skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loyalty programs do a bit more than the conventional punch card as they also track everything they can about you.
You need a graph database to track all the levels of funding.
> No wifi

I know that's not true, at least. I got the best prices and wifi on Greyhound Express buses ~5 years ago.
Yup. If they want to win the "prettiest most useless map software" award, then congratulations Apple (and Google lately too).

It's a disturbing trend in tech in general. Looks over function. Everything from websites to apps to actual physical products, design is more important than functionality.
that's interesting
Thanks for the advice, I’ll investigate.
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It will matter when that data goes missing or the abstraction stops working for whatever reason.

From what I've seen, people who don't understand or aren't interested to learn about computers will only learn precisely one method to achieve exactly what they are trying to do.

Not knowing how it works is a very fragile way of doing things and could fall over at any minute, and that's bound to be the worst possible minute, and in the worst possible way.
I don't doubt your experiences or the reasons for constant regression in smartphone map usability over the last decade. Thanks for providing first hand experience. I hope I did not suggest that I think this is an easy problem to solve.

I do think this missing feature betrays a deep organizational dysfunction as you have described. This dysfunction leads to losing sight of what is valuable to users.
This basically mimics the decline of most rural areas in the US as well as parts of Europe. Declining services, population and job opportunities, even to the point where there's a marked difference in life expectancy. Unfortunately the future of the world seems like it's city based.
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> But unless you're a highly placed executive no one travels on the company dime often enough to bother with air miles anyway; airlines require far too much travel for even the bottom-most loyalty tier.

People working in hardware manufacturing do!
The funny thing is that while you are driving along a route, Apple Maps is actually pretty good at giving you exactly the info you need on cross streets, calling them out well ahead of time even when you don't need to make a turn there.

So to some extent Apple's designers and developers know the value of understand what streets are around, but that knowledge isn't evenly distributed/applied.
Can't see where this 'magic' comes from. IoC frameworks are not rocket science. Everything is very-well documented and pretty straightforward.

> dependency injection frameworks are an unnecessary and overcomplicated way of achieving it.

But why?
I don't want to write my own DI framework for each new project.

I'd better add one dependency, put some @Autowired (and other well-documented) annotations and continue writing business logic.

Aforementioned 'magic' is basically creating a context, scanning all annotations, registering beans, instantiating them (calling constructors), then injecting them.
I signed up for the BA frequent flyer program and "cognitive load" really didn't ring true for me.

Basically, I add my frequent flier number to the booking form online and that's it. When I hit Bronze (it's a couple of long flights or so) I don't need to do anything, I just get to skip the queue at checkin and (airport depending) security.

There's no sales, no emails, no upsell, my (travelling) life is just better after a couple of flights.
That's one application, but in general it is the problem of "unmixing" a piece of music - separating the percussion, bass, chords, melody, and so forth out from a single recording.
It absolutely blows my mind that map products ship without street names clearly visible at all times.

I agree. The place where Google Maps and, to a slightly lesser extent, Apple Maps fall down is in labeling roads.

I can't count the number of times I've zoomed in on a map and it shows every little sushi joint in the neighborhood, but no street names. And no amount of zooming in or out will fix it.

It's similarly frustrating when Apple and Google show a highway shield instead of a street name in an urban area. Yes, lots of streets in urban areas are also state highways. But the state highway designations only appear in real life every few miles, while the street signs I'm standing under appear on every corner.

But the greatest sin is omission. Each month I have to render about 70,000 maps from towns and cities from the Philippines to Nova Scotia. And every month I spend three days manually placing towns and businesses that exist in no online maps.

And it's not just tiny towns on far away islands. I'm talking about places in Oklahoma and Arizona and even California that either don't exist, or are stupendously wrong.

Sometimes I fantasize about having a full-time job driving around the country fixing all of Apple Maps' faults. But somehow I suspect the pay would be terrible.
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Easier to grab eyeballs with the word China on your article. Likely to do with the fact that Chinese-related hacking attacks have reached size or quality of Russian or East European attacks.
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How exactly do they intend on fingerprinting me with no JS? They get my IP and referrer - that's it.
TLDR; Apple has added a lot of vegetation information on map which makes maps look more "fuller". They are also doing better 3D models of buildings in very small area, very likely using 5000 humans in India as opposed to machine learning like Google does.
Maps and directions should be separate programs, they fulfill different needs. In a more open-access world, you could build them both on top of the same data (I assume you can with open street map).
I think apps can track your hardware I'd. I'm not saying hn does that, but other apps might track you even better with an app.
They haven’t. People try to reverse engineer it from the ASP of all models combined.
This is not a research paper. In fact, most ML papers aren't research papers. Compare the FB paper to the first result in biorxiv under the genetics heading [1]. There are basically no similarities other than being done in LaTeX. I never expect a research paper to talk about how the research affected business processes, but again this isn't research in any traditional sense.

What this is, is documentation of how Facebook implemented a technology stack that uses reinforcement learning techniques to do something. Namely: "Notifications at Facebook"

So what can other developers and business owners take from this? I don't see anything about the down stream product impacts. Does it impact conversion to paid rate for users? Does it reduce human labor? How does it improve benefits to users. All I see them write are two things:

"We observed a significant improvement in activity and mean-
ingful interactions by deploying an RL based policy for
certain types of notifications, replacing the previous system based on supervised learning."

I'm sorry but there is absolutely nothing rigorous in that statement. How are "meaningful interactions" defined? Hopefully they aren't still arguing the formula (more interaction = makes users better off).

"After deploying the DQN model, we were able to improve daily, weekly, and monthly metrics without sacrificing notification quality."

Improve for who? Well obviously Facebook and how much activity people have. Not necessarily if the user is actually getting more value from it.

What's the Return on Investment for this system?

Listen, I'm a huge fan of being open with business practices, research etc...I'm also obsessive about RL and making progress in the field.

What I can't stand however is lack of rigorous and tangible proof of how we're making things better for users or the society broadly with RL yet, or even in most cases getting positive ROI for the effort we're putting into ML/DL.

I've built these tools at scale so it hurts to say this, but the economics just aren't yet lining up here across the entire ML/DL industry and that has me worried that another AI winter is coming.

[1]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/11/01/422345
I assume these feature decisions are driven by the amount of revenue generated by the app. It is really good at making Yelp suggestions, even when I don't want them.

Hopefully they aren't using a time on screen engagement metric. That would explain why they ended up with a harder to use app. I have to look at it longer.

Either way it suggests to me Apple is solving the wrong problem in the long term.
Amazon really missed the boat when they came out with their crappy phone attempt. They could have invested more money and made some decent hardware instead of trying to do something gimmicky. They still haven't really learned though by launching poorly designed Kindle Fires with low res screens that lag a bunch. I wonder how different it would be if Amazon had launched a device like the Pixel as a phone.
I haven’t watched the video, but I’d love to know what other peoples answer to the question on is.

> Is it too late to create a healthy future?

Thoughts?

Personally I don’t think so.

Creating a healthy future, depends on defining what is unhealthy (within reason, this is also subjective).

Providing context and teaching people/our children why we think it is unhealthy.

Letting them decide on their own.
I guess we are talking about different things. Yes, there is the obvious issue of automation and increases in efficiency decreasing the number of jobs in manufacturing, so you are correct.

There's also a different issue: strategically. it's pretty bad to depend on a handful of countries (China and Taiwan mostly) to make most of the products we consume. If - $deity forbid - the US and China went to war, it'd take years to get anywhere close to the manufacturing output we currently take for granted.

On the other hand, one could argue that such dependence makes the likelihood of such a war, and the loss of life it'd lead to, almost nil.
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When I was 18, microcomputer advocates were predicting 3-day working weeks because of all the hum-drum work computers would do for us.

I'd like to believe in your dream and I'm not saying it won't come to pass, but we'll have to redesign our culture to stop fetishising hard work first.
yes, to you and the other sibling, i didn't mean one bad apple ruins the bunch. i assumed reasonableness of the GP in that he didn't experience once bad interaction and bail, and that he left out all those details for the sake of brevity. because you know, most people are (by definition) reasonable.

i thought it would have been too much to qualify my remarks but i see i should have.

i only meant, if this is the norm for a company, leave post haste.

thank you for challenging my comment, it was well deserved.
The numbers aren’t going to grow much, they’re close to saturation in the market.

They probably don’t want to deal with all the ‘iPhone only grew 2% this year!!!!’ stories.

If you don’t report numbers people can’t use your numbers against you.
Hey HN,

I'm looking for some feedback on NDN, it's a little MVP that will eventually give you only the not-depressing news from all over the web - it's seeing quite a bit of retention, and I'd like to know what you think! I'd like to turn it into a product, but it's pretty hard to see where to go.
Re: the mind hack - yes, I agree. However, in light of recent discussions about raising the 9.5% SGL I went and looked at my latest contract which quite clearly says should that 9.5% go up, my total compensation will not change, so my base compensation will thus fall to ... compensate.

Even though that doesn't financially penalise me, it still feels a bit mean. From the company's point of view though, I'm sure they'd view it as far more mean if the government suddenly told them they're obliged to pay everyone more.
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This. Linux wasn't based on proprietary code, and wasn't saddled by any sort of license.

The original BSD that Bell Labs gave to Berkeley in 1974 was anything but open source. It was an operating system that Bell had provided to the university with source code available for modification and redistribution ONLY to other universities WHO ALSO HELD research licenses from Bell Labs.

And it still wasn't open-source in the early 90's when Berkeley scrubbed all the proprietary bits out of it and tried to sell it for profit. That's when AT&T sued them.

So even if you HAD a copy of the BSD source code pre-1994 it wouldn't have been the same as someone handing you code and asking for your advice on it. You would have certainly found yourself in court if you modified early BSD for redistribution.
What is the justification for forcing these people to accept foreigners into their communities?

And I have no reason to believe that your Bavarian example is representative of other populist agendas. Limited immigration does not mean no immigration.
That's what I thought, but I wasn't able to find where they addressed this issue. If you can point me to the control for lifespan, I'd appreciate it.
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this is asinine. firstly what relative purchasing power of 9$ in Thailand vs Canada? secondly in developing countries the market for bus transport is enormous because only very wealthy have cars.
Being purposely misleading then penalising those who are misled doesn't seem like a good hiring strategy, but then again, I've never tried to hire someone.
I like the simple layout, but the topic aggregation algorithm could use some adjustment.

Frozen 2 is in both Top Stories and Business, but not in Entertainment. There's some objectivity at play here, but I'd rather see articles about movies only in Entertainment, with the ability to not see that topic.
That was a special because of the throttling the normal battery replacement is more than that.
So why doesn't Apple just give up and license something from a GIS company? Maps has been terrible from launch.
To add to that, in some places there were both bus and trains and first the train lines were shut to passengers and then the bus service decreased until it was unattractive, and then they shut the bus lines. Specific example that I know of is Acadian Lines operations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick(1).

The availability of hugely subsidised gas and automobiles has seen people hoodwinked into taking their lives in their hands by driving insanely long distances in frequently dangerous weather. It is all part of costs being displaced onto individuals (who often welcome the displacement as they believe it increases their freedom). Some of those costs are of course also externalized into environmental impacts.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian_Lines
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> They are fixed in the sense that they don't break as easily nor are affected by dust etc like previous generations.

As far as we know. It’s only been a few months.
Mostly before Facebook and Twitter gained mass userbase, before they made it easy for anyone with a smartphone post all their thoughts
I suspect that by now a lot of people never learned how to use a map so wouldn't know what to do with that info.

Thus user research probably shows that people don't want it or even complain about it.
But in that case, you are taking up space on their couch and eating their food - their resources are diminished by your use of them. That's not the case here.

I think "free-rider" is probably a better choice of term.
Thinking about it some more, for function components I suppose this might be a good use case for a hook...
Not really. You'd be surprised how easy a LEO link budget is, the free space path loss isn't much more than a cell phone link.
Hopefully if so, without any of the old legacy crap, if it is intended to be actually used to write new code. If it is just a shim to let old OpenGL code run on Vulkan drivers, which appears to be more the point, then I expect that is unavoidable, as long as we do want to be able to keep running older software down the line.

I do feel like there ought to be something for a higher level API that is not a full game engine, is not laden with the historical missteps and anachronisms of OpenGL, and doesn't require the masochism and verbosity of Vulkan. I rather liked DirectX 9, especially with all the built-in convenience utilities in D3DX that were later dropped.
I like basic Southwest but would also include JetBlue in that set. Neither comes close to having status on Delta, though.
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"And contrary to Jackson's assertion in the article, a technical paper really is in the works at the LIGO collaboration detailing how it has handled the noise in its data—noise just hasn't been a top priority."

where in which article is Jackson claiming that "LIGO does not have a noise-handling technical paper in the pipeline" so to speak?

this is a really weird comment in the conclusion...
Do you mean in addition to the three pages of GIS providers listed in their licensing section?
But the Mac was NEVER the majority/success the iPhone is today (at least in the US). It was always way behind. And price was a big part of the problem. Performance wasn’t until much later.
That's an interesting answer. Even more interesting anecdote, as I don't know what the point of it is meant to be!
Same here; `wget -HkKp` worked, albeit it took about a minute to actually download everything (and also the CSS broke).
Sea water in some scenes was made with CGI. And I believe, though it's not confirmed, that the leaf tunnel was too.

It was too bold of me to say ‘can tell the scenes,‘ they are quite subtle—but you can make some guesses on a rewatch if you know about the CGI.
It's almost as if you can zoom in on a picture of dog poo and find flies. WOW that's so amazing! ...
Aka how to not come off as a douchebag at a date.
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Not to mention, you're basically providing free mechanical turk style work for google. Back when it started with digitizing books, alright sure thats helping an open initiative to do something good. When I have to click cars and trees and traffic lights in order to post a comment, Google, is having me do work for them, and I'd rather not work for them, even if its only a few seconds at a time here or there.
"led the development" pretty much implies he's not working there anymore.

Reading the article it's also pretty clear he doesn't have any insider-insights, particularly with the speculation about building shapes and how Apple supposedly outsourced that, as a manual task, to a couple of thousand Indians.

I doubt an Apple insider would be too keen on speculations like that because if it turns out to be true it would be kind of bonkers.
I agree, and there are only maybe half a dozen people in the whole world whose tidbits of wisdom are so good, and so well delivered, and so inspiring, that I don't mind them having this vagueness. Alan Kay is one of them.

If everyone was like this (and I agree, a lot of TED speakers are), I'd go crazy.
> “Having a high degree of confidence that you are capable of building what you are selling is a given.”

No, it is emphatically not a given. Not in the context of some new CRUD tool. Not in the context of latest & greatest self-driving cars. Absolutely not.

> “Pretty much everyone in this post’s intended audience is building some combination of a database and a bunch of web forms and tables to undertake a routine business process.”

You’re just simply extremely wrong about this. Even internally to a large company you often have projects spun up for face detection, natural language processing, complex workflow management tools, adtech tools, embedded systems, robotics, medical devices, systems dealing with personally identifying information, and on and on.

Expand to include start-ups and the breadth and scope of products being developed grows dramatically.

All the time, across all of these situations, you face engineers, product managers, sales people, and many others, who over-promise on product offerings during initial stage sales piloting. It happens all. the. time. And one of the most serious drivers of this huge and risky oversight is a lack of investment in building parts of the product in advance of attempting to sell it, in order to acquire knowledge that you did not already have regarding the cost and blockers of the engineering implementation.

That you dismiss this as implausible by saying “confidence that you are capable of building what you are selling is given” is nothing other than an indication you do not know what you’re talking about in this topic. I feel frustrated to receive such a rude comment that is self-evidently more focused on trying to undercut me, even mentioning wildly non sequitur things about concise writing as if it applied to the original article, than focused on the actual discussion of the thread.
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