skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirTable.

I wonder how many other products in the enterprise space could be built by startups, by simply doing a much, much better job than incumbents, despite incumbent moats and lock-in. On the other hand, there are also examples of poor products that attempted to "solve" things like word processing better than MS Word or Google Docs and yet are simply much worse products than the incumbents.

I think in the video conferencing space, all existing solutions were simply bad. Video conferencing has been bad everywhere I have worked and we just shrug our shoulders and joke that someone first needs to build strong AI, and only then will video conferencing be solved. Zoom decided to do something about it top-to-bottom, end-to-end. Very inspiring founder and company.
Current AI is a marketing term for trained algorithms performing analysis using machine derived statistical models (that's the learning part). The marketing term was created to help companies raise funding, and then taken over by journalists who are tired of eating dirt and write about any possible fear for the clicks revenue. That's where this really took off, in the public media where any idiot can write anything and somewhere an entire sub-culture believes them.
I've had success against bugs using liquid Castile soap (Dr Bronner) in a recycled "foaming spray bottle" (Clorox Foamer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticidal_soap
Your own electron app is a 500MB application. The memory use balloons to 512MB after opening a single document.
I can only speak for managers I have met: what they “see” is a promise of cost cutting and an opportunity to tell higher managers that they are ahead of the hype. But never, ever, have I seen one of these people say anything that suggests they have even a vague idea of what AI or ML is or what it can realistically achieve. And I’m not sure they are interested. Because as you say - they aren’t stupid - I just think they are part of a game of BS I don’t understand, involving higher managers, investors etc.
I don’t think it’s so much about about producing anything using AI, it’s AI for the sake of saying you are using it.

So perhaps not all fools but somewhere between con artist, willfully ignorant and fool.

(Note: this is all from “traditional” industry, I.e the manager at the hammer factory proudly launching initiatives to “use more AI” in the factory. Not tech industry. Not plausible or concrete use of AI)
>My job description, on the other hand, is simply to aid in implementing and developing the technologies I'm told to by my manager.

Boy, good thing that's what your job description says, it completely absolves you of any accountability in the real world!

"Not my job" is such a great attitude, and is precisely the reason why these huge scandals are able to persist. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Not sure what data you expect to see. People generally don't publish their discriminatory lending and insurance policies. Or do you think that the statement that it's profitable might be incorrect?
They just want to log everything, and they thought this was the reason that would sound most reasonable to the general population (hopefully they can blame AI for choosing this reason, because it is very poor).
Kids is not "always better then no kids". Not having kids means you have less stress & more free time.

Furthermore, there are some tough moral questions you need to answer when creating a living being in this world. It's unfortunate that having kids is the default and there seems to be very little public dialogue about the moral dimensions of it all.
The paywall had been rising for months now. I suspect that was Medium's business model all along.
Submitting your own stuff is OK here. You can add some comment explaining that you are willing to answer questions, but it is optional. Anyway, most people here will assume that the owner will read the comments sooner or later. (Reposting and reposting and reposting your stuff is not OK.)

Anyway, this is an article that is on-topic, but it is not a good ShowHN. From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.

(Disclaimer: I prefer rebasing.)
>Regardless of the selection criteria, any screening will deter "desirable" people.

Is there any evidence this is true?
OK, this is getting ridiculous. There is no best practices. You think a company worth Billions would have a standard of ethics.

Afterall, that's what they interview on. Best Practices. Ethics.

Doesn't Facebook have blogs on things like efficient servers, algorithms and such. They are obviously at the forefront of technology (or know about it). Why aren't they implementing these things?

It seems to me that the more your company is worth, the less you get to bend rules, all to chase more money. HR an lawyers will take care of the rest.
The Holy Grail of Materials Science indeed!

Despite the visions in our heads of super sonic maglev trains spanning NYC to Shanghai, the real boon is probably in something like plasma containment for fusion generators ;)
This is hands down my favorite change as I've gotten older. I just don't worry about so many things that I used to, and find that it's easier to focus on a few things that really matter to me.

Granted I have far more responsibility than when I was in my 20's, so I think it it's basically a wash there, but at least I'm not stressing about things that seemed really important over a decade ago.
My non-negotiable requirements for a laptop are as follows. If there were a non-Apple model that fit these criteria, I would consider switching. Do you know of any?

(1) Unibody metal construction

(2) Extremely high-quality and high-resolution screen

(3) All-SSD storage

(4) High-quality trackpad with multi-touch gesture support (all gestures must work perfectly 100% of the time, and the acceleration/deceleration should feel physically natural)

(5) Unix-like operating system pre-installed out of the box (no having to set it up myself) and fully supported. (Doesn’t have to be macOS. Ubuntu or FreeBSD would be fine).
I think firebase is using fastly before they got acquired by google. There was a post on HN describing their move from couldfront to Fastly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4314209
The Outline website hides the “use necessary cookies only” option
Be aware though that name recognition in the enterprise space is very different from name recognition for small businesses and startups. Fastly focuses on the enterprise space, so having no name recognition with startups isn't really relevant to them.
A lot of the discussions of how AI is coming for your jobs follows the same reasoning of how automation is/was, even before it was called machine learning.

The data science team at a major bank I used to work for historically had a team that sourced and cleaned the data, then a team who would explore and build the models and then a team who would learn and run the models going forward. In my opinion the final team was the most important and the most tragic for being condensed, they noticed when the models needed to return to the model builders to be adjusted when missing the mark.

The "lost jobs" in this case is that when I was on the team we had to learn the entire bank database structure and source our own data, build the models and then automate them in such ways to "catch" when they were missing the mark.

The team will be further shrunk as the software tools provided have better auto-sql for sourcing the data, automated model building functions, and automated visualizations thus removing even that as a special skills.
The paywall is real. Also, a lot of quality developer oriented content is being associated with their domain, and they get to reap all the benefits.

Not a lot of incentive as a publication to continually hand that over to them.
What is ZIL anyway?
Experienced VCs are not the only business people who give out money.
Ah. I may have misunderstood what they were suggesting.
I don't know if you're trolling or just actually ignorant.
I am not familiar with the in-memory representation of Slice, but conceptually at least, yes. We call &str a "string slice" and &[T] more generally a "slice".

EDIT: apparently you just edited from Slice to Span, reading https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808.aspx

> First, Span<T> is a value type containing a ref and a length, defined approximately as follows:

Yep, exactly the same as Span<T> then.
There is something similar (but more powerful) for Smalltalk, it collects the types as you run the code and then it is used to improve the refactors.

Check it out.
https://github.com/hernanwilkinson/LiveTyping
> but do you have a better idea where it should be placed?

How about having a small notch at the front of the mouse, like every other mouse I've used? It can then be simultaneously wired, and usable. Maybe you're right that it's usually not frustrating, but I was trying to use this mouse at my office once and it wasn't charged, and it seemed pointless to wait before using it.

> then plug it in before you get your coffee and you're good to go

What if I don't want to test my mouse before coffee? What if I have urgent emails to answer?

I understand that it isn't a world-breaking choice, but I don't understand why they would choose to change this. I love Apple, but this seems like one of those situations where a company changes something just to change it, claiming it's new and innovative, but actually reduces usability.
Any particularly good tutorials exploring it? How well does it integrate with existing tech, both closed and open? (E.g. in open-source Home Automation, MQTT seems to be the glue of choice)
The union in this case might as well be the state.
I think most people start with Slack and it becomes ingrained, then they outgrow Hangouts / Meet or try Zoom and realize it's less laggy and a better experience for video overall. I've never heard of their chat app before now.
Well I came to comment no this:

>> “I think this work is necessary. We have to protect the population of New Orleans,”

Not that I like either option, but I'd rather my tax dollars be spent on relocating these people than fighting an eternal war against the inevitable march of nature. Can I do anything personally about it? Not really. Certainly far less than any individual who lives there. But if my taxes are going to be used to help, then please help in a way that is more effective than doing the same stupid thing (building below sea level) that they've been doing for a hundred years.
via https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/1119217911380545536 interesting to see some technical detail in the S1 including a likely reference to WASM, WASI and Lucet [0].

"Moreover, our platform is highly technical and complex and relies on the Varnish Configuration Language (VCL). Potential developers may be unfamiliar or opposed to working with VCL and therefore decide to not adopt our platform, which may harm our business."

"We will continue to work on open source projects, which will empower developers to build applications in multiple languages, and run them faster and more securely at our edge"

[0] https://github.com/fastly/lucet/
I wonder how much of this is the responsibility on how Instagram was built. Like Instagram may have been built so fast that those things never were accounted for.

Not that I'm giving Facebook excuses, but maybe something was overlooked before acquisition. Then again, Facebook is breaching security protocols left and right.
Do you feel like the design of the 2nd generation Pencil for the 3rd generation iPad is _better_?

Personally I don't like moving from Lightning to a more-proprietary non-standard magnetic interface. I think the first generation Pencil has a much better design in this regard, since now we have it working with the standard iPad and iPad Air.

But, I think the design of the first generation Pencil is pretty good, so I'm curious of your thoughts since you find it to be a bad design.
This is what we did for a while at a project; there's options in most git hosts nowadays that force any PR to be up to date with master before merging on the one hand, and to have a green pipeline on the other. That works fine for smaller projects, but because it's not automated you end up with quite a bit of manual labor (rebase on master, push, wait for CI, discover someone else merged into master first, repeat).
> No one has any idea what “artificial intelligence” even means.

I'll tell you exactly what it means:

It means that the software's own vendor is so uncertain of the actual value of what the product does that they've decided to promote how it does what it does - in other words, implementation details - instead.
Software testing: why is it so important?
I meant that custom unscaled raster icons per resolution/size looks better than a scaled vector image.
'easily'

Why not just relocate silicon valley to Pittsburgh where rents are cheaper?

Problem solved!

So much plain and simple arrogance and ignorance in this thread. Mind blowing.

14 bil year is a bargain for what this city provides.
Those enterprises are re “-occurring revenue, so I am sure their LTVs are factored in with the spend.
Heh, no I’m not and yes I did see it. That was actually what made me stop working on the project.
38 and recently felt this transition happen. I realized that it's just as silly to constantly dwell on negative thoughts, as it would be on positive ones, so decided to try that for a few days.

I don't think I can transmit this feeling by explaining it, since it's something you can only decide for yourself, but I made the choice to focus on the positive. I still keep the cynical realness in the back of my mind, should I need it, but I don't want to spend most of my time there anymore.

It's been over a month now of much improved mood, hopefully this will stick.
That is because those of us who are older and happier tend to be less vocal. Go be young, be silly, be loud, make mistakes. The happy old folks will just smile and let you be, knowing that nobody can help but be who they are, and be the age that they are.

But the unhappy ones - they will grump at you.
I just wish the touch strip had haptic feedback. I don't mind it, but often times I'll find that I've accidentally rested my finger on the escape key and can't figure out why applications/menus aren't working properly.
Depends on what you mean with routine I guess, but it is a clear regression to the times when total nuclear war was the logical end awaiting all conflicts.
And at least in my limited experience, the impact of master being broken is pretty big, and even bigger when you have multiple teams. Either you block master - leading to a lot less than those 1000 commits making it to master on that day - or continue merging in stuff, which causes the root cause of the master branch to become fuzzy - and if your reporting is not in order, that is, if the person who broke the build isn't told they did, it'll be a lot of "Who broke master?" and people looking at each other to find out who is going to look into it. That's not scalable.
>Theranos clearly falsified their technology and were able to do it by hiding their product from their consumers

I guess that depends on which products you are talking about, right?

Full-Self Driving? Solar Shingles? Battery Swap? Starting insurance companies? Hyperloops? Tesla has made plenty of promises about technology that hasn't come into existence.

I see you've already developed your narative, however: Tesla will only fail because of politics. The atrocious financials, a CEO who is hard to work with, massive exodus of talent, employee abuse, poor product quality...none of that will be the reason.

>You can see what a difference political will makes when you read how Tesla is doing in Norway.

Earth shattering news: when you massively subsidize expensive consumer goods, people buy more. Can you tell me what the Norway data is saying now? (Hint: I know, and it's not good for Tesla).
I use a separate mouse when I’m at my own desk, but not when I’m in a classroom or something like that.

My desk isn’t really deep enough for both a laptop, a keyboard, and my arms to fit comfortably on it.
Yeah but it's not there? Why not relocate Wall Street to Cleveland? Or Silicon Valley to Pittsburg?
Amazon Failed in China, China Won on Amazon
University of the Arts Rejects Calls to Fire Camille Paglia
Sure, but the acquisition was in 2014. I assumed they would want to serve it from their own global infrastructure. Perhaps they have a great deal with Fastly.
That's really cynical, but I kind of believe it.
I don't know about breaking up Facebook, but I'd be happy if Instagram were spun back out (though, the founders are gone).

I'm someone who deleted their Facebook account.

In short, the reach and impact they have, given their proclivities, are not a net positive. When they make mistakes, or when they pursue questionable business practices, it has global impact.

That kind of power should be held by more accountable organizations, and with Zuck controlling more than 50% of the voting rights of the stock in FB, there's no chance.

At this point, they're tripping into a future, commensurate with the ignorance (or unconcern) of their user base, that I can't support.

If you're asking, "What do they do that's so bad?"... well, it's well documented.
What makes you think fMRI scans would produce better results? What would they even be looking for?
Just came back from the IOHKSummit in Miami with Stephen Wolfram and Caitlin Long as guest speakers. An incredible array of scientists (cryptography, theoretical computer science, mathematics, functional programming languages) presented their research and results of peer reviewed papers over the past few years. It was definitely the most substantial blockchain conference I have had a chance to attend in years. Fascinating talks on the ability to use standardized financial contracts (ARCTUS) via functional languages and gathered as library for developers in smart contracts blew my mind. The supply chain pro/con by Wyoming’s ranchers and their beef tracking USDA approved new standard showed the other end of the spectrum in terms of real world applications that already have an impact on industry. While there is a lot of hype and mania any time money is involved there is also an incredible universe of academic and tangible private progress being made using these distributed immutable / trustless (to higher degrees at least) ledgers.
Thank you for considering my comment!
39 and definitely agree. 20th, 30 - living in a poor country, settling in US, small kids, uncertainty.

39 - Silicon Valley salary, comfortable savings, six digits kids college account. Fun job, lots of respect for OSS contributions, great food, biking, fitness, luxury car. On top of that - coming home every day to kids who agree to play any online game I want! Main source of anxiety - aging parents living in a far-away country...
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the filter of history at work. By and large, old radios were not built to last. The only ones that survive are the ones that, because of good design, good luck, or gentle use, managed to make it to today.

I repair & build vacuum tube equipment as a hobby.
Or maybe they already had plenty of info about you that you didn't know about?
You are repeating the trope, just substituting “stupid” with other deriding terms: BS, con artist, willfully ignorant, fool...

Does it really have to be those things just because you don’t understand it? Is it possible those people running multi-billion-dollar organizations just know something you don’t, or have a perspective that you don’t?
>Amazon ran on losses for many years and it played out in the end.

It's comments like this that demonstrate just how unprepared some people are going to be if Tesla fails. Brush up on your finance.

If you don't see the parallels between the companies, not sure what to tell you. But I'll mark this comment, because assuredly you'll say, "where were the signs!". Just like some other big name posters about Theranos.
The claims in this article that corporations don’t do pure research and every project is targeted at revenue generation is false.

I’ve been in R&D at both Google and IBM TJ Watson on projects that were never even tangentially revenue generating. A company with 80,000 employees can easily afford to let hundreds or even thousands of employees operate on non-product focused research.

In fact on orientation day at IBM we were explicitly told that nothing we do will ever be a product, that there’s a firewall between TJ Watson and the rest of IBM and that any products will be rewritten by product teams.

It seems like the author is speculating how things work
Not from experience.
Quarks Don't Have Colors
This is a fake news report, by a fake news agency. Fake news was long before Trump.. Trump started calling MSM out very publicly.
> The controversial digital-asset entrepreneur filed a claim in a British court on Wednesday, accusing podcaster Peter McCormack of writing a libelous series of tweets about him in March and April over Wright’s claim that he developed Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

So does Craig Wright need to prove he's Satoshi in order to win a libel case against someone who says he's not Satoshi?
The graph in the US looks like "oh I hit 66, now I can retire, yay!".

Just taking a guess here but if you happened to be 25 with enough money to retire for life, you would have an even higher happiness rating since you achieved financial independence with your whole life ahead of you.

I'm almost done with my 30s and I don't feel that much different than my 20s. If anything I cared less about things as a teenager. As you get older you tend to have more things to think and worry about.
I use the P1 as a company provided laptop. It works very well, but the thing is a tank. It's probably twice the weight as a Macbook, and the battery life is about 2 hours or so. It has died if I have many meetings in the day.

Honestly I'd rather just have a desktop at this point. But I don't get to decide what hardware I use.
It's actually like a ref Span argument, if my understanding of it is correct.

&[T] is like Span<T>, while a &mut &[T] is like a reference to a Span<T>.
Of course it depends, but I'd say that formatting and restoring from backup takes way longer than fixing an average system hick-up - provided that you have access to meaningful logs, which is where GNU/Linux works pretty well.
I’ve yet to use one that isn’t noticeably feature/integration limited in a way that a native Mac app wouldn’t be. That reduces my productivity.
Nola has the highest port tonnage in the country. The impact on GDP is estimated in the hundreds of billions. There's also billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure here.
Most goods that pass through to the midwest and rest of the country come through here.

Without Nola, hundreds of billions of dollars of the economy will go away. Gas prices set a record after Katrina.

14 billion is a bargain to keep this city going.

They're not keeping it around to be nice.
Seattle HN Meetup: Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Pilots (2017)
Ok thanks. Won't post articles as Show HN in the future.
Everyone 40 and older is more likely to die, regardless of how happy they are.