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Last night I watched a very good documentary called "Takumi" which was commissioned by Lexus. The version I watched was a 53 minute long cut-down of the original 60,000 hour long piece—claimed to be the longest documentary ever produced—that intimately explores the working lives of four Japanese master craftspeople who spend 60,000 hours to achieve the master artisan status known as "Takumi."

It was made to "emphasize that, in a world where technology and AI can replicate or better anything man can do, human craftsmanship still has a purpose and could become more prized than ever."

The short version I watched streams on Amazon Prime. The full version, "Takumi: a 60,000 hour story of the survival of human craft" is available online hosted with a special video player (with a kind-of weird UI) that allows the user to quickly move about the 60,000 hour (6.8 year) timeline:

https://takumi-craft.com/us/en
There's also the linked paper that has algorithmic description (starts on p. 3).
I would have stayed with Flickr post-acquisition and likely even upgraded to a Pro account out of a sense of support.

That all went out the window when SmugMug decided to force a mandatory binding arbitration clause on its users, just like Verizon wanted to do to users who remained with OATH/Yahoo. I clicked on every link and followed every process I could to make sure my logins were closed out on either side and walked away.

I expect bullshit like that from companies like Verizon but not from "a thriving, family-owned and -operated business that cares deeply about photographers." Both companies should know better but I'm making the (obviously incorrect) assumption that SmugMug values caring more about respecting its users.

> Of late, it says I can't login using Firefox. Once logged in (after setting a different User Agent), it works perfectly fine.

This is icing on the crappy cupcake.
I disagree with this because it reeks of post-Terminator hysteria.

AI works when it tests cases humans wouldn't or couldn't. And as a result, realistic[1] AI provides results humans so far hadn't. Otherwise it would just be redundant.

The fact that people are using AI results followed by statements about how they don't know how those results came about, simply means we are only part-way there to effective AI productivity. Until AI simultaneously outputs easy-to-understand reason, it is very risky and pretty much unusable in that form since a single bit of bad input can make things spiral out of control.

If an AI told you a particular novel compound wasn't toxic and was quite edible, you still wouldn't eat it unless it also gave you the necessary details that would to go forward with the taste-test confidently. AI isn't a god. It's just a lot faster at the decisions we might have made, given the current capability limitations.

Nobody actually working in the industry ignores these obvious things. AI is a petri dish, and not an instant fix. Programmers and scientists strongly dislike "magic." AI teaches us how to do things better, based only on what we humans already know. To think and allow AI to behave as if it was better, instead of just faster and more efficient at very specific tasks, is silly.

Use AI to for its ability to discover and create. That's not the same as giving it unfettered control over whether humans have to endure a Skynet-style takeover and abolishment or not.
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I have pages on my web site that are 24 years old. Here's one.[1]

[1] http://animats.com/papers/articulated/articulated.html
http://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblo...

The original link works.
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(Concourse co-creator/OSS lead here.)

Our CLI hasn't really aged well and that's something I'd like to address soon - probably going more in the direction of config files instead of flags/env vars. It'd be a lot easier to document with a proper schema. Thanks for the feedback and sorry the experience is still pretty rocky!
Thanks for the feedback!

1) This is true, we are pretty US centric at the moment. Most of our basic-food nutrition data comes from the USDA database, so that biases it a bit. We have some ideas for making it easier to localize the suggested foods, but it might be a little while before we get it in there.

2) We should probably round the numbers there a bit, but you're right, we just convert things like ounces to grams if you select metric units.
>That assumes there is no systematic bias. Which clearly there is.

This is a non-helpful statement. Humans are bias machines. We function based on our collective experience or in some cases differed experience. Saying there is systemic bias doesn't really add anything other than saying exploit what ever bias you can find to your advantage.
It got them bought by Boeing, whom the US federal government could rely on to take over production and support for McDonnell Douglas aircraft (several hundred of which are still in service today and will be for years to come.)

But who could take over for Boeing? Lockheed Martin is the only plausible answer, but is that what anybody wants? Together Lockheed and Boeing would be something like 4x as large as the second largest contractor for the federal government, so that's not great. And would Lockheed Martin even want that? Right now Lockheed Martin provides support for 50-some C-5's, but with the addition of Boeing they'd have to take on support for hundreds military aircraft derived from Boeing's commercial models. Particularly, all of the Air Force's hundreds of tankers for aerial refueling are made by Boeing (or McDonnnell Douglas), derived from commercial airliners with hundreds more on order. Would Lockheed get back into the commercial airliner business (which they left in the 80s)? If not, then what would the economics of Lockheed manufacturing and supporting hundreds of airliner-derived military jets look like?
Responded, thanks!
Yes, NDAs are a thing, but one could argue that the contract is a prior restraint on free speech, something the Supreme Court has ruled many times is unconstitutional.
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I store bookmarks (i.e. URLs) in a simple .txt file. My text editor lets me click on them to bring them up in a browser.

> Only downside is I'm dependent on Evernote

No special software nor database required.
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Only four months ago, the same CEO said here at HN:

>I hope you'll stick it out with us, because we're nearly done migrating one of the largest web services on the planet, which means we get to focus on building again instead of just copying. The future is bright.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20649186

I've been a Flickr user for 13 years, and I can't say I'm surprised it's back in a precarious state. The sense that it could close up or drastically change (for the worse) has always been one of its defining characteristics. This is only the most recent in a string of disappointments following commitments to reinvigoration by successive owners. I remember telling Marissa Mayer, in person, thanks for investing in Flickr under Yahoo when they invited users to their relaunch [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/8766466511/in/album-72...]. Almost immediately Yahoo lost interest. They made some minor UI changes, but the service as a whole languished. They probably came to the same conclusion: there's virtually no realistic path to profitability.

At this point, Flickr is simply too lumbering to become a competitor to Instagram. That's probably for the best. If they'd tried to make Flickr an Instagram clone, they'd probably have lost what few remaining dedicated users exist. The platform emphasizes the photos, and the community, or at least parts of it if you know where to look, really is focused on high quality images.

It's a particular bummer because Flickr is one of those services that's supposed to prove that a service can be primarily subscription-supported rather than ad supported if the product is good enough. If Flickr can't pull it off, even with a seemingly the best possible owner, what hope do other online services have? Flickr can and has jacked up pro prices--which is fine, frankly--but as this email makes clear, it probably won't be enough.
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My guess is that they started suspecting something when he refused to hand over the password the first time, or at most the first time a problem occurred and he was the only person capable of fixing it.
Actually Google Analytics works fine in PRC.

Google Fonts also isn’t blocked but I recall it being hit-and-miss in terms of responsiveness when I was working on a website that targeted Chinese audience a few years ago. However, I just tried resolving fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com on a Chinese server of mine, and they both resolve to a couple of Beijing IP addresses belonging to AS24424 Beijing Gu Xiang Information Technology Co. Ltd., so it’s probably very much usable now.
Not sure I agree but if you are right, the software engineering job (which you can get a degree for which would be a certification or even a software cert like MCSD or similar) would mostly depend on the job at hand.

If it was for any company/client that their main focus isn't software contracting then if would be fine according to the not the same field rule.

If it was for a software company already, that contracted out then maybe but probably not for a few reasons: Contracts are usually project based or short term anyways (in hiring case contract to hire) and contractors usually have multiple clients and change frequently which would also fall into the non-long term exemption.

Finally, again, if you have a degree, one certification (even MCSD or other) or you have an LLC, which every contractor/freelancer should have anyways, then you would be fine.

I think you are trying really hard to make this affect software engineers/developers or other developer fields when it would easily be avoidable.

The law was meant to target California companies abusing industry like food service, cleaning services, healthcare services where companies are clearly abusing workers and workers would rather be employed further.

Most software contractors do not want to be full/part time and enjoy their freedom of setting their hours and picking and choosing clients.

The only software field companies this would affect would be companies that force their developers to be in the office, between certain times, that sell software development services and have these workers for long term periods of time. Basically those situations the software developer probably does want to be employed so again not really an issue.
> native Americans certainly aren't the dominant people in the US.

“Conquerors” and “immigrants” are meaningfully distinct, and the reason the indigenous people of the continent aren't dominant is at least as much the former as the latter.
His passport was revoked during a transfer in Moscow. This entire situation is engineered by the same totalitarian government which you now seek to defend on the basis of their own skewed rules. As long as you play by these rules and don't question them, expect nothing to change.

The point of my post is that we need stronger legislation. Your argument that current legislation doesn't offer him protection in this situation only further strengthens my own argument.
> the Minuteman I, introduced in 1962, and all later US ICBMs (Minuteman II & III, Midgetman, Peacekeeper) were solid fueled.

To be fair, there were Titan II's in service almost until the very end of the cold war; into the late 80s. (And were used for satellite launches until 2003, but that's another matter.)
Isn’t cloudfront just a CDN?

I’m not surprised that site has more scripts than a bare-bones install like mine, but I guess I’m surprised it’s that many more.
Interesting! I am definitely in your first group. Born in the 90s, grew up using a mouse and playing mouse driven PC games, yet I far, far prefer the concise precision of a keyboard.

I guess it just depends on what the program requires of your inputs. When it comes to software development, window switching and maneuvering around websites, keyboards are precise and rapid, where the mouse can only do one thing at a time before needing to travel to the next input.

The other important part about ditching the mouse, is that when you're predominantly typing and using both hands on the keyboard, switching over to the mouse takes a non-trivial amount of time. You have to move your hand over there, figure out where the cursor is on the screen, then do what you need to do with it. When you're doing it hundreds of times a day, it adds up.
That's pretty close to what we do - we fill in a calendar with suggested meals to hit your nutrition goals and give you a grocery list, which you can change the # of days on.

It works well for singles, though if you're picky, you'll need to configure the options a bit to get meals that you consistently consider "good". Otherwise you'll likely have to regenerate a few of the meals to make sure everything looks good before shopping.
I prefer this model. Carriers should not be permitted to have line items like this. If I buy a $40 plan, the carrier should charge $40, not $40 plus compliance costs.
Elon san's satellites will save us. Only if they don't ban possession of those transceivers.
How about using #[cfg_attr(test, non_exhaustive]?
I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt he's entitled to any of the content you've made. So the only discussion should be over actual money.
> Perhaps, but it's two points on the same continuum.

They really aren't. All engineered products are designed to meet a target service life. Even today's houses are designed with a design lifespan of 50 years. A consumer product is not different.
That is really clever, I don't know why I never thought about the for loop being a way to run an expression after a scope ends.
If you have a big calorie budget, try bumping up the meal's complexity from Simple to Moderate (via the 3-dot menu next to the meal). We should probably do that by default if you enter more than a certain number of calories.
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Typically you have your own IP pbx such as an asterisk system which lives in one place on static v4/v6 IPs, it connects to your upstream sip trunk. Your own clients such as zoiper on Android connect to that.
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Personal opinion, but I like to know my idea is valuable before thinking about patenting it. Of course every idea is different and every situation is different, so if you are thinking about patenting, these guys were in our batch and were awesome! => https://www.cognitionip.com/
To give a sense of the scale of this, I've spent the last few days coughing because of the smoke from a wildfire that's burning 500 miles upwind of me. And summer has only just started.
And as such they will not do it because people don't use such devices currently. It needs to be the other way around: have the devices, people start using them more and more, and only then come Google and Facebook to destroy the system with ads.
Awesome, thanks.

Honestly the whole application seems pretty good - but everything is focussed on more hello-world stuff, which is great for getting going on my machine - not so great for running it for real.

Whether you use environment vars or a config file, I don't mind - one benefit environment vars gives is that setting CONCOURSE_BIND_IP to the instance's IP is relatively simple, eg on AWS:

CONCOURSE_BIND_IP=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4)

If it's a config file then I need to update that before the application starts, which is more fiddling.
This is why Boeing never should have been allowed to self certify. Decisions about Matters of safety should have been given to people who didn’t have to weigh it against earnings per share.
What are the several contexts in which the framework of Buddhism can be applied?

(I’m not asking you to answer your questions, since they don’t establish this.)
These ideas about your choices for this microsite, is good, I think.

However, why don't you use the square brackets syntax with the RDF data? The result will be the same, and the file will be a bit cleaner, I think.
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If you take their message at face value, they bought flickr just because they thought they should save it.

If you can't believe that, feel free to come up with any conspiracy you want.
Most of those toys have a major conceptual flaw imo. Kids love stories - listening, watching and playing them. They often enjoy simple toys much more than complex ones, if they are more flexible in story play. If a „social“ robot seems too stupid quickly or too complex to handle for story play it is quickly out of the game
Why do you keep pointing out the “monopoly” on mailboxes? Yes, only the USPS can legally put your mail in it, but you’re missing the point: a private corporation should not run something as important as mail. Yes, private couriers are a thing, but the USPS is essential.

Even today, not everyone has an email address. And those that do, they’re at the whims of the corporation. In my original comment, I mentioned google banning people’s entire accounts because they did what the streamer wanted. Would you like your email account to be inaccessible when you decide to protest that corporation?
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There are a lot of things that go great with peanut butter and bread if you are open to it besides jam or honey - cheese, butter(toast), hazelnut spread, fresh fruit like bananas. Running out of groceries and living 20 miles from the nearest store leads one down this path of trying whatever is in the refrigerator/pantry.
Once upon a time, long long ago, it seemed the post-cover-mag-and-bbs programming world consisted of the reg, the joelonsoftware forum and then the inquirer.

That was before proggit and then here, HN.

The inquirer started off as humour and investigation, but for many fans the inq faded when Mike Magee (a founder of the reg, who split to form the inq) moved on. I stopped following along when it became more and more corporate sponsored PR. Well, we've abandoned the reg too when it fell to the same fate.

Still, this is a sad, sad day :(

Please hope the internet archive archives everything properly forever.
Both China and the EU have said that they will independently recertificatify the plains.
As a young kid, I was plagued by complicated questions, one of which was "Are humans special? (And if not, is all futile?)".

At that time my argument was to point of the ways in which humans are better than machines. But I have to say that it is not even necessary to go down that route. If there is some life form that is smarter than humans, or some machine, then it does not detract from the basic departure point that some values or value propositions are absolute. The ability to discover the Pythagorean theorem is absolute in that way. You either discover it, or you don't (or you discover only the special cases). It doesn't matter how many other entities discover the Pythagorean theorem.

Now I don't mean absolute in the sense of the ubermensch or some dumb crap like that, but I do mean that values are values even in isolation. I think the tinkerer's spirit is very much like that. If you are devoted to your pursuit, then it doesn't mean you have to best some notion of the best. It's like that with an appreciation for life too. If you see a beautiful landscape, then that moment in itself is valuable and irreplaceable, whether there are many such or few such—each is valuable in isolation.

I don't the the point of being human was ever to prove ourselves the smartest.
> it's not completely secret, it's not admitted to either, and it's not illegal because it's not illegal.

No, your assertion is quite wrong. All engineered products have service lives, because they all have failure modes that are taken into account in the design process. If a phone's failure mode consists of the battery dying the the battery will be designed to ensure it will likely work well for a minimum of x time following a typical usage pattern. Likewise an airplane failure mode is the fuseage breaking off due to fatigue, thus it is designed to be flown X times (takeoff/landing counts, number of hours in flight) taking onto account the likelihood of cracks forming and propagating. Targeting a certain service life in a design does not mean there is mischief in play. It only means engineering.

Thus obviously planting time bombs has absolutely nothing to do with engineering a product.
There's always someone more sjw than you and maybe one day you'll even be labeled alt-right for no reason and taste what you did to others.
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I got sick of site after site closing down along with my albums, or, worse, using my metadata to feed the panopticon, so I quit my job to build an alternative. It's early days still, but ML auto tagging is on the horizon. Runs on desktops, servers, and within docker. Details in my profile.
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It takes a specific type of personality to remain angry about Python 3 in Dec 2019.

Didn’t that story finish?
US is the biggest and done it the longest.
It's easy to act like the US is thee super power. But when you look at it, no other 'superpower' holds a candle to our 800 foreign military bases.
It sounds like you're confusing criminal liability with civil liability.
Just a rehash of

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10053-the-incredible...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606416

Arguing that python3’s str model doesn’t work well with POSIX’s “any bag of bytes can be a filename” model. Plus new rants about surrogateescape which the author has learned since publishing the last article.

The author sure has a penchant for flamebait titles.
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