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Ask HN: Automated machine learning products live up to the promise?
My company is looking at some “AI” products like datarobot and h2o driverless. The sales pitch for these is that they automate away a lot of the hard stuff of data science and will enable a less technical “business analyst” to effectively create and deploy machine learning models.

Curious if anyone can share experiences with this. Has it really worked out that way?

The team members that would use such a tool, should we buy one, are fairly data savvy, can do the data prep work/etl; and have good domain knowledge for the problems we would try to model. wondering if they could be successful at the model building work with a tool like this despite lacking real undestanding / know how to do such work “manually”.
Spain and Greece have higher home ownership rates than the USA, Germany and Switzerland, but far worse economies. Home ownership being correlated with wealth is the correlation of being able to consume more resources and what the policy environment incentivizes, not that one nation is wealthier than another.

https://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-h...

I mostly bought my house for the tax deductions and a form of rent control, not as a wealth building tool. Without the deductions, putting my money into ETFs was more lucrative.
Staples such as rice and wheat are, technically, grasses.
Open-source code is here: https://github.com/TwoLivesLeft/Menu/
Kind of wish the EFF or some group similar would sue or push to have the law require not using that info as ID with fines for non-compliance.

It's inexcusable that someone can pretend to be you, sign up for stuff at various services, and some how that ends up being your responsibility to fix. It should be the various businesses who failed to correctly identify you and they should be financially liable, not you who had ZERO to do with it.
>Some may be upset if they find out [you fraudulently created a warm-introduction email to entice Vayner to respond]

Do we need any more proof that if this works, marketing and networking is an illogical and unethical world?

What happened to the days of teams making cool innovative stuff and the guys with money reach out to talk?
Hundreds of users, exactly.

And yes of course, Go. Solid language, good tools, and a much richer set of libraries than Nim. First rate solution, and I have tried. Several times. But for some reason, Go and I always end up in a shouting match, and one of us inevitably slams a door. It's a purely personal thing.
On second thoughts, I still don't think it would work.

As you tilt the cup towards your lips, if the "highest" siphon pickup is still submerged, then that will correspond to the "lowest" siphon top and it will start siphoning anyway.

It would work as long as it could be arranged that the pickup would become exposed to air before the siphon started siphoning, but I'm not sure that's possible while still retaining the property that it self-starts when overfilled.

Also, even if the tube doesn't siphon because the pickup is exposed to air, there would still be liquid in the tube, some of which would get pushed over the top and leak out the bottom whenever you try to drink.
I'm just the messenger, I like the project too.
>>container-based
Just create a boot image. Qemu works out of the box.

On the Homepage exist Emails exchangedwith the creator. It was a brian fart to move on to a exokernel 5 years ago.

Exokernel are on Ring 0. For any hardware virtualization, this is the perfect optimization in large cloud installations. Exokernel are easy to manage from ring -1 VM software. And can boot in < 100 ms.

So a application node can be add to cloud setup or reboot after a crash. Btw the author is working at a big search engine since over 10 year.
4 time zones... ?
Proper Git etiquette
Thank you for this.

The way I’ve always said it is that individual foods are neither healthy nor unhealthy in and of themselves and our insistence on treating them as though they are is what leads to the ridiculous heralding of new “superfoods” du jour like spirulina, kale, wheatgrass, açaí, chia seeds, ad nauseum.

It’s diets which are healthy or unhealthy, not individual foods. Swapping in kale for iceberg lettuce or açaí instead of blueberries is not going to statistically improve anyone’s health or wellbeing.
Frame-tale, is actually a Mobius strip
This sounds like a really good way to burn bridges that haven't even been built yet. Maybe I'm alone in feeling this way, but if somebody pulls this shit with me and I realize it (and chances are I will) then you're going to get a reply alright... one that says "go fuck yourself".

That said, maybe some people would be more amenable to something like this. Vaynerchuk might just be one of the people that would get one of these, realize what was going on, laugh about it, and reply and say "good job, kid". But then again, he's a Jets fan, so whaddaya expect...
The entire insistence on the belief in a higher power, along with insistence that one is "powerless over your addiction" is intrinsically talking about a moral failing, and more specifically adherence to a christian-worldview where all from birth are morally failed.

Does belief in a higher power constitute being morally failed? Is it even specifically Judeo-Christian?

Being "powerless over your addiction" has more to do with setting aside rationalizations and not mistaking temporary breaks for having control.

AA undeniably has a Christian flavor -- it was developed and elaborated by Christian people -- but that doesn't mean it's about Christianity.
Write It Out
The casual handgun on the desk in pictures is quite hilarious.
Brussels sprouts are amazing in stir fries. Cut them in half and plant them face down in the pan.

I was seriously misled as a child by all the kid's books that portrayed Brussels sprouts as disgusting vegetables.
A bit of competition is always fun, you can point them at the code/papers linked from https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog-Archived/Need-...
UI experiments like this show that what a lot of pro users want for iOS on the iPad is for it to become a Mac.

Maybe a Mac with a touch UI mode and a more modern architecture, that is cleaner and has a more restrictive security model - but still a Mac.

They'll say they don't for purity reasons, but their desires show otherwise:

- Add ways to show multiple apps on screen at once (e.g. windows – but because they don't overlap, oh except for slide-over items, then it's new and therefore they don't have to admit they are asking for windows)

- Add a hardware keyboard

- Make the hardware case with keyboard into a laptop form factor

- Add a touchpad

- Add a way to drag and drop items between on screen apps

- Add keyboard shortcuts

- Add the Finder, oh sorry, I mean Files.app

- Add a menu bar for Pro apps

- Next they'll ask for a menu item to appear onscreen when an item is force touched; e.g. right click contextual menus

Congratulations, you've invented a MacBook. At least you'll feel good about yourself as you can now think you're using "the future of computing" instead of simply an evolved version of what everyone was using a decade ago.

This is a pessimistic but IMO true evaluation of how techies who are proud of themselves for using an iPad for 'real computing' self evaluate the decision.
If the search engine is now human knowledge that would explain why everything seems to have gotten dumber in the last few years. We are all google now.
The $450Bn wipeout: Apple's value fallen by more than FB's worth in 3 months
To be honest, that joke is very common. A much older version of it exists in a Dilbert cartoon from 2001 [1], and it wasn't a new joke at that point.

[1] https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
I suggest that a right to privacy is a mistake. It shouldn't exist.

Unsustainability: It will only become more difficult to keep secrets as technology improves. Imagine cameras that can see through walls and drones the size of a fly.

Unenforceability: How do you make people forget information on demand? How do you delete data from the internet?

Inefficiency: We waste a lot of resources securing data. We waste a lot of resources requesting data. Allowing data to flow naturally would be more efficient.

I think it's a good idea to let "everyone else see [my] bank balance[.] Personal emails[.] Personnel reviews at work[.] Letters to [my] girlfriend[.] Late night browsing habits[.] Purchase history[.] All [my] photos along with the video feed from [my] phone[.]" However, I think it would be unfair to make the life of one person transparent in a society where the social and technical expectation is to keep secrets, although I think it would be better to make everyone's lives transparent in a society where transparency is supported.

I think the transition to a transparent society is inevitable. I also think that the later we prepare for the transition the more people will suffer. This is why I bring up the subject and encourage people to think about it.

David Brin explains it much better in his book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
While it did expose me to the broader aspects of technology and what really drives techies, these days HN has become a source of time wastage for me.
However I do think that the world without imaginary jealous fathers in the sky watching everything you do (often even requesting his followers to kill those who don’t believe in him in order to get to an imaginary place where they would have nothing to fight for) would indeed be better.
> No I worked remote for companies in the US, which was my main willingness to live in SE asia in the first place because salaries here are crap.

You can make decent money in Singapore as an expat. But the range of salaries i've seen here is quite a bit larger than in most of the west.

As for the rest of your comment - interesting. Thank you for taking the time to write that up. I am no longer a backpacker and i travel and look at places differently nowadays. I have to check out Jakarta again.

I live in Singapore currently, have been here since 2013. There are things that i miss from my home country (Switzerland), but overall life here is good.
cyber stalking is very real, very prevalent, and made even easier than it intrinsically is, by irresponsible PII use and meta analysis, stalkers did this in thier head, or spent time pouring over phonebooks and dumpster documents.
just ask any women that care to be here about thier experiences and a different world will be known to you
Tymkrs and the Art of Circuitry
You aren't alone. Anyone that says "I respect the hustle, kiddo!!" in response to this is probably going to add negative value to your life long term.

Imagine having someone this unethical as a business partner or investor. How can you trust a word out of their mouth?

Just go get legit warm introductions through hard work and merit.
Moxie Marlinspike came up with the concept of trust agility some time ago. I think it's imperative that the agility of the trust network is guaranteed, because this can be a fast changing situation.
Brussels sprouts have changed over the last 30 years, they are much less bitter than they used to be.
One of the parties? You haven’t been around DC much I’m assuming.
My take on the future of applications development and operability
The article doesn't say how the swatter got the victim's address. Where they somehow able to cross-reference the streamer's twitch ID with their credit report in the leaked Equifax data? If not, I'm not sure what one has to do with the other.

> If data breaches were treated like chemical spills, companies would be much more proactive and careful about what data they collected, who they shared that data with, and how they secured that data.

Actually, on a personal level, I am treating data breaches exactly the same as chemical spills. I personally have about as much influence on one as the other, which is to say, none. If a law comes along, I'll support politicians who vote for it, but that's about it. Again, what precise, actionable steps are you proposing for the average person to do? I'm looking for something besides "be scared and angry all the time" because that is as unpleasant as it is ineffective.
I get scam calls a couple times a month. They know my name number and profession. It’s really annoying.
I read this article on Hacker News a while back and it seems on target to give pause for thought. I recommend reading it to understand more about saccades. This phenomenon may also help explain some accidents.
Cheers, link next
https://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to-s...
To see what will happen
well, true in some context future could be dangerous these self controlled machines getting more destructive or could be programmed by few insane rebels to harm the humanity and people drastically!
...go ahead keep voting me down, im immortal
The energy requirements of moving in the water and the air are completely different so its not a good comparison point. And subs use nuclear power I am pretty sure nobody wants to have planes flying with nuclear reactors over their heads.
There's no touchpad, and the iPad is still very different from the Mac in ways that are more significant than your list of details.

For example, yes, there's a finder, but the places where you put files are 100% abstract, can be a hard drive, can be a SFTP, can be a cloud service that when offline, saves to the local storage and then uploads, can be a lazy extracting zip file, etc.

The most significant way that iOS differs from macOS (or Windows 10 or whatever) is that in iOS every action is accounted for and proper permission is enforced.
Most people don't realize how slowly bubbles pop. There is a lot of inertia that props up stock prices.

Lehman Bros news broke around September 2008. The stock market didn't reach its lowest lows until March of 2009.

Losing 45% in 3 months is a failure. Maybe not a catastrophic one, but whoever was recommending buying apple in September 2018 is now revealed as having literally zero idea of what they're talking about.

I always feel bad for anyone who trusts institutional advice and buys stocks at all time highs.
I think this article has an incredibly important point most people are missing because it is terribly written.

Part of this is that analog vs digital isn’t the right term. Vacuum tubes are completely irrelevant to the point he is trying to make, and confuse the reader.

The point he’s trying to make (which unfortunately I’m unable to explain right now better than he can) is about the emergent properties of systems made up of independnt entities in a rigid form and how this is a type of computing that differs from what we usually think of as computing. The example he have about DNA vs the brain sort of gives an example of this. DNA is coded similarly to computers, and in many ways cells are like computers/programs (that happen to self-propagate according to their software). On the other hand, brains are this other type of “system” computer made up of a combination of independent actors (neuron cells), a regidid but adaptable structure (the physical structure of the brain), inputs, and information sent between the individual actors. This is very similar to a million computer-regulated human systems where we react to information we receive through the platform, and we relay our reaction to the system, and that reaction affects how the system interacts with other individual actors.
Them not allowing you to use Messenger in a browser is just so disgusting. It’s like bullying. I’m happy people are jumping that ship.
What do you think brought this drastic change? Is it because of quality of content or something else?
> 1 wine a day measurably increases overal cancer risks as stated by the authors.

Where? I just re-read it and didn't see this conclusion.

(And even if they did - it's just cancer. What if we include heart diseases, too?)
I don't see how it's significantly different from the ubiquitous UIPopoverViewController:

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Given the nature of its work, why is PG&E not a government entity? What are the perceived benefits of having it as a separate company if the executives are going to reap rich rewards when things are going good, but are going to declare bankruptcy (or ask taxpayers for help) when things go bad?
Will the World Accept Plan S, a Plan to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
The EFF has lobbyists. Point: lobbying isn’t a “bad” thing. It’s only “bad” if you disagree with them. How else are lawmakers going to get detailed information about issues that interests care about? Some random constituent claiming to be an astrophysicist? Is it conceivable that ever member of Congress has a staff with experts in literally every possible subject that could come up for legislation? Nothing is stopping the “other” side from lobbying too. Lobbyists from both sides of issues are a critical part of the lawmaking process. We elect people to be able to balance those competing interests and ostensibly make the right decision. If you aren’t happy with that decision, there are elections every two years. No question there is corruption, but Congress itself isn’t corrupt. I am not a fan of Ocasio-Cortez, but she took out a prominent Democrat because, in the eyes of the constituents, that representative wasn’t doing the job in a way with which they agree. Congressmen win elections because a majority of their district wanted them to win. It’s a fact that a significant percentage of people complaining rarely vote, let alone actually volunteer for a campaign. We get the government we deserve, not necessarily the one we want.
The breaches of law you mentioned are of a specific kind, and I wager that the agencies did not agree in every case that they breached the law.

On the other hand, blatantly stealing their tools instead of buying them is not the same kind of breaching the law, and it is obvious to everbody that it is illegal.

Also, even more so than persons, institutions can behave contradictivly when viewed from the outside. From within it may seem consistent and sound to surveil everybody and legally buying the tools they use for it. The evil is banal.
Not a very useful answer; presumably OP doesn't know the reason.
The damned weather app in iOS is pretty useful too.
You really wouldn’t want to see one.

But all that’s needed are are a handful of rules, to provide for a system that emotes. You’d probably dismiss it as an inauthentic toy, but emotions actually aren’t the core aspect of agency.

Anyway, the rules just need to assemble a goal, a threshold for equilibium, and reactions for deviation from that equilibrium.

Bonus points if you account for radiant measurements of equilibrium. What I mean by that is anticipation of adjacent conditions that signal a probable loss of equilibrium, such that the system doesn’t just react to an unbalanced circumstance, but also things that could lead to an undesired imbalance.

Examples:

A. If the cup is disturbed so that the milk spills, then a negative experience ensues.

B. If a balloon, inflated with ordinary compressed air, sinks onto the grass and pops, a negative experience ensues.

C. Ambulate through an environment obstructed by complex obstacles, and negotiate each obstacle without falling onto the ground. Falling onto the ground will result in a negative experience.

Each of these three goals represents a targeted state of equilibrium: don’t spill the milk, keep the balloon safe, don’t fall down go boom.

Now, layer an array of reactions on top of the branched set of possible outcomes. You can also buld up variations on top of each branch.

Positive branches are indicated in moments of success at achieving the goal. Negative branches are indicated upon equilibrium being defeated.

So the computer or robot can externalize its inner state with a happy face or a sad face, but we’re missing some of the emotional range. When would anger display? When the machine can assign blame and consider revenge, of course.

So if an entity (preferably a rival robot, since we wouldn’t want the robot to exact revenge on a person) knocks over the milk, pops the balloon, tackles the robot, the obvious motive is to make sure that never happens again, the root cause is the rival entity. Stand back up, destroy the entity, and acquire more milk, another balloon, and try to achieve equilibrium, and thus happiness again.

Prior to reacquiring its happy state, the machine can externalize an angry face if it can assign blame to a detected responsible entity, in all other cases, it would simply be sad, until it can stand back up, inflate another balloon and pour itself another glass of milk to protect. If it cannot set things back in order, as desired, then it is simply permanently sad (no balloon, no milk, unable to stand or walk), forever.

See how that works? It’s actually not much more complicated than that.
> Usually the least upvoted comment is the one that gets it the most correct.

I work in automotive software development and the same holds true there. ;)
When the guys at Boston Dynamics kick BigDog and it struggles to stay up because it "doesn't want to fall" it feels spooky close.
I think there is not any paradox about Erdos, Paul loves numbers and love Is blind
someone could login to HN as you and downvote everyone for no reason so they figure out what login is doing it and ban your a$$
that would be a hard hit to all the high karma types that were fubard like that
Yes, one of the parties is largely responsible for budget cuts in the Congress’s own staff.

A web search turns up e.g. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2015/06...

Or more recently and pointedly, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-cbo-idUSKBN1...

Or you can find many other sources from the past 25 years discussing this.

The Congress should be robustly funding the Congressional Research Service, the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, committee staff, individual members’ staff, etc. But one party does not want the Congress to build up long-term institutional expertise or do careful independent analysis.
I worked in a prison facility for three years, where all the inmates knew my first and last name, which is unique (I'm probably the only person with my first/last name in the world). If you google me, you can find my entire immediate family, including home address, home worth, names, occupation, ages. Many of the inmates were able to observe my car make/model/license plate, my arrival and departure time to work, etc. Though I had good rapport with the inmates and believe I did right by them, I still have a nagging fear that a released inmate could track down a family member or show up at our home. These are not dumb people. In fact they are quite creative with plenty of street smarts.

I am not a unique/unusual/margin case.

Saying "there are some people who have stalkers and such" discounts large swaths of (mostly) women who have been victimized, far more than a non-victim would ever realize.

This is a very real concern for more than an insignificant number of people. We are just people who you would not necessarily realize exist.
Taiwan is not a sentient being, so it's incapable of holding a belief.
Android has menus.