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Isn't the main point of the singularity that AI would be able to break free of such bonds due to its superior intelligence?
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Seconding this. Yelp reviews have their problems but at least there's always content in the review and I can validate some of the reviewer's reputation if they're being suspiciously positive/negative in their review. Most google ratings I see have very few reviews behind them, and most of them are under a sentence long.
I signed up the USPS mail scanning because I thought that it would be cool. However, I live in a small apartment building, and apparently USPS doesn't recognize it as an apartment building, so I would get everyone's mail. There was no verification either. I found it kind of scary the amount of info I was getting. Had to cancel because there was a lot of noise and it ultimately wasn't useful for me.
You still need to go to the actual mailbox to steal the credit cards, so you could presumably steal the verification as well. I don't actually see what this buys a person beyond I guess knowing when the credit card will show up so he can intercept it, but really you could just figure 3 days to receive a new card and be right most of the time.
A friend of mine once described a project he had built, a pathfinding algorithm for an agent to navigate around 3D terrain. On a course of 10 hurdles, the agent somehow flattened itself into 2 dimensions after the first 3 hurdles, then sailed past the remaining 7 by sliding underneath them.
HAH! So true.

"I refer to this as the MySQL Test—if your project can be implemented in MySQL it’s probably a bullshit blockchain project."
> I think true engineers keep things ridiculously simple for everyone. For the team and for the customers.

Oh dear. The future looks very dim indeed, as the species that complicates things will earn money and reproduce. Maybe this has been going on for a long time already.
Same here. I don’t have a solution. Next time I guess I will do excessive excercise the day before to get tired and try some sleep pills.
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I find TripAdvisor extremely inflated and I somehow always end up at tourist traps using it when I'm countries where yelp isn't available. It's more useful for finding out about sights but I avoid it for food and services.
I forgot about that! I've been using Zagat since back in the day when you filled out a form for some city you were familiar with and they sent you a free restaurant guidebook for that city in exchange. I still think they're the best guide (except possibly for the local newspaper site) for people who have a somewhat foodie orientation. But they only cover a relatively small number of US cities.
The problem is not being able to sleep.
They already released 15min functions, I bet there will be something huge on re:invent this year.
What I described is the same thing in layman's term. Worst case is the colloquial word for upper bound. And in that example n was approaching 1000.

If you want to be puritan the only fault I see in my definition is instead of using a generic function I assumed it's linear function - but that's for explaining the colloquial use.
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Yes, that code was painful indeed (was trying to port it at one time). On another note are there any plans on adding advisory tools for database tuning (such as AutoAdmin from MSR) or adding ML to self-tune depending on workload?
Some projects never ends. i can't work on long projects i sort of lose interest after some time.
Yeah this is what we're trying to figure out too, but we haven't thought about some of these options. Some of our users brought up that they'd like downvoting added in which helps with moderation, but after that, we could work on allowing an admin to decide the weight of an up or downvote.

Thanks for the feedback!
It's always a joy to re-read Knuth's work.

For what it's worth I consider programming a "craft", and myself a "craftsman" - or, if you prefer, an "artisan". I'd say the key difference between what I see as "art" versus "craft" is the primary purpose. The purpose of art is to express one's self; the purpose of a craft is utility. Note that this does not mean that self-expression is not possible through craft; on the contrary, it certainly is. The big difference is that when I'm creating software and am met with a situation where self-expression and utility conflict, I reconcile them with an emphasis on utility. In order for software to be beautiful, it must serve a function.
If we're using lmdb for something that's largely or entirely read only, how viable is using it on NFS with (shudder) lock files or something like that?
You might be surprised, I too agree
Counter counter point, my 128gb 2013 mbp I use for development has 90gb of “system” cruft somehow and I regularly have to shuffle files around, and have been thinking I need to re-image it since I can’t dig deeper into what the “system” bucket is made up of easily.
There are some good examples in the responses to the original tweet that aren't in the Google doc.
> Rennaisance Technologies is so secretive and subjects its employees to a lifetime NDA/non-compete.

Medallion fund is profit maker but their strategy is obviously very size limited. Their strategy does not scale.

Betting syndicates can make similarly massive ROI, but they are very growth limited.
The one I’ve seen is fuchsiajobs@google.com
I don't disagree, what I wonder about is how management sees this as a better alternative than serving their customers. I expect it is a "damned if you do damned if you don't" type situation.

They are at a tremendous disadvantage as a 'web' experience because you're getting there through Google, Facebook, or Bing rather than landing directly on their page so they have already paid that platform to put you in front. The App means they have full control over the experience and can charge restaurants directly to move them around in the search results (more revenue).

So at some point I presume the go full "Yellow Pages" and just charge venues a monthly fee to appear at all in their pages. That works if they are generating significant foot traffic into the venue but fails if they can't connect the app/website use with the visit.

All in all I don't see how they can make a business here.
Needs a (2017) tag. Anyway, here's the repo: https://github.com/ground-context/ground
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It's only your choice to read it that way.

I read it as: "We can do better but the current way of doing things looks broken to me. We should start by replacing it with something VERY different."
You are 100% right. As a biker I would prefer to be on the sidewalk. It's safer and less scary. As a pedestrian, I prefer bikers stay off the sidewalk. It's safer and less scary.

But when you consider the big picture, I think it's obvious that cars kill cyclists and pedestrians in the street much, MUCH more often that bikes kill pedestrians on the sidewalk.
my personal method when out and about is "ask a stranger," with using my hand computer as a backup. i delight in answering these questions as well, so i'm inclined to believe people generally don't mind.
He is great. Also try existentialist literary fiction. Russian writers do an amazing job by designing rich characters and writing good conversations which will resonate with you if you like Herman Hesse's work.
Not the OP, and I find that yelp is in a better league than the competition (google, tripadvisor), but I tend to look on Eater.
No, just no. I understand that to push the current state further, you need to think outside of the box, but what you call bland, I call essential to communication.

I find the David Carson quote (confusing communication with legibility) to be ridiculous on it's face. If your intention is to communicate information, it needs to be legible, clear, and understandable. If your goal is to make beautiful designs, fine, but understand and state your goal.

Not a single website redesign here would ever work, and would be offensive as a user trying to consume information.

Design is about embracing constraints for the medium to solve a goal. This is about removing any constraint to make a pretty picture.
Great, looks nice, but I won't ever use it.
So what was the real goal?
Well said. Having to add increasingly many edge cases to your model is a sign your model is insufficient.
> it works exactly how you made it work, in every browser, ever.

My experience of flash is that it mostly didn't work, and I had to spend an hour after every new OS install trying to get flash to work.

And copy and paste doesn't work, you can't right click to save images, etc. Unless you're trying to make an animation, or a game, flash gives a really lame user experience, I don't know why you like it so much.
For sure. Like I said, I usually do a custom build of a framework, then strip out the stuff I don't need. And if it's designed with variables, changing small stuff like breakpoints etc is maybe a few quick changes.
Ask HN: Good typed log parsing tool for jupyter?
Found myself needing some specific aggregate stats from a SQL slow query log this week and ended up writing the parser for it.

How do other people do this? Is there a giant repo of sample logs and parsers somewhere?
Indeed, numbers are abstractions. Even the number ‘5’ is an abstraction, let alone the numbers that cannot even be measured precisely - not even in principle.

>idea about a circle

As if a circle is a real thing. (Circles do not exist, either - or, rather, they ‘exist’ in a very particular sense of the word, as they are themselves abstractions; round things do.)
> The purpose of art is to express one's self; the purpose of a craft is utility.

That is the clearest distinction I've seen yet between these. Thank you for that insight.
Intel flavors often do both with a single idiv instruction. Agner Fog has performance tables for many variants [1]. I’d guess a few pipeline to similar per loop cost of shift and add.

I suppose if you’re writing a paper you’re aware of quite a bit of literature on exactly this problem. Recent papers have quite fast methods to do this. I’ve not looked at recent state of the art to see if 58 has a near zero cost divmod, but numbers of many forms do. I’d not be surprised if state of the art has it reduced to a few non-mem access branchless no division instructions on most architectures.

Maybe later I’ll poke at 58 and see what I can design. I’ve made quite a few such algorithms over the years.

[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
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They don't do either of these things. There are some anecdotes online but no evidence of this happening.
>From the plot we can see that the real stock price went up while our model also predicted that the price of the stock will go up. This clearly shows how powerful LSTMs are for analyzing time series and sequential data.

Yes I've noticed on HN recently ML and data science have become popular topics but I'm surprised a post like this has so many votes.
What is a betting syndicate?
It would be easy to read your question as "wife, deportation, debt, or all together" == nothing, and in doing so dismiss it. It is easy to see it as "you aren't even willing to sacrifice [all or most of these things] for this?" I would imagine that for most people, their loved ones trump their morals by a wide margin.

If you are asking that question without the parent as context, I would say that it seems like the only distinction between morals and preferences is one of definition.
PCIe SSDs are still a common point-of-failure, aren't they? I feel like they should be replaceable.
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This is great tutorial by Greg Wilson!

P.S.: I'm one of contributors to OpenOrienteering Mapper[0,1] — FOSS desktop publishing software for cartography, designed for creating & printing orienteering maps & other types of maps. Currently it available for Android, Android-x86, Linux, macOS, Windows.

OpenOrienteering Mapper started in 2012 as FOSS alternative to proprietary OCAD, and for now it is tool №2 for creating orienteering maps. Anyway, Mapper already widely used around the world & in some cases it is better than OCAD.[2]

Now we are working hard on v0.9.x release.[3]

[0] https://github.com/openorienteering/mapper

[1] http://openorienteering.org/apps/mapper

[2] https://medium.com/@matti.tahvonen/could-openorienteering-ma...

[3] https://github.com/openorienteering/mapper/tree/dev
Paxos itself and not something built on top of Paxos like multi Paxos is in fact super simple compared to raft.

Where it get complicated is trying to build a practical replicated log system using Paxos. Raft just happen to clearly and completely define this use case.

What SDPaxos or EPaxos try to achieve is good performance over WAN.
Something that Raft and any Paxos variant that rely on a stable leader are very bad at.

This can’t be easily added to raft because the main reason the raft algorithm is simpler is because it assume a stable leader in every operation except leader election.
They have a diverse portfolio of crimes to work with. Always something new!
> There has been more than one survivor

That seems to be a matter of debate.

The other reported Milwaukee protocol survivors apparently include:

(1) people who died of the rabies infection, but were characterized as “survivors” in some reports because they survived past the initial acute phase,

(2) People who received both post-exposure vaccination and the Milwaukee protocol,

(3) One survivor who, based on antibody tests, probably was never infected with rabies in the first place.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-...
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It takes a while for rabies to travel from the muscle or skin cells of the original bite up into the central nervous system. The virus initially replicates inside muscle cells to avoid detection by the immune system, and only starts traveling up peripheral nerves once a sufficient viral load has been generated.

PEP works by massively boosting the patient's immune system (via immunoglobulin) and sensitizing it to the rabies virus (via the vaccine) before the virus can get to the points (the brain) that it's impossible to remove it from. Think of an army retreating in wartime: if you know that the enemy has successfully established a beachhead within your country, the logical next step is to start fortifying cities & chokepoints so that as the enemy advances, they meet unbeatable resistance. That's also why it's critical to get treated ASAP after being bitten: once you show symptoms, it's too late.
I agree with you but would just add one more nuance: there's a critical minimum of "so-so-okay-ish code" that we should never go below of. The problem with untouchable huge turd piles is borne out of going below that bar.

I totally get the low job security and low payment and the "I don't care" parts and have written bad code because of all of those. Still, if you put even a minimal effort, it pays off.
Seriously, and at the very least it's a good census of what's in the immediate area. I can't even search on Google without it recommending me places 4 miles apart from each other. I'm sure Google will get there but its immaturity is palpable.

Maybe I just like it because I never read reviews. Like YouTube, comments are poison to otherwise good content. People suck.
the real scam is having 3 upvotes in your post during the first minute
At my college not much. We are a public institution and cater to urban students who mostly are working adults.
My first thought as well. It is an interesting project!
>I did end up helping the restaurant down the block when they got scammed by a service claiming to be Yelp, that actually took over their profile and was making them pay to make changes to it. I think a lot of supposed "Yelp scammed me" stories are actually that - third parties.

Yep. I suspect this too. It's the same thing that happens with spammy SEO services that effectively threaten to hurt your search rank unless you pay up.
...Black people couldn't vote in the US 70 years ago.
"I don't have any sympathy for a site that purposely cripples the web mobile site to force you to install their app."

They did this in response to Google. Their clicks from the google search results has been down for years [1]. What should they have done?

[1] https://www.seroundtable.com/yelp-ceo-on-google-interstitial...
The idea that I would take some random stranger's advice because they earned some 'Yelp Stars' or whatever by wasting a bunch of their time on the site trying to feel important is ridiculous. I stopped looking at these pretty quick after I realized what a time-sink it was that did not seem to result in me patronizing any better places than I was before. (And the fact that Yelp seems to go out of there way to prevent me from surfacing details I might actually be curious about from reviews). It seems they are much more interested in optimizing the site to encourage people to write reviews rather than make those reviews useful to those who might be reading them. Why are they creating a situation where 500 people are writing 500-word reviews that no one will ever read? When the most sophisticated aggregation of this they seem capable of doing is "4 people mentioned the cashew chicken! [What they had to say about the cashew chicken, well good luck figuring that out]."

The only model of crowd-sourced reviews that interests me at this point would be one that normalizes ratings against an individual's biases (so someone who gives every place 2 stars is not skewing the average) and models preferences to give personalized recommendations (since you like establishments X and Y, you might like establishment Z that other similar users have rated highly). AFAIK Yelp isn't doing any of this.
Angie's List is less useful than it should be. It seems that the reviews are largely promotion-driven (i.e., vendors that offer coupons get reviews, others get no reviews).
You may need very simple mechanics / chemistry to achieve spontaneous division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coacervate#History
They don't.

Trivial example: Hacker News looks nothing like Medium.
All blogs on Medium look the same though.

The mainstream web looks the same because it's all gone through the same funnel.

The web is split. You have the oldschool developer part (mostly textmode with the odd showoff project), and the mainstream part (full of GDPR banners, advertisements, cookies, tracking stuff, 10MB page loads, etc).
> barely better than guessing randomly

In the stock market something that is consistently better than guessing randomly is very valuable! You don't need much of an edge to make a lot of money.

(I'm very skeptical about approaches like the OP though)
With those kind of costs, you're probably going to hit the out-of-pocket maximum even if your insurance covers 80% or whatever which is going to be a few thousand dollars for most people. (But might be more with a cheaper high deductible plan.)
Perhaps our bodies are a shell for their consciousness. That's why they're so interested in "our" observations. We are the VR headset for them.
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Please email us at hn@ycombinator.com when you notice stuff like this! We don't see nearly everything on the site, but we do see email.
I have the exact same machine, 2011 MacBook Air, and it's always bloody out of disk space. It's the only machine I am constantly shuffling data around on. Delete photo library so I can upgrade xcode, let it resync from icloud next time I feel like having my photo stream.

Can't use it to offload and edit photos while traveling, despite the convenient SD card slot, because the disk is too small.

can't download an os update, disk full. And no, I'm not a gamer. I've been fighting that small disk for at least the past 4 years.
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Randy Pobst is a badass. It was smart of Telsa to hire him to assist with tuning the Model3. On top of his long racing career, he's had extensive seat time at Streets of Willow in probably every sporty car made over the past decade due to his affiliation with Motor Trend.

I'm not sure there's another person on the planet better qualified for the job.
The microphone having to be taken because he was interrupting and the subsequent lie by the press secretary. Whether or not he should’ve interrupted is a different question, but irrelevant since that’s not the reason cited by the WH.
I find it interesting they tuned it to the driver's preferences. I wonder how they translate to other driver's preferences. I recall a story about electronic stethoscopes. They didn't have the same artifacts as the mechanical ones, so doctors didn't like it. Designers then added back in the artifacts artificially and had better acceptance. I wonder how much of the Tesla's tuning was in reality a de-tune to match the driver's preferences.
Could you please refrain from plugging your stuff here unless it's utterly relevant? Eventually we do ban accounts that abuse the community like this.
Yeah, not sure how Google can recruit folks in this category unless they allow full-time remotes.
> It has seen success with children

AFAICT, the use of the plural is unwarranted; there seems to be one uncontroversial case of someone infected with rabies treated with the Milwaukee protocol and not podt-infection vaccination, who survived the rabies infection.
Nope, it’s gamed. Reviews are useless. Had a terrible experience with a business.
For what it's worth, I've tried Google (absolute and total bottom of the barrel trash level reviews in my opinion -- cannot say enough bad things about that review quality) and Tripadvisor (not bad, better for lodging and sights than food). I do like Eater but it's a different service and not user-driven.

I'm in the US. Have been all over the place, all over both coasts, texas, and colorado.
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I can't relate to the negativity I see here. I like Yelp quite a lot. There have been a number occasions where I've found an excellent local restaurant that I wouldn't have otherwise found.

Admittedly, you have to know what you're doing. If you're in a food desert, like some parts of the US, you'll need to take those 4 and 4.5 star restaurant profiles with a grain of salt. What I would really like: the ability to select other users whose tastes are similar to mine that Yelp would then use to influence the ratings I see. This might also protect against paid spam reviews and over-picky reviewers.
I'm not intending to say that it's good, just that it seems a lot more widely used than Yelp lately.
Am I the only one who considers companies like Internet pollution and hopes they all die?
Yeah, but Google reviews are essentially the same thing.