loses 18% of its stock value
Agreed. Unlike an operating system, or a specific hardware spec (like a CPU ISA), such team chat software if far less likely to keep you locked in. So I wouldn't be surprised in 2-3 years from now some website will proclaim "How [insert another name here] won the market".

Making such judgement now feel way too premature. It's the same as when people proclaim that Tesla won the EV market. The market is barely taking its first steps...

In the meantime everybody close shop and go home. Slack already won. :)
I don't the general populous' stance on companies having their data comes from a lack of civic duty. I think it's much more of a slow boil situation.

Cell phones happened and Facebook happened and everyone was like "Hell yeah this is awesome!". Later on, it became clear that all these companies were offering services were slurping up all kinds of information about us that given the choice we probably would say no to.

But when the cost of gaining back that privacy is giving up all these conveniences we've come to base our lives around, it becomes a pretty tough sacrifice to make.
I mean, you're implying that "technological progress" is inherently a good thing.
As something of an idealist I can’t help but think Unicode was a terrible mistake. We could have used ASCII as a carrot to get the whole World speaking a common tongue. Think of the wars that could have been avoided, the scientific progress.
This just teaches the abusive users which behavior was caught, so they can learn to be better at evading that scrutiny in the future. It is completely counterproductive for a company to provided banned users with a detailed reason for their ban.
In-context, this makes a bit more sense, though I'm not sure I'd vote for this proposal if I were on the committee. The introduction does a decent job of explaining the motivation; this is an alternate to the long-going discussion about putting 2D graphics in the standard.

Getting outraged at proposals, especially from the outside, doesn't make for a healthy process; not every proposal becomes accepted. Off-the-wall proposals can sometimes help explore a problem space with a new outlook. That doesn't mean that every single proposal is worth taking equally seriously, but Hal is a well-known name in this space, and has done a lot of good work.

(Incidentally, this kind of situation is why we're interested in adding stages to Rust's process; we want clarity around the maturity of a proposal. Some proposals are just for brainstorming. Some are more mature. It can be hard to tell sometimes from the outside which is which.)
i don’t believe it has to do with position on a dominance hierarchy.

i think it has more to do with dignity.

Those two are the same thing. Dignity == not being at the absolute bottom end of a dominance hierarchy.

Since human society is very complex, there are many somewhat orthogonal dominance hierarchies. That revered old statesman in your esoteric music fandom might be a school janitor somewhere. Those local-star music scene musicians might get ushered into a billionaire's party through the back door of the kitchen, then be strictly warned not to touch any of the food.