skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are various metaphone algorithms that produce an encoding that handles these cases, at least for English and some of the other European languages from which words and names have made there way into English.

The "fancy trick" is basically that search still works pretty well if you just throw away all the vowel sounds - your examples of "mueller" and "Müller" both encode as: MLR

https://en.toolpage.org/tool/metaphone
I'm not arguing that people shouldn't make decision-irrelevant predictions. My main point is that if you want valuable forecasts, a good place to start are decision-relevant ones. Putting predictions in essays seems good but would not provide as much value in my view.

To use an example from your article, an essay helps you organize your thoughts, but making a simple decision tree would typically help more when applicable in my view. Essays are more general, of course, as not all predictions are decision-relevant. In the decision analysis class I took (which, incidentally, Vaniver from your link also took) you typically had to do both for the projects.

Understanding a problem space is absolutely necessary to setting up the decision analysis. So yes, research is important! And there is value (not considered in a typical decision analysis) in making predictions for their own sake. A large fraction, perhaps even the majority, of the predictions I've made on PredictionBook were more for my own education than anything else. And I learned a lot from that.
Google does not have the power to determine if something is fair use or not, that is up to the courts. You might think something is fair use, and I might disagree. We are supposed to go to court and have a trial to determine which one of us is right. Google is not judge and jury, they can't make that determination.
Democratic in what sense? I don't think any country asks their citizens what about their financial issues.
One day I hope everyone's equipped with a connected whiteboard (perhaps small enough to grab and take to the desk, but not tiny like a tablet) in their home office that works live in meetings.

But I'm not a huge fan of whiteboards in general. Of course one problem with offline whiteboards is that the information tends to get wiped away (unless someone's snapping and uploading photos), the other is that they tend to be messy and unsearchable and hard to edit & update afterwards.

IMO it's generally better to flesh out ideas in text. It's just that sometimes a figure or two, maybe a flow chart, would get the point across quicker. I haven't found software I like enough to consider it better than hand, but hand sucks too. I often brainstorm on paper, and run out of paper or end up having to squeeze stuff because I didn't start with things in the right place. A software solution would help.
Ask HN: What if all programmers in the world decided to contribute to build AI?
It's a simple [hypothetical] question: what if instead of spending their time on side-projects and hobbies, all programmers in the world would decide to contribute to a global AI project? Would we achieve true AI then?
Thanks for adressing this as this is a very valid point.

I was at the start of the process with two major companies in their respective markets just weeks after i got hospitalized (which echoed back my 12 mth hiatus later).

At the initial screening i have mentioned the reason of reschedule to be the hospital stuff. Words of support and `i know a person who have had the same problem` type of stuff came along. Next thing i know i'm out of the loop with both HMs.

One can only question was this a coincidence or an assesment i wasn't going to fit due to health troubles.
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SQL systems on pretty boring hardware are capable of millions of transactions per second. The schema must simply be designed with concurrent modifications in mind (less mutation and long lived transactions).
Longer related thread: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/108
They want to know you weren't in jail. That's it.
I think it was fantastic, modern NLP could do much more (if put together with the cleverness of the Watson pipeline) and it's a pot of gold if IBM ever stop trying to apply it in healthcare and apply their brains to how it could work in customer service (for example).

Note : I am aware that there are "Watson" products that claim to be this - but they aren't because they are MBA's ideas of what the best route to selling crap to the unwary. If IBM had appointed someone with a clue and given them 10x the R&D budget for the gameshow to deliver a decent product I reckon they'd have got (at least) 100x. But... oh no.. promise 30x for 1x and get f-all.x^2

It's an epic fail
thanks for sharing this - this is fascinating. Admittedly I have never been exposed to Control Theory before, so I see a rabbit hole in my future.
AppAmaGooFaceSoft is only one part of the picture. The ability for engineers to open their own companies, from one person businesses to unicorn startups is the other part of the picture and I think even more important because, barring some extreme changes to our business laws, it's not going away as long as such companies are valuable. If salaries drop, I thin we would see a giant increase in entrepreneurs. The more the drop, the higher the increase. There's no need to build a unicorn to make good money. One or two people is all it takes, often. Startups know this because they all were in the same position not too long ago. What's to keep their employees from going out and forming their own startup with the same idea, especially when non-competes can't be enforced? Why wouldn't tech workers do so if their salaries dropped so significantly? Or pursue other ideas? Or work easier, non-tech jobs?
Why? How is an ML model different from an encrypted or encoded or phitoshoppes CP image? It comes down to whether the jurists decide that your data was built from CP content.
Heh, you do need a better descriptor. That is the media's idea of the autistic savant. A very small minority of people on the lesser end of the autism spectrum may have some of those traits. The reality for the other 99% is vastly different.
Not if a big car is next to you. And even then many people wouldn't be able to react. We can argue this case, but that collision avoidance overall is a very helpful feature is pretty clear.
Haha, just joining them ..
So a CIA software engineer who was smart enough to use multiple layers of Vera/Truecrypt was dumb enough to google CP on clearnet and keep the passwords to a 10,000+ pic CP archive on his phone? What's more likely, that this guy is a colossal moron or the government is looking for a scapegoat?

Also LOL they charged him with copyright infringement (probably for some torrented movies on his hard drives), they really want to throw the book at this guy.
"impressive improvement" over such a flawed and dangerous form of transportation that it yields one of the top causes of human death.

Self driving cars is a case of doing the wrong thing better. I agree with the parent and there are better solutions out there.
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Not fast enough to react to someone swerving into your lane.
This topic fascinates me because I've successfully built an app and business around an Electron app (no Linux, yet) that connects to USB devices on Mac and Windows. The app uses native node modules for USB (not chrome).

I've been successful using these npm modules: "@nodert-win10-rs3/windows.devices.custom" and "enumerated" on Windows and "usb" on Mac. Interestingly, "usb" relies on libusb which isn't really an option for the common Windows user.

A naive developer will read about WebUSB and think, "oh, Electron is Chrome, so this must be a good solution!" but remember that Electron apps consist of one node process (main) and multiple chrome processes (renderers, aka, BrowserWindow objects).

In my experience, it is poor design to exclusively connect to USB hardware using a BrowserWindow. Instead, it's much better to use the main node process to handle all exclusive USB access, and then push state to renderers using IPC.

So, once you go down this road you realize that WebUSB on Electron isn't viable. The idea seems good, but was dead on arrival for me. Your mileage may vary.

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Long-term short? How does that work? I thought short was called short, because it is not long term
It is the only way if the action is labeled "save password," rather than "stay signed in" or "authorize this device" or similar.

It's a subtle distinction for the average user who doesn't care, but for a sophisticated user it does indicate a specific kind of behavior, and the relevance is what you do in case of compromise. Do you change your password and make the eavesdropped one useless? Do you deauthorize the stolen computer via a centralized interface?
overall ad spend which is $150
billion per year

According to statistica it is $560B:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/236943/global-advertisin...

Then YouTube would be about 3% of it.
Unlike trademark, you do not lose your copyright registration for failure to enforce it. However, it makes it a lot easier for prospective defendants if you have a track record of ignoring infringements. Your registration is not in danger, but your ability to win as much as possible might be. Even works with no identifiable copyright owner are not necessarily considered 'abandoned,' which creates a lot of interesting issues, such as in the case of Google Books: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

The main thing with copyright is not like the risk of trademark dilution: it's just that not enforcing it makes it easier for defendants to bargain and argue for lighter penalties.
Because we perceive "to the right" as making progress/happening over time with respect to a cartesian coordinate-based graph.
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I love this! Anybody reminded of Person of interest?

Exciting to see that slowly but surely we are starting to approach the future where a true AI will be born.
This is an area which I am interested in.

While most interest/discussion in self-driving surrounds the interpretation of the environment viz other road users, road markings and signage, I am following the (too slowly developing) Roborace, Stanford's MARTY and similar efforts to automate expert car control including handling the loss of control.

I look forward to the day when passengers can be confident that they are safer than with even the best human driver. And not just statistically safer, but demonstrably so.
Not disparaging your idea, but we should always consider the law of unintended consequences.
If you're a decent sized organization, you can pay $12.50 per user per month to Slack for a messaging service, or you can pay $20 per user per month to Microsoft for Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Exchange, Sharepoint, and a messaging service. If you just want messaging then you can pay $8 per user per month, and they'll throw in Exchange, Sharepoint, and a terabyte of cloud storage per user on top of it.

I don't think it's possible for Slack to be better enough to justify that kind of a price difference.
Thing is, bad CEOs that drive their company into the ground still get paid way more than we do. Terrible managers often get paid more than the talented people working under them. Salaries are determined more by power than by supply and demand. Also by supply and demand, but more by power. People who wield power get paid more, even if they're bad at it.
In the food and beverage sector, it is also fun when they casually mention "and I happened to have a family friend who was the head buyer for Whole Foods" or something to that effect.
Ah, that's inconvenient.

A probably-viable (but also inconvenient) alternative is to code your own bridge: a server that talks the relevant USB protocol in the host OS and exposes an HTTP endpoint that a browser can connect to. More complicated than having the browser just be the bridge, and it introduces the significant risk of mis-implementing the security model and leaving your hardware open for remote-zombification though.
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Does that $15bn number include all the money google takes in from YouTube ads or just the money they keep after they pay the channels who have monetized their videos?
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> It's a Javascript based redirect

No it isn't.

GET https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/microsoft-teams-has-been-down-this-morning/
HTTP/2 307 Temporary Redirect 157ms
I wish I could take back my scrollbar.
Essentials of Control Techniques and Theory by John Billingsley is a book with many superb examples.
Tesla has a whitelist of problematic stationary objects. Pray you don't ever get into an accident with a Tesla vehicle at those places.
Mozilla agrees with you: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb
>It'd be a monumental task to re-create an aircraft carrier or fighter jet in another country, but recreate a drug that's taken billions to develop? Well that takes a small team of organic chemists and a small factory in India or elsewhere.

So what's the problem here? Do you want people in other countries to die of preventable diseases or something?
Do you believe that Google or Microsoft would be more successful in aggregate as 10000 5person startups?
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Both (anecdotally, from my personal experiencE)
Zero values may act as nice defaults. Programmers who care about their code, often want initial state or default state to reflect something useful. What zero value should reflect depends on context, but you get to state that once and for all, for that type. It's just one less thing off a mind when building code, although you'd want to catch any invalid usage. Ie. referencing zero value, could result in error if due to control flow, and panic() in case of programmer error. I don't think the language or library should choose for you, unless being bound by that is a very useful trade-off.
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If that were the case you would just say "I took time off due to a medical situation."

The only reason to invoke "loved one" here is to mislead.
To add to this, I have friends who work in hedge funds and there, the salaries really are risk premiums. You can be very smart and capable, but have a bad year due to luck and get fired. In my career as a software engineer, I've yet to see a great engineer get fired due to bad luck alone (not saying it doesn't happen, but not with the same frequency).
not really tbh https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
All of those 30-40% problems you cite are actually arguements for spending a bit on improved FAQ's, website processes and IVR's. Businesses are likely to react to a successful pitch for a solution in that space with a bit of cash to do it tactically. For chatbots to become a thing they will have to jointly solve problems with customers, and they can't just now...
>There would have been alot of people very unhappy if Microsoft has adopted Firefox

Who? Shareholders? Open source advocates?
> One issue not discussed enough is all this push for automation really needs road marking guidelines pushed down from the Federal level

Who will fund that in a way that ensures a timely rollout (as in "sometime this century")? Who will pay to maintain it?

Unfortunately, self driving cars are just gonna have to deal with infrastructure as-built.
According to another theory, it's demotivating for the underlings because they know they're not getting paid fairly.
I also think the structure: self contained episodes, is why it works. Old star trek episodes were like bite sized scifi movies with usually at least one interesting idea within them. This long form spy thriller serial format is a drag if the overarching plot isn't really compelling.
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It's revenue, so before paying off content creators.
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Advice and to keep the CEO in check.

Dynamics are different if the CEO is also President of the Board however.
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Whereas in the 80s the fear of civilization-wide extermination through nuclear war was widely present, in films and even pop songs. Y2K was the rare occasion where the sensationalism got the problem fixed, so nobody believes it was ever a risk. Like CFCs.

No, the 90s was a quiet time for everyone west of Yugoslavia and north of the Mediterranean. The "end of history" between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the World Trade Center.

I sometimes think we don't do futurism any more because we spent so much effort looking forward to the future of 2000, and there's no big date to look forward to quite like it.
>The current regulations are setup so that it costs a mountain of money to make an antibiotic and you can only make a molehill of money. That seems like regulating the R&D away.

So why can't pharma companies move their operations to countries with fewer regulations?
Have there been any major issues with declining QOL in Japan? It might be a cultural barrier but aside from the deflation stories making the rounds, I don't hear much about them suffering because of it.
Ah, I was only looking at the U.S. market.

The latest figure is $650 billion. Google has 25% of that huge pie. Rather frightening.

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/ad-spending-growth-will-a...
WebUSB sounds like a truly gaping security hole

"Greetings, Rando Middle Manager. Your cousin Larry has been arrested by police in Elbonia. Please to pay US$500,000 into this Bitcoin account to free hime. Or if you do not have funds, plug in company secure USB drive and click OK."
where does the money made from youtube tv fall under ?

edit :- that fall under the $5.3 bn number for Other revenue. Its termed as youtube non advertising revenue.
That Anders Heljsberg video is great. Watched it last night and I'm still thinking through the implications of pull vs push. Thanks!