skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a great point and I agree. Its easy for the JRE "Its just a hang for a couple hours" to make it seem like he is just talking on the fly. Some times the curtain gets pulled back and people pull out and mention their notes on the show. I could definitely tell there were some bullet points that John was trying to cover, and Im sure these are topics hes covered in front of audiences when he gives lectures/appearances. But there is a fluidity to his responses that suggest he does indeed have a great talent for conveying complicated subjects with ease.
Plus it was only the Ratners brand that was damaged. The Ratners group owned a shed load of other Jewellery brands and they were unaffected. The group renamed itself Signet Group and rebranded some the of Ratners stores and closed the rest.

The group carried on and became one of the biggest jewelery companies on the planet.

The speech scandal was merely a blip in the history of the company.
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I learned Perl4 in grad school and it was a life changing tool to automate my analysis workflow. With it I was able to script complex solutions that drove stepper drivers and CCD cameras on a microscope for data and image collection.

I stayed through the Perl5 change over and thought it was good. Then I tried OO programming. And cried. And read that Perl 6 would make it better. But I needed something now, on a windows box, and free. That was 2003.

I tried Python and loved it.

Higher Order Perl made me appreciate what Perl could do, but the state of Perl 6 and lack of progress kept me away, as the features I most wanted were always fixes coming real soon now.

I STILL program python. Perl had me and lost me. Perl might not be dead, but it is dead to me.
It seems like a similar parallel is with the enthusiasm with self-driving cars. There was an initial optimism (or hype) fueled by the success of DL with perception problems. But conflating solving perception with the larger, more general problem of self-driving leads to an overly optimistic bias.

Much of the take-aways from this year's North American International Auto Show was that the manufacturer's are reluctantly realizing the real scope of the problem and trying to temper expectations. [0]

And self-driving cars is still a problem orders of magnitude simpler than AGI.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-aut...
It honestly amazes me that people didn't think this wouldn't happen. When you have a company own a market, they simply dictate on a whim who gets access to it.

It's the same with Steam. The more you move to the cloud, the more you give companies control over your goods and services.

Phones should've remained open the day they were made. You should never been banned from administrative control of your device.
That feels like the best way to save the brand. Cut a Perl 7 release concurrently with the Raku v1 release, and just get on a regular schedule of incrementing the version every 6 or 12 months.

Edit: Okay, starting from the minor version instead of 7 sounds like an even better approach.

Not exactly the same situation, but this reminds me of Angular. Angular 2 was a marketing debacle; the official stance of "Angular != AngularJS" is stubborn and nonsensical — any idiot can see that they're confusingly similar, and if they're supposed to be different then why is the first Angular release version 2.0.0 instead of 1.0.0? (I personally think they should've called it Circular.)

In any case, I think the way they moved forward (with "Angular 2" no longer being a thing, except in reference to that specific release) was ultimately the best way to salvage the situation; given its recovery and growth since then I'd say Perl could take some lessons from it.
What Launching Telescopes into Space Taught This Astrophysicist About Failure
I would imagine that it's entirely possible to generate creative thought using computers. Whether or not the thing driving that creative thought also generates consciousness(capability for qualia) is another matter entirely.

The simulation of a thing is not the thing itself. Perfectly simulating an apple falling from a tree only generates information about the thing, but the simulation hasn't caused an actual apple to fall from an actual tree. Computers are merely symbol manipulators, and symbols are nothing more than the material used to make them(ink on paper, electrons in a computer, etc...). I suspect that consciousness must follow the same logic -- We should be able to simulate something that looks exactly like creative thought(and probably is, technically), but if that same symbol manipulation results in an actual consciousness being produced in the actual world, then the universe has to be a much stranger place than we already know it to be...
Does ‘macroscopic property’ make you feel better? Like heat, or entropy or any of the many properties in nature that are a consequence of the combined actions of their constituent material.

Any other explanation would have to rely on the property being explained existing all the way down to electrons and quarks.

Atoms aren’t a liquid, but room temperature water is. At some point, the property of being a liquid emerges through the combined behavior of collections of atoms.

We know that people are intelligent, we know that atoms are not. At some point, the property of being intelligent must arise from the combined action of their constituent parts. We have theories about how that happens, but no way to reproduce it as of yet using computers — it may not be possible. But there is no reason in principle that just because computers are comprised of non intelligent components, that they cannot give rise to an intelligent system. Humans are one example where such a thing has happened— I don’t think anyone would suggest that neurons have intelligence and even if you believed that, one certainly can’t believe that electrons and quarks do.

Of course one could posit a non physical entity or force which somehow exists in people and does not in machines which gives rise to intelligence, but to say the least that requires a great deal more evidence than we currently have for that before I would accept that as an explanation.
The Amazon Is on Fire. So Is Central Africa
Using the Checkv4.exe Utility
Bash still uses the same variable names. Are you saying nobody writes shell scripts anymore?

Plus, you can always "use English;" if you want less cryptic names.
Fully agree here. Catastrophic failures can slip in silently on both ends of the curve -- if Joe doesn't get an email OR Joe gets too many emails, it's still bad. In my experience, beefing up logging to be able to do distributed tracing is an absolute must to prevent debugging pain.
It's a bit more specific actually: this thing can't mate with that thing and produce viable offspring.
Maya's Python editor prints a poem when code is too complex
I wonder if i just got shadowbanned on this discussion, or am i just talking nonsense. Well, never mind...
>Breastfeeding after that is way way easier than pissing around with powders and bottles.

*Provided the mother isn't employed
Is it just the chiclet form? I thought it was mostly the technology underneath the key: the travel, resistance, etc, that matters. Those can still be good or bad regardless of the shape of the keys themselves.
I hope whoever replaces him will inspire the Firefox team to stop dropping support for features I use. Probably not, but one can dream.
That form of protection is an illusion. You can simply have the phone scan all your apps before download and install. No need for a store.
I can't help but feel that a lot of Brave's userbase are pushing it because they have a financial investment in BAT from the ICO. Brave certainly doesn't help with the monoculture threat either, its just Chrome.
Land is similar, yes. Still one could get a 5-year lease and plan their business around it. AdWords rates can go up in price any minute, and if they don't they create a false sense of security which is shattered when they finally do.

Could they enable a new business? They could, but as soon as they enable two businesses of the same kind in one place they will also take all the profits from both.
Please note, the article does not seem to actually be about appear-on-hover tooltips that many of us think of when we hear "tooltip".

But rather "callout bubbles" that appear on initial screen display, to point out/explain a new feature (or a feature they want to 'advertise' for some other reason). They usually either stay there until you dismiss them, or until they time out.

I have been noticing these more and more, and I think they are worth commenting upon, I'm not sure this article does a great job of it, starting with calling them "tooltips" that is misleading some people not reading the article carefully to miss what it's actually about, as evidenced in the HN comments here. (To be fair to the OP, they are "tips about tools"...).

One thing I wonder is how effective they are, or if there's any public research on it. Myself, I'd say ~75% of the time I dismiss them without even reading them, as being there on page load (and often covering up other parts of the page), they're getting in the way of whatever I came to site/page/app to do, and have in mind to get done when I see them.
I don't think your description is accurate. There must be other nuances.

Once upon a time (2011-2013) I was an Apple Certified Macintosh technician. We were technically considered a third party Apple-certified repair shop. I was even able to service machines under Apple Care and had access to the same parts the Apple Geniuses received through Apple GSX (Global Service Exchange).

My main job was actually software support and custom integrations / deployments of our software. The owner of the company wanted to service our Macs in-house and so I volunteered to learn.
Mozilla is now openly peeing in Google's punch all the while being dependent on piles of money they take from it.

At some point Google will get tired of this and will withdraw from the agreement. They won't be the default search provider, but that will play to their advantage - Firefox out-of-the-box user experience will take a sharp nose dive. Say all you want about DDG and alternatives, but they still can't hold a candle to Google's search quality. So what Mozilla will end up with is (a) a dip in funding and (b) a dip in the user share. This might be just enough to either make them reconsider their ethics or to kill Mozilla altogether.

So, yeah, a good CEO that can shed the Google dependency is very much required.
Indeed, and Valve hired a bunch of people from the Doom/Quake modding scene for Half-Life 1.
Unless they were distilling alcohol it doesn’t really matter because they weren’t getting above about 15% for any “strong” drinks.

Your Wikipedia link quotes a book stating that there is no evidence that alcohol was distilled in the ancient world. I don’t know how accurate that is, though.
> I'd honestly describe using the built-in keyboard (and especially trackpad) on most laptops as cumbersome and uncomfortable.

I somewhat agree given the topic, but I think carrying, having to charge and balancing a Bluetooth keyboard while you're using a laptop as a laptop (on your lap instead of on a desk) is a tad worse

> Unless you really need to have a mobile workstation - running between meetings, conference rooms, into lots of labs/industrial environments where you can't bring a laptop cart with monitor/keyboard...why would you not dock the machine?

> Even if you prefer the feel of the keyboard or trackpad, wouldn't you want the ergonomics to be better than a laptop if you're working on it all day? A pair or trio of 20+ inch displays mounted just below eye height at about reach distance, ergonomic keyboard with elbows at about 90 degrees, and full size mouse will always be a better workstation than the nicest laptop keyboard, trackpad, and 15" display hinged to said keyboard.

On my desk(s) the laptop is usually docked and connected to external monitors and an external (and ergonomic) keyboard and mouse kit, but I happen to work from trains, planes, airports, coworkings or from the couch sometimes. I also like the ability to just close the lid and quickly move somewhere else if needed, having to use a Bluetooth keyboard for this case is awkward to say the least. At this point, why get a laptop at all?

(disclaimer: I'm 100% pro desktop PCs)
The entire point is to align the name with the reality so that people don't make the exact mistake you made here of thinking that it's a "version update" for Perl.
I wonder if there were distinguishing factors which make these cases unique.

Like the fact that Microsoft had 90%+ desktop market share and was using it to shoe-horn an unrelated inferior product with powerful network effects into dominance.

Whereas Apple has no monopoly and in fact their overall smartphone market share is falling.

Let Apple compete how they want to compete, as long as there are viable competitors. Of which there are several.

To look at the smartphone market and how far it’s come in the last 10 years and decide this is a space which needs anti-competitive enforcement action from the FTC is abusing monopoly law to obtain a political outcome.
When Firefox decimated Internet Explorer in the 2000s, it was just... better. And I think Chrome had some fairly obvious gains over Firefox and IE which led it to gain market share. I was an early adopter of Chrome, but that was in the days before Google seemed so sinister...

I use Firefox now because I care about privacy, and I'd rather use a browser developed by a non-profit that cares about that as well. But I suspect that's a bit too abstract for most people to care about, at least at this point.

Chrome's advantage seems fairly baked in; people aren't going to shift unless there's a decent reason to. I wonder what that reason could be. Can privacy concerns become a sufficient motivator for people to shift browser; or even, thinking a bit bigger, to change the fundamental architecture of the web?
I used C++ for 4 years before trying Rust and I still felt like 50% of the latter was completely new. There's a huge difference between understanding how to manage memory and understanding how to satisfy the borrow-checker. Certain things - sometimes legitimate things! - that you could do normally are simply not allowed, because they can't be proven to be correct.
The Imperial system of units is useful in lots of scenarios, and it's worth giving a try. You shouldn't judge a person's choice of units until you've walked 1.6 kms in their shoes.
Ask HN: What's the difference between anxiety and depression?
Another great tool from sharkdp written in Rust (such as bat, hyperfine, diskus, fd, etc).
Until we can define intelligence, we cannot create artificial intelligence. We still do not know what intelligence actually is - bloviating academics clambering for subsidies to support their habits, notwithstanding.
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?
Put all of the settings in the same area, and then segregate them by type in that area. Like how Firefox broadly does it. Every setting should be accessible from one central hub, and you can also make it accessible somewhere else if convenient.
You're right, I've had completely forgotten that one!
Don't strawman this argument into a conversation about intelligence.

This is about personal freedom. Not wearing a seatbelt can put others at risk for injury liability. Installing an app will not do that. Let's stay on topic. And while we're at it, you and I both know that majority opinion has never been strongly correlated with truth.
Raters was well placed amongst jewellers to ride the recession. I remember the news coverage of this well - the decline in sales was rapid and directly attributable to the speech, and the implication that his customers were mugs.
Amazon's indigenous warriors take on invading loggers and ranchers
Why There Will Never Be a Pi 9
"rough handling" hehe. Wouldn't surprise me if Apple went and said this right out: stop typing that hard on our delicate little keys, be gentle, remember when you were holding our iDevice incorrectly? and we told you so.
I think a contributing problem is the inadequate features of mobile browsers. It's harder to get to the pages you want to - harder to set multiple pages to launch on start; manage open windows; quickly navigate to apps you use without typing. Sure you can do the latter two things, but it's not nearly as easy as it is on desktop.
I'm currently fuzzing some ActiveX controls. Fortunately the top-level code is in JS, so I was able to write a shim to record all the calls and arguments. Then I can replay them to get the control into a valid state before fuzzing individual methods.
One such missing piece could be that AGI already exists, but is kept behind NDAs.
It's possible of course, but it's a compromise between weight and screen size. Even a 17" laptop can be light, as the LG Gram 17 proves. Though it's not very rigid, from what I understand.

But if weight is your primary concern, it makes more sense to go for a small screen. If you go for a larger screen, you're already accepting a bit more weight. How much depends, but personally I'd expect a laptop that sacrifices weight for a larger screen to also sacrifice some weight to have a slightly better keyboard.
Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld
This is often said about Richard Feynman and how he could distill incredibly complex questions down into simple thoughtful answers that left you satisfied but more curious. I think we get a capable (but not quite the same) modern version with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

It's definitely something you can learn though, it just takes practice. Take a complex topic and summarize it to yourself in shorter and shorter sentences. Or browse ELI5 (explain like I'm five) on Reddit for some good amateur responses.
I don't disagree. I wonder what "verification" purposes can be done though.

I think eventually we'll have some online security mechanism where you only get one identity and it is backed/authed all the way down to your SSN.

One report wouldn't be enough, but 3-4 decentralized + SSN-backed reports... big enough trend that it might be true.
Just choose Ivy over Helm. I thought the same, but after switching to Ivy everything got fast again.
Google maps, Wikipedia and other sources apparently spell it Suliven [1], and a Google search for that, without quotes, returns it. Searching for "sulliven" (in quotes) finds a few (possibly mis-spelled?) references to the mountain (and some other things, mostly people named Sulliven.)

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Suilven/@58.120899,-5.4389...
Assuming we have the right tools to understand how the brain works to the point we can reverse-engineer it and recreate it is pretty optimistic. We have gotten better at specific things but assuming that the most recent advances in "knowledge acquisition" are the last we will need is pretty optimistic. Assuming the pace of knowledge acquisition will continue to accelerate long enough to get to that point in less than centuries is pretty optimistic.
> People want full control over their devices, both software and hardware.

I ain’t got Time for that shit no more. I grew up and realized there’s only so much productive time in the day and maintaining my own stuff eats into that.
Downvoting is nice, explaining why is better.
I guess you have made more effort than me and thus have better proposals for making mozilla sustainable?
Where can I read them?

Oh or you actually downvoted only because of the first sentence Is he jumping out of the ship before it sinks?
Because it made you feel bad despite being statistically factual and not an opinion?
They need a killer feature.

Firefox used to be the only better alternative to IE.

Then Chrome came along and it used to be the best at tabs and resources.

Then Brave came along with automatic ad-blocking.

Firefox needs to match the competition and surpass it. What would the next killer feature be?
After what happened to BE, I'll never use or support Mozilla again.
I agree, I too think naming something "Pro" is stupid (especially when you don't have a "non-Pro" counterpart). It just adds a pinch of irony to the whole situation: they're selling it as a professional machine, and it can't stand normal use by a large part of people who use it professionally without failing hard
These are not tooltips. I’d rather call them something like “onboarding bubbles”. And I hate them. They get in the way when I open some app with a specific goal in mind, so I dismiss them without reading. But once they’re dismissed there’s no way to bring them up again - the knowledge is lost forever.

Compare this with real tooltips, like the one you get in MS Word when hovering the floppy icon! It appears consistently on hover; tells you the button’s functionality (Save) and its hotkey too (Ctrl + S).
1. Carton
2. Function::Parameters, experimental core signatures
MIT’s fleet of autonomous boats can now shapeshift
a few exercises with oversize print, then back to a standard page, repeat .. will sharpen the demarcation.. it is very visual, not abstract. One hands-on series with physical letterpress might be great, but hardly seems required to understand.
1. You can and probably should base your image on node:10-alpine instead of node:10

2. Even if you don't, why would you have to maintain a separate container? If `RUN apt install jq` is indeed the second entry in your Dockerfile after the `FROM ...`, then it should be cached and reused indefinitely -- that's half the point of Docker in the first place. It won't work if you have a command like `COPY` before the `RUN apt`, though.
> Computers are merely symbol manipulators, and symbols are nothing more than the material used to make them(ink on paper, electrons in a computer, etc...).

But a brain is also just a symbol manipulator, in essence. All it does is shift electrical current from one place to another.
The post-install scripts are installed from the same source as the actual library - the library itself could contain whatever malicious code an attacker wants. Pre-built binaries don't help here.
> If I'm a lawyer/politician/activist, I want a locked down device so someone can't install a backdoor if I lose sight of it for a few minutes.

Open devices which you have full control over can be made more secure. With a locked down device, you rely on the manufacturers' implementations, which may not get audited or regularly patched.
i duno. the other day i used a friend's computer without an adblocker and searched google for "AWS". i could not see a link to amazon AWS on the results page. it was under 5 ads for azure, gcp, and some other crap. i mean, i use an adblocker on my own devices and had no idea it had gotten that crazy. it was horrifying. the non tech-savvy people are clicking god knows what and fueling a massive industry of identity theft, not to mention the psychological pollution and interference to genuine knowledge and information that so many ads represent. sure brave is sketchy in its own way, but it's a paradigm shift in the right direction. something has got to change. so i can totally see why users and not just investors would want to give brave a try.
Me and my team have been using Backlog for quite a while now and it's truly refreshing
https://nulab.com/products/backlog/
"What I do daily so I can pay rent and eat" sounds better?
Does it? What alternative accurate wording would you suggest? Everything else I can think of is euphemism. Leaving a job is ... leaving a job. It doesn't say why.
Does it also offer an api for plugins, instead giving access to all of the editor like emacs? Because that is one thing I found limiting in vscode that I can do only what the api devs thought of.
> (they are all scratched out as 'missing')

The 'missing' notes are incredibly condescending. Not only are the results irrelevant/incorrect, they also had to arrogantly point out exactly how they are choosing to ignore the user's request.
I normally wouldn't do this, but it's initialism not initialisation
This article has the Renaissance in its title, but then continues to discuss the Elizabethan period. Shakespeare != Renaissance.