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That's a decent article. My only issue is it seems heavily biased at the end, or at least he seems to misunderstand what the 'A.I. types in Silicon Valley' are doing.

Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software — to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea.

I've been in software a long time, and I do sort of see this trend, but I think it's because these are tools that build other tools. The interface has always been a 'best I can do for now' thing, with the focus on doing things that are useful. Computers were just calculators in the beginning, which led to more complex calculators, instruction sets, programming languages, operating systems, GUIs, interconnectivity, etc.

What people are doing today is experimenting, like they always have. They're putting their experiments out there so that others can use them and build on them. Some will use those tools to build other tools, and some won't. But over time, the experiments that work will get distilled and turn into real products that people who 'do not yearn for automation' will still want to use, so it seems like the value is there.

I guess the real question is whether they will create value that offsets the near-term costs, because I don't think the billions in investments are sustainable, and I'm not convinced the centralized data center paradigm is the right way.

They're talking about before it's configured by the user. It defaults to 'free' models so that the user can ask a question immediately on startup. Once you configure a provider, the default models aren't used.

Yeah, that's the point. Why did you think you needed to say it?

It's a GUI that works over SSH. There is a very valid use case for that.

We can no longer design for ourselves, and we rely heavily on community feedback to co-design the right experience. We cannot build the right things without that feedback.

How can that be true, when you're deliberately and repeatedly telling devs (the community you claim to listen to) that you know better than they do? They're telling you exactly what they want, and you're telling them, "Nah." That isn't listening. You understand that, right?

There's a reason for people to hate it... it's a tool used for something similar to genocide, only instead of killing the individuals (like they did in the past) it is used to reduce the population out of existence over time. To get benefits as a tribal member, you need to have a blood quantum over a certain amount. That means native populations are guaranteed to shrink because there are fewer and fewer 'full bloods'.

It's also incredibly racist, when you get down to it. Does a white person need to be able to trace their lineage to claim they are white, or any other race, for that matter?

When you talk to Cherokee people, most of them are very clear that if you are part of the Cherokee culture, you're Cherokee. Throughout history, they have 'adopted' people of other races into their tribes, and those people married and had children. If an adopted white man married and adopted white woman, their children would be considered full blood, regardless of their skin color. So from a Cherokee perspective (and I assume any tribes that behaved similarly) the measure of a Cherokee is whether they are a part of the Cherokee culture, rather than what their genealogy shows.

Just relax and use the strengths of both patterns.

That's exactly what he says in the conclusion...

In contrast to this, most of my paper notes (and I've gone back to paper) end up being lost, and those that aren't lost are horribly disorganized.

Conversely, I've had lots of PDAs through the years, and any notes I took on them were lost long ago.

HN is so anti-Apple it's not funny. I've noticed if an argument makes Apple better, no matter how reasonable you are, you tend to get downvotes.

Anyway, I agree with you. (There are two of us!) Apple's stuff is built to be easy enough for a know-nothing user to get the basics done, and depending on your skill, you gain access to more and more over time.

And?

He also didn't say the camera on iPhones stays off when you're not using them. That must mean they're taking pictures of us and uploading them to Tim Cook's personal sex grotto for him to ogle us, right? I mean, he didn't say they DIDN'T do it, so...

That is to say... perhaps we could keep the paranoia and speculation to things that have a basis in reality?

As an aside, it's funny that both articles use the same stock image.

Granted, it's anecdotal, but I've personally seen university graduates that seemingly aren't capable of reading basic instructions or submitting a useful CV. Conversely, I've seen applicants with zero university who wowed during the interview, and went on to wow everyone as a very skilled employee.

I think the 'filtering mechanism' you speak of is vastly overrated, and I'm excited to see things like this happening. People should be hired based on ability and skill, not a piece of paper that they somehow acquired.

Ok... So, why would Apple receive the benefit of only exposing iMessage data in secret courts when Google, Facebook, and Microsoft all have to do it in open court documents?

I grew up saying it in Oklahoma. My wife (from Virginia) would always say, "It's BY accident, ON purpose." So just to mess with her I started saying, "ON accident, BY purpose", which sounds just as strange to my ears.

https://www.reddit.com/gold

I've paid for it, personally, and I know others who do.

Yes, the ads are probably a larger portion of their income right now, but there's certainly an easy way to support them directly.

I 99% agree.

The 1% is for sites that advertise other things on the same site, which means they aren't using an ad service, but instead building their own advertising. The BBC is particularly good at this. When I'm reading an article, they have ads for other articles that I might be interested in. I've spent more time reading/watching articles and videos there than anywhere else. Of course, they could just be trying to keep me there so that I click their ads, but uBlock and Ghostery ensure that third-party ads don't display and I'm not tracked, so...

I still think of the scene in Zoolander where he takes the flip phone out of his pocket and it is about as big around as thumb. It was comedic at the time because manufacturers were trying to make smaller and smaller phones to differentiate themselves from the brick cell phones of the past, so this scene was mocking how far it could go. The irony is that now kids probably have no idea why it's funny because all phones are competing to offer larger and larger models.

I don't have a problem with the larger phones, personally, but I think it's interesting to see how quickly the industry has come full-circle.

Do Android TV, Fire TV, etc., have a multi-axis, touch remote with Siri (or any spoken) interface built in, and also include an SDK for building apps (including full-blown games) that are universal between the TV and phone/tablet?

I mean, you said it's identical...

Not totally... They only say you'll see 'fewer' ads. I'm in a similar boat... I'd like to set my monthly amount and that amount be split up among my most used sites, because I do want to support them, but I'm going to continue using uBlock. The entire point is to get rid of ads in favor of something else.

What would rock is if uBlock or Adblock had a subscription service for exactly this.

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You can have your horrible purple/blue... I'll take people hijacking those abominations any day of the week.

Otherwise, that's a good list. :)

what makes you the authority on how much pain they should have endured for their mistake?

And what makes YOU the authority to say they haven't endured enough pain? Or society, for that matter? If a couple 'went through a rough patch' and 'already moved past this', the one who was wronged was apparently forgiving. That forgiveness should be the end of it. We all make stupid decisions in our lives, but just because we did those things, we don't DESERVE endless consequences.

Your logic is a slippery slope to believing that rehabilitation is impossible. In which case, you're essentially arguing for immediate death (or at least shunning) to any wrongdoer, because how can any of us judge them to be rehabilitated?

"Just like the iphone."

If it was 'just like' the iPhone, you wouldn't have to explain the physical mechanism.

Heh, apologies for being reactionary in my comment. Seems like we're on the same page then. :)

Actually, Austin has the per-bag fee as well. Source: I'm in Austin. I don't remember if it's $.25 or $.99, but I can honestly say that I tend not to notice it when I forget my bags... adding a few cents to a grocery bill of $30 or more is barely noticeable.

My family uses reusable bags now, and I'm happy for the ban because we probably wouldn't have otherwise, but studies like this one do seem to indicate it wasn't everything it was sold to be.

That said, I rarely ever see a plastic bag stuck in a tree these days, and that's a welcome change.

Given that we still haven't achieved the paperless offices that many want, sometimes I start feeling like not much has changed over the last couple decades, but this album really illustrates the difference. It is rather humorous to look at just how much PAPER they used in development. Developers using paper binders of documentation, tractor feed prints of code, etc... it's nice that at least those days are mostly over!

And then....what? Well from a macro scale, I think some things get better -- overall population health goes up, obesity/fat-related diseases go down. But does heart disease? I wonder if it goes up -- if everyone looks like they've wanted by shutting off the body's fat stores, does the motivation to do cardio go down for some people?

I don't understand the tendency some people have to find a negative in something that is mostly positive. It doesn't make sense to me. Sure, some negatives MIGHT happen, but are you really trying to justify not moving forward with this research because some people might use it as an excuse to be lazy? Really?

What if everyone being the weight they want gives them more self-confidence, which gives them reason to get out more? What if there's less depression? What if there are fewer people with diabetes? There's potential to have some really great effects on the population at large here.

"What's scaring the crap out of me? Right, let's do that."

I love this. I think this is going to be my new motto.

So then, to extend your original comment... "You also can't run new Windows operating systems on old hardware."

There's going to be some point where old hardware will cease to run the latest OS... wherever the OS makers decide to draw the line, the line WILL exist, so it's not a valid argument for or against, it's just... a fact.

You can't run new Mac operating systems on old hardware

Uhm.. aside from when OSX began requiring a 64bit CPU, what are you talking about? I have a 2008 Macbook Pro and it's happily running Yosemite with no issues. Sure, it's slower than modern hardware, but not overly so.

CSV stands for 'Comma-Separated Values', not 'Semicolon-Separated Values'.

Seeing as this was downvoted, I'm just pointing out that bemoaning how the CSV format is fragmented and then using it incorrectly is the precise reason it is fragmented. It wasn't originally meant to be extended in so many ways, so there really isn't room to complain when a library doesn't magically figure out your personal delimiter or qualifier.

It really depends on the jurisdiction, but it certainly isn't 'crazy wrong'.

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/resisting-an-u...

That said, I definitely agree with most of the sentiment here, that it's best not to push it, especially given the abuses of power we've seen. Fighting it after-the-fact is probably the best choice.