skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what word doesn't exist in this, that really confuses me is missing? Duplex.

They've got this super advanced human-like AI feature for making voice calls... and they're introducing a rudimentary automated call system like every other company out there. (With the added part that Google records all of the voice data for themselves, of course.)
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The LA Coliseum was built in the 1920s and expanded for the 1932 Olympics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum#...), and will no doubt be used for 2028.
Cengage, McGraw-Hill Agree to Merge to Become 2nd Biggest US Textbook Publisher
Ask HN: What is your example of 'theory-induced blindness'?
What examples have you come across where a person or group was unable to accept flaws in a theory because they have already built the theory into their mental model of the world?

For example, some economists do not accept evidence of the 'low-volatility anomaly' because of their belief in the efficient market hypothesis.
> If the customer calling would like to complete a task which can be done online, like place a to-go order or book an appointment, CallJoy’s virtual agent will send the customer an SMS text message containing a URL.

I don't think many people who call, with the intent to talk to a human, want to be directed to a website. I'm sure this will appeal to the businesses though.
I see a lot of folks focusing on the negatives (because it's from Google) but my experience is small businesses are AWFUL at answering the phone. My barber for example has no online booking, and rarely answers the phone. I stopped going to him even if he's by far the best in the area, having a service like this will definitely make small businesses more reachable.
If it's deploying so broadly over so many different models and manufacturers (with different sensor configurations, different IP, etc), then it necessarily has to be less application-specific and more general purpose. Tesla introduced its NN chip already in 2019 in actual built Model 3s already.

MobileEye plans to maybe have a 7nm chip sometime in 2020 (probably the end of the year) which might make it into year 2021 cars. So again, we're talking about ~2 years difference in deployment time for a less-tailored chip with a far more expensive development process. Maybe MobilEye can justify that (I'm not saying MobilEye is wrong to pursue 7nm), but it seems pretty clear Tesla pursued a logical plan to go with a 14nm process that is much cheaper to design for and is already available now at high quantities from multiple providers and reliable yields with zero technical risk on the chip fab side.
It's not about revenue, it's about data:

> Whether the customer speaks with you, talks to an employee, or just interacts directly with the CallJoy agent, the call will be recorded and transcribed for quality purposes.

This is a play to get the content of conversations between customers and small businesses.
What institutions are you thinking of?
Which telecom providers are they using under the hood?
>Then, when the phone rings, the automated CallJoy agent answers, greets callers with a custom message and provides basic business information (like hours of operation).
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>If the customer calling would like to complete a task which can be done online, like place a to-go order or book an appointment, CallJoy’s virtual agent will send the customer an SMS text message containing a URL.

That sounds kinda handy.

Side note: That damn status bar that falls from the top on the blog is a pain, if you read anywhere near the top of your screen it falls down to cover the text.
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Could you provide a reference to why you think you require a commercial license for QtCreator to work on commercial software? The core application is licensed under (L)GPL. The commercial version adds a few specific features. I have been using QtCreator for a long time and as far as I know there's never been any sort of "cannot be used for commercial software" clause.
Project Fi (I think maybe it is google fi now..) does a pretty good identifying spam callers for me.
I suppose it's not easy to part with the illusion that containers should not be ephemeral.

I mean, that's probably easy to do for microservices; you fire off a function, it does something useful and returns back quickly. Having K8s do a home-grown lambda hosting for you is useful there.

But the moment you introduce any state, the whole idea of ephemeral containers is much more of a hindrance than something actually useful. A singular BEAM VM might run (realistically) tens of thousands of processes that do a lot of useful work. It's just not practical to kill off such a container and hand-wave away the huge costs of spinning it back up.

IMO K8s and Erlang/Elixir are mutually exclusive at this point, sadly.

There are projects in progress that attempt to solve the distributed supervisors ideas -- Swarm, Firenest, Horde -- but even without that, any Erlang/Elixir app can go a long way before needing distributed coordination.
It's hard to imagine, that a bad process has complete buy-in.
Thats exactly the trap, though. You are renting and owning at the same time, which is the worst of both worlds - you are more stuck than any average renter because you have this depreciating house on top of land you don't own that is incredibly expensive and time consuming to move and you have no power to ever really move up and just sell the home because its contingent on finding a buyer who is also willing to agree to the rental terms and the landlord has to approve of the new renter before you can sell.

Almost every time it ends up being a rental park where the tenants paid dramatically more into it and can be held partially liable when they leave for huge sums of money they get no value out of. Its externalized costs of constructing apartments if anything.
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I'm sure GrubHub, delivery.com, and all of the other takeout startups are already working to clone this technology. Once an established partner of these small businesses can do the job, this will be sold for spare parts.

It makes me wonder why Google didn't just offer this as a service to other SaaS startups. Don't they have some type of cloud platform for that? /s
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I am not a historian, but there had to be a reason. Just from the popular accounts of WW II, given the conviction of Germans to continue fighting, their ideology, self-esteem and the danger of war dragging on, obliterating a major cultural centre instead of focused strikes to military targets makes a lot of sense, both emotionally and strategically. As I see it, this was by intent not a tactical response, this was meant to be a major death blow to hit the German resolve, so they see what response will come if they continue. And to make it a lasting impact. At that point of time, the Allies knew they will win, and they felt justified bombing vulnerable non-soldiers as a means to accelerate the coming of the end of the war. Similar logic applies to destroying the towns Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs.
14nm is a sound move for Tesla exactly because their volumes are lower. All their cars will have the new chip installed as it's part of the safety features as well (and gives them margin whenever someone decides to do an upgrade on their existing vehicle).
Netflix: Python programming language is behind every film you stream
I'm 38 and I feel exactly the same way. As soon as my parents joined it (along with hordes of people their age), it seems like that was when the changes in how the timeline functions happened.
Maybe try somewhere else, then -- perhaps volunteer on a kibbutz, and see if that's what you're looking for?
I want to say economics in general. Some specific cases:

* the idea that small increases in the minimum wage will lead to unemployment

* lack of ability to reckon with "secular stagnation"

* Rise of China despite China being the only place that tells neoliberals to screw off (e.g. try having a protest for neoliberalism and they'll harvest your organs)
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> If your agile ceremonies end up being all about giving management control -- if your story points are used to tell management how much work is getting done, if management is using the daily standup to make sure people are on-task instead of being about commitments.

Story points being used for the team and to tell management how much work is being done are not mutually exclusive. I'm also not sure of your distinction between "on-task" and "commitments". If I've made a commitment, there are some tasks that need to be performed to meet that commitment, no?
The fact he's too busy to answer the phone means he probably has just enough work - I have a few friends who have businesses like this and when I talk to them about streamlining their systems they balk because they can't take on extra work.

Perhaps if your barber is that busy (because I assume he's that good), you could stop by and make an appointment in person?
The marketing pitch can be "we sell our service, not ads".
The Supreme Court disagrees: companies are people, and as so have all the rights of them. That means they should be subject to the same penalties: all members of the executive management should be in jail. Until that happens there’s no reason for them to stop. And it needs to be all so that other executives ensure that no one is breaking the law.
Like I mentioned in my original post, I'm not in favor of banning "gossip". I advocated making illegal the deliberate spread of misinformation
I hate this traveling Olympics nonsense. It's such a scam. Just hold the summer Olympics every year in Greece. I don't understand how sports get such a pass on corporate welfare. It's not just an Olympics problem, the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB all fleece tax payers. The NFL is the worst though.
For Brussels, Banning Cars Is Just the Beginning
It is not. It is possible for a fundamentally empathetic person to go against his or her conscience (or to not look too carefully at what they're really doing), and it is useful to distinguish this behavior from that of people who simply have no empathy.
> The parent post claimed that blacks, specifically, face classes of problems that no other group does when attempting university

Right, they face the specific socioeconomic problem of being disproportionately likely to be affected by poverty. It's true that white people can also be affected by poverty and that would make it harder for them to be successful in university just the same, but a white person is not made specifically more likely to be impoverished just by being white. That is the specific problem which black people face that white people don't. That doesn't mean that every single individual black person is going to be affected by that specific problem, or that no white person will face the same consequences in spite of not facing the same underlying causes.

> My point of contention is that, in this day and age, these problems apply equally

Again: the parent never claimed that other races aren't affected by poverty. Just that other races do not face systemic issues that push them into poverty. That aspect of the issue does not apply equally. You say you are not debating the fact that black people are in a disadvantaged position but that is literally the point being made here, that they are in a disadvantaged position which makes them disproportionately affected by class barriers. Nobody is saying we shouldn't be addressing these problems as they apply to white people or impoverished people in general, just that the classful nature of the request is especially heinous because it has the potential to disproportionately affect people who face specific class barriers (which is something that white people in fact do not face).

> You're derailing the conversation.

I disagree. The conversation wasn't really about race until you made it so. The parent was simply pointing out how creating barriers which depend on class is going to disproportionately affect people that face systemic class barriers, such as black people. White people do not face systemic class barriers but that doesn't mean they can't be impoverished or struggle to achieve success in education, and nobody is claiming the contrary. However it seems like you are being blinded from seeing their actual point by some kind of desire to make sure white people aren't getting unfairly criticized.
Playing devil's advocate - it's because they are ultimately more responsible for anything their employees do, than are the employees themselves, so the manager has the most to lose when things go awry.
> Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten if we look close enough?

Have any children inherited that level of wealth?
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>It would require forgoing electricity, heating, cement, steel, paper, travel, and affordable food and clothing.

I think this is where you would get the most disagreement. That is, people are focused on transforming all those listed rather than forgoing them, which is a non-starter. Transformation to emission-reduced or emission-free processes.
Mobile homes are the cheapest way to live long term if you treat them right: buy one to live in for 20/30 years and scrap it, buying a new one. Your long term costs will be less than rent of a small apartment in most cases. They are not an investment in any way. A house is somewhat an investment in that you can sell it in 30 years and get a lot of money back which won't apply to rent (note that I didn't call a house a good investment: it might be but it might not depending on many factors)
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I found myself in the same situation multiple times. There were times, when I was just trying to convince people we should do things differently and wasting less time. It was never working.

Nowadays, I just find a new company.
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i'm currently finishing up the postmortem writeup on the security breach, but the tl;dr is that the old infra surrounding the matrix.org server had grown organically and hadn't received any proper ops love.

modular.im however runs on entirely different infra, and was set up by a professional ops team, was not compromised during the breach, and should be considered trustworthy. Also, money from Modular goes directly to supporting the core Matrix.org team, so if people don't use it due to concern over the breach it's going to hurt us badly. This is doubly true if people end up using other paid hosting providers (like Librem.one) which don't actually contribute any funding back to the project.
Why? These fields have never had access to this level of data. What they bumbled about doing in the past without all the data, cannot be used to judge what their impact is going to be in the future with it.