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The thread is fascinating. What I love about it is how the discussion quickly became a variety of proposals for other generalized--and more complicated-- constructs. Lots of discussion on making a generic Mime-based embedded object for example. The worst was "<!ENTITY ICON6 SYSTEM "http://blah..">&ICON6;" Then Marc just ignored the comments, put the <img> tag into Mosaic and it became canon. Would HTML have been so easy for the masses if it was horribly generalized? I'd argue the simplicity of tags like <b>, <img>, <a> made it so popular.
More than half of the area of San Francisco is zoned to only allow single family houses or (in some parts) duplexes, with height limited to about 2 stories. 3–5 story apartment buildings are not allowed.

All the pale yellow part, https://sf-planning.org/zoning-map

What city do you live in?
History isn't done yet. Your rosy prognosis appears to ignore current widespread ecosystem collapse and mass extinction, growing geopolitical instability, and the looming possibility of the biosphere becoming incompatible with human civilization as it is currently implemented.
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They will still disclose sales by device segment
> water/wine = x/(1-x)

> wine/water = (1-x)/x

It's symmetrical but not "naturally" uniform. If we consider both quantities as independent and uniformly distributed over [0..1[, then 1:1 ratio becomes much more likely to occur than 1:1000000.
I find that approach "the most natural". The probability P(water/wine < 2) is 7/8 in that case.
I can appreciate that inflation made the nickel price unsustainable. Can't fool an addict (my auntie only bought bottles by the case). I laughed at the Pepsi comparison tests.

So, what I could't appreciate is changing the flavor and then pretending it wasn't. Hah! Haven't bought any in a decade.(Correction: tried one bottle of the Mexican stuff. close; no cigar.)
I get the sentiment, but for air travel it's totally worth it for me at least. I travel a fair bit at work, and we just use one main airline (and by extension, alliance) by default. The cognitive load is just giving them an eight digit number when we book - that's literally it. And in return I get extra baggage allowance, lounge access with free food, more choice of seat selection, etc. Sure, if you don't do enough travel or have to use multiple different airlines it doesn't make sense, but for a lot of people it really does.

For me, if I just refused to participate then I would do the same flying with the same airline and just wouldn't get any of the free benefits... That's before free flights and upgrades that I can then purchase with the points.

So it makes a lot of sense then to get a credit card that earns extra points into the same account for purchases I would have made anyway. I'm now starting to think about my next trip, which will be business class to five countries in Europe (from Australia). Would cost about $10-15K in airfares (which I would never have paid myself) but I'll have to pay probably about a grand in taxes and most of the points I've gathered over about two years of work travel and credit card purchases I would have done anyway.

At the end of the day, the cost of this is already baked into the services, so you're paying for it whether you participate or not!
Is AI really here? We process a lot of data, we’ve done so for years, and so far ML hasn’t been able to do it better than our in house analytical scientists.

I see how the automation of those analytical scientist work a huge companies like google, where you probably save quite a few millions on having less employees, but even at our 20.000 employee municipality AI is an expense. Sure we could maybe cut the data/analytical staff down to half the size if we replaced them with data scientists, but data scientists are more expensive and you’d also need to pay a license for whatever ML platform you use, and none of our POCs with various consultants or academics have provided us with anything that was better than what we already have. In fact, In every test, it turned out our own human build models were a lot better at predicting and auditing than ML.

Heh.

AI is also struggling outside of big datas. We’ve run a poc on self driving cars for three years now, and they don’t work, at all. They certainly can work, if we replace and maintain every piece of road infrastructure to their exact needs, but that’s never going to happen.

I guess AI will eventually find a usage outside of advertising and privacy invasion, and don’t get me wrong, we certainly use it for things like trolling through millions of old case files as part of our quality control. So it’s not completely useless, but I don’t see how it’ll change the world anytime soon.
A thought experiment: Lets say they manage to offer restaurant quality food(in-spite delivery) for business lunches, at half the price of a restaurant.

And let's say we see similar trends in price/quality/convenience in pre-made food for the home.

How does that affect consumer behavior with regards to restaurants ?

And how can a regular guy profit from such trends ?
That’s a really cool idea. Thanks for the article too, it provided for some excellent illumination. (Badum-tish. Sorry.)
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Though they are not perfectly accurate, they are generally indicative, so it's useful in a statistical game.

Border agents are trained to look for all sorts of things, none of which make you guilty, but a few of which may make you suitable for more questions or a quick search.

So I'd imagine it'll get used in the same context.
The workaround will probably be that they end up buying the data from a provider who doesn't care much about privacy.

How they don't yet have a web presence boggles my mind though. I send in small corrections to Google Maps all the time when I notice errors, Apple Maps won't let me do that.
With respect to Taiwan: what is it that constitutes a nation, if not the common belief of its people that they are a nation, combined with the reality that they are under the control of a government which they recognise as their own?
We were talking about wilderness. Biosphere 2 is about way more than that, as it was a completely sealed environment (it had to produce its own oxygen, for a start).
I used the 5-mile example, but usually it is less. Parking is plentiful right at the door of the supermarket; there is no need to find it.

I've never seen a good answer for how walking is supposed to work for the less-able-bodied. My knee isn't getting better with age.

It's odd to even think of a grocery store that isn't a supermarket. I guess that would be like a Wawa, 7-11, Circle-K, or Walgreens. Those exist in suburbia, but they are nothing like what I expect for normal food shopping.

I can count on being able to buy artichokes, fresh and frozen whole turkey, fresh and dried apricots, asparagus, Bartlett pears, frozen rabbit, fresh cilantro, fresh and dried figs, bean sprouts, and alfalfa sprouts. I can almost count on quinces, dragonfruit (pitaya), and fresh beef heart. Other people can count on what they like, somehow choosing Muenster and rice cakes and tofu.
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The problem I have with TLS 1.3 proposal is it’s gonna stop me having control over the things that go out of my own network :(

Realise that this is a multifaceted debate but it’s going to destroy the utility of anything I can’t install a certificate on, and also force me to install certs on everything I own before I can comfortably let those things on the network. It’s gonna screw a lot of enterprise use cases as well.

I’m not sure people fully get that the privacy extended to say “dissidents in Syria” is also going to apply to HP printers on their own networks trying to figure out whether to show “toner low” dialogs.

Personally I don’t think the “hey the dissidents” value is worth it since those people are pretty screwed anyway - filtering at scale can still work out what you’re connecting to (ips, latency, response size patterns, blah blah) but it really messes up anyone (person or enterprise) who wants to use stuff but also know what’s going on.
Nah, you’d be running Windows NT 9.3 platinum edition and liking it.
Classified in IARC 2B, which also includes things like pickled vegetables, magnets, coffee, sassafras, styrene, and ginkgo extract. Also aflatoxin M1 (LD50 ~300 ug/kg), vanadium(V) oxide (LD50 ~10 mg/kg inhaled), HIV, and nitrogen mustards (chemotherapy drugs that also happen to be classified and stockpiled as chemical weapons). Even the items that CNN picked out, the cancer risk from those is the least of your worries. I won't call the 2B category "useless", since it actually is a list of compounds that might theoretically (but have not been shown to) cause cancer, but, well...
are you sure its a valid data matrix code in task#3?
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I agree perfect binding is far from perfect, we do use super premium paper, with the paper grain parallel to the spine. This makes the books much more flexible and the pages turn more easily. The books are also bound with PUR glue, Which is more flexible and durable then standard perfect binding glue.

Personally, what do when I read a full size book, is tear the cover off, cut the spine off and coil bind it. Yes, books bound like this all look the same on the shelf. I also cut away a lot of the excess paper, which in 90% of the cases is glorified news print. This keeps the weight down.
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Lol, he's comparing the two worst map distributors details, and comparing its various mapping mistakes. I didn't see a word about the two other better maps: Microsoft and OpenStreetMap.

Why Microsoft? They collaborated very early with a very good mapping university institute, which invented creating 3d data from stereo images, from air photos and car-level photos (for the facades), and so on, and then offered the city and regional surveyor officed cooperation contracts. they usually gave the best GIS data of all.

A few years later Google came into this business by getting the rights for US satellite data, but with satellite data you are always behind. no 3d extraction possible and always 4 years behind. local airplane stereo photos are done yearly to find illegal buildings and collect taxes for them. they are done by the state and cities.

OpenStreetMap is crowdfunded so the level of detail is unmatched of course.

I coded such 3d extraction from stereo photos in the late 80ies for our local city land surveyor office. the roof details and height was much better then than today's public data in Google or Apple' maps. feature extraction was half automatic, guided with manual help.
I've only had a passing interest in learning assembly. It's always been in the "maybe one day" category.

But after learning about how small the RISC-V instruction set is (less than 50 apparently, but I can't find a citation for that anywhere), I'm far more motivated to get into it.
”Instead of being scientific or philosophic, he gives interesting examples such that people immediately get it.”

How is being scientific or philosophic exclusive from giving interesting examples that people immediately get?

I’d say being able to speak in a way that your audience gets is an inherent part of philosophy.

Being scientific isn’t being complicated, it’s basing what you say on a foundation of evidence.

Being philosophical isn’t being abstract, it’s basing what you say in reason.

If you’re neither of those things, you’re seldom worth listening to.
Haven’t they been for quite a while though?
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Part of this is due to incentives. Police and elected officials have an incentive to appear tough on crime.

Theres no particular reason a priori, to assume that HR has the same incentives. In fact if anything, the current state of affairs may imply the opposite.
This was my thought exactly. There are hundreds of services out there that make your life just a little better or easier, and I can't afford them all. $50 just isn't worth it.

I think there's a strong case for creating an intermediate tier. $10 a year for 10k photos, but none of the other pro perks would be a pretty fair offer, I think. I'd sign up (well, not right away... I don't and won't have a Flickr account until I don't need a Yahoo address to get one.)
There are none yet. RISC-V is likely to appear in embedded and mobile devices before a full desktop machine is competitive with Intel processors.
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i read it as cornmeal and was very excited to see what they had done
PARC never made any money not because Xerox didn’t patent things but because they didn’t value those things and shut it down.

In my opinion, patents slow down innovation in any fast moving field like software. This isn’t the 1800s. If we abolished patents in pharma, we could have cures developed for the long tail!
Please don’t help the irs.
Google says 'exponential' growth of AI is changing nature of compute
In other news, Mark Zuckerberg just resigned as Facebook CEO.

For companies whose shareholders are not executives the executives will now have an incentive not to mess up. The problem is that executives rarely have enough overview over what is happening at the lowest layers of a company to ensure that data leaks could not happen, they might want to set the tone and environment but that by itself is absolutely no guarantee.

Though it is good - and probably effective - that it isn't just the shareholders of a company that are punished (they have even less insight!) through fines, I highly doubt that jailtime is the right solution.

Personally I'd rather work with the carrot than the stick:

Any employee that comes forward with reports of mishandling of consumer data or the failure to report a data leak should be awarded a %age of the fines levied. That way there is a much bigger chance at actually learning about these things happening, where they happen and companies with a sick culture would still end up being reported on.
Yep. The time calculation should make my suspicion clear: these people don't actually have a reasonable way to get groceries. They live in what is often called a "food desert".

I think some of them burn lots of time walking and on buses, maybe a couple hours for their groceries. I think some of them live on food from other sources. They could order food to be delivered. They could eat junk food from a vending machine.
Science needs to re-learn how to live without so much religion. Observation is expensive, interpretation is cheap.
You really need references to support that claim because it's also the complete opposite of everything I've ever heard.

While it's true that simply multiplying seat numbers by advertised prices is not giving the whole picture, and running lounges isn't free, the extra costs are absolutely outweighed by the far higher cost of the ticket. Full service airlines would fill the whole plane with business if they have the demand (and sometimes do).

Economy can still be profitable, of course, and there's far more passengers of that class - so airlines will obviously still run all-economy flights if the business class demand is already satisfied on a route. There's no question they're less profitable, though.
Alright, so existing debugging tools don't work with QUIC. We will need to make some new tools that can expose the information we need. If the hops between the source and destination are willing to expose the info, (and we can assume they do, as the author has), then we can figure out what packets go in that never come back out.

Instead of say "this won't work because ____", why don't people say "it would work if we could ____"? Someone (or some company) needs to improve the Internet, and it seems like the world just harangues them for their effort.
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Hi there! just wanted to say thanks for your write up. I recently implemented this approach (thanks to your notes) in the Godot engine for a game I'm working on. https://twitter.com/FlyingBastion/status/1054394571948417024
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If you missed the earlier post about Filament and it's gorgeous documentation, here are a few links for you :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684286

https://github.com/google/filament

https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html

https://google.github.io/filament/Materials.md.html
I'm confused by your comment. Session stores seem like the easiest storage to scale horizontally. The workload is just a distributed hash, _maybe_ with atomic updates. "Three nines" durability over one day is perfectly acceptable. Use a consistent hash ring, no replication, and add nodes until you achieve the performance required.
First try to analyse what happened to your revenue stream - did something break in the marketing funnel? New competitors? The problem your app solves doesn't exist anymore? Incompatibility with newer hardware/OS?

Once you have the answer to that it will be easier to define possible paths forward.

Patreon + blog is a totally different product which will in turn attract (or not) a different market.

Another option for monetisation you didn't mention is a subscription plan, which is what many apps do today (Just a few open right now on my computer - Todoist, Notion, Slack, Sketch).
You forgot Lost Horizon. Or maybe even some of the "end of the world" books (eg. Alas Babylon where they create a more simple world.)

But both those books are severely flawed if trying to think about real possibilities, though I enjoyed both of them.
How come the keyboard has become some infamous, then? Strange...
> But, thus far, our best AIs are simply pattern recognition systems strung together like Christmas lights.

Completely agree. I do believe calling current run of ML/DNNs "AI" is stretching it (and I expect to be hit with the "AI is a moving goalpost" argument but seriously? is it a moving goalpost for those who know how the current generation of solutions work?).

> There's also no reason to think that 'intelligence' can be exponentially scaled or that any system can recognize how to improve itself -- or have the capacity to do so in situ.

There's no reason to assume otherwise. Exponential scaling (i.e. "intelligence explosion") may be a contestable assumption, but really, we're in big trouble if a general AI reaches human levels. We know this level is possible because we exist. Even if AI did just that, we'd have to contest with a new sapient being, and give it ethical consideration. But I see nothing preventing that AI from being as smart as 10 or 100 humans combined.

The rest really follows from nature of technological artifacts - if you can make one, you can make one thousand (applies to both hardware and software) and make it work as one; you can iterate on it, and if you can, then a human-level AI will be able to do it too.
Reminds me a lot of the Ghost in the Shell episode where a similar technique is used.
It works well for some of the comparisons, but for others I would really prefer static shots so I can take my time examining each. Especially the GIFs that compare more than two sources, such as the ones that include Here and Bing as well as Google and Apple maps, where waiting for the GIF to cycle through all four images is annoying.

If the author is willing to implement it, those things some websites use that let the reader click the image or drag a sliding bar over it to compare might work better.

Regardless, I do appreciate the author's insights.
If you're a manager you don't have 20% of your time available to write code... If you want to write code then stay in a position where it is your role.
Our technology is several orders of magnitude faster than biological evolution :). Things on Earth have stopped being primarily driven by genes some time ago now.
or use your power as a consumer to vote with your wallet, which is almost always the overall response on HN to someone complaining about a monopoly

it just so happens that it’s real easy with content!
'stagnated' I don't even know what that means
With QEMU you can already do amazing things. Every component required by Linux From Scratch has been stable, and you can get a Fedora/Debian image for that as well.
Interesting viewpoint, I have heard manga artists being overworked. The deadlines are crushing. Studio Ghibli for a long time had to rely on outside animators due to cost, and american studios like Disney fired all of their hand animators. It is a brutal industry.
If a system is able to identify a face with better-than-chance accuracy then it shifts things from "We have absolutely no evidence you were there so we have to believe your alibi." to "We have cause to believe you might have been there so we can doubt your alibi. " That's a long way from proof, but it could be enough to get a judge to issue a search warrant or persuade a jury that other evidence is true.

This is not a good thing. Probability-based evidence such as DNA relies on people understanding probability, and most people really don't. If this system is used in the criminal justice system it will very likely lead to innocent people going to prison.
I fully agree with your point. I did not clearly understand the topic of this video.
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I wonder if there is an app that handles the "VC" side like gofundme but for software startup funding?

Patreon takes a huge chunk of money, so might not be ideal for this.
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