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Does Amazon pretends to do AI? They are just offering a platform to do your own Machine Learning. I don't think they ever said their search engine was doing anything smart.

EDIT: scrap that, I didn't mean Alexa, which is doing AI obviously, but the search engine of Amazon's retail website.

Anyway, NLP is hard and everyone sucks at it. Think about it: just building something that could work with any <N1> <preposition> <N2> or any other way to express the same requests would mean understanding the relationships of every possible combinations of N1 and N2. It means building a generalized world model that is quite different from simply applying ML to a narrow use case. Cracking that would more or less mean solving general AI which probably won't happen soon.
You've heard of the FISA Court right? And all the details that Snowden released about it? How do you see those secret requests as not effectively the same thing as what you are describing about China's laws?

I don't consider myself a tin-foil-hat wearing type, but even I don't believe that our (western/NATO/5-Eyes etc) governments don't have their own secret powers they can use to compel businesses to comply with information gathering requests without divulging that they did so.
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And "shirt without stripes" doesn't mean solid color shirt either. Could have spots. Could be Hawaiian print. Is plaid striped?
What's strange to me is how the insecure the child free crowd seems to be regarding their choice. The seemingly never ending need to patronizingly justify that choice, to the point of moralizing the issue (as the author does), is bizarre. It comes off like the individual is seeking reassurance for their life choice. This isn't the 1950s. No one cares if you decide to have children or not.
Minimum wage if you actually get paid for 2080 hours a year (doubtful) is $15080/year. There are many cities where senior developers are making more than $150K a year - including Dallas, Atlanta, etc.

Also the FAANGM companies also use a lot of low paid contractors.
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This sounds great, right? But consider the recommendation engines that are part of Amazon, Stack Overflow, whatever. You've just filtered out pages that have a shirt without stripes on it ... but have a striped shirt somewhere in a recommendation bar on the page.

I've run into so many variations of this. You can search for something only to have the recommendation/related results embedded on whatever page to throw off your results one way or another.

I genuinely think that whatever standard HTML/XTHML is at ought to have, either as an attribute or a semantic tag, some kind of "related" or "recommended" ability to set that content apart. My cynical thought is that even if it were adopted, it would probably get abused in some fashion.
This comment would go from "unreadable" to "interesting" if you had phrased it as:

"Vaguely similar to a joke from _the movie_ Ninotchka that _the Slovenian philosopher_ Zizek often uses...."

Give people context. Don't assume people know what you know.
> ESync with a different Wine environment for each game

This is where Proton was a win for me. It's not super hard to make many of the popular games work, but managing the different wineprefix's or making sure some random DLL is or isn't installed was a pain. Proton keeps 'em clean, separate, and up to date.
> Btw, if you want to be even lazier and not involve the other hand—services can be run from the context menu (which is a bit busy but at least it's available).

Yes, Right clicking and selecting the menu manually works as well. Thank you for mentioning it.

My setting is that my mouse has an extra button, so I configure the extra mouse button to emit Cmd+F3 (which triggers Tip). It's a one-hand one-click operation!
The real problem is the "joke" wasn't funny. Telling someone it went "over their head" comes off as arrogant when done for an unfunny joke.
>allows especially people from low-income countries to make more money than in their home country

It seems strange to want to eliminate someone else's best employment opportunity simply because it isn't up to your standards.

If you were to take your business to another cruise line that provides workers better working conditions, I could see that, but is not going on cruises entirely really the best way to improve things?
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That's the timescale the solar system is stable on.
I was searching for a DisplayPort adapter for a Mac Mini and got MiniDisplayPort adapters for Mac :(
The bit about "No logs are kept regarding DNS related traffic, nor will I turn any over." leapt out at me, but I honestly have no idea.
This is the issue I think. Amazon doesn’t care about selling a shirt without stripes, it is just as happy as selling any shirt.

This assumes that AI wants truth. These three companies AI don’t necessarily want truth, they want revenue.
NT 3.1 was not just a reskinned OS/2, it was a new kernel, and new internal architecture.
And yet in the sf bay area gas is still close to $3..
The government can invent jobs, but it can't invent infinite jobs that accomplish something that people want, and even when it can the task won't generally be accomplished as efficiently as a private company would. It's also very difficult to remove a government agency once one is created. Government has all kinds of incentive problems that private companies don't, so generally (IMO) it's best to only use government to accomplish a task that the private sector does very poorly because of some market failure.

There's also a large cost to having people reallocate from one job to another, and from having businesses go under. There's physical capital that needs to be reallocated and "organizational" capital (not sure the right word, but I mean the way the business is organized) that may be permanently lost.
Or, you know, install motion-detection door openers that require no touching at all (helpful for amputees that might not have arms...).
Do we know what percentage of futures participants are speculators just at the casino? It seems like the percent of players actually making/taking physical delivery is like 0.0000001%
I think the response would be that most of these governments* are not spending the money to keep the businesses open - they're spending it to keep employees solvent. To accomplish that, not all businesses need to be saved.

*The USA is an obvious exception where for at least a substantial group of people, the purpose is to keep the businesses intact. They really couldn't care less about the employees.
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On one hand you complain about Google assuming too much, on the other you want more interpretation. You can't have both.
Say I'm white. Say my kids are white. Say I want a future for my kids. So far, so good.

Now, down the street are three other families: one white, one black, and one asian. They all have kids, too. Now what does the saying say?

Here's a family where the parents are white, the kids are mixed, because they also adopted some kids from Africa. Those adopted kids are just as much their children as the natural children are. What does the saying say to them?

Here's an anglo who married a person of another race. What does the saying say to them?

We want a good future for kids - our kids, and our community's kids. Whether they're white has nothing to do with it.

And because whether they're white has nothing to do with it, adding that to the phrase is what makes it racist. It winds up at least implying that white children deserve a good future, and other children don't (or at least don't as much).
> The reality is that in-office workers have an inherent advantage when it comes to activities that require interaction between people, such as promotions or work assignments.

I don't think those two things are an inherent advantage, rather, it's the reality of managers that don't understand how to remote work.

If "work assignments" require in-person communication, it seems like something is severely broken with your work assignment system and/or process. For software development, to me, that is basically tickets, kanban/scrum/whatever, and the regular communication that takes place to discuss. This communication doesn't need to be "in-person" to work, which brings me to the next point: meetings.

Having remote people exposes many problems with meetings. One is having too many meetings, ad-hoc meetings, or agenda-less meetings. These are problems in-person too, but they're not as directly noticeable.

The other meeting problem comes more from how the meetings take place. The most remote-friendly orgs have a rule like "one person remote, everyone remote" which basically means everyone does the meeting with a webcam and headset, even if they're in the office. At a minimum, meeting rooms need good audio/video (as in: no PSTN speakerphones, and no laptop mics or webcams allowed), and all meeting invites are always sent with an online meeting URL, at a minimum the day before.

There can be inherit advantage in being in-person both for ad-hoc technical discussions and building personal relationships, but if those are job advantages I think it's also a management failure. Ad-hoc technical discussions should quickly be moved online and inclusive of remote people, and that's something a manager should be constantly encouraging/enforcing. It should also without saying that a manager that favors employees for promotions with whom they have better personal relationships isn't doing their job properly (and note this isn't directly a "remote worker" problem).
Since when is programmatically generating a text file considered noteworthy / novel.

Or is this trending on HN because it has the "GitHub Actions" buzzword in the title?

Edit: This is a serious question.
As we've learned from building for remote teams [1], is that it's really about how you set a process for async communication, and not just about the tools. This is why we've been heads down since the outbreak helping work-from-home teams set the right processes of communication using us and other tools.

It's really around building a healthy culture of working from home, and not encouraging multiple disruptions during the day, and actively doing so, thinking that it unites teams. We wrote a basic guideline [2].

[1] https://standups.io

[2] https://standups.io/blog/a-basic-guideline-for-async-communi...
I don't think they've interpreted anything. It falls in line with other random sampling tests. Without this data we could be making the wrong decision. Especially with countries doing widely different things. Places like Sweden, Korea, and Taiwan without quarantine and places like Germany or the US with quarantine should know which strategy works best. Which isn't at all clear right now.
My original point was that the vast majority of _companies_ don't pay dividends, not that most _public_ companies don't. I'm not sure where that came from.

Someone else made the comment that plenty of private companies pay "dividends" (e.g. USA K-1), but a cursory read of the Danish policy indicates that these private dividends are probably not affected.
I'm usually not one to complain about this, but may I ask why me admitting that I thought of a carnival event rather than a cruise line I haven't heard of before makes people want to downvote my comment?
Generally, yes. But you can go very far and cover a lot of cases when you stick to a narrow domain and common patterns that customers of your product will typically use.
I'm just not sure you're applying consistent standards here. Going to a coronavirus test center on medical advice suffers from much stronger self-selection bias and generally unreported specificity.
I'm optimistic on certain stocks. Allow me to illustrate using the one stock I hold the most of (108 shares at the moment):

I believe that TSLA will ultimately end up on the very high end of where ARK invest says they'll be: https://ark-invest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Tesla-pric...

Tesla's Battery Day is coming in May, and that's a very big deal. I expect they'll announce that they've hit $100/kWh (which is the point you need to be at in order to sell an electric car with a price and range comparable to a gas car). The fact that they have the world's best battery tech is also very important for the future industries like eVTOL, which are completely dependent on these things. (I have a position in EH as well...)
This blog post explain the business needs that Dgraph is solving for: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/how-dgraph-labs-raised-series-a/

My comments about Google were accurate. I want to avoid saying anymore on that topic, because that's not my point here.
Yeah I did the latter. Now I know how the relevant instruments work if another such opportunity arises.
Yep! I'm running Final Fantasy III without a single issue which is just astounding.
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I'm not a thermodynamics engineer, but one thing that strikes me as odd about all of these is that most of the fans are sitting parallel to the motherboard, and sandwiched between the board and the wall (which only has small holes).

Whereas the Apple way, since the PowerMac G5, has been to mount the fans perpendicular to the motherboard and daughterboards, and push air across them. That seems like it would be much more efficient, better for both cooling and noise.

Is there a reason these PC systems mount the fans that way? Is it not actually as inefficient as it seems? Is this a case of modular parts each needing their own built-in cooling, and not being able to look at the bigger picture?
Because it's likely cheaper to bust unions once in a while than to raise standards overall and forever. Or, at least, that's what the executives think or what their right-hand people tell them. Ultimately, you could probably gather some data and prove that increasing pay, providing good vacation time, and other benefits would improve the quality of people's work and morale... But you'd have to get through to the billionaires at the top first.
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The time dimension is the most interesting aspect for me in these charts.

Anyone aware of good world-wide corona virus datasets? I told myself I'd start looking 1-2 months from now, because they'll probably be easier to find and higher quality by then, but these posts are wetting my appetite.
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I'm totally for remote work when the context and company is adequate. I just wish salary wasn't as low, these days when a company says 'remote possible' it almost always means you're gonna get paid less.

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In my experience, semantic embedding is simply not very good at taking negation into account.
You're on a forum for venture capitalists and software engineers...
I saw it for $1.17 in Sherman TX yesterday. The lowest i've ever seen gas was around $0.96 sometime in the 90s
At a high level it's much closer to a Win32 Namespace [1] that appears like a network path. UNC stands for Universal Naming Convention, there's no "Network" in the UNC abbreviation as there are many namespaces other than just network paths. Which is why the $ was chosen for the name because it is a valid Namespace character but not a valid system name in Windows, and they wanted to avoid the problem of people with systems named "wsl" suddenly unable to be accessible over the network, because Namespaces have higher priority than network paths. You could think of it as bypassing the network, but it is maybe more accurate to view it that network access is a fallback of UNC paths after all local Namespaces have been checked if they support the path.

Also, yes the current implementation backing that namespace/path is a Plan 9-based network file server, but that's an implementation detail that could change, seems to handled under the covers of the Namespace a little more directly than usual network access (including avoiding a localhost "loopback"), and probably something subject to change as WSL's needs change.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming...
The best way to disincentive tax avoidance would be to not allow it in the first place. A one-off policy like this punishes tax avoidance without necessarily discouraging it in the future. It depends on how likely businesses think it is for something like this to happen again.
Look into hypnagogic imagery and Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming (WILD). It's a big thing in lucid dreaming circles to use that sort of thing to enter into a dream conscious and then control (steer?) it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
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I've heard that Facebook's culture has these same incentives. Ship more, even if it's crap-quality code, and you'll be favored.

I understand what this is like, and it sucks. Everyone else is left picking up the broken pieces of what the "superhero" built.
> When you run gatsby build (or whatever your command is to build your site for production), the build system will make all the API calls needed to fetch the data necessary to generate every possible HTML page. It'll use React server-rendering APIs to turn a tree of React components into a big HTML document.

That's what we're calling "cache" in good ol' backend-code applications. It's used for at least 15 years in e-commerce, blogs and many other "outdated because now we have react-angular-vue.npm.io" CMS.

With "cache" you can store precompiled HTML pages server side, even only parts of it (if you have 50.000 articles like you're explaining in your article).

You can even do that in front of your PHP/Ruby/Python app using HTTP caching proxies such as Squid. Here it's even beyond "blistering fast", it's "ultra blistering fast".

Do a static website, add a little bit of vanilla JS, want to refresh parts of the pages ? It's called Ajax.

The moment I saw ReactJS redering moving server side to "pre-render" stuff I saw that we we just looping again and again.

And again once your HTML is delivered, no one is stopping you to do a few line of JS to add a simple class on top of your page to toggle the Night Mode. Want to do it before the JS is executed (and don't have this ugly delay) ? Use a cookie and set it on render time. If the user is forbidding cookies, well then it's because he don't want to be tracked and don't want all those fancy features. You can fallback to prefers-color-scheme.

Things were done simple, no need to reinvent everything each time :)
Reminds me of the difficult time I had finding socks without elastic.
I don't think I've ever seen an article on life without children that deals with the fact that the friends you make growing up and into your twenties and thirties will have kids and you won't. And you will be aliens to each other.
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I had a friend who worked for a union supermarket chain. It went bankrupt as it had trouble competing with non-union chains like Whole Foods who pay their staff half of the old chains but somehow get a reputation for treating employees well. It would be good to know which stores are union and which ones aren't because it isn't obvious.
The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights is unfortunately riddled with qualifications and exceptions. Article 29 is especially problematic:

> (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

So after layout out various high-minded (if occasionally contradictory) ideals, they immediately follow up by saying that these "rights", which are apparently not universal and thus not really rights at all, are subject to broadly-defined "limitations" which amount to a laundry-list of excuses states have used throughout history to justify denying people their fundamental rights: "morality, public order and the general welfare". Has there ever been any infringement of the rights of speech, assembly, movement, or property which wasn't justified (publically, at least) on the basis of one of those categories?

If you strike out Article 29 as well as the "attacks upon his honour and reputation" part of Article 12 (which is directly contrary to freedom of speech), the "arbitrary" qualifiers in Articles 14, 15, and 17 which render the surrounding statements meaningless, the frankly irrelevant opinion statement "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society" in Article 16, and Articles 22 through 27—in their entirety—then you would actually have a Universal Declaration of Human Rights worthy of the name. The authors started out reasonably well but failed to resist the impulse to throw in one contradictory article after another toward the end. You can see this reflected in the style of the text: the early articles are short and to the point, but as you read further down the document they get longer and more complicated, and start talking more about obligations and limitations than actual rights.

The US Constitution may not be perfect but at least it didn't fall into the trap of trying to carve out exceptions and limitations, pre-justifying the infringement of fundamental rights whenever the exercise of that right becomes inconvenient for the state, or enshrining an entitlement to a certain standard of living or to specific goods or services which can only be provided by infringing on the rights of others.
That sounds like an ad business version of the efficient market theory. E.g, that can't possibly be a hundred dollar bill on the ground, because if it was someone else would surely already have picked it up by now.

I think you're overestimating Google's sophistication.
I don't understand the name of the site? "The Gives"? That's just ungrammatical.
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Article title changed to "below $10".

Edit: now "below $5".
I'm guessing the smaller side of the heatsink would require a smaller higher RPM fan.

Similar to what you'd see in a 1U server chassis, however they're substantially louder.
This isn't quite true. Microsoft and IBM were working on OS/2 together and Microsoft got fed up with the development delays and decided to build their own system. So NT was designed from the ground up. It originally had multiple subsystems (Win16, Win32, Posix) one of which included an OS/2 1.0 subsystem.

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...
I cannot fathom the supposed environmental reasons for disallowing ethanol-free gasoline. It is an ag industry subsidy via federal mandate to have 10% ethanol in gas, and in a politics-free world we would remove that requirement.
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Personally, I consider this heat-mapping, since I think of heat-mapping as any value over area, regardless of how the value is derived. What specifically makes you feel this case doesn't qualify? Also, do you think there is something nefarious about the term "heat-mapping"?
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It would have before fracking became common in the US. Now, production can be turned on or off relatively quickly in the US--just start/stop fracking in existing wells. Since it requires no capital investment (only operational expenses), very little lead time is needed. Production from fracked wells drops off very quickly once fracking ends, so overproduction tends to self-correct very quickly, also.

In the days before fracking, there would be a ~10 year delay between additional investment and additional production output. With fracking, it's more like weeks, not years, before production adjusts. That's why the oil price seems to have a price ceiling these days--any time prices go up, producers increase fracking and production. Overproduction is slightly different--fracked wells continue producing for about 12-18 months after fracking stops, so overproduction still occurs. But underproduction will be compensated for very quickly.